Recent content by Terrano

Yes it's a damn shame. It's the Spanish border areas that are affected too so they're watching nervously this side, although the whole southwest of France was a green zone throughout. I think given that the rad fan temp sensor receiver circuit that I managed to blow up must be inside the ECU...

Totally agree, I hate waste personally. You driving in the Micra to Spain then? If you get round to it, few tips...unless you're in a rush, avoid the autoroute 8n France. Tolls aren't cheap and fuel prices are horrendous. On the plus side, there are regular rest areas every 20kms or so where you...

I bet you eat chicken nuggets too.

You'll be trading your toxic Micra in for a pushbike then I assume?

You obviously don't know anything about how the French "deal" with rubbish and waste disposal generally. Most villages have a local ravine, often with a watercourse, where people dump just about anything and everything, and it occasionally gets bulldozed. Local dechetteries often don't have any...

Good suggestion. I'm probably forced to keep going for the simple reason that I can't even scrap the flipping thing here. I have a french registered Passat that's being cartes off next week no problem but there is literally no process for dealing with cars on foreign plates so I have to try and...

Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you don't. It's a crappy £200 car not a brand new Beemer.

Thanks for the reply. I'll work through that process I think but I'm not optimistic for a couple of reasons. Firstly, as you may have seen from my other thread, I tried shorting the connection on the plug to the fan temp sensor and it blew something somewhere so that the fan now comes on with...

Tried No2 key, same result so I guess it's NATS that's knackered. Tried key programming process, turned for three seconds then nothing. I also disconnected the plug to the rad fan temp sensor and the fan STILL starts up as soon as I turn the ignition key so clearly I've permanently shorted...

So my week is getting worse, especially as wifey is without her dog walking transport ? and it's all my fault as per. Had a problem with rad fan not working so I shorted it to the battery and away it goes. Next step was to track down the temp sensor and short the wires there which I assume...

Turns out it was whine o'clock. Two steps forward and about ten back. I'll post a new thread in the hope of a wider audience because it's gone all NATS on me. Basically I removed the plug from the rad fan temp sensor which has three wires. I should have known better.... I shorted two to see if...

RESULT!!!! In desperation I tried this that I found elsewhere on the site..worked first time, no more airbag light! Must be wine o'clock!! ?? Meupnorth Turn the ignition from off to on. The airbag warning light will stay on for approx 7 seconds, as soon as it goes off (within 1 sec) turn off...

Well sadly, despite umpteen tries, it's a no-go. I'm going to make an educated guess and say your Renault diesel probably has a different, Renault ECU on it with different capabilities compared to the Japanese built petrol engines. But it was worth a try! Many thanks again. Paul

Well it beats the old"three dials in a Halfords console bolted to the a-pillar! I'll keep trying but I wonder if the diesel ECU is a bit different? This one's a 1.2 petrol Sport. Still, we shall see! Thanks for taking the time to reply:)

I might be missing a nuance here but I tried it exactly as you've written - the only wrinkle being that both trips are already at zero because of the battery disconnect - but I held the button down anyway for the couple of seconds it normally takes to reset each one but when I go back in after...