Waking up this morning, on a cold, crisp February 1st morning, I thought about the Renault and considered that, at last, I had managed to make it through the whole month of January without a single thing going wrong with the car.
At last, I thought, maybe all the niggles are working their way out of the system.
Indeed, the most sinister thing to happen throughout the past month was that I discovered the car suffers from a very severe paranoia complex: SERVICE! the display screamed at me earlier in the month, accompanied by the soothing tones of the onboard computer’s voice over-riding the stereo and announcing: “Warning, fault, return to Renault dealer immediately.”
Prepared to curse loudly and smash an axe through the car’s windscreen in frustration, I investigated further and discovered that the whole cause of panic was that the windscreen washer bottle was empty.
Topping it back up again, the car appeared satiated and we carried on as normal. Nothing else, it seemed, went wrong.
Indeed, the car hasn’t been used much this month so the performance figures are low and it hasn’t really had much opportunity to get itself in to trouble, but – for the first time since purchasing it in June – we had a trouble-free month of ownership.
Until this morning, that was. It’s Jacob’s seventh birthday today and he insisted on being driven to school rather than using the bus, so we obliged.
“Warning!” Announced the soothing voice of the onboard computer as the car was started up. “Automatic parking brake is faulty. Return to Renault dealer immediately…”
Renault Vel Satis 3.5V6 Performance Log
Because of the weather, a quiet month business wise and other your-lips-are-moving-but-all-I’m-hearing-is-blah-blah-blah excuses, the Renault hasn’t been used much during January, which has brought some of its performance figures down further. Good job, really, as this bloody handbrake problem might have surfaced sooner…
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