Valuable splitter, car irrelevant. 1999 Renault Laguna V6 24V

[Lacquer Peel]

I imagine there are numerous reasons why this won't drop straight in.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-406-Coupe-3-0-V6-Petrol-Engine-earlier-D8-can-deliver-/271991751030

[dugong]

I imagine there are numerous reasons why this won't drop straight in.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-406-Coupe-3-0-V6-Petrol-Engine-earlier-D8-can-deliver-/271991751030

 

Appreciated, but I think ancillary bingo would be my downfall. 

My time and patience are finite. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Those numbers on the back are just wishful thinking , if V6 Lagunas really had 272 bhp they would have been faster than e36 M3s. I think about 200 is nearer the mark.

 

If you want a real splitter you need to find one of the 2.0 RT Sport's with the Airflow pack fitted. Renault had to sell a couple of hundred to homologate the spoilers for BTCC.

[Junkman]

A Laguna has as many OMGBHP as the beavertail underneath it.

[beko1987]

Send it to Scaryoldcortina, will soon be running fine again!

[fatharris]

My old man had a Lampooner in that rather fetching grey colour - although I always found the "1.6 Sport" trim level to be a bit of a misnomer.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

You get NUFF RESPECK from me for taking this on, I SRSLY wouldn’t spend a flippin bean on it though! Not yet anyway. Hopefully a compression test will tell you which head needs to come off. You pull it off and with a bit of luck you will be able to find out what went wrong. Don’t go buying a spare head until you have established that it defo doesn’t have a wonky/sunken/bent/missing/fraudulent liner or something (I don’t even know if these have liners).

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

You get NUFF RESPECK from me for taking this on, I SRSLY wouldn’t spend a flippin bean on it though! Not yet anyway. Hopefully a compression test will tell you which head needs to come off. You pull it off and with a bit of luck you will be able to find out what went wrong. Don’t go buying a spare head until you have established that it defo doesn’t have a wonky/sunken/bent/missing/fraudulent liner or something (I don’t even know if these have liners).

 

 

M8 these do, and this Gooner mite have moar sunken liners than the White Star Line.

 

Free cars are better when they're still free. Ish.

 

Fuck repairing it properly. This is Autoshite. I've just K Sealed a 100 quid BMW and have no intention of taking a spanner to it. 

[R9UKE]

Waheeey this thread just made my morning.

 

I was sitting in the airport waiting for a plane to Poland last week when I saw the previous owner of this desperately posting on various fb pages trying to find a home for it before it got scrapped and OF COURSE a brown page shite hero swooped in and saved it - good man!!

 

It looks truly awful, a proper shite dream. That engine isn't known for HGF so I presume the engine has had an equally hard life to the rest of the car.

 

I have to say, I had a manual V6 Laguna (the peasant RTi version) and found the whole set up hideous regardless of where the drivers seat was at - heavy clutch, crappy gearbox, oh and mine never did more than 16mpg. It was also in the hands of twats before me.

 

Good luck, I'll be watching this with interest. That is how a collection thread should read!!

[jonny69]

I think you've been 'done' mate.

 

That aside, I'd just be throwing some headgaskets at it if it has just gone through a headgasket. It'll buy you at least 20k miles trouble* free. Not worth shelling out for recon heads unless you're going to rebuild the rest to match. Are you sure it's definitely headgasket and not a dead water pump or, even simpler, thermostats?

[dugong]

I think you've been 'done' mate.

 

That aside, I'd just be throwing some headgaskets at it if it has just gone through a headgasket. It'll buy you at least 20k miles trouble* free. Not worth shelling out for recon heads unless you're going to rebuild the rest to match. Are you sure it's definitely headgasket and not a dead water pump or, even simpler, thermostats?

It was puking coolant over the exhaust manifold. I'd say the front HG was frigged, lad.

[Captain Slow]

Dugong, you're missing NOWT by viewing it in the dark. 

 

 

This will go down in history as the time we overstretched ourselves...

[nigel bickle]

No one died.

 

Write it down to experience.

 

Flog/ offload what you can to cover your costs before penning a lengthy article and hawking it to all the motoring press

[Bren]

I thought these were about 190 bhp.

 

190 bhp is about as much use as a pot noodle in the sahara when the car is as reliable as a hermes courier.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Based on my 115hp 2l version. 190hp with a front heavy motor in this would be 'interesting' on the handling front.

 

There is only so much understeer that a car needs.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Why bother?

 

If it was a nice example then definitely do it but this one doesn't seem worth the heart and wallet ache.

 

And I'm not know for giving up on shite.... ☺

[dugong]

Why bother?

 

If it was a nice example then definitely do it but this one doesn't seem worth the heart and wallet ache.

 

And I'm not know for giving up on shite.... ☺

I seem to remember getting torn a new one for suggesting that on a Corsa thread.

 

Dual standards, innit.

 

If I can sort it out within a budget I've set, it'll get done.

If not, I'll strip it in work's unit and lob what's left in the frag. An enthusiast will buy the interior and the engine would be of use to one of the ES9 / Clio V6 / Venturi brigade.

 

Shame to toss away a rare car, but scarcity doesn't equal value. I'll happily ignore the majority verdict of a bunch of Corsa and XM fans telling me a car's crap, mind!

 

FWIW, I don't think much of 75s; can't stand the interiors. Were it a 75 in this state, I bet the response would be more favourable.

 

Let's just see how it goes, yeah?

[D Spares & Tyres]

Not by me.....

 

Corsas are cheap and easy to fix though, that was my point...

[Dave_Q]

I don't think it's crap, I'm not particularly keen on corsas or XMs either.

 

I'm sure you're well aware of its value once fixed (i.e. about £20 per month of remaining MOT) and will have a sensible budget in mind to fix it.

 

If people only ever saved cars that were strictly financially worth doing, we wouldn't have much left.

[dugong]

Not by me.....

 

Corsas are cheap and easy to fix though, that was my point...

I was still hammered for daring to suggest it. Thanks, Autoshite.

See, a Corsa is an approved Autoshite vehicle, so people can jump in and enjoy the backlash when someone disagrees.

 

I wouldn't save a Corsa. Other people are happy to. Is that not the issue here? I wouldn't give space to one if the mintest example in existence fell into my lap. They bore me.

 

If I can get it done cheaply via contacts, does it matter?

 

More to the point, if I choose to spend money on it because I want to, why is that a problem?

I might do it, I might not. Sanity may prevail. Joys* of Autoshite.

 

I don't think it's crap, I'm not particularly keen on corsas or XMs either.

 

I'm sure you're well aware of its value once fixed (i.e. about £20 per month of remaining MOT) and will have a sensible budget in mind to fix it.

 

If people only ever saved cars that were strictly financially worth doing, we wouldn't have much left.

It has test, but it's basically worthless. I'm not that bothered by residual values.

[D Spares & Tyres]

No you are right, it doesn't matter

 

Nothing really matters

 

I wasn't saying your car was crap, I quite like mk1 Lagunas, especially in that flavour although not colour...

 

All I dared to suggest was that if you really want one of those then personally I would of started with a better example...

 

But that was just an opinion not a slating

 

You seem a little sensitive and protective of your new love

 

Anyway I shall introduce my own new motor later on, feel free to knock it

[Jim Bell]

http://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help-you/contact-us

 

 

 

Best of luck with it.

 

I bet they belt along when healthy.

 

Saving a rare car is commendable. As is buying cars blind from other countries and collecting them in the middle of the night.

 

More of this kind of thing.

[dugong]

No you are right, it doesn't matter

 

Nothing else matters

 

All I dared to suggest was that if you really want one of those then personally I would of started with a better example..

 

You seem a little sensitive and protective of your new love

Not being sensitive, just pointing out a couple of disparities in the ways of Autoshite.

 

There's between five and twenty manual Monacos left depending on which dribbling database you choose to believe; beggars can't be choosers, unfortunately.

You're right, I probably shouldn't have taken it on (and it definitely isn't a priority).

 

Plus (and I must state this again) it was free.

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. Regardless of what happens next, it was an amusing story. Kind of like my shambolic Volvo. The capers definitely outweighed the car itself. If it gets saved, then hoorah, but as one who has saved Renaults in the past, then been downright astonished at how worthless they are, I can understand if it goes no further.

 

By the way Dugong, I did have to smile when I looked at page 63 of this week's Classic Car Buyer (on sale tomorrow). Seems the XM vs 605 compaisons continue! Though your 605 at least has MOT at the moment...

[dugong]

By the way Dugong, I did have to smile when I looked at page 63 of this week's Classic Car Buyer (on sale tomorrow). Seems the XM vs 605 compaisons continue! Though your 605 at least has MOT at the moment...

 

Entirely unintentional! 

 

Yeah, I noticed that, too. It's not often you see a working XM and a tested 605 on the same page IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA (in 2016, on the toilet).

[Lacquer Peel]

I like this car and support all attempts to revive it.

Like you say, if you rebuild the engine and the car shits itself around it, there is some value in the engine.

If you wanted to tidy it up cosmetically, I'm sure more than one scrapyard has a phase 2 mk1 Laguna in silvery blue to swap bits with.

GLWT resurrection.

[dugong]

I like this car and support all attempts to revive it.

Like you say, if you rebuild the engine and the car shits itself around it, there is some value in the engine.

If you wanted to tidy it up cosmetically, I'm sure more than one scrapyard has a phase 2 mk1 Laguna in silvery blue to swap bits with.

GLWT resurrection.

It's actually a farty avocado green. Some daylight pictures are needed, methinks.

[Station]

Invest in a bottle of K-Seal, it might fix it. 

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

It's actually a farty avocado green.

SCRAP IT

[dugong]

Invest in a bottle of K-Seal, it might fix it.

That had crossed my mind.