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Excessive vibration at 50mph

Hi everyone, I wondering if someone could help!

I am writing for a friend actually here! Honest!

Here's the story

9 months ago, my friend bought a renault clio 1.4 16v 06 plate. Got it cheap, but 3 months later was advised to replace the cambelt, at 80k.

He took it to this garage, not an official dealer but they seem ok.
They replaced everything as you would expect, pulley, belt, pump. And they also did the main service.

Now, since taking the car from the garage, there was extremely excessive vibration throughout the car from 50mph+. Not through the steering wheel though, the whole car just vibrated. The engine also shook quite aggressively when revved (this was after the following) Based on what he told me, I suggested wheel balancing and wheel alignment, but everything was spot on. He has had it back at the garage several times with them changing the offside driveshaft and cv boot. Testing it with other wheels off same model, and god knows what else! But none of these of these solved anything.

This is where I come in. A fairly well mechanically knowledgable friend, but this has been a puzzler for me

I looked up the clio cambelt change and noticed it's not the average cambelt change. So I have checked everything is lined up and the tension is good. No problems, no noises. Nothing.

Anyways, I took the air intake pipe block off, checked for any blockages and spark plugs. Although one of the bolts holding down the ignition plug is threaded. It's loose as a goose. I tried tightening it up as much as I can with temporary measures. But I can't really see that as causing a huge problem without the obvious misfire. But I'll be helicoiling that next week.
I have checked all the mounts and bushes, they seem perfectly good, and within tolerances.

Now, since I stripped all that and put it back together, the vibration has improved massively! It's no longer at 50mph, but starts at 70mph but nowhere near what was experienced originally

I just hope someone has come across before, as I'm absolutely stumped now!
He refuses to take it back to the garage as they will charge him for new parts put on! He doesn't want the hassle anymore, but I have stepped in and said I'll try and sort it for him.

Thanks for reading
Ben

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