Electronics wound cancer of some European cars

This is a 17% increase from five years ago, with four in ten cars experiencing outages each year due to problems with electronic components, which are often quite complex and expensive to repair. The most problematic on the list published by this organization was Renault Megane which was manufactured in 2002-2009 with a 34.66% chance of failure of an electronic circuit. The second was Peugeot 607 with 31.28%.

However, the problems with electronics are not only reserved for French cars but also for German and British ones, so are BMW, Audi, Land Rover, Smart and others. What is interesting is that in this list, at least in the top ten there are absolutely no Japanese and Korean cars, which testifies to the reliability of the electronic components built into them.

Electronics

Generally, most of the problems are with the computers of the engine, primarily due to the poor position on certain models, so they suffer from excessive heat and vibration.

As more and more car manufacturers decide to save money when it comes to engine computers, they are resorting to a more compact type of computer. They take up much less space, and their electronic components are less expensive because they are integrated into the board and sealed.

Quality repair of such computers is often not possible, but there are services that deal with these problems, not always successfully, but it is worth the risk when the price of a new computer is peppered.

Their reparation is several times cheaper than getting a new part, so you can sell a car without significantly lowering the price. If you want to keep cars for a long time, my advice is to buy a new computer.

Some cars have a problem with airbag computers (older Renault models, and some others) that also control pyrotechnic belt tensioners. Impact holes can often trigger the activation of only one of the safety components in a passive and active safety system. This causes the airbag lamp to "ignite" even though they are not activated. Even if they are, after replacing them it is not necessary to change the computer, but it is possible to reprogram it at many times lower cost than the new one. As far as ABS control panels are concerned, drivers of BMW, Seat, VW and Audi have the most trouble with them. Nevertheless, the prices of these cars, I think of used ones are pepper, and far more than the competition. This is proof that the number of failures does not affect the price of used cars too much, neither in Germany, but especially in Serbia. In other words, when Renault models have a problem it repeats itself a thousand times, when a similar or more expensive problem has BMW or Audi, are silent about this, and especially the owners of these premium cars are silent, because they paid those half-peppers anyway, and even to admit that they paid money and repair the electronics, it would turn out that they had not made the wisest decision, and that they were not exactly car experts. , as they appear.

Škoda Octavia, which is very popular with us, and as a half overrated by any measure, has the mass phenomenon of instrument panel failure. All hands suddenly drop to zero for no reason. The repair is neither expensive nor complicated, but it is inconvenient, and there are very few services in Serbia that know how to do good work. Interestingly, only the Škoda suffer from this pain, although the Golf, Leon and Audi A3 of the same year are technically almost identical cars. Despite this, Skoda is much more valuable in Serbia than Seat.

The BMW Five Series E39 (fourth generation) suffers from a problem in which the trip computer display in the instrument panel fails to obey. BMW is not a cheap car, and it is not on the list along with Renault, although it would often have to be there. Of course, Megane costs several times less than BMW-a series 5, just to remind you.

Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru do not have such problems, and neither does Hyundai, or Kia, but these cars are second-hand in Serbia much less popular. True, true car enthusiasts, and those who hate breakdowns, prefer Honda, Nissan or Toyota when shopping.

Not every used Toyota is better than a used Peugeot, and Renault. It all depends on what model series it is, how it was maintained, how old, how far it went.