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Offline JLCoad

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Renaultsport megane 175
« on: August 01, 2011, 08:18:43 am »
I have been looking at a few of these recently. Look a decent sporty diesal hatch and the reviews are good. Anyone on here owned one/driven one?

Wondering If the car was reliable, any common faults etc.

Cheers.

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Re: Renaultsport megane 175
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2011, 10:17:41 am »
I have been looking at a few of these recently. Look a decent sporty diesal hatch and the reviews are good. Anyone on here owned one/driven one?

Wondering If the car was reliable, any common faults etc.

Cheers.

There is no such thing :laugh: :laugh:

diesel and Sporty in the same sentance???  :innocent:

now if a tractor was wrote......
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Re: Renaultsport megane 175
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2011, 04:53:15 pm »
Should have seen the tractor comment coming :grin:

Nobody with any experience of them?

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Re: Renaultsport megane 175
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2011, 05:18:35 pm »
Not that many people that have gone from VW to Renault to be fair, normally the other way :signLOL:

Perhaps pm MAT ED30 or jhtrophy as they are well experianced to Renault  :happy2:

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Re: Renaultsport megane 175
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2011, 06:10:24 pm »
I drove one of these a couple of weekends ago.  Over about 150 miles.

It was ace, really accessible performance, great economy, and Renault really seemed to have turned the corner regarding build.  It had 4 pots on the front too!  Renault fitting decent brakes to a diesel..........

Perhaps VW should take note and equip the GTi/Ed with decent stoppers.  :scared:


It would be on my list if I wanted a diesel, and a change from 5 pot utopia.  overall it was a great drive, really engaging, and very comfortable.



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Re: Renaultsport megane 175
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2011, 06:50:06 pm »
Thanks for the feedback guys.

@steve- yeah I know it's not the usual transgression and it does feel weird just looking at a Renault after always having golfs but times are a bit tight and on basic figures alone it will save me £250 per month against my ed30. I would look at the gtd's but I think they are overpriced. The megane looks a bit funny but handling and performance is supposed to be fairly close to the petrol.

Again cheers for the feedback.