EXTRA FAULTS
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• Having read your road test ori the new Renault Extra in the w/e July 5, issue, I feel compelled to make a couple of constructive points about the otherwise interesting test. 1 would hasten to add that I have no connection with Renault except that Earn the satisfied operator of a pair of Trafic vans.
Minor point, I grant you, but. whoever wrote the article has the style of someone inexperienced as, for example, a front hinged bonnet surely hinders access to the engine compartment rather than simplifying it.
What also struck me was the paragraph at the top of page 47. Having closely scruti nised this impressive little vehicle with the intention of possibly adding one to my "fleet", one point that caught my attention was the amount of room in the engine compartment despite the front hinged bonnet and that the oil filter is indeed very accessible on the side of the block. Making statements like "changing the oil filter . . looks like a front panel off job" only serves to highlight further the tester's ineptitude particularly as no modern manufacturer would perpetrate so stupid a blunder as to make that sort of service item so inaccessible.
R G Ridley-Martin London SW6