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Can you still get the extra-thick heater matrix they did for Scandinavia? They also did wipers for the lights at one point. And plastic doohickeys to shield the exposed door hinges.

When you say "all seems well" did you just check the fuse was in one piece? May be worth checking you are actually getting juice to the terminal on the fuzebox- maybe one of the connectors on the back is loose or corroded- with a test bulb i.e. a sidelight bulb on a lead. one end on the...

Malcolm, I was reading the tech tips section and saw the part about modding your headlights to fit sidelights. I did this a while back and have a couple of suggestions to make things easier. When I did mine I intended to use a hole saw rather than work up via a series of increasing drill sizes...

Happy Birthday Angel! How did you work out the date???

Sorry Mojo, meant to say the little ones are plastic and they are too small for the firewall.

Thanks everyone. That makes sense. BTW Has anyone been able to buy the firewall inner nylon one recently? Apparantly the p/n is 7705002032, but last time I tried, no luck. It seems stuff can diappear off dialogys, or rather Renault dispose of the parts from their central system, so for example...

Thanks Petak, your stuff is looking very shiny! (as usual!). The little bushes are too small to fit in the firewall. The only thing I could possibly think of is that one of them can go on the lever coming out of the gearbox to try and reduce the free play between the gearbox box lever (they just...

HI all, I've just bought a gear shift bush kit as shown below. It's for the joint between the lever into the box and the lever that comes forward over the engine. I know what the upper two bushes are- LH outer rubber and RH inner nylon (although this one is black, not white as usual). But what...

I agree- I put the fatter (16mm instead of 12mm dia) front antiroll bar and the van rear antiroll bar on and it made a huge difference. Part nos were 7700717922 for the front and 7700554727 for the rear. The part nos for the four brackets for the rear are 7700525240. Also the deCarbon shocks...

Don't be too hard on Retro Passion- August is the very worst time of the year for them- everyone has just cleaned out all their bits to put on their "Raid" cars over the holidays and all the manufacturers are now on holiday and they can't restock. Having said that I know its frustrating, I'm in...

Fantastique! They deserve to do really well with this. It wouldn't take an awful lot more to make a new rodeo or plein air.....

You might be better off not even claiming- the damage looks less than what a likely excess will be. The car looks perfectly safe, it is non structural damage. Don't let the insurance co write it off. I would be surprised if they did, it would cost them money. The dent at the front of the roof on...

Geoff they came out with the 334. 354 didn't come until the pleine air was replaced by the rodeo.

Foofighter, a zenith 28IF carb from a GTL will fit OK on an 850. The only things that are really different to the 850 are the jets and they're hardly different at all. You will maybe have to plug up some of the emission control pipes from the carb depending on what are fitted to your car.

I just bought some of the orange front lenses. Absolutely terrific. Incredible value for money. By the way, Renault did the clear ones in plastic as well as glass. Piet

Hi, given its a body part you may not have any luck with Renault as they didn't do the body parts. If Melun retro-passion in France can't help I'd suggest looking in the yellow pages for an automotive glazier- someone who does bus, truck, and panel van windows. They could cut a flat laminated...

Hey, we always knew it was economical, but it turns out to be waaaaay ecumenical too!

Hey Geoff from a fellow Melburnian, Ignore this if you already know but I found I can order heaps of R4 parts from the spare parts dept at City Automobiles in Richmond provided I can come up with a part number for them and they don't have to go searching. (Eg recently had to get new rear...

Hi Angel, thanks for weighing in ..... Rats! I was hoping that wasn't the case. When you say they are a tight fit, you don't know roughly how much can the inner end be pulled outwards from its detent before it gets solid? I don't want to pull a torsion bar out, but I might do a kinematic layout...

Thanks for the thoughts but... I think any other 334 will be just as stuffed. Plus if I put an unknown box in I'd be replacing seals and bearings as a precaution, to ultimately get something just as bad if not worse! Also, I have been double declutching for years now, and even doing that you...