Defective engines: a massive criminal complaint filed against Renault and Nissan

It is a complaint that will have a fairly substantial impact. According to information from Le Parisien, on Thursday evening, dozens of owners of Renault, Nissan (one of the alliance groups) and Dacia cars will file a criminal complaint on Monday, June 5, against Renault Group and Nissan, before the Nanterre Criminal Court. . And this, for serious reasons: "Aggravated deception, deceptive commercial practices" and "fraud, destruction, degradation and deterioration dangerous to people, endangering the lives of others."

“It is a collective action and not a group action within the meaning of the Hamon law, so framed that it is ineffective”, explains to the Parisian Me Christophe Lèguevaques, lawyer at the Paris bar. Before adding that "the other victims will become civil parties once an investigating judge has been appointed." Because according to the daily, a group of 1,782 people feel wronged. Other victims are also listed in Spain or Belgium or Spain.

The causes of their anger? Excessive oil consumption, premature wear or even breakage of the 1.2 TCe engine - a petrol unit built on 400,000 vehicles, from October 2012 to June 2016. The list of potentially problematic models is as follows: Renault Captur, Clio IV, Kadjar, Mégane 3, Scénic 3; Dacia Duster, Lodgy; Nissan Juke, or Qashqai. If 133,050 cars are possibly affected, "less than 10% may have encountered a phenomenon of overconsumption of oil", retorts Renault.