Mme needs a new car

[L Austin France]

Mme was involved in a car accident a few days ago which resulted in her 2014 pride & joy Citroen C4 diesel, bought new, being almost certainly written off.
Fortunately nobody was injured but she's now looking for a reasonably new replacement. Thing is as I'm concerned that later Citroens are plagued by the wet timing belt problem amongst others I'm trying to steer her away from this marque.
It's a long time since we've looked at the car market so any suggestions as to a suitable replacement would be appreciated.

[exile]

From a very limited personal experience, I find the Dacia range excellent value for money and I have not had a single mechanical or electrical problem in 12 years. Two cars because a bit like your OH, my OH had an incident that wrote off the first - deer leapt out of the forest in front of her and trying to avoid the deer she hit a tree.

Being Romanian built Renaults, all Renault garages are able to do official servicing.

[RobertArthur]

For many years already nothing wrong with the Hyundai I10 of someone I know for many, many years. Not too many available in France, although one of my French neighbours, after long discussions, also decided to buy a second hand I10 (a 2011 model) after her Renault Twingo didn't survive a slippery road in wintertime. Took me a bit of defusing of the buy "Made in France" feelings, let's blame monsieur Arnaud Montebourg who was just spouting some ideological nonsense yet again.

Here the 2013 Hyundai I10 of Mme, diesel engines not available.

[Polarengineer]

If you are prepared to install a cheap chinese 11kW home wall charger (about €250), I would recommend a 3 year lease of a Renault 4 E-tech. I have used one since mid Feb, now covered 4500 km and used €140 of elec (not counting tax etc. purely tariff centimes/kWh)

[L Austin France]

If you are prepared to install a cheap chinese 11kW home wall charger (about €250), I would recommend a 3 year lease of a Renault 4 E-tech. I have used one since mid Feb, now covered 4500 km and used €140 of elec (not counting tax etc. purely tariff centimes/kWh)

I've only got a 9kw supply to house at the moment & seem to remember that 12 kw is our limit with o/h supplies