Mk2 Clio On Tonights Watchdog!!!!!!

[felix]

250 people contacted the show to report bonnet catch failures :shock:
saw the show my self and Reno are saying all the cars they have inspected have not had their bonnets secured properly. what do you think?



http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_ra ... 0123.shtml



bonnets have been flying up while people are on the motorway :shock:

 

[=CatasTrophy=]

Yeah i got a phone call from a guy at work telling me to watch it :shock:
pretty disturbing, but the responce that people were getting from reno was not a surprise :roll:

they are so reluctant to release a recal due to the fact they would be admitting it was a fault in the design .
which it clearly is !!!!

im not certain if it concerns the trophy ?

 

[oliie]

This was on Watchdog last year but I've yet to hear of anyone who has the problem. Maybe Watchdog have run out of content?

O.

 

[Cue]

first I've heard of it - you'd have thought someone on CS would have had this happen by now if it was a proper representation, having said that having a bonnet fly up at 70 would kill you.... anyone we haven't heard from in a while?

 

[Day]

It has happened to someone on CS

 

[Cue]

moral of the story - keep everything greased up

 

[cleo]

on watchdog tonight, (28/03/07) now upto and over 1000 Clio owners... Renault are saying its a maintenance problem... and will contact each Clio owner by letter to get it checked...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_ra ... 0328.shtml

 

[Steve]

I'm of the opinion that failure to maintain something like a bonnet catch and consequent failure should mean it defaults to a locked postion. Therefore a design fault.

 

[Cue]

can't really be done; you wouldn't be able to under it to fix the problem without expensive damage to the bonnet

 

[Steve]

Expensive damage to bonnet vs. Expensive damage to family of five

:-k

 

[Cue]

yeh, but that's the point of the safety catch in the first place. Is having a safety on the safety needed? It's like water instead of bleach in the bleach bottle..in case the kids undo that safety catch on the bottle....

i take your point but all people have to do is look after their car though.

 

[oliie]

To a reasonable person - bonnet catches are not serviceable items. If they were, they should be included in the standard Renault service. Owners should not have to make a special effort to lube their bonnet catches.

 

[al]

1000 incidents out of 470,000 Clio's isn't a lot really.

 

[pacey]

I'm sure my catch is different to the one they showed on the tv anyway :?

 

[Steve]

I got a letter from Renault yesterday saying they have had the bonnets tested and there is not a design fault, they also included an agendum for the service manual to include maintenance of the bonnet catch! So, not so much a design fault but a service guidance fault then.

I'm with Cue on this one, I think people who don't look after their cars deserve to run blind into motorway bridge towers and get their families wiped out in a fiery crash. Might be a bit extreme...

 

[DaveTrophy]

lol, interesting thoughts there Steve...

I got the letter the other day, booked in for tomorrow. Ive had a quick look and it seems fine but I guess its best to let Renault look at it. Dont know why as they dont normally have a clue what theyre doing but need that piece of paper stamping.

 

[asim]

All Renault will do is spray a little WD40 on the catch. Its a waste of time going to them really as we can do this at home in under 2 mins. Oh and they'll also recommend you do the same every 6 months or so.

 

[Cue]

been thinking about this.. i liken it to a ride at a fair ground.

if something goes wrong with it because of poor maintenance, you put a safety feature in place and improve the maintenance. If the safety then fails because of poor maintenance - you close the ride down and sack the mainentance engineer - you wouldn't put a safety on a safety.

These catches are only there in case the main catch fails. If a car owner isn't responsible enough to driv a road worthy car (hark back to an MOT senario) you either take the driver off the road for being a numpty or take the car off the road for being dangerous. As it's not the car's fault it's poorly maintaned - i'd start with the driver.

 

[Day]

Yeah but the catch has never formed any part of the maintenance schedule....

Until now.

Go figure

Don't see this happening on any other cars do you?

 

[Guest]

I wouldn't call not oiling or cleaning or whatever it is you have to do to your bonnet catch 'poor maintenance'. I maintain all my cars to a very high standard, but I've never paid any attention to the bonnet catches. Why should I? You'd expect them to work correctly in the first place.