phase 2 no. 20. illiad blue 05 £34k dealer

[GPH]

Not seen on the forum for about 7 years is a phase 2 early plaque number 20, but not registered until 06/2005....
Low mileage at 20,000 miles. £33,995 at Meresidemotors.com a prestige cars dealer. Good advert with some more interesting stuff than normal apart from a couple of random comments plucked from thin air like 1 "of 500" and "one of the last built" . number 20 of 354. I guess they are going by registration date.

http://www.meresidemotors.com/renault-c ... v6-6144534

 

[Duncan]

Was manufactured Sept 2003, somewhere around the 300th car overall, so a very early one!

Does look particularly nice car, new floor matts, new gear knob and brake callipers back to standard colour would do it real justice.

 

[AcidV6]

Isnt it just the same one recycled from the other day from a different dealer who couldnt write an advert?

Advert is poor if you ask me- but there you go. Standard these days.
Melted steering wheel
Wrong tyres
Wrong colour calipers ( or poorly coloured )
No mention of service history so no doubt it needs a cambelt...

 

[Williams]

Nice find Graeme.. Looks to be a good, genuine and cared for car overall.

As Duncan has mentioned, pop a new gear knob on it and put the callipers back to the OEM satin translucent off black colour.
Michelin on the front.. Steering wheel refurb would be nice, using the original grips as they still look ok, and it'd finish it off nicely. Sensibly priced car!

 

[GPH]

Isnt it just the same one recycled from the other day from a different dealer who couldnt write an advert?

Advert is poor if you ask me- but there you go. Standard these days.
Melted steering wheel
Wrong tyres
Wrong colour calipers ( or poorly coloured )
No mention of service history so no doubt it needs a cambelt...

Bit Harsh Steve! No the "standard " ad just copies Parkers Guide or similar with a spec blurb normally including stating 4 seats! At least they have taken the time to write an ad about this car and actually if you'd spent a little more time reading it you'd have seen that if you click on the documentation tab there are 4 scans including every tax disc, every MOT including the refusals, and the service history book, which does not make good reading unless he has not scanned the whole thing but as the last service was only 4000 miles ago I suspect they have.
It's been serviced 3 times in between 07 and 2011 by, I assume the first 2 owners, including the last guy on here in 2011, but since 2011 nothing and never the belts in 12 years by the looks of things so needs a couple of thousand spending on it.

 

[rustedandrotten]

so this one looks like it might be heading for the record for geriatric belts then :rofl: NB no failure!

 

[GPH]

so this one looks like it might be heading for the record for geriatric belts then :rofl: NB no failure!

considering Duncan found it was manufactured in 2003 even though it wasn't registered until 2005 they could be the record for the oldest for a car that's being used.! [smilie=icon_eek.gif]
I'm sure some storage cars might also be on the original cambelt.

 

[Lankan]

Would be interesting to see what state the cam belt on this one is when it finally gets changed........hopefully sooner rather than later.

 

[ed_harland]

Would be interesting to see what state the cam belt on this one is when it finally gets changed........hopefully sooner rather than later.

It will be like new and go on for years !

 

[AcidV6]

[mention=3630,#000000]GPH[/mention]

Yeah maybe a bit harsh - however I was including the last advert for the same car in my thoughts - that was truly shocking ( im 99% sure its the same car )
It just really surprises me that giving a car that sort of price tag doesnt deserve just a bit better advert -

Hey ho

 

[DaveL485]

Would be interesting to see what state the cam belt on this one is when it finally gets changed........hopefully sooner rather than later.

You really have to push it to have one fail on more modern cars. Even on the older Renault chod, like the 21 Turbo, i've seen belts into double figures of years and well over 100k.
The main killers are mileage, but you have to really go well over as the service interval is 72k as it is...110 or 120,000 is the failure point, or the car being static for long periods then used.

I took my belt off the 21 after five years and 10,000 miles and it looked barely used. I took the one off the Volvo after five years and 92k (service interval 96K!!!) and again, looked like it had loads of life left in it. I once did a 21 on 116,000 miles, 14 years old and I could pull the teeth off the belt with my fingers, and there was 19 of the 115 teeth already gone. How that held on i'll never know lol.

 

[GPH]

Cambelts on here have been quite a topic in the past but I am going to stick my head above the parapet and say I will not be sticking to the 5 year change rule with mine. My car is not left on a trickle charger over the winter as I prefer to start it up and run it up the road to charge the battery every month and it's doing under 3,000 miles a year so I will probably change it every 7 or 8 years when it will have done about 20,000 miles.

 

[Lankan]

[v6plaque]314[/v6plaque]'s first cambelt change was in July 2012, a few months after I bought it, so that was around 7.5 years after it was built. Unsurprisingly the belts looked new and untouched, as one would expect, but I wasn't sure whether that was due to the optimum storage conditions or whether these belts were really more robust than the 5-yr/72K-mile change frequency stipulated by Renault. Looks like the latter seems to hold true.

 

[roma]

Color of the calipers are the last of its proplems !!! Theres no STRIPES !!!!! [smilie=yay.gif]

 

[Kett]

Cambelts on here have been quite a topic in the past but I am going to stick my head above the parapet and say I will not be sticking to the 5 year change rule with mine. My car is not left on a trickle charger over the winter as I prefer to start it up and run it up the road to charge the battery every month and it's doing under 3,000 miles a year so I will probably change it every 7 or 8 years when it will have done about 20,000 miles.

That's what I do with my AY.

Literally means that there are x2 big bills every 15years instead of x3.

Furthermore, I don't like the scale of the process - engine out for a rubber band? Come on?... one undetected pinched hose and it could be game over for the Vee.

 

[DaveL485]

[v6plaque]314[/v6plaque]'s first cambelt change was in July 2012, a few months after I bought it, so that was around 7.5 years after it was built. Unsurprisingly the belts looked new and untouched, as one would expect, but I wasn't sure whether that was due to the optimum storage conditions or whether these belts were really more robust than the 5-yr/72K-mile change frequency stipulated by Renault. Looks like the latter seems to hold true.

All timing belt service intervals have some 'redundancy' built in, as I said before it's big miles or sitting static for a very long time that causes issues IME. I'm of the same train of thought, i'd happily leave mine for a couple of years over on time if the mileage is low but engine runtime is regular. In fact I think mine is due this year, but it's only done 10k since the last change.... it can wait!