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Distributor cap

Postby Jon K » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:28 pm

My car has always run quite nicely but has occasionally stuttered when going on boost. Apart from that no problems and plenty of power.

So this week I go to take it for a spin around the block and to get some petrol because I need to take it for an MOT. Once warm it ran like a total pile of crap. It wouldn't start at the petrol station and when I got it going it ran badly. Only 1.5 miles form my house so I made it home fine.

So this evening on checking everything over I thought it would be a good idea to check the distributor cap and rotor and to be honest I was not expecting this.

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I am amazed how well it ran for the year given this was lurking in the engine bay. The end of the rotor is totally eroded. I have never seen a cap and rotor as bad as this. The photo really doesn't do it justice.

Anyway Dave has kindly loaned me a rotor arm so does anyone know what is currently the cheapest option for the cap?

I think there have been some posts recently about cross referencing BMW items (or P/Ns)
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Postby PaulC1959 » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:06 pm

Hi

Check out this link, Though Stunned Monkey has not reported back yet.

http://www.renaultalpineownersclub.com/ ... php?t=5397

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Postby Paul Taylor » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:49 pm

Cap and Rotor arm are availible in Halfords, off the shelf.
Listed as part for R25 Turbo.

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Postby Jon K » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:00 am

Hi Paul and Paul,

Thanks for that. I will head over to Halfords shortly and have a look.

I was hoping to get a genuine Bosch cap and rotor but Halfords will be fine given the state of what I have.

I need to change the seal behind the distributor as well as it is weeping so it all has to come off again some time soon anyway.
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Postby Juzzblack » Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:35 pm

That's exactly how mine looked. Bought a new one off the shelf at Halfords.
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Postby Jon K » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:00 pm

All done now, Halfords ones fitted.

New cap and rotor was 52 quid if anyone wants to know.

It's running better than ever now.
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Postby Paul Taylor » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:11 pm

Give her a new set of leads too :-)
£48 from ebay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RENAULT-R25-2 ... 5646f05965

Add a set of correct Platium plugs, set boost to 0.80 Bar, and have a blast ! :D
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Postby Jon K » Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:28 am

Did the plugs a while ago (or just done them in mileage terms), it had new but non platinum ones fitted. The correct ones are fitted now.

I would normally have checked the cap and rotor but to be honest it ran really well before apart from a small stutter when going on boost and that was not all of the time. This seems to be a fairly common problem. So it moved down the priority list.

I have a really good history with the car so I need to check if the previous owner has been charged for a new cap and rotor at some point. The car has done 80k miles so I dont know if it possibly the original one but the end of the rotor was totally burnt away.

To be fair to the guy I bought the car from from he was not handy with the spanners and paid specialists what ever they said he needed to to keep the car maintained. He was a very good customer to someone.
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Postby mellowyellowa610 » Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:12 am

Replaced mine earlier. It was missing quite badly and I was having trouble starting it after a short journey. It also cut out (thought it might be the start of the dreaded A610 cutting out problem!) Anyway, checked it and it was a bit grotty although not quite as bad as above. New one on, a 25 mile blast earlier and running as sweet as a nut. :)
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Postby JohnC » Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:42 am

mellowyellowa610 wrote:Replaced mine earlier. It was missing quite badly and I was having trouble starting it after a short journey. It also cut out (thought it might be the start of the dreaded A610 cutting out problem!)

.......memo to John F...job for winter... replace seal. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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