Renault 5 Auto

Its an old french car, check the electrics as best you can, dunno about the autobox but i wouldn't trust it, rust shouldn't be much of a problem. Wafer thin panels, so expect a few carpark dings/dents. Shocking piece of junk really :) It'll be slow as hell, and uncomfy.

WHY OH GOD WHY?

Well one thing's for sure, you'll appreciate the drive back - if you take your car! :)

Last generations -around 1989- were mecanically rather good: proven concept on the end of their production run. I worked as an engineer at Renault Belgium. The "old" R5 had better quality control figures than the newer R21.

Oh yes: R5's are from those times when a decent French car had rustholes in it after 4 years. But by the late 80's even Renault solved the rust-equation.

Correct.

No: at those speeds nothing is terribly uncomfy. In fact the R5 has a very soft suspension, best recognised in extreme body roll when cornered "sporty".

I suppose you can pick them up for 50 UKP and drive: it still beats walking. Plenty of spare parts at a few pounds.

But secretly I hope the reason is because they drop nicely from a cliff. After all that's where they were made for, I think. ;)

Tom De Moor

Can't really say, but our Vicars wife has a 90 H plate light blue 1.4 auto (think its a 1.4) but could be a 1.7? Anyways it looks very tidy, not one spec of rust on it, and she says very reliable.

Tim..

I was kinda hoping the reason would be to replace the Ti :)

I thought that would be funny :D

Absolutely spot on, it's a late model (looks about F plate, not seen it up close yet) and it's £50 :)

It's not for me, it's for an elderly friend whose current car - a D plate Orion Auto - has passed it's use by date.

Well, at £50, whats the worst that can happen?

It could be s**te, cost her loads of money in repairs and end up with me getting all the grief if I recommend it...

Spot on!

Renault and auto are words which when used together send shudders down my spine...

Better or worse than "Mercedes" and "Manual"?

particularly

ROFL :)

At least they're reliable. ;-)

r5 auto = dodgem car

we've had a couple down here, one was s*it and rotten as f*ck (got it like that though) second was perfect. (garaged all its life/little old lady owner/ obsessive compulsive car cleaner owner) We left the decent R5 outside, about 20 yards away from the english channel, nine months later, it started first time and didn't disintergrate like i was expecting.

...rob

ps, was a funny little car, met. red nicely faded to met. pink :D

Why ?

Look out for everything.

It has none.

Correct.

Damm I'm funny :D

And you know full-well, that IS what will happen !

Humiliated to say i actually laughed...

parking dents, the interior has the same build quality as

"Waffer-thin panel sir?"

"No, f*ck off, I'm full!"

;-)

Lol.