Renault megane dci engine help needed

[rainagain]

I'm hopefully going to get an engine from the breakers tomorrow for my other half's 2005 megane, which we managed 300 miles from when we bought it before a big end went

 

What I'm stumped at now is how to identify what engine is in it. On the block is stamped F12C but this doesn't seem to be an actual engine code. The most likely I think it will be is a F9Q or a F9A. What's the difference between these two?

 

The next question is I read the injectors are coded and a nightmare to remove, so will it run enough to allow me to drive it to a dealer, etc to have the new injectors added to the ecu or will it not even start?

 

 

Any help appreciated (except questions as to why I bought a french car!)

[panhard65]

Hi don't worry about the injectors they will run ok without coding. The engines are different between the laguna's and meganes but if you swap enough bits over it will fit. You are better off getting the megane lump but they are more expensive, I wouldn't bother with a re-con as I had one done and it only lasted 300 miles and apparently this is pretty common. I have done loads of these up over the last couple of years but now they have dropped so low in value it just isn't worth doing them any more best just to break it for bits at least that way it won't become the money pit that most of them are. I have got one that I spent the best part of 2 grand on and it is still sitting here a non runner 2 years later having covered 600 miles and got through 1 engine and 3 turbo's hateful cars !!!

[Station]

Engine code should be G3AR80-X FUK7.

[rainagain]

Thanks for the reply I'm going to try and get a megane engine as u-pull-it have a fixed price for any diesel engine in the yard. Good news on the injectors. I wouldn't bother doing this if it wasn't the cabriolet which cost me ~2.5k

[bub2006]

I think the difference is the Bhp on the engine codes. Mine is a scenic on a 51 plate. One of the early dci engines with 105bhp and if I recall its f9q for mine