Hey all.
Been on renault forum and its total garbage! Wondering if anyone has had any experience with the renault scenic 1.4 2004 plate?
Didn't know where else to post, I'm only doing a service for mum but wanted to know if anything is different or odd? Was taking a look and under the bonnet is very very compact! Spark plugs look really odd. Don't know if spark plug gap is different for makes of plugs like the punto is etc. Size of sump plug and what not? Any help would be great

bredsticz said:

Hey all.
Been on renault forum and its total garbage! Wondering if anyone has had any experience with the renault scenic 1.4 2004 plate?
Didn't know where else to post, I'm only doing a service for mum but wanted to know if anything is different or odd? Was taking a look and under the bonnet is very very compact! Spark plugs look really odd. Don't know if spark plug gap is different for makes of plugs like the punto is etc. Size of sump plug and what not? Any help would be great

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Spark plug gaps will be different for the renault because its a different engine and the spark will occur according to the specific engine spec. You can find out spark plug gap from hayne manual i think or if you buy decent ones like NGK spark plugs from a decent motor shop then they will give you ones will the correct gap on the spark plug.

Sump plug will probly be an allen key type bolt thing but not sure ul have to look yourself for that.

The engines are very compact on renaults and you will probly have to remove like ten plastic covers to get to the spark plugs lol

French cars are always **** to work on they try making it hard as possible try to put bolts and screw heads that need specail tools to unlock so you have to buy them from the dealer but a service should be simple enough

bredsticz said:

Hey all.
Been on renault forum and its total garbage! Wondering if anyone has had any experience with the renault scenic 1.4 2004 plate?
Didn't know where else to post, I'm only doing a service for mum but wanted to know if anything is different or odd? Was taking a look and under the bonnet is very very compact! Spark plugs look really odd. Don't know if spark plug gap is different for makes of plugs like the punto is etc. Size of sump plug and what not? Any help would be great

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In here https://www.fiatforum.com/non-fiat/ would have won you a gold star!

Ahh cheers foxy, I did look for none fiat section but didn't see it
Also brin I was going to look at sump plug but as you said, big plastic cover under the whole engine compartment! Far too many of them! I'll manage it anyways!
NGK spark plugs for punto didnt come gapped right

bredsticz said:

Ahh cheers foxy, I did look for none fiat section but didn't see it
Also brin I was going to look at sump plug but as you said, big plastic cover under the whole engine compartment! Far too many of them! I'll manage it anyways!
NGK spark plugs for punto didnt come gapped right

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I was told by 3 different suppliers they wer gapped, from 2 local motor shop and i think europarts told me aswel

Lol ehy have they put a plastic cover under the engine compartment lol just making it hard innit waste time removing panels

TBH for what it costs she might as well get a decent back street garage on the case.

They'll even stamp the service history. I presume she want's to sell it one day (its a Renault after all).

I kow what you mean about the renault forums, i havd a llok on a couple as next car is renault megane.

There dead lol, hardly anything useful or much information or even people on them compared to here.

Looks like ill be staying on here after moving on to my next car.

Lol ye, and no she doesn't want to go garage as she just spent loads getting all brakes done and just bought a house so bit skint.
I'm fine doing it I just wanted to know if there was anything special about anything just because of all the wierd caps on the plugs etc.

She not planning on selling it at all, not had it long and only got 20k miles on it. Service light came on so she actually wanted it doing

Brin said:

French cars are always **** to work on they try making it hard as possible try to put bolts and screw heads that need specail tools to unlock so you have to buy them from the dealer but a service should be simple enough

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All newer cars are the same you can't single out french cars in particular. don't modern fiats use the funny spikey allen keys, i forget the name, something like star key? got a set but not any bolts to try them out on but figured they'd be handy to have in the toolkit.

maddogmorg said:

All newer cars are the same you can't single out french cars in particular. don't modern fiats use the funny spikey allen keys, i forget the name, something like star key? got a set but not any bolts to try them out on but figured they'd be handy to have in the toolkit.

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Torx?

Puntodriver1991 said:

Torx?

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yeah probably, not fiat specific, but still bit silly imho, when a standard bolt head has been proven for god knows how long.

maddogmorg said:

yeah probably, not fiat specific, but still bit silly imho, when a standard bolt head has been proven for god knows how long.

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The assembly / manufacturing machines prefer Torx....

Ribe also.

ChrisUK said:

Ribe also.

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that's the ones!

i find all my torx screwdrivers arnt very good which is really annoying seeing as they cost more to buy then normal screwdrivers

i also find the screw heads round a lot easier soyou have to force the screw out with other methods :bang: