Ronald Mc_Bo11ox's LAGUNA ODYSSEY OMG FTP SOS ETC LOL

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I see that a cambelt kit for a V6 costs like £220-250 just for the bits!!!!

[SiC]

5hours labour according to autodata. No engine drop required - unlikely the avantime.

 

Probably about £500 to do around here at my local friendly garage.

 

If everything has been done the price isn't that unreasonable. Just hard to want to spend £1600 on a lag II despite looking in good nick and well cared for.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I dont think I could spend 1600 on one. I think a waiting game will snag one for much less than that. Theres a silver 55 plate on eBay at the moment for 1295 - that very one was on Autotrader a few weeks back with a short ticket for 700. I think the owners must have traded it in at the garage who are selling it now when the MOT ran out.

 

Have you seen this phase 2 V6?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111945745700

 

Nice colour, cream leather and runs on Calor gas!!!! 172,000 miles but it looks alright and is cheap as chips.

[SiC]

OMG how do you find them? I literally searched Laguna earlier and went thru everyone marked as petrol! Let's have a look...

 

That other silver one I saw on AT, again waiting for it to come down. Another in Essex that sold on eBay but no one collected. Half tempted to make a cheeky offer. No record of cambelt change though. Also ESP light and TPMS error on. TPMS you can get new sensors for £30, or just disable it completely thru diagnostics.

ESP not sure. Could simply be tracking was done and upset the steering angle sensor position. Again diagnostics would fix that. MOT until Dec (its been on that long).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah I saw that Essex one, I bid it up to about 650 I think but it went for 870 which was just too much, I did wonder if some shilling was going on.

[SiC]

Errrr, has he put the top bit of After Eights packet to block that screen?? Or even removed the screen completely?!

 

Would be a way of hiding any warnings!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Eh? Thats a bit weird innit.

[SiC]

I messaged the Essex guy when it went back on AT and at the time he said it would be back for sale if the guy hadn't picked it up by the end of the week. I reckon just another non-collector. Might phone up tomorrow. £15 for a bus from Bristol to London, £6.50 for the rest on underground. I've been planning

 

Problem is that I've spotted a bargain fast Saab that I really like the look of. Just have massive dilemmas on which to go for.

 

Saab because it's faster, bigger boot and Saab are ace.

Laguna because good for my app and v6 noises. Also can join the 'guna cool gang here.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'd be up for ringing up about that 2.0 with a busted turbo but getting a non-runner 150 miles up to me will cost more than the car itself!

[SiC]

That one is only 6 miles away from me - found it on my local Broken/Cheap Renault Gumtree saved search. However for me it really has to be a v6 and phase 2 (because I'm wierd).

 

I like the phase 2 Initalie interior more than phase 1 and as I'm sat in it, I don't care too much what the outside looks like.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Phase 2 Initiale interior is defo the best.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/renault/renault-laguna-initiale-2006/1160634985

[R9UKE]

Great beginners guide to the Guna II there SiC

 

Bol I think it's time, the engine and trim level checklist. We're guna fill a hat with things like "1.9 dCi Authentique", "V6 24v Dynamique" and "1.8 Auto Privilège". Each week a variant of Laguna II will be drawn from the hat and you just have to find one and buy it. We'll help you along the way with buying them of course, each regular just has to chip in about 7 pence.

 

Incidentally, I sold my 3.0 V6 Dynamique to a mate of mine a few months ago. He has started giving me what began as a weekly woe report, to an almost daily one. Luckily he finds it all very comical. This week the key card "shat itself", had to get in with the emergency key. It hasn't done it again since. The fuel gauge randomly dropped from 3/4 to zero, remained there for two days and then went to full, and it's now refusing to play track 4 of any CDs. It just skips from 3 to 5.

[Dave_Q]

WILL YOU ALL PLEASE STOP ENCOURAGING EACH OTHER TO BUY MORE LAGUNAS

 

Sorry for the caps, just felt I had to say something.

[SiC]

I usually hate wood trim, but I think Renault do it really tastefully. Probably genuine Brazilian rainforest wood LOL.

 

Also memory seats with his and hers keycards sound an excellent solution to me taking my knee caps out everytime I have to get in the car that my other half has previously driven. Being keyless entry, I think the seats even then move when you open the door!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

NEED MOAR GOONERS

[R9UKE]

They do. Although if the Laguna is anything like every Vel Satis I've had, the wing mirrors have dementia and spend about 5 minutes just wondering around every time you bloody get in.

[SiC]

Great beginners guide to the Guna II there SiC

 

Bol I think it's time, the engine and trim level checklist. We're guna fill a hat with things like "1.9 dCi Authentique", "V6 24v Dynamique" and "1.8 Auto Privilège". Each week a variant of Laguna II will be drawn from the hat and you just have to find one and buy it. We'll help you along the way with buying them of course, each regular just has to chip in about 7 pence.

 

Incidentally, I sold my 3.0 V6 Dynamique to a mate of mine a few months ago. He has started giving me what began as a weekly woe report, to an almost daily one. Luckily he finds it all very comical. This week the key card "shat itself", had to get in with the emergency key. It hasn't done it again since. The fuel gauge randomly dropped from 3/4 to zero, remained there for two days and then went to full, and it's now refusing to play track 4 of any CDs. It just skips from 3 to 5.

Is it really true, from your experience, that the phase 2 is better built?

 

I know that the electronics have changed a fair bit to fully CAN based for diagnosis vs the older model being nearly fully K-Line.

 

Oh another thing I like about the phase 2 - electronic handbrake. With all the toys on these, its like the Scenic was, driving simplicity. You put the keycard in your pocket, use the door handle on the car (it's automatically unlocked it for you), get in, seat auto adjusts, push the start button, gearbox into drive. Then use the stop and go pedals, handbrake auto releases and then using the big circle to point the car where you want to go. If it rains, auto wipers clear the screen. Dark? Lights come on automatically. Someone dazzling behind? Rear view mirror dims automatically. Over cook a corner? ESP will try its best to fix that.

 

No need to check tyre pressures, as it'll tell you. Oil level low too.

 

Only thing I wish it had would be the fancy Citroen suspension for a magic carpet ride!

 

Obviously it's only a fantasy that it all works together at the same time.

[stuboy]

nope still wouldnt buy one... i rather a nice clio....lol

[SiC]

Nah, too reliable. Will make it boring.

 

Did consider a 172/182 while they're so cheap atm and before they go silly prices. However city driving in a N/A hot hatch isnt that pleasant. Lumpy idle, low hard suspension, lightweight seats, heavy clutches and noisy exhausts aren't fun when you're averaging 10mph, going over many unforgiving speed bumps and stop+start for long periods.

[Richard]

 

Only thing I wish it had would be the fancy Citroen suspension for a magic carpet ride!

 

 

I've never quite got the Citroen magic carpet claims. The ride is good on a Citroen, but the same is true of most French cars, it's what the French are good at.

[cort16]

I've never quite got the Citroen magic carpet claims. The ride is good on a Citroen, but the same is true of most French cars,

it's what the French are good at.

 

and this

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13yMLkL1eAk

[SiC]

Tbh, a very common thing on a lot of moderns.

 

VAG turbo equipped products especially

 

I looked at golf mk5 tdis a little while ago. Out of 5 I saw, 3 had duff turbos - one even failed on the test drive!

 

Things that really don't help - Long service intervals bathing the turbo in old oil, sticky EGRs and owners driving them hard but then suddenly killing the ignition, before it gets a chance to cool and spin down.

[agw9262]

Having followed this thread with great interest (read amusement...) I couldn't help but laugh out loud when on VX owners network someone said they were selling their VX and buying a Laguna due to reliability issues

 

 

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[Kiltox]

Is it really true, from your experience, that the phase 2 is better built?

 

I know that the electronics have changed a fair bit to fully CAN based for diagnosis vs the older model being nearly fully K-Line.

 

Oh another thing I like about the phase 2 - electronic handbrake. With all the toys on these, its like the Scenic was, driving simplicity. You put the keycard in your pocket, use the door handle on the car (it's automatically unlocked it for you), get in, seat auto adjusts, push the start button, gearbox into drive. Then use the stop and go pedals, handbrake auto releases and then using the big circle to point the car where you want to go. If it rains, auto wipers clear the screen. Dark? Lights come on automatically. Someone dazzling behind? Rear view mirror dims automatically. Over cook a corner? ESP will try its best to fix that.

 

No need to check tyre pressures, as it'll tell you. Oil level low too.

 

Only thing I wish it had would be the fancy Citroen suspension for a magic carpet ride!

 

Obviously it's only a fantasy that it all works together at the same time.

Speaking of keyless - I had a phase 2 Laguna II a while ago and it would lock itself once the keycard was out of range, no button pressing etc required

 

Can my Scenic do that with some meddling with programming?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Had the urge to look out of my orifice window. This is what I saw.  Getting scary now, a tear in the very fabric of the laguniverse.

[cort16]

Was someone attempting to put it in the skip?

[scaryoldcortina]

^^ 40k miles, and passed a MoT only 9 days ago!

[SiC]

Exactly 12 years since it was first registered on this very day too!

 

It is an Expression trim level - one up from povo spec (authentique is base). So probably why it's lasted so long, not as much on it to go wrong.

[SiC]

Speaking of keyless - I had a phase 2 Laguna II a while ago and it would lock itself once the keycard was out of range, no button pressing etc required

 

Can my Scenic do that with some meddling with programming?

No. For some reason only known to Renault, the Laguna 2 locks itself when you walk away, but they changed it on the Scenic/Megane 2 and Clio 3 to have a button on the handle to lock it. While on the Laguna 3 and Megane 3 iirc they have both a button and also lock as you walk away.

[Isaac Hunt]

Had the urge to look out of my orifice window. This is what I saw.  Getting scary now, a tear in the very fabric of the laguniverse.

All I can see is two skips