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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:50 am 
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It's my neighbour's old car. He said it had some kind of intermittent computer fault which they couldn't get to the bottom of and it wasn't worth fixing for them in the end as they had bought another car. I drove it about 2 years ago and the engine and gearbox were fine but it did feel a bit tired compared to mine. The suspension definitely needed some work and there was quite a lot of rust even back then.


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:20 am 
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Safrane610 wrote:
It's my neighbour's old car.


:shocked: Isn't it funny how us safrane folk always seem to know others? It's like an exclusive little club lol


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:03 am 
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Not quite ebay but gumtree has a tidy looking specimen (though no mot / tax):

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... 1033114391


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:15 pm 
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This looks clean for 175k!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/renault-safra ... 4acac5acd8


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:45 am 
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Quote from the ebay ad

'It has the extremely reliable Volvo engine and has not let me down'

I know my 2.4 has the Volvo engine/box, didn't know the 2 litre was also from Volvo.

Michael


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:46 pm 
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Yes, the 2.0 was also from Volvo and I believe a very good powerplant. Just a bit under powered compared to the 2.4 in our cars.

mmarks wrote:
Quote from the ebay ad

'It has the extremely reliable Volvo engine and has not let me down'

I know my 2.4 has the Volvo engine/box, didn't know the 2 litre was also from Volvo.

Michael


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:18 pm 
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Yeah the 2L is only a 4 cylinder engine. The 2.4 is a 5 pot so when you look under the hood the 2L isn't quite as densely packed. The 2L also uses two ignition coils relying on inductance for the secondary ignition whereas the 5 cylinder uses a coil and dizzy as there is no way to use the induced spark.


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:12 am 
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Another cheap Safrane.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1997-RENAULT- ... 2a32d2a25b


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:20 am 
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He mentions the central locking not working. That indicates that this may be RF keys and not infra red as the RF system is prone to random failure (before coming back to life months later). Never had a problem with the IR locking system though the RF was fitted to 98+ models as I understood!


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 Post subject: Re: E-bay finds
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 6:18 pm 
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Been on before, the pictures and the writeup don,t inspire confidence really?


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