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John Maddle, Derbyshire

Renault Megane Hatch 1.5dci 2006

4 star review

I wish I had the Megane instead of the E-Class Merc I have. I bought the car for my wife second-hand at 1 year old and it has never let her down. The mileage is now 135,000 and it never misses a beat. Having experience of all types of cars I would definitely recommend buying one. The Merc has let me down 14 times in 2 years and with only 30,000 miles on the clock, so much for German quality!

Submitted: 23/01/2012 10:15:00

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Paul Mellor, England

Renault Megane Hatch Sport Tourer 2006

1 star review

Badly built, too much plastic inside, the air con is feeble, puny power to revs, engine brakes wear too quick, service too expensive, wipers c**p and hard to change a bulb on lights. Compared to a Focus the Megane is poor for a dynamic model and lacks road poise. Feels like a Fiesta engine in an estate body. The engine is so weak, I expected at least 13O bhp in a tourer with duel air con. I will be parting with my estate as soon as I can. I’m going back to Land Rovers, at least they’ve got proper power plants that are easy to tune and manage.

Submitted: 20/03/2010 13:42:07

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George Dyson, Yorkshire

Renault Megane Hatch 1.5dCi 86 2006

3 star review

The good parts about this dci 86 car first... Most comfortable ride in it’s class. Amazingly low fuel consumption for its size, nudging 60mpg in Leeds. Is a proper four-seater, with a proper boot/trunk. No annoying engine, wind, tyre noise. No squeaks, rattles and groans. No electronic faults so far... However, The clutch needs redesigning along with that daft dual-mass flywheel. Too heavy, slightly juddery, slightly snatchy. Two different mechanics tried it ,said quite normal, nothing actually wrong. After only a month’s use from purchase second hand at 88,000miles, (’56 reg.) there have been injector problems flagged up on display with loss of power and blue smoke. Revving the engine in driveway shows misfire and smoke smelling of badly burned diesel. Currently trying various brands of injector cleaner to try and sort. These are v. high pressure systems (runs at 25,000lbs/sq") so it may take some time to cure. It’s ok and plenty power at the moment... It’s my opinion that the french car builders shoot themselves in the foot over practical commonsense things, something Ford and Opel/Vauxhall don’t seem to do to anything like the same extent. The most reliable car I ever had was a Ford Mondeo diesel, over six years. I had a Citroen C4 with the 1.6 HDi engine before this megane -- fantastic car, a real road rocket; then it decided to set itself on fire while parked after only one year. It was a write-off, and it should have been recalled for mods. to the ABS brake unit, known to catch fire. Guess who the one previous owner was? Citroen leasing!!!

Submitted: 01/01/2010 19:24:46

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John, County Tyrone

Renault Megane Hatch 1.9 dCi 120 Dynamique 2006

1 star review

WARNING: Complete and utter PILE OF S***E!!! Never ever buy one of these, a waste of my hard earned money. I had a Peugeot 307 HDi before this and it was twice the car the Megane is. I always had a Peugeot and they are excellent, I’m seriously thinking of changing this for a new 308. Renault customer service is useless. NEVER BUY RENAULT!!!!

Submitted: 28/09/2009 09:35:17

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Alex, Buckinghamshire

Renault Megane Hatch 1.6 2006

4 star review

Hi, I’ve got squeaky brakes on my Renault Megane CC, it’s a 2006 model. Has anyone managed to get the brakes changed under warranty? By the way I’ve purchased the extended warranty also.

Submitted: 16/06/2008 09:40:22

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Mark, Buckinghamshire

Renault Megane Hatch DCi 1.5 2006

4 star review

This is my 3rd leased one and will probably be replaced with another in 3 months when it goes back. The rainwater effect Michaela mentioned has been there since 2003, so they’ve not even attempted to address the problem through the years. But it is a practical car - good headroom in the back even for 6 footers. The automatic windscreen wipers Jenny complained about can have their sensitivity adjusted by the rotary wheel on the wiper stalk - and yes you can manually turn them off too, so it really shouldn’t be a gripe. The DCi 86 1.5 is only £35 a year to tax thanks to the low CO2 emissions, or at least until the Chancellor changes it. The car also turns in a healthy 47.5mpg average in real life without trying. Since I’ve not reset the read-out throughout the 10K miles this one’s now done that is a real use figure as opposed to the Government/Manufacturer figures. It rolled over and started again at 10K miles, but has settled back to that again in the 4.5K I’ve done since. Handling is a little soft, but it does grip well and despite the brake squeal (which I do have, but is minor), the car has phenominal stopping ability - in common with all other Renaults I’ve driven. The softness does however make for a comfortable drive on rougher surfaces, so a reasonable compromise that works well on the deteriorating UK roads. I’d agree with Ray about it being a practical although not exciting car, but all the ones I’ve had have all been reliable, economical and nothing has fallen off. Insurance is cheap too. Build quality is OK, nowhere near as precise as on a German car, but then they have far more toys as standard. Boot space is bigger than you might expect when you look at the car and like the Scenic it has several handy storage spaces including 2 underfloor ones in the front foot wells. Air-con is standard and the Maxim variant has an MP3 player which makes a CD go a lot further when you make your own. I’ve not gone beyond 20K miles in the ones I’ve had, so the Turbo failure Alison has had at 53K miles is outside my experience. However I do know 2 other Megane drivers who’ve exceeded that mileage with no issues, but who have said that the car does start to deteriorate at about 5 years old / 80K miles - electric windows being a common failure it seems. The car flags when it approaches service intervals - messages turn up in the computer display along with a spanner icon. Annoying when this starts at about 46 weeks for your 1 years service, but it does at least mean you’ve got no excuse to say you forgot. Having driven a 1.9 DCi Sport I was surprised just how much more power it had. The car was amazingly tractable and felt much faster than I’d expected it would in relation to the 1.5. The sport also felt like it had taughter handling, but at the expense of 1.5 hatch comfort on bumpier surfaces. So in summary, if you’ve not tried one you’ll probably be surprised how practical they are. They wont excite you but if you want reliable transport with low running costs you could do much worse.

Submitted: 14/03/2008 12:43:58

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Jenny Spencer, England

Renault Megane Hatch 2006

1 star review

Purchased Sept 06, after 1000 miles had squeaky brakes, to which still to this day Renault can not find a repair to. I have been advised it€™s since the new shape and still on-going fault finding. My car has been in several times to have the brakes cleaned. If feels like i am driving a 25 year old car! The wipers come on, on there own - even on a very sunny day. The lights on the dash board have had to be repaired as they failed twice. Now I have no radio, the clock back light on permanently and the mpg/mph clock going up and down erratically. I am still outstanding a response from Renault which I sent yesterday to put an end to the on-going problems. Fingers crossed!

Submitted: 19/02/2008 15:53:06

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