Renault Scenic

[Guest Old_Fart]

I have a reault Scenic. Or rather my missus does. It was intentional. Shes spent years bopping round in Sierras and Mondeos. 

 

I liked Sierras. You could fix any fault on a  Sierra on a flat piece of concrete with just two screwdrivers and a tube of polystyrene cement,  I could change the head gasket on that pinto engine literally in the dark by touch  in 30 mins (i have actually done that). You could retime the ignition just by listening to the engine.

 

Anyho, the last one, a Sierra reached 350,000 miles and died, We needed another car, the local car dealers had no more Sierras, couldn't even find one local. SO in desperation I asked the nearest guy i knew what he had on the forecourt ready to go, cheap. and he produced this Mk 1 Renaul Scenic, £500 03 plate, diesel 190cc with a years MOT.

 

It has numerous annoying production faults. I googled them, and most Scenics appear to have some combination of them

 

The Injector Pre-heat Light will come on, and the car will drop into limp home mode. If you google this fault, thers as many possible reasons as Commandants, and im not gonna replace everything suggested, as ive got a simple fix. The fault is random, totally.  The fix is, when driving along, dip the clutch, turn the ignition off, turn it back on, let clutch back in bump starting it. This, for some bizzarre reason, clears the fault for a while. Must be some sort of sensor fault, i reckon.

 

The passenger foot well develops a a puddle of water if the car is left parked in a nose down attitude on the sloping driveway, when it siles with rain. Ive flushed and cleared the sills and drains round the roof, and the water catcher between the bonnet hungers. Beats me.

 

The number plate lights only come on when they feel like it. Cant see why, whenever i check them them work.

 

Its got an oil leak, i cant figure out where from, dripping off the bottom of the engine.

 

Having said that, it does 50 mpg and goes up the 1 in 6 hill here like a ferret up a drainpipe.

 

It has all the build quality of a Russian spaceship. Reminds me of the Fiat 131 Supermirfiore.   That used to have a sticker in bottom right of the windscreen that said "WARNING Do not exceed 60 mph in second gear" Ive no doubt some Italian tried it at some stage,

 

 

[Cavcraft]

They seem pretty appalling in diesel flavour.

[DSdriver]

Park it the other way around on the drive and don't use it at night, thus reducing your problems by 20 per cent. And, as every Citroen driver knows, oil leaks prevent rust.

[Guest Old_Fart]

Park it the other way around on the drive and don't use it at night, thus reducing your problems by 20 per cent. And, as every Citroen driver knows, oil leaks prevent rust.

 

I cannot dispute the wisdom of this.

 

I always found it never pays to rush to fix an oil leak. If you ignore it, and just keep topping it up, many oil leaks seal themselves  eventually, if its a gasket that leaking......

[robinmasters]

Secret* compartments under the floor in the back, openy rear window (independent of the boot), and drawers under the front seat perfectly suited to emergency cutlery. What's not to like?

[Guest Old_Fart]

The Mark 2 is far worse. £200 to fix the handbrake.  And the rear discs have the wheel bearing s built in. Change all them and pads and its eye watering.