A white Renner Espace

[purplebargeken]

I often wonder if my old white Espace is still going strong.

[500tops]

I often wonder the same

[loserone]

My old teacher used to still have one of those 

[purplebargeken]

Just interested to hear if its still doing ok. It was a nice old thing.

[RoverFolkUs]

Given it was about as difficult to sell as pushing the thing itself uphill with the handbrake on, sadly I don't think it would take too much to see it killed 🤣

[purplebargeken]

It was a great vehicle and once we found out the weird chafed wire issue it was sound. Same it wasn't a sought after vehicle.

[stuboy]

5 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

I often wonder if my old white Espace is still going strong.

vrn?

[loserone]

22 minutes ago, stuboy said:

vrn?

 

[CaptainBoom]

To save us all from pounding Carbaba and the dvla.gov site…

It has no scrap marker against it, the MOT was allowed to expire in January this year, however there has been a plate change. Can @LightBulbFun cast any light on the new plate? 
so it seems like it may live on yet.

[RoverFolkUs]

N843 CMK

RENAULT ESPACE

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Colour

White

Fuel type

Petrol

Date registered

29 February 1996

MOT expired on

26 January 2023

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Date tested

18 March 2023

FAIL

Mileage

9,431 miles

Test location

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MOT test number

3551 3245 5111

Repair immediately (major defects):

• Offside Front Wheel bearing rough when rotated (5.1.3 (b) (i))
• Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.1.3 (b) (i))
• Central Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases Centre box has hole in it (6.1.2 (a))
• Horn not working (7.7 (a))

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

• Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i)

[RoverFolkUs]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

N843 CMK

RENAULT ESPACE

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Colour

White

Fuel type

Petrol

Date registered

29 February 1996

MOT expired on

26 January 2023

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Date tested

18 March 2023

FAIL

Mileage

9,431 miles

Test location

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MOT test number

3551 3245 5111

Repair immediately (major defects):

• Offside Front Wheel bearing rough when rotated (5.1.3 (b) (i))
• Offside Front Track rod end ball joint has excessive play (2.1.3 (b) (i))
• Central Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases Centre box has hole in it (6.1.2 (a))
• Horn not working (7.7 (a))

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

• Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i)

Not a horrific fail, but a fail none-the-less. An easy £500 worth of work there so I suppose unless someone is particularly fond of it they'd bin it over that lot

[mk2_craig]

Don't tell me you wanna buy it back Ken.

[purplebargeken]

I loved it but sadly doubt that I could justify it with me having the T4 probably.

I mainly just wanted to know if it was still about. That isn't a major fail list tbh. All the bits are cheap enough via autodoc. 

Yeah, maybe a bit of seller's remourse...

That is the original registration. I have K300 JPR on retention.

[Jim Bergerac]

I often wonder what happened to Harold Shipman's Espace.

[purplebargeken]

Probably quietly crushed.

[purplebargeken]

Hope my old Espace is put back on the road. That would be a great outcome.

[purplebargeken]

I seem to recall that unclefester was going to use it as a works van. I think.

[sdkrc]

I wonder what Neville Chamberlain would've made of the Renault Espace mk2?  If he'd seen the masterful blend of economy, space and utility perhaps he'd have had the confidence and wherewithal to realise appeasement wasn't going to cut it. One can only imagine the impact on world events had N843CMK been around a mere 58yrs earlier.

I've got vague memories of @Unclefester throwing an ad up on FB immediately after he got it. I'm not judging btw, it's a second hand car and not a beloved pet dog

[Unclefester]

It went to another shitter I swapped it for a Skoda Octavia 

[purplebargeken]

Oh well, hope whoever has it can get it sorted and back on the road.