The Clio is cheap to run and there are a lot of them, which keeps this end of the market busy. A fifteen year old petrol one and a two year old E-Tech hybrid both get a figure from us.
Three generations do most of the work here: the Clio III up to 2012, the IV from 2012 to 2019, and the V from 2019 onwards. The III and IV were also sold as an estate, and the full hybrid E-Tech joined the range in 2020. There is nothing for you to identify, the plate settles all of it.
A Clio leads a short trip life. School, station, supermarket, home. That suits the small turbocharged petrol engines and it is hard on the 1.5 dCi diesel, whose particulate filter wants a long run now and then to clear itself. Older diesels also carry a fine dust surcharge on their Dutch road tax, the motorrijtuigenbelasting, which is one of the reasons a diesel Clio ends up for sale in the first place.
We will not quote a number on this page, it would be stale within weeks. These are the things that genuinely shift what we offer.
A dCi that spent its life on long runs can be in sound order at a mileage that looks alarming written down. One that only ever did four kilometres at a time is a different car, because the filter never got hot enough to clean itself. Tell us which of those two stories is yours.
Renault's EDC is a dual clutch box and it appears across the Clio IV and V. We ask how it moves off from standstill, whether it jerks in slow traffic, and whether anyone has ever changed its oil. One that behaves is priced like any other automatic.
A Clio with one key card is a Clio with no spare, and a replacement has to be coded to the car. If the R-Link or Easy Link screen goes dark, freezes, or has lost the reversing camera, tell us. These are familiar Clio irritations and we would sooner account for them now.
Renault's reds and blues fade, and the lacquer lifts on roof edges and mirror caps, particularly on the III and IV. It is cosmetic and it is common. One photograph in daylight tells us more than a paragraph of description.
The register covers the facts. The rest of it is only in your head, so this is the part of the request worth a minute.
Not directly. What it does is shrink the number of private buyers for an older diesel Clio, because the running cost puts them off. We buy on the condition of the car and on what the model does at wholesale, so the surcharge is part of the picture without being all of it.
No. Write down what the message said and whether it came back. The E-Tech is a full hybrid with its own battery and a clutchless gearbox, and a logged fault is something we put a figure on, not something that stops us.
Mention it in the request. One card works and two is better, and the cost of coding a new one is the whole of the difference. It is a small number. A surprise at the handover is worse than a small number.
Two things. Your number plate, the kenteken, and the mileage. From the plate alone the Dutch vehicle register gives us the make, model, year and fuel. Photographs help and are not required at this stage. Documents belong to the handover and are nothing to think about yet.
Your number plate is all we need to start.
