Anyone got a Renault?

[QueenofVenus]

The key card i have is RUBBISH!! I have only had this car for just over a year and one of my cards stopped working when i put it in the car and pressed the button it just said card not detected, now for NO reason AT ALL my other card has done the same - and apparently they are in excess of £160 to replace!! WTF!! is there anything else i can do or am i going to have to get new ones? and has anyone else had problems with there renaults??

lol. am having probs with mine too.

my buttons have stopped locking and unlocking by remote..tiz a real pita.

my dh said you can buy a new card on ebay and there is a bloke who will reprogramme it for £25 or so...better than renault uk.

need to do mine, as it too is the second one to break on me. you are not alone!

I have a Renault and the key is about the only thing I HAVEN'T had probs with in the 9mo of ownership.

I would never have another one. Never in a million years

Neither of my so-called hands-free cards work hands free. They work if I presst the buttons but sometimes I have to press several times before they work. That little extra was well worth paying for, then. Also had lots of other niggly problems with the car. Nothing major but they add up. I will never, ever buy a French car again.

YES i did have this problem - its actually very dangerous because i couldnt turn the car OFF on one occasion or ON, on another, because card not detected !!!! So annoying.

For that reason i dont have car anymore and would NEVER have another !!!!

Whos idea was it ?????????? RUBBISH !!!!

have you changed the batteries?

and yes I have a renault and no I would not buy a french car again

oh god I only have a card, are you meant to get keys as well?

arse

Not any more. Have had two and both have been the best cars we ever had. But old models - maybe that makes a difference. Never had a key card either.

Sounds a total PITA (not to mention money spinner for local dealer ).

We had one and never EVER again. Cost us a fortune in repairs, faults, intermittant annoying ones that are never there when the mechanic looks, frequent electrical problems, windows slowing winding down, air con failing etc etc

dizzy - the key is in the card

mine is anyway

ROFL - god I shouldn't be allowed to drive

thanks naily

OMG i cant believe how many of you have same/similar probs!! ok so im thinking should i ever get ALL the probs fixed im going to flog it ASAP!!! ugh

We had no end of problems with our Laguna but thankfully the key card wasn't one of them. We got rid of it in the end, it was just to expensive to keep running. The clincher was when the turbo blew up (common fault apparently) which would have cost over a grand had we taken it to Renault but thanks to dh's nouse we got a cheap replacement from t'internet and then got a local garage to replace it. Still cost over £700. We got rid of the farking thing fairly sharpish after that.

I do remember getting a key card, the car only came with one and we wanted a spare, and it cost over £100 just to get it programmed.

Yes, Laguna here - keycards breaking repeatedly, totally unreliable switches, numerous intermittent electrical faults (so you just ignore any and all warning lights - they're meaningless!), wildly expensive labour to the extent that our local garage actually refused the work at one stage - said it would be cheaper to get a Renault dealer to repair it with the special tool required than it would be to pay them to spend a fecking age trying to fix it themselves.

No way would we buy another. No way.

My keys are fine. They can survive a 40degree wash but don't like being tumble dried very much. Or shut in the bootlid.

Mine's a 2001 Laguna though and has been fabulous, as was the 1995 one we had before that.