Help making decision to scrap or to repair and sell or keep.
Discussion
I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum. If not I appologise.
We have a Renault Grand Scenic 06 plate 147,000 miles owned from nearly new, has a few unrepaired dints now though.
It's mot was discontinued when 'all' the coolant suddenly leaked out. A few days later we had it
transported to another garage.
There, a hose was fixed and coolant replaced, £35.
Then the car was assessed by that garage as follows:
anticipated MOT failures (MOT not done yet)
- rear nearside suspension spring failure
- rear brake system failure of some kind
£250 to £300 following MOT.
(MOT can be done by garage near by to this garage £40 aprox)
So total Aprox £340
possibility of a 2nd MOT discontinuance
Engine is so warn that possible catastrophic failure
when reving engine on MOT
I am trying to decide whether to
- spend the money and sell it
- spend the money and hope it gives us another 6 to 12 months maybe
- scrap it now
We have a Renault Grand Scenic 06 plate 147,000 miles owned from nearly new, has a few unrepaired dints now though.
It's mot was discontinued when 'all' the coolant suddenly leaked out. A few days later we had it
transported to another garage.
There, a hose was fixed and coolant replaced, £35.
Then the car was assessed by that garage as follows:
anticipated MOT failures (MOT not done yet)
==================================
- rear nearside suspension spring failure
- rear brake system failure of some kind
£250 to £300 following MOT.
(MOT can be done by garage near by to this garage £40 aprox)
So total Aprox £340
possibility of a 2nd MOT discontinuance
=====================================
Engine is so warn that possible catastrophic failure
when reving engine on MOT
============================================================
I am trying to decide whether to
- spend the money and sell it
- spend the money and hope it gives us another 6 to 12 months maybe
- scrap it now
Thanks Ray.
We already replaced the parking break a year or two ago (£500). It was working perfectly fine until another garage did a normal scheduled rear break change and after that we had frequent parking break failure to release. Had to have it done by main dealer. Quote £700. Battled with Renault UK to get a reduction to £500.
The current expectation of mot failure on something to do with the rear breaking system is something different to that, but I don't myself have a clear description of it.
We already replaced the parking break a year or two ago (£500). It was working perfectly fine until another garage did a normal scheduled rear break change and after that we had frequent parking break failure to release. Had to have it done by main dealer. Quote £700. Battled with Renault UK to get a reduction to £500.
The current expectation of mot failure on something to do with the rear breaking system is something different to that, but I don't myself have a clear description of it.
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