Vulgalour
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My brother reminded me that somewhere in the scant history that did come with the car that bearings were mentioned so I got the folder out and had a look tonight. Maybe it will help shed some light on potential problem, though I doubt it, there's not much to go on. Let's see if I can do some detective work with the tiny amount of info I have.
The V5C tells me that the number of previous owners is 2
The Renault warranty card tells me the following:
First owner's name
First owner's address in Llanelli
Delivery date: 8/4/75
Registration: HEP920N (this confirms the warranty card was at least originally for this car, so I assume the info on it is too)
18/4/75
Pinged Hill Garage (stamped, this lines up with the old sticker in the tailgate window)
First service at 571 miles
Note: owner I bought the car from acquired the car 20/02/1976 according to the V5. I have a copy of the V5 too from this change of ownership "duplicate issued as lost" is written on it and the car is listed as green. I wonder if that means it was painted at just a year old or, more likely, the blue bodyshell was a later replacement with the green panels being the originals to the car, meaning it was originally that nice metallic green. Who knows?
28/04/1976 - 8,200 miles
(no information written down)
10/1978 - 45,000 miles
New piston rings, bearings, clutch, etc.
08/1978 - 51,900 miles
(no information written down)
Note: I think they meant to write 1979 but wrote 1978 instead, it would make more sense.
I also have tax discs for 1984, 1985, 1988, 1992 and 1993.
There's a single piece of paper with notes on fuses, wiring and illegible hints of column/stalk problems. It might not even be for this car, though I suspect it is because it does look like it's been rewired front to back at some point, the loom doesn't look original.
From that I can see the first owner only kept the car for a year and did a reasonable 8,000 miles.
The second owner then whacked a massive 18,400 per year for two years leading to the car needing piston rings, bearings, clutch and whatever else etc is! I've never actually paid attention to the mileage figures but that's pretty amazing, I can't imagine driving the 6 that much over that short a period, it's no wonder it needed work.
I expect the next and last entry was supposed to be a 1979, it's the same handwriting, even looks like it was the same biro, and is a more reasonable 7,000ish miles.
After that there's nothing at all to hint at what was going on so it's anybody's guess.
The 5 digit odometer currently reads 32,000. I'm going to assume that it's actually 132,000, that seems quite likely. I'm also going to assume the car came off the road in 1993 which is when the last tax disc ran out. So that's 80,100 miles covered over 15 years, divide one by the other and it's an average annual mileage of 5,340 which is entirely believable.
That really tells me the car was probably run until it wouldn't run anymore. It had signs of head gasket failure and it clearly has some bottom end issues. The engine waterways were full of sediment and the oil was horrible old sludge that hadn't been changed in an age. So, more than anything, that's probably the cause of whatever the problem is.
The V5C tells me that the number of previous owners is 2
The Renault warranty card tells me the following:
First owner's name
First owner's address in Llanelli
Delivery date: 8/4/75
Registration: HEP920N (this confirms the warranty card was at least originally for this car, so I assume the info on it is too)
18/4/75
Pinged Hill Garage (stamped, this lines up with the old sticker in the tailgate window)
First service at 571 miles
Note: owner I bought the car from acquired the car 20/02/1976 according to the V5. I have a copy of the V5 too from this change of ownership "duplicate issued as lost" is written on it and the car is listed as green. I wonder if that means it was painted at just a year old or, more likely, the blue bodyshell was a later replacement with the green panels being the originals to the car, meaning it was originally that nice metallic green. Who knows?
28/04/1976 - 8,200 miles
(no information written down)
10/1978 - 45,000 miles
New piston rings, bearings, clutch, etc.
08/1978 - 51,900 miles
(no information written down)
Note: I think they meant to write 1979 but wrote 1978 instead, it would make more sense.
I also have tax discs for 1984, 1985, 1988, 1992 and 1993.
There's a single piece of paper with notes on fuses, wiring and illegible hints of column/stalk problems. It might not even be for this car, though I suspect it is because it does look like it's been rewired front to back at some point, the loom doesn't look original.
From that I can see the first owner only kept the car for a year and did a reasonable 8,000 miles.
The second owner then whacked a massive 18,400 per year for two years leading to the car needing piston rings, bearings, clutch and whatever else etc is! I've never actually paid attention to the mileage figures but that's pretty amazing, I can't imagine driving the 6 that much over that short a period, it's no wonder it needed work.
I expect the next and last entry was supposed to be a 1979, it's the same handwriting, even looks like it was the same biro, and is a more reasonable 7,000ish miles.
After that there's nothing at all to hint at what was going on so it's anybody's guess.
The 5 digit odometer currently reads 32,000. I'm going to assume that it's actually 132,000, that seems quite likely. I'm also going to assume the car came off the road in 1993 which is when the last tax disc ran out. So that's 80,100 miles covered over 15 years, divide one by the other and it's an average annual mileage of 5,340 which is entirely believable.
That really tells me the car was probably run until it wouldn't run anymore. It had signs of head gasket failure and it clearly has some bottom end issues. The engine waterways were full of sediment and the oil was horrible old sludge that hadn't been changed in an age. So, more than anything, that's probably the cause of whatever the problem is.
