Our Car

I collected our car from the dealer on Friday afternoon. You can see the pictures below. It looks good and drives well.

Unfortunately we have had a problem this weekend with it so I will be needing to sort that out straight away. The engine stopped working a couple of times and on one particular occasion simply refused to start for about 15 minutes. We did get it home (luckily we were only about 10 minutes drive away) and I have looked into the problem a bit.

The good news is that the previous owner kept all of the service documentation for everything that ever happened to the car and the symptoms are identical to a problem she had. There is a sensor in the engine which goes on the blink (and this apparently is not uncommon in Renaults, though it wasn't information I came across in my research prior to purchase). This causes the engine to stop running and refuse to start again.

Hopefully the diagnosis will be able to be done promptly tomorrow (Monday) and the appropriate part/s replaced so I can be up and running properly quickly. I am certainly glad I purchased the warranty the dealer offered me.

Stay tuned for an update.