Re: "Most overpackaged" award

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:41:56 +0000, Sam Nelson <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1228318098.15307.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Gadsden <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
As for French engineering, I used to drive a Renault.

So did I. I owned a Laguna Estate from new for 10 years from 1996. I did
114000 miles in it, in that time, and it failed to get me from A to B only
once in all that time. Granted, towards the end, one or two electrical
items started to play up, but nothing out of the ordinary for a car that age.
I guess I may just have been lucky?

I got my Laguna (Mk1) to 145,000 miles.
It failed a couple of times, with 2 new starter motors going into it over
the years, and a new remote keyfob.. but ironicly it finally died with
engine management failure.

It's so embrassing to have to say you lost the car to a computer fault.
Everyone comments that "what, you couldn't fix it?"

Chloe
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