Renault Laguna, Y reg. But why, Reg?

[Pillock]

What sort of warranty do you get on a free car dumped at the Sunday market, anyway?

[twosmoke300]

10,000 miles or Tuesday , whichever comes first

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What sort of warranty do you get on a free car dumped at the Sunday market, anyway?

 

[Lacquer Peel]

 

[scaryoldcortina]

^ It did get quite cold while I was waiting....


Anyway, I'm sure you all want to know!

Today I changed the oil pressure switch and while I was there fresh oil and a new filter. Everything seemed fine, no more oil warnings, car behaved itself all day. This evening I went out in it to go view a house for my sister, expecting to be a couple of hours.

 

On the way back, I noticed a slight lack of power while going up a hill. No horrid noises, no warning lights. The only red light in sight was the traffic light at the top of the hill. As soon as I dipped the clutch, it stopped. Pressing the start button made it click, all the lights went out then nothing. Of course, I assumed it was electrical and was carrying tools and a spare battery. Pushed it round and parked up facing downhill. Tried a bumpstart but it did nothing...

 

 

With the car in gear and the handbrake off, I rocked the car while watching the bottom pulley with a torch - the whole engine rocks but the pulley doesn't budge so GAME_OVER.

 

 

Wet and pissed off, in a rapidly cooling car I waited 2 hours for the AA. I explained to the girl on the phone that it wasn't fixable and explained why, she asked me about some issues with her mother's megane. Eventually the yellow van arrived. I explained, he asked me to show him so I rocked it while he looked at the pulley and said "ah."

 

 

Towpole for the 3 mile trip back to the garage. I've dumped it there and come home in the scorpio instead.

 

 

I'm pretty sure it's turned a shell on a main bearing, and that it did so because I changed the oil. I'll decide what to do about that tomorrow.

[beko1987]

I r upset. See, you shouldnt have spent out on it

[scaryoldcortina]

It's only an engine. Wonder if I can get a pinto to fit*

[trigger]

Not the conclusion to the thread that I was hoping for. Is it worth fixing?

[scaryoldcortina]

If I can get an engine, or at least a bottom end reasonably cheaply then yes, it's worth fixing. Partly because I still need a car, partly because I only taxed it on tuesday which has to be a flippin' record and partly because I'm bloodyminded that way.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Definitely not the update I wanted to see in this thread. I really like these cars and was hoping that by some divine irony your free one would be completely reliable. 

[Jim Bell]

I hate it when being nice to an engine, kills it.

 

I've only ever had one Oil Change Assassination but that was disheartening enough.

[beko1987]

Pinch whatever else is parked in its parking space at the car boot

[scaryoldcortina]

Last time it happened to me was an astra mk2, it threw a rod 2 days after I changed out the minging old oil for fresh. I had to walk home from Sedgefield.

 

Next day I got an engine and fitted it. Car lasted another year after that.

 

 

Might as well ask here as anywhere else - what else does the 1.8 16v go into, and is the bottom end of the 2.0 more or less the same? (there is a 2.0 lag with a snapped belt in the scrappy - if I can put the 1.8 head onto its block and use all the ancilliaries then it's only going to cost me a headgasket and some time)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What a bastard!!!!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Check out the list of misery on this one:

 

http://ebay.us/dAUb0o

 

Engine Management Light On.

 

Fuel pump warning permanently lit.

 

Drivers side window will not go down, or up for that matter.

 

Passengers side window occasionally requires a bit of persuasion to go down.

 

Sunroof will not open, and if it does will not close.

 

Sometimes you've got to 'jiggle' the key card to get it started.

 

Will not lock, and if it does lock will not open (most of the time).

 

Passenger side rear bushes gone.

 

Electric Handbrake will not engage (and if it does engage it will not disengage, without persuasion)

 

Needs rear pads and disks. Probably front ones also.

 

Exhaust is blowing, has been welded more times than Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge.

 

Spare wheel is punctured.

 

Jack is broken.

 

Desperately requires a wash and vacuum.

 

Most panels have some sort of scratch/indentation on them.

 

Mouldy inside as it hasn't been driven for a month or so.

 

 

 

 

It actually drives, but battery is flat so will need jump leads if planning to drive away.

[scaryoldcortina]

Could be worse Mr B, at least I've driven it around and know that generally it's OK. Just need a cunning plan and all will be well. Well, until something else breaks.

[scaryoldcortina]

Hey, osmotherley isn't far, and I've got a battery.

 

***WATCHLIST***

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Check out the list of misery on this one:

 

http://ebay.us/dAUb0o

 

 

It has actual flies on it. 

 

The seller has provided a photo of the flies on it. 

 

[Jim Bell]

I was going to say that there was no flies on that one but that photograph proves the contrary.

[scaryoldcortina]

It's december, the flies will have died by now.

 

#When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble, have a whistle......

[garethj]

Oh dear, who'd have thought that changing the oil would knacker up the engine??

 

Looking on the bright side, it should be pretty easy to find a Laguna with many, many issues except for the engine.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

This has taught me never to do another oil change. This seemingly harmless gesture can DESTROY UR ENGINE!!!!!

[cort16]

What a bugger. I have to say I wouldn't have seen that coming. I've seen Laguna 2's kill themselves in inventive ways but never a seized engine. It's usually all the bits around that give up first.

 

My mate had a1.8 one that would go up 100 miles for every mile he drove and had sheared both hatch hinges. I think eventually the electrical system emploded with 230knon the clock (even though it had only done 100k)

[scaryoldcortina]

If I had to guess, based on the speakers and the state of the interior I'd say the previous owner's driving style involved merciless thrashing from cold and never servicing anything. Engine would have died anyway, the oil change just helped it along.

[Rusty_Rocket]

That is very unfortunate and not something anyone could predict

 

My pal had a similar experience, except it was his neglect that caused it.  He still to this day believes it was the oil change the garage recommended (when the oil light started flickering) that killed his engine.  Nothing at all to do with the 7yrs and 70,000 miles previously done without hardly lifting the bonnet once..

[purplebargeken]

Booo!

 

Buy a Trans Am

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Very bad luck SOC.

 

I had a similar issue with a 1998 R reg Vectra that I bought in 2006 for £150.

 

Full of great intentions I got it MOT'd. It drove well. I backflushed (yo)  the heater matrix so that thee heater actually worked. I cleaned and polished it. It ran well. I replaced the timing belt and tensioners because it seemed worthwhile - it ran ever so well. I changed the oil and filter because the oil was dirty. Great. I then drove it to Chesterfield and it ran well, until the oil pressure light came on. It rattled like a bastard. I drove it in a FUCKYOUYOUHATEFULPIECEOFUSELESSFUCKINGVAUXHALLSHITANDIDON'TGIVEAFLYINGFUCKIFYOUDOSEIZE manner and dumped it around the corner from the auctions. Next day I drove back in a proper car, fired this twat up (sounded good, oil light out) and entered it into the sale. £280 cheque, never seen again. I lost time and money. Hey, it was not the first or the last time.

 

I'd weigh the Laguna, lesson learned. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

A sad but not entirely unexpected development.

 

See the bright side... A seized engine in a six cylinder Bristol means that one has to spend an entire year's earnings on an engine rebuild. A seized engine in a Laguna II means that one has to pick up a donor car for £50 and spend a weekend making a good car out of the two.

[Burnside]

I'm gutted for you scaryoldcortina. Just hope it can be fixed cheaply as it seams a tidy one otherwise now you cleaned it.  

 

Just hope chaging the oil on ours last week doesn't have the same effect being the DCI or it's game over I reckon.

 

My brother only made one trip to work in it before it had to go back to the garage. Since we had it back last week its managed four more trips to his work, so five journeys in nearly four months is a all new record!

 

I hope I'm not jinxing it saying that now.

[lincolndanny]

New film blockbuster out this week

 

"LAGUNA IN FTP"

 

Only 6 tickets sold because ENDING ALREADY COMMON KNOWLEDGE.