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The chammy
The chammy
Published by Chris H
23rd May 2007
Introduction

May 2004

There I was needing another car as the sky blue 1.4 had been in an incident.

So I was on Ebay and saw a ph1 Chamade in 449 blue with a starting bid of £80. It was located in Carlisle.

The advert said bald tyres, defective power steering, broken engine mountings and a few other issues.

I stuck in a bid and won the car for £80.

Here are the Ebay pic's of the car.







I rang the seller asked about the tyres and so on and decided I'll just tell the car to behave and it will instead of fixing anything.

Besides over 100 miles isn't far to drive with no power steering, bald tyres and a collapsed engine mount really.

Car Details
Year, Make & Model:
1992, Renault 19 16V Phase 1 Chamade
Date vehicle acquired:
5th May 2004
Price:
80

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By Chris H on 10th June 2007, 12:23 PM
righty thats this report up to date now, read it mofo's
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By Chris H on 11th September 2009, 08:21 PM
wee update
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By bncrew on 13th September 2009, 04:13 PM
nice job on the exhaust, now that's sheen
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By Chris H on 27th February 2010, 03:37 PM
an update - of sorts...
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By bbracer16valver on 27th February 2010, 03:55 PM
get it in when no one's looking chop chop :P
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By Chris H on 27th February 2010, 04:18 PM
I had thought about just banging it in. Sadly it looks like I have to rebuild it fully.
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By bbracer16valver on 27th February 2010, 04:23 PM
i done nearly 1000 miles since monday didnt need much work though

did you pay much?? get much else??
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By tracklogic on 27th February 2010, 04:29 PM
Looks vaguely familar that F7R.. i've eaten many a breakfast talking to it
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By tracklogic on 27th February 2010, 04:31 PM
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I had thought about just banging it in. Sadly it looks like I have to rebuild it fully.
Eak... is it that bad? Sorry dude I hope I've not wronged you like i said i've not really looked at it....
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By Chris H on 27th February 2010, 04:41 PM
its cool don't worry Matt.

Ash the price was fair never got anythign else but I have heads, 1.8's etc etc here anyway
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By Soneji on 27th February 2010, 06:01 PM
have you had it apart yet?

send you a pm maybe found something you may need
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By prabmire on 27th February 2010, 06:21 PM
Chris i think an F7R in a nice clean bay would finish the car off a treat
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By Chris H on 25th June 2010, 05:32 PM
updated
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By Minichapperz on 25th June 2010, 07:14 PM
ATF in a 19 ?
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By Chris H on 25th June 2010, 08:20 PM
whats the question here?
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By Minichapperz on 25th June 2010, 09:15 PM
Just your last comment on the latest page about the atf being old, Should it not take ep 80w 90????
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By JR on 25th June 2010, 11:00 PM
good to drive a 19, i'm yet to drive any 19 other than a cabrio...about the oil, why change engine oil only after 230 mile in a year?
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By Chris H on 26th June 2010, 09:43 AM
ep 75 - 90 but ATF does the job as well. ATF is also fully synth and it usually gets a slicker shift but tbh on my 18 year old gearbox that missed the 2nd gear recall issue I think something thicker may help the synchros as I beat them too easily on 2nd and 3rd. More so on 2nd due to the missed recall issue which also allows it to pop out of 2nd occasionally on overrun.

As for the poil change, I changed the oil every year regardless of mileage, in fact some years there has been zero mile sput on but its been started and ran and not got hot enough to boil off any water etc.

Same for this year the oil was in for a year ran in the driveway probably 30 mins a month in total then it done 230 miles, sure its nice and clean looking but I take care of my cars.

The exhaust was full of water as well, the joys of the internal combustion engine. Most of it is out now thanks to the high speed nature of the drives.

Also the smoking it developed has stopped and its smoother. I reckoned it was stuck piston rings as the compression was down on when it was used daily about 6 years ago. The sitting around let the rings stick and thus it smoked and idled a bit lumpy. Now theres no smoke and nice and smooth.

Saw 130 on the test track last night as well, but the pace car slowed it down...
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By Minichapperz on 26th June 2010, 10:48 AM
ahh ok ! what was the 2nd gear recall all about ? (being a pain in the arse btw)
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