07-07-2014, 08:58 AM
I'm going to suggest a Renault laguna 2l dci, although they're possibly out of the price range you're looking at, but alot of car for the money, talking 56 plate sort of age, the ones that have blackmasked headlights
First of all its a big French car so comfort is king, 150bhp 2l diesel, really nice place to be inside
My old man has had loads of lagunas now, this is probably the best Renault made before they started cheaping out bigtime on build quality like the newer ones. Put 60k on it so far after owning it about a year and a half, drives all over the UK and Europe usually with 200kg of tools in the boot and has never missed a beat, only thing so far was the vanes on the turbo stuck open for a couple of days leading to having no power pulling away from traffic lights and then all of the power resulting in wheel spin and coal but that sorted itself lol
Never had an issue with any emissions stuff, think just driving it and getting everything warmed up properly is key, I'm sure exclusively driving around town it probably wouldn't be so good.
Main thing it's had done was the 120k service by Renault where they replace every bush in the suspension front and rear and regas the aircon etc
Big thumbs up from my perspective anyway, I'll be looking at getting something like that to use as a tow car in a couple of years
First of all its a big French car so comfort is king, 150bhp 2l diesel, really nice place to be inside
My old man has had loads of lagunas now, this is probably the best Renault made before they started cheaping out bigtime on build quality like the newer ones. Put 60k on it so far after owning it about a year and a half, drives all over the UK and Europe usually with 200kg of tools in the boot and has never missed a beat, only thing so far was the vanes on the turbo stuck open for a couple of days leading to having no power pulling away from traffic lights and then all of the power resulting in wheel spin and coal but that sorted itself lol
Never had an issue with any emissions stuff, think just driving it and getting everything warmed up properly is key, I'm sure exclusively driving around town it probably wouldn't be so good.
Main thing it's had done was the 120k service by Renault where they replace every bush in the suspension front and rear and regas the aircon etc
Big thumbs up from my perspective anyway, I'll be looking at getting something like that to use as a tow car in a couple of years
Current stable
'09 Mercedes E320cdi wagon
'99 306 gti6
'09 Mercedes E320cdi wagon
'99 306 gti6