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In these eight years I live in England, I only spotted...ONE R4 ! A yellow one,in Stafford. Nothing else. Is there a specific annual R4 meeting in the UK?

Try the workshop "Amigos 4l" in Amadora: Liga para este numero: Cepa Santos: 96 916 3877

Renault and its qwirkyness always produced some iconic cars until some years ago. Honestly, I think from the nineties on, Renault is just a corporation trying to flog cheap, nasty plastic unreliable vehicles at the higher price they possibly can. Whoever owned a megane knows what I am talking...

Hello! Does any of you by any chance has a chrome trim that goes on the front mudguards? This was present on the 845 model, the early ones. I have one missing. It goes on both sides, there is no left or right. It goes from the edge of the front door, to near the headlight. I only have the...

Sorry, i didnt took any pictures. But its exactly under the engine, those chassis "spars" at each side of the engine & Gearbox.

Such lovely photos! Such a lovely car.

I came across some dangerous rot in my chassis, just underneath the engine. The chassis is made of what looks like a cheap nasty folded metal sheets, and prone to rot. Worried I could bend the whole chassis while sharp breaking ( yes, that bad...) I took the engine and gearbox out and the...

I put some "beefy" ( if you can call "beefy" to a set of 165s...) Yokohama Tyres in my R4, and what I did was grind a bit of the lip in the back muydguard. Nobody will notice, its just the inside of it, and left a bit to maintain its strenght . I have these tyres installed in some alloy wheels "...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMf6A1S5kTA&feature=related And this one too!

Altough I spoke about this already in some threads, I think I could speak a bit more about this in this "Events" section. This is because in some of your answers, some of you say you are "too old" and refer as an example some other raid for students in France. The raid I am on about, is...

Nice work mate! Nice tip to convert the old "points". As for the answer to that, I dont have a clue! I also use the "eyemeter" and the " earmeter" to set the distribuitor with the engine running...

A Renault 12 was the very first car I ever drove...sort of. Lets say, the very first car I ever selected a gear! But with overwhelming shame, I had to ask for a neighbour to park it back in the space before my dad would wake up. Couldn master the clutch. It was a Renault 12 tl from 1979, and i...

I never "touch that" because being french and being so corroded and prone to snap, i always left it alone. I usually took the upper hose from the radiator and fed it with running water, with the engine running. Then I would clean the "goo" ( Why Renaults do this messy mud in the headertank...

In my life of a Renault 4 enthusiast, I am still to see a RHD R4, for as strange as it might sound! The LHD is a nightmare, and soon enough you are battling not to "fix" everything with a 10 pound sledgehammer...But then you remember those days driving with that gearstick, opening your door by...

It makes a lot of sense what you are saying. That "weight" is something worth of thinking about. You know, some of us like to push the boundaries. But is still nice to talk about this. All those problems, indeed, bring to the equation " experimentalism" which is something you dont want to...

Here is some info on wikipedia I found about it ! All the applications of the Cleon Engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Cl%C3%A9on_engine

I would like to share this episode with you R4 enthusiasts: I needed to replace a very corroded nearside mudguard, and managed to source one in a nearby supplier on the next town. I only had to help me as a back-up vehicle a Honda Hornet 600 motorbike. But a Renault 4 owner is never...

Its organized by the " Confraria Amigos 4L" * ( The friends of 4 L society), they are on Facebook and have also their own website http://amigos4l.home.sapo.pt/index1.html I hope I have everything ready to go 2012, as i need a complete engine swap and major overhaul of the car. Thank...

Replacing the starter on a 845 cc is a terrible job! End up taking the exhaust manifold , a engine mounting, the handbrake cables * ( Operate the front wheels) and had to use a long socket extension while completely in a "diving" position over the mudguard. Not looking forward to do that...

On Facebook, you can see this group of Portuguese Renault 4 enthusiasts that organize the yearly raid to Morocco. They are called the "Friends of the 4L" The Renault 4 was widely used in Portugal as a workhorse for companies, police, fire department and armed forces, as well as family cars...