renault clio, help!

I'm hoping someone can help me with a non landy related problem, brought one of my many children a 1999 renault clio as her first car and it was all going well until a couple of days ago, it would appear that the immobiliser is not recognising the key every time i try and start the car, it has the same problem when i use the spare key, so i'm assuming its not the keys, iv'e tried various ways to cure it, but nothing works. looking on the good old interweby thingy i can find several companies selling bypass boxes, anybody know whats in the box or any way to disable the immobiliser permanently?

buy bypass off ebay

trying to keep the cost down, there cant be much in the box as it only has one wire to connect to the system.

luckymark said:

trying to keep the cost down, there cant be much in the box as it only has one wire to connect to the system.

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It codes via socket
£85 from remote key

Or you could scrap it or walk.

I hate people who have champagne lifestyles on lemonade money

i'm struggling to find even lemonade money these days!

luckymark said:

I'm hoping someone can help me with a non landy related problem, brought one of my many children a 1999 renault clio as her first car and it was all going well until a couple of days ago, it would appear that the immobiliser is not recognising the key every time i try and start the car, it has the same problem when i use the spare key, so i'm assuming its not the keys, iv'e tried various ways to cure it, but nothing works. looking on the good old interweby thingy i can find several companies selling bypass boxes, anybody know whats in the box or any way to disable the immobiliser permanently?

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Burn it. Had my fill with Renaults.Get her a Toyota Yaris.

I would never have brought it in the first place, but there where women involved in the whole process! and i quote "its a lovely colour" that's the joys of living in a petticoat parliament at my house!

mikescuba said:

Burn it. Had my fill with Renaults.

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+256764 Especially that Migraine model :deadhorse:

mikescuba said:

Burn it. Had my fill with Renaults.Get her a Toyota Yaris.

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Get her a Landy, paint it the same colour as the burning Clio ... she probably won't even notice ...

luckymark said:

I would never have brought it in the first place, but there where women involved in the whole process! and i quote "its a lovely colour" that's the joys of living in a petticoat parliament at my house!

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same in my house too.
and guess who gets to fix it when it goes wrong?

we had this situation once ...... she wanted a golf , she had seen one she liked.

I couldnt find fault with it when we viewed , it was mint , had FSH and branded parts used for service and repair - full genuine exhaust /5 new hankook optimo 4 tires and recently refurbed wheels

cue - needed new light units at the front for its first MOT as the "hid"factory option wasnt legal , and the rear brake light had leaked.

Then the steering rack failed

then the waterpump failed as my mrs was taking down the dualer. - even though it had been changed recently according to history writing off the engine - as the story goes "yeah the temperature went way high , then it went way down so i thought it was ok" - yeah thatll be the hose popping off under the pressure of having no movement round the system followed by the water evacuating as steam.

fingers burnt. I dont care if you tell me you have changed XYZ if i didnt do it or cant phone the garage and confirm i dont care what you did when im buying a car off you.