Daily Mail today

[Dave]

Anyone read or posted about it? Apparently theres a few Renaults kicking about where the passenger can accidentally break the car owing to the way Reno do the LHD to RHD conversion!

Apparently some bird was oin the A406 at 40mph, her husband turned in his seat and kicked the bit under the dash and broke the car to 0mph!

 

[RS-Steve]

itll be characteristic!!!

seriously tho that is bad. all the wires from behind my dash seem to hang down into the footwells!!!!!

 

[Dave]

Werent the wires, apparently they just dont put the pedals in, and use a metal bar across the footwells to link the RHD pedals with the mechanism.

More complicated than that obviously but u get the idea! All manufactureres probably do it its just that some Renaults dont have a panel protecting it!

 

[llamalover]

Jesus. I hope you mean brake and not break. Breaking a car with your foot is a bit much, even if it is crummy french quality.

 

[Dave]

lol

 

[edde]

Its only on the Megan 2 as Renault didnt move the brake pedel just made an externsion sort of thing

The Clio are ok though I belive although there a huge bunch of cable sticking out from under my dash.

Not vey good design though if its true but it sounds like a bit of a freeky thing ie you have to be doing something extreme to set it of. After all thecars been for sale for ages whithou this problem cropping up.

I love the Renault explaination though of how to fix it they just told him to sit in the back of the car in future.

 

[Ben H]

A scare story from the Daily Mail. Well I never.

 

[S2 PTH]

well, itd make a good instructors car- no need for dual controls!

 

[Dave]

The bit about Renault was f**king fantastic. The Techs telling him not to sit there, LMFAO!

 

[Kelly]

Quote: Originally posted by Ben H on 03 May 2004


A scare story from the Daily Mail. Well I never.

LOL - that paper is the worst ever for scaremongering. I have no idea why people still read it..

 

[Scudetto]

i love the Daily Mail, precisely becuase its so brilliant at stories design to scare little middle England. Immigrants are killing our Rose gardens, or Jobless families passing cancer onto the wealthly or French threaten UK schools with giant Baguettes. Its a brilliantly edited and written piece of paranoia. Its great, love it, a great daily laugh.

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[riplash]

Was pretty harsh growing up in a household where the two people calling the shots were Daily Mail readers !!

According to that paper by now I should be a herion addicted, 5 child fathering, benefit scamming, in and out of jail lout.