The Mégane II Owners' Club

After browsing the Parker's forum I discovered that many people have problems with Megane II, but mine is OK apart from minor things. Is it possible that some of RHD Meganes are produced in a "bad" factory? Antmat provided us with the following information:
"Laguna ll is produced at Sandouville (Fr.).

Mégane ll is produced at Douai (Fr.)

& in Spain and Turkey! Logically I would think that the RHDs are produced in France but on reflection........
...
...as a member of the European Community you are entitled to know the origin of goods manufactured within the EU. So ask your dealer or Renault UK (08000 723372). For example you might not wish to buy anything that is manufactured in Turkey as you do not like the political situation there."

I will try to get this info on my car. If somebody else contributes, then we could get an interesting statistics.

thanks for that Alex,

When i aske my dealer before im sure he said it was in Belgium but ill have to check one that!!

what car hjave you got Alex? can you please post in the introductions forum?

cheers
andy

Douai is in France not far from Lille. It is on the River Tours and is famous for the French Mining School and little else.

When I met a guy from my dealers some time ago, he said that the car was most likely built in France. I'll try to get more info when arranging the 18k service.

I know that the factory in Turkey makes the sedan & station models.

My car was shipped from Santander which is in Spain - had a slip of paper in the glove box with bar codes and other numbers and reference codes. So unless the cars have different stages of manufacture in different locations I presume I've got a Spanish one?

For the record I've had no problems with mine.

Jonny

Hi jonny

And a belated welcome from me to the forum. Andy's doing a great job don't you think?

What model is your car - if you've posted elsewhere apologies?!

I think all but the sedan version are now build at Palência - Spain.
Some initial models where build at Douai - France, but I think they don't produce méganes anymore (maybe scénics and sportier versions thou).
The sedan version (4 doors) is built in Turkey.

A few links on the subject. Nothing new. The most comprehensive site is the first one.

https://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/automo ... enault.htm
https://www.carpages.co.uk/renault/renau ... =981983529
https://www.carpages.co.uk/renault/renau ... _03_03.asp
https://www.cardesignnews.com/news/2002/ ... ndex2.html
https://www.renault.com/gb/produits/berline2.htm
https://autoweb.drive.com.au/cms/A_10255 ... ticle.html

I know that sedans are made in Turkey.

Well in Singapore all Sedans are from Turkey...for sure..

I would have thought the country of manufacture would be part of the Vin plate. It is on VW's anyway.

My Megane comes from Spain and has been faultless apart from a sticking sunroof that needed greasing.

Hi,

I'm also looking for some more insight about this issue. I was informed that the station wagon can come from Palencia, Spain or from Turkey. Nevertheless, the person also informed me that the only way to know a Megane's origin is by checking some sort of papers that come with at the time of delivery. I find this information somehow misleading, as I seriously doubt that the Renault's information system doesn't have this information available.
I suppose that with some good will and some good contacts at Renault it can be possible to check a vehicle's origin by its VIN. I'll keep on trying to get some more info.

Best regards,
Norberto

The Megane 2 Sport Tourer/Estate/Station Wagon/Break (whatever the name) is produced only in Spain, at Palencia. Check the main renault website. You can start here: http://www.renault.com/gb/produits/break2.htm - bottom of info. Check the other models as well by clicking on the left menu.

Here in Mexico City the dealers say my MegII 05 comes from Spain or Turkey