Hallo. Thought I'd drop in with my new school run car. It's my fourth Renault after a string of quite a lot of 90s and 00s Peugeots.
I bought a 2005 Trafic this time last year and was very impressed with it.
It blew an injector 14 hours into what should have been a 15 hour drive to the south of France, and being the 2.0dci the injector was properly seized in the head, so it was eventually scrapped.
I relented and bought a brand new Duster, breaking the magic £1200 price barrier for the first time in a decade. It's a 1.5dci 4x4 and has Renault written on the glass, so that's good enough for me. Drives well enough and takes the three kids (2, 5, 6) OK too. Living in the North Pennines at 1100' we get a fair amount of weather, and it seems to cope well with it.
I then bought a 1989 LHD 1.6d Renault Express van. I have no idea why and the diesel pump is pissing everywhere. I can't drive it to work (I contractually WFH so every drive is business use, which I can't get on a vintage commercial policy) and it doesn't have enough seats for the family.
Aaanyway. I needed a car to get the kids to school after half term as they'll be 2 miles away instead of 100m to use breakfast club and so on. I also need to use it once a month for work, usually the Midlands or somewhere in the "North West" which tends to be two hours away. It'd be a bonus if it could be used as a backup family car too.
I'd previously had a 206 GTI, which had been lovely and relatively reliable being a 99 pre-MUX one. But I remembered driving a 172 when working as a valeter and one was traded in against a Ford Direct Focus ST2 and seemed to think they were a tad more spacious. And they have a decent following, so why not?
Hence, I was convinced and bought the first one which came along, blind, from hundreds of miles away, despite knowing it had been sitting for a while and that there was a suspicion it may have previously had a dodgy MOT. I mean, WCPGW?
I drove it home yesterday and I'm hooked. I can even fit the kids in the back.
Hopefully I will have a better relationship with it than some of my previous vehicles 🤣
I bought a 2005 Trafic this time last year and was very impressed with it.
It blew an injector 14 hours into what should have been a 15 hour drive to the south of France, and being the 2.0dci the injector was properly seized in the head, so it was eventually scrapped.
I relented and bought a brand new Duster, breaking the magic £1200 price barrier for the first time in a decade. It's a 1.5dci 4x4 and has Renault written on the glass, so that's good enough for me. Drives well enough and takes the three kids (2, 5, 6) OK too. Living in the North Pennines at 1100' we get a fair amount of weather, and it seems to cope well with it.
I then bought a 1989 LHD 1.6d Renault Express van. I have no idea why and the diesel pump is pissing everywhere. I can't drive it to work (I contractually WFH so every drive is business use, which I can't get on a vintage commercial policy) and it doesn't have enough seats for the family.
Aaanyway. I needed a car to get the kids to school after half term as they'll be 2 miles away instead of 100m to use breakfast club and so on. I also need to use it once a month for work, usually the Midlands or somewhere in the "North West" which tends to be two hours away. It'd be a bonus if it could be used as a backup family car too.
I'd previously had a 206 GTI, which had been lovely and relatively reliable being a 99 pre-MUX one. But I remembered driving a 172 when working as a valeter and one was traded in against a Ford Direct Focus ST2 and seemed to think they were a tad more spacious. And they have a decent following, so why not?
Hence, I was convinced and bought the first one which came along, blind, from hundreds of miles away, despite knowing it had been sitting for a while and that there was a suspicion it may have previously had a dodgy MOT. I mean, WCPGW?
I drove it home yesterday and I'm hooked. I can even fit the kids in the back.
Hopefully I will have a better relationship with it than some of my previous vehicles 🤣
