matthewsons

[Stuart Giles]

My 4Ls always went there. A stress point of the torsion bar suspension combined with salt on our roads in the winter. It doesn't seem to happen to the native beast I gather from French friends.

Yes, I've had the pleasant job of welding up a Renault 4 chassis where the rear torsion bar mounting parted company while the owner was doing a three point turn; apparently it's a well known fault, although I and the car's owner hadn't heard of it at the time. Sorry to be a dissenting voice (again), but I've always thought that the best thing about these cars were the conrods, I have a set of these, and the pistons in one of my A7 motors. These came from one of the 6 port "Billancourt" Renault motors, not the bigger 8 port motor used in the later TL models.