R26 with 5 owners in 4 years.

[Markl150]

Would you be wary of such a fact? It's on 25k miles.

[16v_paddy]

I wouldn't be, providing all the maintenance history is in order and it's hpi cleared etc

[jason s4]

I wouldnt touch it.

Regardless of how well its serviced, it could be a friday afternoon car.

[16v_paddy]

So could the same car with less owners, it's a bit silly to rule out a car based just on how many owners it's had, check the car out properly before making a decision as you will know sweet FA about it unless you do that.

It's perfectly feasible it could have had 3 owners or more within the 1st 12 months of it's life: demo car, dealer decides to buy for themselves for 6 months or so, then sells to someone on finance who possibly at some point can no longer afford the payments, car gets taken back by finance company then auctioned to another dealer & sold on...........that's 5 owners without thinking already

[telford_mike]

These cars are easy to buy but very difficult to live with. If everything else is ok it wouldn't bother me.

[Jimmy No Hands]

They're not everybodys cup of tea, sometimes it takes people a few months to realise this. If the history was there and the car checks out then I'd be fine with it. Use it as a bargaining tool.

[MrGman]

It wouldn't worry me, I bought my 182 trophy at 13k miles and i was the fourth owner, had the car for 10k miles and it was faultless.

Thumbs up for a R26 too, I loved mine, absolute bargain now too!!

[simoid]

If the heart and head say it's ok, I say go for it.

My head would be convinced by a decent discount

[clarki]

Wouldnt bother me - I was the 3rd owner of my R26 when it was barely a year old and hadn't even covered 4k miles.

Its not silver, on an 07, is it??!!

[SwineFluPirate]

Get it bought! So it's had a few owners?

As long as it's had a cambelt change and a good history, then I honestly don't see why you wouldn't, especially if it's for good money?

[80quattro]

I sold a 2007 Megane 225 Lux w/cup pack recently to its 6th owner at 54,000 miles and full Renault history.

1st owner - Renault dealer demo
2nd owner - Mr A
3rd owner - Mr B
4th owner - Mr A
5th owner - Renault dealer 'demo'
6th owner - Mr C

Mr A bought the car as an ex demo, and part exchanged it for a Laguna III ST purely to get his kids bikes in. Meanwhile, the car was sold by me to Mr B who came out of a Clio. 6 months later, Mr B lost his overtime shifts, and could no longer afford to run the Megane, and part exchanged it for a Clio 1.4. In the meantime, Mr A regrets selling the car and chucks the kids bikes in his wife's Grand Espace. Mr A drives past around this time, sees his old car back on the market, and buys it again from me.

18 months later, I call Mr A, and suggest he comes to test drive a 2010 Megane RS250 w/cup pack & RS monitor. He buys the car. His 225 then has the belt changed and is registered to the dealer for the Director to use whilst its on sale again. Mr C then buys the car, and collected it last week.

I'm just highlighting that all the keeper changes this car had were absolutely justifable by its previous owners, and someone turning their nose up at it purely due to high owners would have missed out on a fantastic car. I guess however, its a fairly unique example to find a car with 5 previous keepers that the guy you are buying it from sold it to all of them.

[BomberAl]

My 04 plate RS182 had 7 previous owners within 7 years. I knew the last owner. All in all a clean car and I'm quite fussy.

Number of owners wouldnt put me off, use your judgement and see past it. Is the car clean, tidy and been looked after?

[911god]

telford_mike said:

These cars are easy to buy but very difficult to live with. If everything else is ok it wouldn't bother me.

difficult to live with?? how? my interest is that they have 4 seats so i can take kids as well as have fun/track days when they nit about