2003 Renault Clio from UK and Ireland - Comments

My car was bought fron new. after 6 months of ownership (6,000 miles) brokedown with throttle sensor fault.

Plus the ECU had to be replaced.

After one year of ownership car breaks down, this time injection sensor fault.

3 weeks later car breaks down again.

This time the trottle sensor has gone again, and also the oxygen sensor.

Disappointed the car broke down within the first 6 months. took 5 days to be repaired.

Even more disappointed one year later when faults appear again. Unable to drive the car into a safe place as the engine died completely.

Car was towed to the garage. took 5 days to repair. they were unwilling to provide me with a courtesy car.

3 weeks later, the car has broken down once again with the fault mentioned above.

This time a repeat fault was recorded and my car was fixed within 24 hours. The customer service was awful. I had to keep ringing them.

To top it off when I got the car back there was a huge dent in the side of the drivers door. which they denied.

I can totally sympathise, we live in France and have also suffered from the 'wonderful' Renault after service. Non committal, denial of faults and an almost complete inability to repair a reoccurring starting fault. Get rid of it and get something else!!!

I got 1.4 Clio with Auto transmission, it got the same problems, the car did 30000 Km only and tell now I changed the flywheel sensor twice, water temp. sensor, 4 coils and the car, and the kick-down function hardly work.