So I recently bought a Megan Sport 225 and love it to pieces but it has a whacky engine shake. Could this be due to a spark plug not firing at lower rpm or an electrical fault? I have a video of it that I will link as soon as it finishes uploading.
Here is a video of the engine shaking and crazy noise coming from the exhaust, my father says it is missing. [video]youtube;4yr3eLrFK4c][/video]
Is the engine management light on? If so get it plugged into a quality diagnostics computer which should aid with the fault finding.
Nope, sometimes it says "Check ESP" after I go over rough ground and the engine shakes like crazy when I try to give it some beans. It does the shaky thing often after a cold start or when I park it on a slight hill, but this one was really bad right after a short drive.
As said above most likely a bad spark plug or coil. Engine mount may be knackered because of this but not the cause.
Not yet no. I have 2 car people coming around today to have a look for me and to check the coils and whatnot.
I keep reading this, my brand new dual mass fly and paddle clutch does it at low revs. It worries me.
I pulled the plugs and checked them about 2 weeks ago, haven't had a shake quite as bad as the one in the video since. I didn't really do much, just took them out and put them back in after checking them. It seems to have done something.
Scan the car with an obd interface, u shuld get a missfire message on a cilinder, then switch coils 2 to 4 and 1 to 3, scan again and u`ll confirm.
Just got my car back from Renault ($1800 service...) and the car runs perfectly now. They must have found something up and fixed it while I was there.
It was way overdue for it's 100,000km service + timing belt change and I just had no spare money to buy an OBD.
