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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.

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

Not quite ebay but gumtree has a tidy looking specimen (though no mot / tax):

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

This looks clean for 175k!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/renault-safra ... 4acac5acd8

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

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.

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.

Another cheap Safrane.

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

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!

Been on before, the pictures and the writeup don,t inspire confidence really?