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The saga continues:
So the garage have had my car for over a month, I picked it up this afternoon. The cost for repairs was about £400, I paid half of this as a settlement / GOGW / whatever u want to call it. – basically I wanted to get the car back and sell it straight on, to stop my insurance liability for payments and so forth.
So driving it back, needed to slowly down, so foot off the accelerator, press the brake, clutch down…. And the engine dies.
Not a one off, it happened about 5-6 times. Took it to a new garage, who basically said he didn’t even want to work on it, as a 2005 1.6 renault scenic is ‘the devil car’. Fair enough, but £50 for a diagnostic if I do want it looked at.
So I have 3 options:
1: Scrap it - £200, maybe 250 value
2: get it repaired – probably another £250. He seemed to think it was a cambelt pulley, but did say it could be any number of things. £50 diagnostic, pulley £150 + labour
3: sell it for spares and repairs, in general its in a decent condition, probably get £1000 (?) maybe.
My questions are: has anyone else had this problem ever, do you know what it was, how much it was to fix? – would help me make my decision.
Complete waste of money, like £2k thrown away on this car, so not happy at all.
So the garage have had my car for over a month, I picked it up this afternoon. The cost for repairs was about £400, I paid half of this as a settlement / GOGW / whatever u want to call it. – basically I wanted to get the car back and sell it straight on, to stop my insurance liability for payments and so forth.
So driving it back, needed to slowly down, so foot off the accelerator, press the brake, clutch down…. And the engine dies.
Not a one off, it happened about 5-6 times. Took it to a new garage, who basically said he didn’t even want to work on it, as a 2005 1.6 renault scenic is ‘the devil car’. Fair enough, but £50 for a diagnostic if I do want it looked at.
So I have 3 options:
1: Scrap it - £200, maybe 250 value
2: get it repaired – probably another £250. He seemed to think it was a cambelt pulley, but did say it could be any number of things. £50 diagnostic, pulley £150 + labour
3: sell it for spares and repairs, in general its in a decent condition, probably get £1000 (?) maybe.
My questions are: has anyone else had this problem ever, do you know what it was, how much it was to fix? – would help me make my decision.
Complete waste of money, like £2k thrown away on this car, so not happy at all.
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An hours seach on the net before you even looked at a mid noughties Reno would have told you to avoid like the plague...nice cars when they are running right but should be bought cheap enough to throw away when they pack up.
Sorry, but unless you let someone competent fix the thing you'll have to sell it as is.0
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