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Originally posted by Dick Dubbs:
Bill NY if this is in the wrong place please transfer it.

Ok then.

Bill NY if this is in the wrong place please transfer it.
I need some info re. anyone's knowledge and experience with Renault. Specifically class B MH w/4 cy 2.2 (I think)engine. ...guy says the starter stopped behaving, replaced solinoid and the trouble still existed. Anything re. Reault would be helpful. Thanx. Dick

http://www.winnebagoparts.com/lesharo-phasar.php
Do you mean the Winnebago Lesharo from the 1980s?

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Originally posted by Dick Dubbs:
Bill NY if this is in the wrong place please transfer it.
I need some info re. anyone's knowledge and experience with Renault. Specifically class B MH w/4 cy 2.2 (I think)engine. ...guy says the starter stopped behaving, replaced solinoid and the trouble still existed. Anything re. Reault would be helpful. Thanx. Dick

Winny Lesharo 1988
I get it LeSharo -- Renault ....frog!

I looked at several of these over the years. I liked the layouts, the compactness, the fuel mileage etc.... All of my favorable impressions of them were trashed once I drove them (one of the slowest vehicles I've ever driven) and then talked to owners and heard the reports of unreliability, high parts prices and many numerous mechanical issues. One of my clients (who is a diesel engine genious) bought one and he confirmed everything I suspected. Maybe one of the best things I ever saw, was where someone converted one of these to a FWD GM driveline....but then again, you had a lot of money in something that wasn't worth much....
thankgoodness, I never bought one.

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one of the slowest vehicles I've ever driven) and then talked to owners and heard the reports of unreliability, high parts prices and many numerous

...etc.
My experience was with 60's Dauphins, cute, nice features and all but typically French auto. If other things were acceptable I could smell the roses with the lack of speed. Coming back I may need to pull a trailer ..???

I think the Dauphin had two horns onefor the city and one for the country so you could summon help near or far.
I had a friend though that made a bunch of money with one. He bought it for $25, someone backed into him causing $300 damage, he took the check. Later someone rear-ended him for another $300. He patched the radiator, drove it to the junk yard and got $25.

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I think the Dauphin had two horns onefor the city and one for the country so you could summon help near or far.
I had a friend though that made a bunch of money with one. He bought it for $25, someone backed into him causing $300 damage, he took the check. Later someone rear-ended him for another $300. He patched the radiator, drove it to the junk yard and got $25.

They did have some value that way. Actually, my brother had one, hauled his wife and two kids back and forth from NJ to PA and also pulled a little wooden speed boat at times. His worked alright.

As bad as the Renaults were, the Peugeot was at the opposite end of the spectrum; I had a '60 403, bought in '64. If you bought one new, there was one (and only one) option: Michelin blackwalls or Firestone white sidewalls. Trim was stainless steel. Sunroof was standard, ad was AM-FM radio.

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Originally posted by Rusty:
the Peugeot was at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Every Peugeot owner I ever talked to loved the car.

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the Peugeot was at the opposite end of the spectrum.

except for the fading paint.

my "plummers' special" wasn't that bad either

but we digress ... more on the Renault 2.2 please
I might go to look at this thing today.

Consider it a TOAD or travel trailer... Repowered with a V-6 drive train, it's a different story.

To twist a slogan perversely, this is not your father's Peugeot. In Europe they are very strong and have fantastic aesthetic appeal. Check out their line up http://www.peugeot.com/en.aspx

They also beat Audi in the LMP LeMans Prototype class in both the 24hr and recently at the Sebring 12hr.

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The cars are finally as beautiful as the French women. Now if they could work a little on attitude

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Originally posted by Moonbeam-Express:

The cars are finally as beautiful as the French women.

Now if they could work a little on attitude

The cars or the French women?

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Repowered with a V-6 drive train

That thought crossed my mind. Looked at the thing yesterday ........scrubbed the though. Too far gone for me.