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Daughter's car

Post by Texas » Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:22 pm

I thought my daughter 2012 Renault Koleos (?) was a good car, I have now changed my mind.
It has done 135,000 Klm's, mostly city driving. It's a 4x4 auto
18 months ago (under warrantee) the front diff went ($1,500 worth).
Now the gearbox is stuffed, quote from Renault $13,000 :o_0:
Now the car is on the way to an auto rebuilder in Northcote (?).
They quoted $5,000 complete. My daughter works for the Genuine parts company, which owns repco and others, so she will purchase the parts, a lot cheaper.
This story is much larger than above and has taken 2 weeks, 3 businesses and 4 tow truck rides.
I've seen a nice S series Valiant for $14,000, I might buy that rather than one of these modern cars.
Cheers Gra

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Kenle » Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:42 pm

Sorry to hear mate, imports are always expensive and troublesome once warantee finishes. Some of these grease monkeys are absolute swindles, hope everything gets better for you and your daughter.

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Post by frozenpod » Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:53 pm

It has all Nissan Xtrail driveline.

Which transmission does it have CVT or 6 SPD auto?

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Bayrock » Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:00 pm

My dad always told me, never buy a car from France or Italy. The Japs build good cars, the Americans not so much anymore, and from personal experience I stay away from Ford. I've had 2 Mazda's and they have been the best for me so far. My boss's Porsche just needed $15k worth of work too so the old saying you get what you pay for does not seem to apply anymore either.

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Al03 » Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:05 pm

Go for the "S" Series with the slant 6 and push button auto, hard to kill, cheap to fix.

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Kaspar » Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:20 pm

French cars are always very expensive to fix here unfortunately

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Lightningx » Tue Oct 02, 2018 3:36 pm

Not good at all!
Sorry to hear that mate.

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Post by Texas » Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:11 pm

frozenpod wrote:It has all Nissan Xtrail driveline.

Which transmission does it have CVT or 6 SPD auto?
CVT- yes Nissan motor at least. I'm not sure how much is Nissan

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Post by Texas » Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:16 pm

Al03 wrote:Go for the "S" Series with the slant 6 and push button auto, hard to kill, cheap to fix.
Exactly what I thought. No airbags, but metal

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Re: Daughter's car

Post by Texas » Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:21 pm

Thanks everyone for your support
Cheers Gra

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