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

[RobertArthur]

LAF, not only for o/h supplies. Since the first of January 2009 12 kVA is the maximum for all single-phase supplies. Before also in 15 and 18 kVA puissance souscrite. More power? Switch to 15 kVA or more in three-phase.

[p4psb]

Is a diesel needed, if so you will have to look at used.

I second Dacia, and there are quite a few used diesels available.

[widge]

Personally I would think about a petrol, no problems getting a critair sticker if you need to go into pollution zones, also try and get one that can be converted to E85, we have a 2.0l 2005 Toyota Rav4 and a 1.3l 2012 Suzuki Jimny, I converted both, the kit is about 200€ , if you are able to fit it yourself, obviously labour costs if you have it fitted, but when you consider 80 cents compared with over 2€ a liter, it doesn't take much to get your money back. We did the rav back in 2017 and must have saved 1000s of euros in fuel so far.