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Old 9th July 2012, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Adrian E View Post
I think it'd be less painful to spend £20k getting someone to remove your fingernails with a pair of pliers than to own one of these as a daily!!

The robot manual is a fecking nightmare - I believe about 40k miles is as good as the clutch life gets in these. They did start to produce a 'proper' automatic and if you had to have one, that'd be the only option worth considering.

I knew a guy who works in EMC testing (actually he owns the business) who used to run one of these and he decided to do a regulatory test on it, just out of interest.......£10k bill later and most of the warning lights were out and the car did actually run again! That's a regulatory test, so think about that one for a minute when you ponder what other corners they've cut.....even a Renault Scenic will survive this type of testing with nothing more than the odd flashing light that goes out when the test stops.
Well, if it's just had a new clutch then you have 40k carefree miles ahead.....

What's a 'semi-auto' anyway?
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