Renault extends Kangoo, Trafic, Master warranty

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Renault’s LCVs protect buyers for longer than Euro rivals, but still short of Ford
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
21 Nov 2018
2 min read

Renault Australia has extended the warranty on its light-commercial vehicle (LCV) range, making it better than all of its van rivals, except Ford.

The new warranty is three years or unlimited kilometres, increasing the distance from the previous three-year/200,000km cover.

It now exceeds the offerings from Mercedes-Benz Vans and Fiat Professional that both have three-year/200,000km warranties on their respective Vito and Sprinter, and Doblo and Ducato products. Citroen has a three-year/100,000km cover on its Berlingo.

But none of them can beat Ford’s five-year/unlimited kilometre warranty on its Transit, Transit Custom and Ranger vehicles.

Renault has applied the warranty from November 1 this year on its Trafic, Kangoo and Master (pictured) models.
Renault has applied the warranty from November 1 this year on its Trafic, Kangoo and Master (pictured) models.

Renault has applied the warranty from November 1 this year on its Trafic, Kangoo and Master models.
 
The boost in cover, which Renault said was in response to customer feedback, is aimed at lifting the LCV range’s sales and resale value.

Renault Australia managing director Andrew Moore said the company’s van range was now well positioned to respond to the needs of LCV buyers and that business customers covering long distances no longer had to worry about this impacting on their warranty.

Sales of Renault Australia’s LCVs in the first 10 months of the year have slipped slightly compared with the 2017 data.

The Renault Kangoo has 710 sales for the 10 months, down 3.3 per cent on the same period in 2017, while the Trafic sold 1657 units (down 2.1 per cent) and the Master found 1306 buyers, down 3.5 per cent on 2017.

Will the extra warranty put Renault LCVs on your shopping list? Tell us what you think in the comments below.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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