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£75 Anyone want to save an 04 Clio? Hasn't been serviced in 40k miles, must be collected Saturday


Matt

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On the absurdly remarkable off-chance someone might actually have a use for / wants to save from scrap a base spec Clio that hasn't been serviced since before we bought it in August 2015/>40k miles ago, here is your chance.

 

Going to scrap soon so he's only expecting scrap value, about £75. About 3 weeks MOT, runs, drives and probably burns oil although I don't think it smokes. 140k miles or something. Haven't done a compression test so who knows what lack of servicing has done for it. Probably gets topped up enough that the oil is kind fresh but I don't know. Or care really.

 

1149cc 8v petrol, manual.

 

TL;DR: It's an abused POS, stuff probably doesn't work but it does go.

 

 

 

Located near Dumfries.

 

Edit: Needs to be collected Saturday afternoon only. Insurance lapses and goes to scrap that afternoon if no collection arranged.

 

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By the look of the stale dribble of piss in my Megane's sump when I got it plus the air filter element that looked like a birds nest, I'd say mine hadn't been serviced in at least 3 years.

 

After a good service it still drives fine 5k later so the new owner may get away with it on this one.

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If it's just done lots of short trips then that could cause the coffee coloured oil. Budget for a oil change and filter and it probably be a cheap car.

 

It does a bit of both. Takes the dogs out for their morning walk which is about 3 miles from home then 70 miles to my dads work.

 

By the look of the stale dribble of piss in my Megane's sump when I got it plus the air filter element that looked like a birds nest, I'd say mine hadn't been serviced in at least 3 years.

 

After a good service it still drives fine 5k later so the new owner may get away with it on this one.

 

I did the filter and plugs in this Clio a few weeks ago and likewise they looked liked they hadn't been changed in a very long time.

 

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Anyone up for relaying this Northwards/storing it somewhere for a bit? Just had a message from an interested party in the Cairngorms National Park area who doesn't have time to collect at the moment.

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Oh there is this by the way, but apparently it's normal for these.

 

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If it's just done lots of short trips then that could cause the coffee coloured oil. Budget for a oil change and filter and it probably be a cheap car.

 

I dunno, my mother's is a year older and only ever does short trips, and the underside of the oil cap is black 'n' shiny. It's much lower mileage, mind you.

 

But in my experience RENNO + MAYO = HEADGASKET FAILO

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I dunno, my mother's is a year older and only ever does short trips, and the underside of the oil cap is black 'n' shiny. It's much lower mileage, mind you.

 

But in my experience RENNO + MAYO = HEADGASKET FAILO

 

It's been doing it since we bought it I'm sure.

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