Well, after 10 months of living hell owning a Megane I have decided to just cut my losses, I still owe a considerable amount on the peice of garbage but I cannot handle it anymore and am trading it in. Since July 2016 Turbo Solenoid $250, dealer wanted an hours labour to fit it so I did it myself. Brake issues, ended up actually being swivel bearings but the dealer saw fit to charge $500 to throw the wheel alignment to one side to compensate before I got a suspension place to do the bearings which cost another $400. Got shafted for a quarter of the purchase price by the Renault dealer who had nfi how to clean out the fuel tank due to apparent fuel contamination so increased the labour from 4 hours to 12 half way into the job and forced me to buy a genuine fuel pump because they ordered the wrong aftermarket one twice, $3000. Gear linkage broke - within a week of fixing that flooded interior due to scuttle drains being blocked. Now, after all the the DMF is stuffed and has started chattering on idle, I've also got surging when cruising at under 2000rpm and occasional crunching shifting into second, all this on a car that's been serviced by the book and done 107,000k, will cost $2600 at an independant and then something else will break. I will never touch another Renault again and probably no other Euro car, I've basically thrown away over $10,000 and have nothing to show for it but the debt I still have to pay off, I'm going to have to buy another $10,000 car so I could have bought something brand new.
So you bought a second hand car that was an utter pig, no due diligence, no checks, overpaid for it and then got ripped off by some mechanics? Doesn't sound like it's the cars fault. You bought something past its lifespan, got very unlucky with the service personal you chose and are now out of pocket.
They're expensive cars to maintain, make no bones about it. My R26 cost me 29p/mile in maintenance, or £2653/year. I came to the same conclusion as the OP - get rid. It was a fantastic car when working however so unlike the OP I decided to stay with Renault but bought new, with warranty & servicing all in. My Trophy has so far cost 1p/mile or £134/year in maintenance. This is always the risk you take with a second hand car and it'll always be a greater risk (IMHO) when you buy at high miles, expensive when new or high performance cars. Learn from it and move on. I did and it took me to a brand new car and away from a stream of 2nd hand ones.
I feel your pain it can be frustrating and costly and at times you want to throw the towel in. Given what you have spent buying the car and repairing it might be worth resolving the issues before you consider to sell. If it's any comfort I had the following in the first year Starter motor Engine gearbox mounts Electric folding mirrors
I understand where you're coming from but for all you know you could be at the end of all the issues, it also sounds like not only have you had no luck with the car but that the garages providing services may be taking the piss too. I do my work myself so granted I have that luxury but in my first 18 months of ownership I had both window regs, both swivel bearings, a drive shaft and a new engine. I'm now 5 years into ownership and I love it, won't get rid of it. Although I've continued preventative maintenance and modifying. It's one of them situations, you could go on to have more issues but could also be fine. That fuel tank situation, you could have replaced the fuel tank and updated the system for the costs. My Audi A4 and E46 dailys caused me no end of bother and so many parts needed replacing but I expect that with second hand, I budget for it. Don't label the brand for one car, they're good cars you may have just copped for a lemon. Hopefully you get sorted Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The car was inspected pre purchase. Non of the issues were apparently evident. The fuel tank saga was. We'll fix it for $845 by tomorrow so I went with it rather than do it myself over the weekend. The dealer spent 4 weeks refusing to reassemble. Said oh we didn't know this had to come off mutiple times and just did whatever they wanted because they had it and there was no way I could just drive it out. 107000k is not high mileage. I've had other cars I bought with similar k's last over 200000k more with minimal issues apart from wear and tear. Maybe some are good but this one is cursed.
How could you know scuttles were blocked? I've never heard of someone trying to flood the car on inspection. There were zero noises from the clutch and how can you check gear linkages on the shifter easily? The power loss due to turbo was not present on my test drive or when mechanic drove it.
