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My clio is so jinxed....



Lou

  182
Went out this morning to find yet another car has hit it with their door! Its now got to the stage where i dont want the car anymore as everything keeps happening to it!

I dont know what to do! Do i get a loan to pay off the finance then sell the car?
Buy a 3dr Clio?
Stick with my 5dr one?
Buy a Clio Sport?

My friends and some family have told me to sell it but i really like the Clio, its comfy, easy to drive, looks nice!

What do i do?

Any advice greatly appreciated!!

Thanks
 
  RenaultSport 172 cup
Dinnae worry about it. I went thro the same phase with my cup, was on the verge of selling it. I hit a pheasant and smashed the front end up one week, next week the mot was due and then my exhaust falls off on the same day. Didn't sell in the end

Don't worry it's not jinxed.

Although DO get a Renaultsport!!
 
  MERCEDES CLS AMG
Sell it - your car is possesed by an evil demon and when your driving the car at night, alone he is in the back seat watching you
 
  Monaco 172 2/468
MATT BLACK said:
Sell it - your car is possesed by an evil demon and when your driving the car at night, alone he is in the back seat watching you

lol never fails to amuse :rasp:


I'd keep the car, I don't quite understand, if you get another car, wont people open doors into that too ? I don't think your Clio attracts car doors lol
 
  RenaultSport clio 182 CUP
sell it before the demon posseses you my friend there is still time to sell and come to 182 side.......... you must move fast though............ sell sell sell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Lou

  182
Lol, I wish i could afford a 182 right away but need to check my finances, plus i fancy the new 197!
 

brisa4984

ClioSport Club Member
yeh man .. cars jinxed.. get rid and sport it up..

my mate has a merc A class.. it has gotten

1. broken into and taken radio 100 quid
2. 1 parking ticket 50 quid
3. Toes twice 400 quid
4. Damage to abs sensor 200 quid.

all in the last 3 weeks

And he wants to sell up believin its jinxed.. cant blame him tho i think its jinxed too
 
you think thats bad....
had mine about a year when some idiot smashes into me causing front and rear damage. goes off to the repair place. a week later i go to pick it up. scratches all over it , glue on the inside seats, paint chipps allover, smelled like wet dog inside, no petrol whatsoever so i left it with them. go back a week later more scratches down to the metal, bits of metal embedded in the back windscreen, bonnet wont open, window washers dont work and a cracked headlight. went back again another week later still scratched and a cracked headlight so told them where to shove it and got myself another one and polished out the scratches. that was summer last year.
March this year, some other idiot reverses into me in a landrover 2 weeks after having my bodykit put on. he smashed the osf headlight and bends my bonnet. after driving round like that for a month, he finally admits it was his fault and my car goes off to be repair again. this time at a different place. its takes 45 mis to get to the other body shop. they have it for a week after giving me a f**king suzuki alto. i get a phone call to say its ready. i travel all the way out there only to find theyve taken a huge chunk out of my sideskirt, scratches all over, scratches in my front bumper so deep they had to be filled and resprayed, stereo asking me for a radio code, hazard warning lights not working, and a shitty inside again. then last weekend i took it to halfords just to get some better speakers put in and they said they dont have any of the stuff i wanted in stock. 2 weeks prior to this i went in a reserved all the stuff and put down a deposit.
its also been in the local renault garage for a rattling sunroof, squeaking steering wheel, squeaking brake pedal, exhaust rattle, door card hanging off and random stalling.
so dont feel too bad...
 
its really not funny.

thats only half the s**t thats happened to me over the past 2 years, so i guess it must be me f**king things up as usual!
 

Lou

  182
Cliobcx said:
you think thats bad....
had mine about a year when some idiot smashes into me causing front and rear damage. goes off to the repair place. a week later i go to pick it up. scratches all over it , glue on the inside seats, paint chipps allover, smelled like wet dog inside, no petrol whatsoever so i left it with them. go back a week later more scratches down to the metal, bits of metal embedded in the back windscreen, bonnet wont open, window washers dont work and a cracked headlight. went back again another week later still scratched and a cracked headlight so told them where to shove it and got myself another one and polished out the scratches. that was summer last year.
March this year, some other idiot reverses into me in a landrover 2 weeks after having my bodykit put on. he smashed the osf headlight and bends my bonnet. after driving round like that for a month, he finally admits it was his fault and my car goes off to be repair again. this time at a different place. its takes 45 mis to get to the other body shop. they have it for a week after giving me a f**king suzuki alto. i get a phone call to say its ready. i travel all the way out there only to find theyve taken a huge chunk out of my sideskirt, scratches all over, scratches in my front bumper so deep they had to be filled and resprayed, stereo asking me for a radio code, hazard warning lights not working, and a sh*tty inside again. then last weekend i took it to halfords just to get some better speakers put in and they said they dont have any of the stuff i wanted in stock. 2 weeks prior to this i went in a reserved all the stuff and put down a deposit.
its also been in the local renault garage for a rattling sunroof, squeaking steering wheel, squeaking brake pedal, exhaust rattle, door card hanging off and random stalling.
so dont feel too bad...

Wow, i thought everything that has happened to mine was bad! Mines has had to get a new rear door, 1/4 panel, alloy and tyre due to a motorbike hitting me, new front windscreen due to vandals, new rear windscreen due to vandals on seperate occasion.
The door pin popped out, been hit lots of times with car doors.
Been back to renault for rattling sunroof and a clicking steering wheel!!
 
  RS Clio 172 Ph1
If you like the car Lousie then see the hassle through. I bought a 172 about 6 weeks ago from a so called reputable dealer. Picked it up at 5pm on a Friday night and drove lovely. Next morning eager and excited jumped in it drove about a mile down the road and the thing was spluttering like an old clapped out Viva I once bought for 20 quid. Took it back to the dealer within the hour to find out it had a faulty plug. A week later wanting to start in the right way took it for a full service where it needed two front tyres ... Service and Tyres £250. Two weeks later it was parked up outside the house and I watched from my flat window a girl reverse into it in her Suzuki Vitara and her spare wheel on the back put a nice dent in my boot! I ran down and she blatantly denied it, didn't want to use up my no claims discount so forked out 60 quid to get it repaired. Last week my Engine Management light came on and have now just paid £79 for a new Oxygen Sensor. Next Wednesday it's in for a new Stainless Exhaust as the standard one in falling apart after just 36,000 miles ... £320. Last Saturday went to put some air in the tyres and one of the back ones and zero air, took it to Kwik-fit who charged me £17.50 for the puncture repair. About an hour ago parked up out side my house opened and shut my door and the inside handle came off - easily repaired with washer and screwdriver but hassle nonetheless. I also know that the rear discs and pads need doing before the next service and I've been quoted 200 quid. Everyday I move the car a couple of times to save it getting hit as I live in the middle of Bristol where parking is almost impossible. Every weekend/morning I am relieved that the car has not been stolen, window broken or jumped on by a drunken student in the night. It seems untrue I know but this is all gospel. I know where you're coming from believe me, but see it through. If you bought a new one it would be worse. It's driving me almost psychotic but I wont let em beat me til the fighting end. I'm holding back at the moment but one of these Friday or Saturday nights I'm gunna steal a tank and drive over every car in my street and shoot at anyone who is or may have been a student, car thief or bad driver! and the sad thing is no-one will understand me and the papers will call me a nutter and make up strories of a troubled childhood etc., etc.
 
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  A well built VW
I looked into this aswell FFS dont buy a megane mines has been in the dealers so many times ive lost count

I think the best thing is to grin and bear it surely nothing else can go wrong (thats what i tell myself anyway) and i was gutted i got rid of my clio
 
  Fiesta Zetec S TDCi
just sounds like a long run of bad luck :(

could've happened to any car mate, just love your little clio and make it feel better :)
 


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