i didnt think renaults could be made better

[stuboy]

but bang on some aftermarket rims and lights its....shite....

[gordonbennet]

I know they have enough bloody electrical niggles to make a saint cuss, and i wouldn't want to pay more than £500 for a bugger, but that model Lag was IMO one of the most handsome mass produced cars of its era.

[jbz2079]

Handsome but Horrible to own, My mate had an 02 reg Diesel Turbo and it had electrical problem, lots of them.

The it ate it's turbo, When it failed it passed oil and the engine took off, right off the rev counter it went.

Miraculously the engine survived having the tits revved of it for three minutes till it stopped.

 

One £350 turbo later and the intercooler cleaned out, it got sold.

Unfortunatly he replaced it with a 406 Pug that had the wrong con rods in it from new!

That splattered it's engine all over the road after 30,000 careful, well serviced miles.

[Spiny Norman]

Isn't it the case that if you want one of these the best ones to go for are the 1.6/1.8 petrol ones, preferably lower spec? A mate of mine had a 1.6 Expression and apart from the tyre pressure sensors he didn't have any bother from it, and they're lovely cars to ride in.

[aldo135]

Agree these are the best looking mainstream cars for a long time. Also agree if you want one the smaller petrol models are the way to go!

 

 

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[londonm]

You'd have to drug me and force me at gun point to buy a Renault, they sound a unholy turd of a car to own.

[chaseracer]

The fact that it was always the Renault bits that broke on Domestic Management's otherwise fine K12 Micra is what keeps me from looking closer at the Dacia Sandero...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I agree wholeheartedly that all post 2000ish Renaults are shit,but in France they're still all flying around in them.

Are home market ones better built? Is it a RHD thing? I know it's not that dealers are cheaper from being bent over for €1000 a few years ago for an alternator on a Grand Espace (which incidentally ran its big ends at 60,000 and 4 years old)

Possibly,denting every panel and never washing them keeps the electrics from failing or bouncing off the rev limiter in every gear somehow stops the engines from wearing out.

[Vince70]

I would say the only thing reliable on that Laguna mkII in the picture would be those horrible cheaply made Lex arse lights which the owner has fitted to the the car..

 

I also see it's had some dodgy looking aftermarket alloys fitted again not a bad idea as the original alloy wheels are also known to buckle when driven over a fag packet.

 

I would say that's the only redeeming features on that car as everything that has a Renault stamp on that car WILL go wrong.

 

I can tell you from experience of owning a 4 year old low mileage one which was basically sold as scrap just steer well clear of any Laguna itch you may have..

 

But as Gordon Bennett has said the Laguna II is a handsome looking car but you mustn't treat it as a car but more of an expensive garden ornament..

[Bren]

I watched a documentary about the space shuttle - every single component is given a risk assessment, the engines considered to be the greatest "at risk" components due to the complexity.

 

I believe DCi Lagunas are the same.

[chaseracer]

Except that the 'risk assessment' is a thin coat of looking at and a Gallic shrug from Jean-Pierre in the Quality Assurance* department...

 

 

 

 

* Who said irony was dead?