Hey guys, my girlfriends Captur has recently become undriveable due to a Check Auto Gearbox fault. Not adapting your cars to LHD and RHD markets is being lazy, nothing more nothing less. Preferably without tools at all. The engine horsepower is irrelevant. Follow Forum Create Post Renault Captur. If you wish to know more about eventual problems of a specific car (e.g. Ordered on 27-Feb-2014, delivered on 16-July-2014 (20 week wait). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community. The rate of oil used on the dealers test would seem to be reasonable. However if you get a good, fault-free Captur then you should have nothing to worry about (except possibly insurance costs and replacement tyre and other consumables costs). As I recall, it was around a 2002/2003 and he found on one MOT that to change the headlight bulb required the removal of the entire front bumper! In case of discrepancies, the English version will prevail. So this car isn't for you. I bought a new car when she came along and rear leg room is very important. No idea if that's true or not, but as a certified agnostic I find that to be quite a beautiful image. It's got bags of style (a personal thing I know). Does Renault offer the fun little turbo petrol engine (190ps) that the Juke has? When I see a bumper sticker that says: "God is my co-pilot", I generally suggest to the driver that they allow Jesus to drive. If all you are transporting is a few ledgers and a laptop, most 4x4s are complete overkill. My own personal car is a 2003 (Back before the environment mattered) Volvo S40 2.0 litre petrol. I wouldn't recommend a diesel-engined car to anyone with small children just on health grounds; in terms of value they're beginning to look like a risky purchase for anyone. One issue that should concern you that people seldom think about when buying cars is "how much will this thing cost to fix?". The cars got no power and should not be used on the motorway after 20,000 miles, My hire car managed 28.8mpg on diesel . I'm suprised you don't have to get it reprogrammed simply for daring to open the bonnet and top up the wiper fluid. Is driving all that exciting/fun anymore? Feb 24, 2022 (Edited) Hello everyone, I am pushed to the wall with my Renault Captur 2014 1.5dCi. These days I just drive and pray the car keeps going. That and the need for special tools which cost a fortune and aren't profitable for a small workshop to have. oh, like I want a surprise with my house keys, MS Office 2020, wife? is a waste of time; expect no more than a gallic shrug in response to criticism of French cars, and probably the same from any other nation's constructor(s). Summer tyres are practically worthless in snow or ice. Renault Captur E-TECH plug-in hybrid reliability & problems. I have had my car in six times in as many months. To be fair to Renault, and having owned one I'm not usually inclined to be so, most modern cars are absolute buggers to fix yourself. and then a look in the manual to find the dipstick. We downloaded the MediaNav toolkit to a Windows PC and following those instructions, aimed to put a formatted ( FAT32) and empty USB stick in the Media Unit to see if having the toolkit review the current config, would trigger some form of update. Although the latest Captur hasn't been on sale long enough for its long-term reliability to be properly The situation is slowly changing to equal tax/duty so the preference for diesels is diminishing. The Juke has a 4x4 option, so i'd guess Renault might do one in the end. Does it cost a bomb to run? It's a car for people with young families, not a car for a tech-, speed- and power-focused reviewer. As a town run about dog and granddaughter transporter the only things that puts me off are the maker, their reliability record and its a diesel. All rights reserved 19982023, Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Business Transformation, Renault Captur: Nobody who knows about cars will buy this. I have a problem with the battery charging system. For them, it seems, the priority is "looking good" over actually enjoying the driving experience. Many folk don't let the facts get in the way of a good bit of nationalism and the French are more nationalistic than most (even Alex Salmond would tell them to calm down). around 50-55mpg at a steady 70. It's hard to recommend a car that would suit you without knowing more about what you want to do with it, but I would suggest you avoid sporty models, low-profile tyres, and consider an SUV such as a Mitsubishi ASX, Nissan Qashqai, or Renault Captur. Most cars these days do not communicate. Anyone who isn't already going a noticeable amount faster than the vehicle ahead shouldn't be in the lane to the right failing to pass it. Fitting three adults abreast will be a squeeze just like in any other small SUV. You mention one important factor which is directly attributable to how a car drives: is it safe? Well, you either want a car or you want a Renault. Beim ersten Mal wurde entrostet und neu lackiert auf Graratie . Safety isn't just about whether you die or not if someone crashes into you. I'm currently ratting around in a Puma, which is hilarious on the backroads and capable on DC/motorway stuff, if a bit noisy. This is why the Toybaru is so liked. The NCAP stuff should be a given. If driving the car from an engine-charged battery is still 10% more efficient than just using the engine then hybrids are a (literal) no-brainer for fuel economy, and ICE only cars should be phased out. All cars have a driver though and cars which give the driver control and confidence are the safest. I'd keep the Jazz. Gets you on top of every hill in snow and ice, cheap to run, small, and relatively easy to fix. The problem at the moment is that the hybrid package still costs too much up front to be usable down in the economy-car segment, which is where it's needed most. Storage losses plus electric motor efficiency will need to be as good as, or better than, transmission losses for it to be better using the engine to charge the batteries than just drive the axle. Different and not necessarily better but decent. What is the difference between a recall and a service campaign? Unsure of your car's maximum towing capacity? , RENAULT MEGANE II Box Body / Estate (KM_), RENAULT Clio III Hatchback (BR0/1, CR0/1), replace indicator light and problem with central locking. After this festive season, a little bit of Sci-Fi reading, 1979 style: Lipidleggin'. Any straight line road is dull after a while anyway; when I worked in Germany and tore up and down the autobahns in my three and a half litre white car at over 110mph and I found that thrill went. And how many young families have kids over six foot that would find the rear leg room cramped - very few I would imagine. If you put shitty 10 teflon tyres on then your grip levels are compromised, and braking and cornering (including swerving) will all be far below safe levels. Problem Solving. "It took half an hour to find the bonnet (hood) release, passenger side? Remember me on this computer? The European Commission receives from national authorities information about dangerous products found and the measures taken. It sounds like you have a bit of a thing for French cars right now, Carmel. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I thought France still levied a tax on diesel, albeit not as large as UK tax. It once went to the station with a full load on an iced road, when we were the only vehicle moving for miles, and in FWD it was perfectly controllable. However, the bonnet release catch is on the driver side in my car despite the steering wheel being on the opposite side of where it would be in Germany. Even taller adults wont have a problem with knee or headroom, and the rear bench can be moved backwards for even more space. Petrol costs (excluding OPEC's current strangle hold on the US oil), speed bumps, restricted limits, speed vans, mums in 4x4's blocking the roads at school time, lorries everywhere, morons driving and texting etc. Renault spokeswoman Emily Fadeyev says: "At this time the diesel Captur isn't on the plan for Renault Australia.". my Wifes Megane 1.5 replacing the headlight bulbs entails jacking up the car. Apparently this was not an issue in France. Come join the discussion about performance, purchasing, >>And how many young families have kids over six foot that would find the rear leg room cramped - very few I would imagine. The good news is that automakers usually provide unlimited time to correct such defects for free. It has a top 5* EuroNCAP safety rating. The point is that there are cars in this class which can do what this car is intended to do (be a people carrier) but can do it better. Some problems will only occur after many years of operation, others are related to technical solutions and forced the manufacturer Get over it. Specify your car make when starting a new thread, and it will be added to the list of discussion topics. Some people are just that way inclined. "I once asked a group of French ski instructors why they all used "Atomic" skis, when the brand had a piss-poor reputation of snapping in half after a weeks gentle use.". WebBei meinen Captur Baujahr 2015 hab ich das Problem bereits zum 2. It just depends what people want and everyone is different. Combined with a hideously small fuel tank it had to be refuelled before I got back to Cardiff. If there was a problem with the car that was logged with Renault while the vehicle was still covered by the factory warranty, then conventional wisdom says its Renaults problem to put right. You get a much better price than cash because of the deposit contribution (and I've asked for that when enquiring about cash). Then there's the engine management control unit, I hate them with a passion. They are advertising results for a non-showroom car - that's it, false advertizing. They have their uses. As for the MX-5, its true that Mazda has stuck to the original formula for the new latest little convertible. However, what would help your case no end would be independent proof that the problems you experienced in warranty were the same ones that ultimately caused the entire transmission to fail. The most common causes that hinders normal operation of windshield washer system on your Renault Captur are clogged spray nozzles, leaking hose, blown fuse, pump failure, frozen fluid or any fault in the electrical system. I knew two born agains who drove on the basis that God was looking after them. The Irish market facelift Laguna and Fluence (diesel) have grown as alternative D segment contenders, the latter of which is ridiculously cheap to tax. A Diesel under the same conditions will use much less fuel by volume, because Diesel versus Otto cycle and Derv is much denser than gasoline. Or spend half as much on a 2-to-3 year old Focus / Civic / Golf etc. They could add "of course, this is bollox, the real world results will be". I drive hire cars at least twice a month and have been doing so for the past several years. Amazing if they still do it. A few. Bad news for you, sadly. I am aware that I can unsubscribe at any time. It's all good over in Germany if you want to vote green, and perhaps shut down all those nuclear power plants and get into the recycling bandwagon and stuff. There's no way to tell other than to get one's boot down and find out. But Renault can move the production to cheaper places and now make unreliable crap at lower cost. 149: lucasro_2300: 46.110: 5th October 2022 - 13:41 Last post by: Lucian Octavian : Info suport telefon. Oh and she felt the Juke was less practical on the inside. What's been recalled and why. Easier to get in and out of and better driving view. The Toyota C-HR would be one, the Honda HR-V another. May I remind you that Germany is not only part of, but also the biggest country in the EU? Come join the discussion about performance, purchasing, No. Independent Renault Forums Since 2005 RenaultForums.co.uk is the best place to discuss the French automakers cars including the Megane, Clio, Modus, Captur When our kids were little, sometimes I would sit in the back with them (I'm 6' tall) when it was my wife's turn to drive on trips. That excellent crash protection that the authors praised is earned by things like the thick A-pillar that the author criticised. I regularly drive between Cardiff and Southampton and back again. But you never know, Renault may wish to admit that this gearbox has known faults and flaws and look after you on the basis of customer care. You'll get an email notification as soon as your report is checked. Maybe it's confirmation bias, and French petrol heads all live with a few hundred km of Le Mans? "Can you reach 70 mph up a steep slip road to be able to filter into a busy motorway? Don;t believe what the manufacturers claim". My 2017 Captur has been at the dealership MULTIPLE times due to radio not switching off.radio sound not coming on, phone hands free not working, satnav guidance not working, audio warnings for backup and parking sensors not working. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I thought at that point that if the marketing bods were so dumb, the car had to be. Please, you do not know what you are talking about. A couple of guys at a place I used to work got Priuses on the company scheme when they came out. RENAULT CAPTUR II (2019) DETACHMENT OF THE GLASS SUNROOF, RENAULT CAPTUR (2019) AN ELECTRICAL SHORT CIRCUIT, RENAULT CAPTUR (2018) THE SEATBELT BUCKLE FIXING BOLT, Fire risk with French vans; detached roof on older Mercedes (week 8/23), BMW 7 Series and I7: Airbag control unit failure, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Also, we hold onto our cars for a long time - one car is 17 years old, another is 11 years old. I'm big and tall and it's comfortable in the front. In my experience no. Of all the models you have looked at I would select the Suzuki Grand Vitara. Not that I can afford it, or if I could afford it, that I would buy it, but it's a means of transport, like facebook being not the means of communications with your friends. WebRenault Captur Problems No car is perfect, but we've gathered everything relating to the Renault Captur reliability here to help you decide if it's a smart buy. Captur drinking lots of fuel and high mpg. Mal . The manufacturers are cheating you cannot yet launch a class action suit in France (it will be coming, I heard), but you should certainly do so elsewhere if your country allows it. general guide only and should not be relied upon as bespoke advice. The reality is that "efficiency" is a nebulous thing anyway - an internal combustion engine is at maximum efficiency at full load and under normal day-to-day conditions it's more like 2% than the 35% theoretical maximum for an otto engine. Makes you wonder whether the car companies are taking the piss or the pound has really been made that worthless over the last few years. Couldn't believe it, don't the Germans have a law saying you have to carry replacement bulbs? I speak as an unhappy Nissan/Renault owner who has enjoyed the flimsy products that this alliance has gifted to Nissan (who were once reliable, but never had a name for durability in the first place). But on real congested motorways it's a very different story because the Prius comes into its own in slow traffic when it is on electric. Under the terms of Annex II.10 to the General Product Safety Directive (2001/95/EC) responsibility for the information provided lies with the notifying party. Atomic is, I believe, an Austrian brand sold to a Finnish corporation and now built in Bulgaria? How well it functions as transport is key. To be absolutely fair though, generally their favourite cars were other nationalities e.g. > Subsidy is money contributed by a government to make an item or commodity cheaper than it's cost? I also agree with the other comments - no, you don't _need_ a vehicle that fast or powerful but yeah they're great fun. WebThe 2016 Renault Captur has the most overall complaints, & we also rate 2016 as the worst model year ranked on several factors such as repair cost & average mileage when Create a new account This was possible because the emphasis was on making the car quick for that type of driving, pretty much effortless in every conceivable way and also insanely comfortable. The Captur drives as well as it needs to. SJG; Jan 20, 2020; 0. If you can be sure of driving mostly on motorways at unsocial hours your Diesel may have an advantage, but my experience is that in mixed real world traffic conditions the Prius uses less fuel. While a hatch might be best for your city needs, it probably wouldn't suit your camping needs, so I would rule that out and focus on a compact SUV. Have people who comment on here actually driven one or owned a Captur? The more pressing issue is the choice of SUV or hatch. These are the same people who when you ask what car is that, they say a red one. Shortly after I got the Prius I was stuck in traffic on the M6, and in three quarters of an hour made barely a quarter mile of progress. "The good people at VW obviously took some care to make sure that they tried to make their cars as RHD friendly as possible at the design stage. It sounds very good for taking Mum, Dad and two kids and all their paraphernalia out on a Saturday afternoon, which is its intended market. If I can, then I am interested. And let me guess; it was the Peugeot 2008s odd dashboard/steering wheel relationship that put you off. Suddenly there was a strange noise, and I realised that the engine had only just come on to charge the battery. Not to mention dodgy electrics that cost more to fix than the car is worth after a few years. **** And has anybody else noticed that the Haynes manuals aren't anywhere near as good as they used to be? Carsguide At which point that magical 70+mpg figure will never be achieved and the DPF will clog regularly. Plenty of space, including for adults in the back, good space in the boot. That isn't safe if you brake hard. When baby starts screaming my wife can comfort her, give her a bottle etc. P.S. I can see things from both sides - I'm a bit of a petrol head, having owned Porsches and until recently a 3.0l Quattro A5. Seriously, would you trust a Reg hack with anything they could do serious damage in? Here, then, we're going to do our best to help you avoid such a fate, by counting down the 25 worst performers in our survey. I've noticed that most commercial vehicles that are governed to 56mph or less do tend to struggle with that essential safety manoeuvre. The fact that the act itself should never have been attempted simply points at our somewhat poor standard of driver training. I had similar discussing a (then) recently acquired German car with an elderly gentleman who hadn't cottoned on that the war ended a little while before. I agree with the consensus, in as much that for the people that car is aimed at it'll probably be just fine. We bought cars with enough rear legroom that we didn't have to replace them as our kids grew up. That's 0,20 a litre extra, thank you! Hopefully my next car will have even more power, with even less fuel usage than this one! All three of the cars youve nominated have their strong points, and it will really come down to your personal preferences when it comes to which one is right for you. Thats particularly true for shorter folk who have trouble looking over the wheel at the instruments. Perhaps having the transmission inspected by a specialist would give you this information. El Reg: A staid webzine for the discerning public. I've also driven the clio with the same engine. In reality on the motorway the economy was terrible and they'd have been better off getting something with a 2l Diesel. For some reason it waits even longer in auto mode, only a few more mph though in each gear, possibly a safety margin to ensure the relatively small engine doesnt labour in too high a gear. Are you affected? In case you want to park it with 2 wheels on the grass? As my son informs me, Thai drivers have as the basis of their driving technique the motto "Buddha will provide". It's not about good car/bad car. 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