Description
This is a 58-plate Renault Laguna Coupe, 150bhp diesel, manual.
It is a high-mileage (~172, 200 miles) but solid car with reasonable service history for the age. I bought it in February 2020.
Priced sensibly in my opinion given on one hand the high miles, but on the other hand the work that has been done and the condition of the tyres and other mechanical bits. Only selling because I’ve replaced it with a newer car.
What you get:
- 2 litre, 150 horsepower diesel engine with a timing chain, manual gearbox, lots of torque
- Somewhere around 50 mpg on a motorway run (depends how you drive), less than that on short journeys
- A £265-ish tax bill (pre-2017 G band, 157g/ km co2)
- MOT until January 2026 with no advisories*
- 2 nearly new (Dec 2024) front tyres (Kumho) - * the garage left one advisory on the MOT for this, but both tyres were done at the same time
- 2 working keys shaped like thick credit cards and a fun slot to put them in before you can start the car with the button
- Full-size steel spare wheel which might need a new tyre
- Automatic headlights and wipers
- New wiper blades (Bosch ones)
- A repaired but still visible former chip in the windscreen (not in eyeline)
- 2 looooong doors with frameless windows
- Huge boot
- Air-conditioning
- 4 seats (no middle seat in the back). They’re OK for adults, I’ve driven 3 (adult) friends from Cambridge to Manchester and they didn’t complain. It’s slightly claustrophobic because of the small, non-opening windows, but reasonably spacious
- CD player, and aux connection
- Built-in Bluetooth for phone calls, but not music. I think it works well for calls but I only tried it once
- Receipts for work I’ve had done like crankshaft pulleys, brake pipes etc. - see below for a non-exhaustive list of major work
- Built-in navigation that probably hasn’t been updated since 2008, but it would get you home in a pinch.
- 2 slightly cloudy headlights - they’re fully-functional of course, they just look a bit tired
- One working headlight washer jet (offside). The nearside one is blanked off, I ordered the part from Renault in France specially.
- As a bonus, one spare offside headlight washer jet blanking plate. They came as a pair.
What you don’t get:
- ULEZ compliance
- Cruise control
- Any kind of lane, blind-spot or parking/ reversing sensors (it has reversing sensors fitted but they’ve never worked for me)
- A particularly quiet ride. The frameless windows cause a fair amount of wind noise
Some of the work done while I’ve owned it (receipts present), not including oil changes and other consumables:
- October 2021 - nearside front wheel bearing and driveshaft
- April 2021 - rear wheel bearings and brake discs (by me*)
- December 2022 - crankshaft pulley
- January 2024 - rear brake pipes
* You may notice that the rear wheels look a little swamped in the arches. The bearings/ brake disc assemblies on there at the moment are intended for the saloon shape, it turns out. This doesn't affect the drive or safety at all, but if you replaced them with the correct ones or added a spacer it would look better.
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I think these are starting to look really good in a timeless way. There aren't loads of them available at the moment.
It's a torquey diesel which makes it a relaxed motorway drive, and it drives really well in general.
