Just outside of warranty and with just 30k miles on the clock, out Zoe has lost all it’s air con gas due to a seal failure and after a re-gas the Renault main dealer tells us that the compressor has failed.
£899 to fix it. Renault customer service admit that it is a manufacturing defect that this unit has failed but only offered 1 hour off the cost of the labour to fix this.
In all my years of driving (40 to be precise) I have never had a compressor failure on any car and to have this fail just a couple of months outside the warranty and with only 30k miles is really disappointing.
We can manage quite happily without aircon but clearly the battery can’t so what happens if we choose not to blow that money on getting the air con fixed? Will the battery go into meltdown or just reduce output?
Does an air con issue leave you with an un-drive-able car?
There are loads of conventional cars running about with air con that doesn’t work or in need of gassing so where does that leave us?
Personally, I think that Renault should stand by their product and cover this, or have there been too many failures already but not enough to recall any cars?
£899 to fix it. Renault customer service admit that it is a manufacturing defect that this unit has failed but only offered 1 hour off the cost of the labour to fix this.
In all my years of driving (40 to be precise) I have never had a compressor failure on any car and to have this fail just a couple of months outside the warranty and with only 30k miles is really disappointing.
We can manage quite happily without aircon but clearly the battery can’t so what happens if we choose not to blow that money on getting the air con fixed? Will the battery go into meltdown or just reduce output?
Does an air con issue leave you with an un-drive-able car?
There are loads of conventional cars running about with air con that doesn’t work or in need of gassing so where does that leave us?
Personally, I think that Renault should stand by their product and cover this, or have there been too many failures already but not enough to recall any cars?