Help making decision to scrap or to repair and sell or keep.

[hardya99]

I am not sure if this is the appropriate forum. If not I appologise.

We have a Renault Grand Scenic 06 plate 147,000 miles owned from nearly new, has a few unrepaired dints now though.

It's mot was discontinued when 'all' the coolant suddenly leaked out. A few days later we had it
transported to another garage.

There, a hose was fixed and coolant replaced, £35.

Then the car was assessed by that garage as follows:

anticipated MOT failures (MOT not done yet)

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- rear nearside suspension spring failure
- rear brake system failure of some kind
£250 to £300 following MOT.

(MOT can be done by garage near by to this garage £40 aprox)

So total Aprox £340


possibility of a 2nd MOT discontinuance

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Engine is so warn that possible catastrophic failure
when reving engine on MOT

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I am trying to decide whether to

- spend the money and sell it
- spend the money and hope it gives us another 6 to 12 months maybe
- scrap it now

[ssray]

We had one, the rear brake is a electronic unit and renault suggest completec replacment at through at about £700+, I sourced a s/h replacement that would not talk to our car, so replaced with a new one at £400+ i fitted it and the local indi recoded it

in short scrap it
Ray

[hardya99]

Thanks Ray.

We already replaced the parking break a year or two ago (£500). It was working perfectly fine until another garage did a normal scheduled rear break change and after that we had frequent parking break failure to release. Had to have it done by main dealer. Quote £700. Battled with Renault UK to get a reduction to £500.

The current expectation of mot failure on something to do with the rear breaking system is something different to that, but I don't myself have a clear description of it.