Faults:

Power steering pump went 1 month after buying the car, but was easy to fix with pump from a written off Laguna.

Water pump went with style at about 130,000 miles.

Had the cam belt changed at 140,000 miles by a Renault specialist for £220 all in. Renault wanted nearly £600 saying I needed a special kit for mine? Um yeah right.

Judders occasionally, but I think it is the distributor cap that needs changing. Mine has a single coil, not the 4 pack.

General Comments:

Extremely reliable and comfortable car. Loves the motorways; cruise's at 90mph and is near silent with a bit of road noise.

I fitted the leather interior purchased from eBay. I would never go back to cloth seats; the leathers are just too comfy. With 3 different electric adjustment controls, they can be moulded into any position.

I use my car everyday, and I do find it a bit thirsty round town, giving about 30mpg, but as soon as she's on the motorway, WOW. I had 49Mpg @ 85mph. 130 miles on a tenner's worth of juice, but this was when fuel was 87.9p/litre.

It has most of the modern refinements; electric windows, spacious interior and well laid out dash.

The RN model is bottom of the range. I did own an 2.0RT which had electric windows, sunroof and mirrors, but I found the sunroof made it a bit noisy, plus it broke during the winter; frosted up and snapped the runners.

Faults:

Immobiliser broke at 90,000.

Gearbox blew up at 88,000.

Ignition coil broke at 106,000.

General Comments:

Superb comfort for it class, cheap to buy now, the seats seem to eat you up!

Powerful enough when you need it, although I found it was a bit slower with a full tank of petrol!

Cruises superbly at 70-100 on the motorway, not that I ever took it up past 70! honest ;-)

Reliability was OK, as said immobiliser broke costing £280.

Ignition coil went that was only £40.

Brake hose required for mot was only £18.

Gearbox had gone just before I owned the car, and had been replaced with a re-conditioned unit.

Worst expense was petrol as I only really used it around town; £10 of fuel would last about 60 miles, but on the motorway that £10 would do up to double that, around 110-120 miles!

Faults:

Electrical faults: clock stopped working, rear wash-wipe doesn't work.

Radiator replaced (@90,000 miles)

Power steering fluid pipe replaced (@80,000 miles)

Consumables replaced (1x front and rear exhaust pipes, 3x tyres) in 7 years.

Nothing except these maintenance issues. Never had to change even a bulb.

General Comments:

A revelation: comfortable; RELIABLE, economical; spacious; good-looking.

Not as refined as rivals (eg. Mondeo, 406) but efficient and comfortable.

I owned for 7 years and it was extremely reliable. Had to get rid because I live near the sea and the salt air eventually corroded the underside of vehicle. The engine was still in perfect working order.

Faults:

Not much. Apart from the usual expected things of phase 1 laguna's;

Clock had gone before I had car.

Radio reception not good.

Fuel gauge, is enigmatic when nearly empty. Sits on red-line for 30-50 miles.

Other than that only age and end of life of components has made ownership of this car a slight concern. I tend to replace before things wear out so I sometimes pay out too early for things.

General Comments:

Caveats first. My car was ex-fleet from two companies. So it had a full service and complete service history to 180000+ miles. I know though it was hammered by the company I bought from. Still, I knew them.

It still returns 44-50mpg when driving to speed limit (B P Ultimate diesel(high end formula of diesel in England) returns 10 percent better mpg, in my opinion).

Mpg is poor in town, so are many other vehicles.

Suspension is great still.

All have found it comfortable to sit in.

Bags of space, bit of a cavern.

Low maintenance costs.

Good handling.

Slight understeer (but tyres do make a difference).

Looks set for 250,000 plus miles.

Good for driving across Europe. I have done over 10,000+ miles in EU countries with it. Baltic sea and back. Alps and back.

On french auto route it can sit at 110mph in comfort for hundreds of miles. Quite illegal. But very useful.

Very little acceleration.

End note. All I can say, they are cheap to buy, and if they have been serviced; it runs fine and is cheap to run.