hi everyone!!
first of all congratulations for your great work in this website. it has been an extreme help for me choosing the Espace i was looking for. yep, i bought this 93 baby (stuck on the borders for many years) back in june. So far it has been great. it went for a 4200 km trip through Europe from day one, with the need of changing only... oils.
i am excited with the car so far and after living with it i begin to notice few problems which i want to share with you since you are the experts.
i made a small list for this post, i guess it is not proper opening a different post for each one. admins please correct me if i am wrong
here we go:
1. when turning the key for the first start, before ignition, i have a small leak of petrol in the engine(it smells), then after ignition the smell fades
2. i have two sounds from the front.
-one is the driving shaft -it is a "tak tak" thing coming after turning the wheel a bit left or right-. I checked that with my engineer, he said if it doesn't bother me it will not be a problem
- the other one is very low "doop" coming probably(?) from the suspension. it is very easy to hear when driving very low speeds in the city passing over light bumps. i have no idea what can that be
3. when idle it goes up to 1.500 rpm. until yesterday i pressed the gas pedal and it would come to normal. now ...it doesn't. i guess this is the idle sensor. can somebody give tips how to clean it, or change it if needed?
4. this is ridiculous but it is a fact. the past owner instead of making me a discount he gave me 4 tires used but in very good condition. i acted as a complete idiot and didn't check the profile of the tires in comparison with the size from Renault.
now this guy has changed to 15" Renault alloy wheels and he was wearing quite correctly 195/60 15
this scum he gave me a set of 205/65 15 bridgestone duravis r410 100T!!!!!
. (and me idiot i took them!!!)
without having any money left to buy new ones i put them on.
so i want an opinion. is this tire as bad as it looks for the car? are the same pressures apply? can it cause problems to the suspension?
...can i keep them...
ok this was my small(!) -after honeymoon- list.
any thoughts,advises, opinions will be gratefully welcomed!