Long-term wrap-up: 2009 Renault Safrane V6 gets sold
Our fleet swap-over for this year is finally complete with the sale of our 2009 Renault Safrane V6 to a friend. My father had left it behind when he retired earlier this year and got shipped back to the homeland, and so the car wasn’t really getting driven much any more, once we bought more interesting machinery. Still, it’s a fine car that we’ll recommend to anybody looking for cheap transportation. We’d even go as far as to say that it’s a more “honest” car than the new Safrane that replaced it, and an even better deal now that it’s out of warranty and you could get it maintained elsewhere instead the dealer.
It’s a simple car that can be maintained by any garage, using Nissan parts in some cases. By the time of its end run, it had picked up a fair number of dings and scratches, but otherwise mechanically fine. The only jobs we’ve asked the new owner to do is top up the a/c gas, replace the wipers and stick some film on the headlights after polishing the yellowness off them again. It went for Dhs 29,000, which is a fair price considering the dealer’s pre-owned division would’ve bought it for less than Dhs 25,000 and sold it for more than Dhs 35,000 after cleaning up the body a bit.
Original Mileage When Bought: 110 km
Latest Mileage To Date: 40,500 km
Latest Average Fuel Economy: 10.0 litres/100 km
Cost of Latest Problems: Dhs 0
Cost of Latest Maintenance: Dhs 0Total Non-Fuel Running Cost Since Bought: Dhs 2955
Comments
Abdirahman
Sallaam
“stick some film on the headlights after polishing the yellowness off them again.”
I thought the yellowness of headlights cannot be fixed and until they are replaced and that is the issue with old cars. I bought a new headlight for me car 3 months ago for 900 QAR for my Optima 2006, that is for the left one, the one on the right is very very yellow (if that is right term to use since my english is not that good) and check up before making new Istmara (Insurance) told us to replace them or we won’t get new Istmara, so I am going to throw another 900 QAR so my point is how this method work ?
P.S “got shipped back to the homeland,”
Is not the term “shipped back” a disrespect for your father who raised you Mr. Mashfique Chowdhury?
Thank you in advance and good sale for you
Safa
Waaahahahaaa!!!…I’m cracking myself here!…I had to read that comment twice and even the 2nd time was just as funny as the 1st time I read it. 😀
Just
I know people use toothpastes to clean that yellowness of the headlight 😉