Bit of a pea..
Once upon a time, in a moment of stupidity, I bought a Renault Laguna from a bloke about 20 miles away from where I lived. Driving back on the M65, foot flat to the floor coming up a gentle slope near Blackburn and straining to hit 70mph, the bonnet flew up as I was overtaking an artic. Needless to say, I shat myself... I couldn't see where I was going, there was glass everywhere and I was having a 'what the fuck was that' moment. Fortunately for me, the artic driver saw what had happened and backed off to let me pull onto the hard shoulder, which was still difficult cos I couldn't see anything ahead. Anyhoo, I managed to get over and stop the car. I got out to have a look what the damage was and, about 6 feet ahead of where I'd stopped, there was one of those fucking huge temporary road signs. If I'd have hit that, my bonnet and windscreen would have been the least of my problems...

As it was, the car was written off, and the insurance peeps paid me double what I'd paid for it.

As a footnote, the RAC guy who came to pick my car up said he'd seen loads of Lagunas with the same problem. Don't fucking buy one..
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 22:45, 1 reply)

It's usually Clios that happened to
Lagunas just suffered from everything else going wrong. I'm glad to be shot of mine.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 8:48, closed)