me too - I've a dark green metallic Laguna - the paint must be less than 0.00000000000000000001 microns thick! is this Renault cost cutting ? After the initial paranoia I decided the best option was not to look too closely. Local discount shop was selling Simonitz Liquid Diamond at £1.95 for a big tin - seems to do a pretty good job.
Johnny

It depends entirely on the car and the warranty.

My father's Rover was very unreliable when bought at 4 years and 18k - the warranty was included in the price but would have been worth £800 for the year it ran, if we'd known at the time. Of course, the car caried on in that vein and we'd have been better off cutting our losses.

A warranty on a small, easy to repair, newer car will obviously be worth a lot less than one on a 10 year old V6, although you might get into the situation where a warranty would cost more than the car itself. Basically, you pays your money and you takes your choice.

I have had problems with the RH (driver's side) engine mount on my 106D (Don't know if it's the same as the 206). In their Gallic wisdom, the rubber is in tension; the engine hangs off an inverted mount. Eventually it sags, and the engine bearer hits the chassis - splendid noises on a diesel. I didn't even bother with the dealer. Some washers under the mount and longer bolts have cured it, although I had to do this in two stages. It's been fine for the last year or so, raised about 3mm. Obviously a French wobbler - wonderful engines though.

Hi all,

Would appreciate any help you can offer on this. 98 Laguna Auto with a blocked heater matrix. The car still runs fine, but when the engine gets warm the SERV light illuminates and puts the gearbox into limp mode which is gear 2.4 and a max of about 60mph.

This occurs when I put the correct amount of coolant fluid into the system, however, with or without the blocked heater matrix, it seems to happen randomly and even then, when I remove some of the water from the cooling system, the car runs warmer but the SERV light doesn't come on.

Until I can fix this heater matrix, anyone got any ideas how to disable this stupid limp home mode? I've recently been hundreds of miles without this problem and suddenly it's back again. I did see an article a while ago that it is possible cut a wire under the air filter housing, joined to the auto trx. But I'm unsure which wire/s to cut. Anyone done this or heard about it?

I was going to just by-pass the heater matrix altogether but it's getting cold out there and I just want it fixed as it should be.

Would appreciate any help you can offer, many thanks...

I have P6000s on my A4 225/45/17 and couldn't claim that they are quiet or not, but they are prone to tramlining probably due to the profile. However i have recently had both rears over the last 3 months punctured, one i had patched only to find two side wall bubbles appear after the tyre was refitted, the other was a right off.(both tyres nearly new!).
To me the tyres give an impression of weakness and i wouldn't recommend low profile tyres, they seem prone to side wall bubbles, on the last service a half worn front was found with a side wall bubble on the inside wall.
Over 3 years and 17,000 miles i have had 5 punctures and two tyres with side wall bubbles, perhaps i have been unlucky?