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My journey with my Renault Kwid started in September 2017, when my now late Husband told me he had filled in an application on a Facebook ad to test drive a new Renault Kwid. I had never heard of this car, and when he showed me pictures, I wasn’t at all interested or even like the look of the car.
My words to him was “Wat moet ek met so n stupid karretjie maak”
But after a few days of wearing me down, I filled in the application forms, and within 24 hours, the application had been approved!
I still wasn’t that excited or impressed when I collected my car, and my husband drove it back from the dealership. But only when I started driving the car around I started to fall in love with it.
Several family emergencies came up during that year, and my little Kwid was tested to the limit driving from Hermanus to Worcester and Bredasdorp and Tygerberg almost daily! But my little car filled with family passengers handled all with ease.
Then COVID hit and our family was in construction, so everything ground to a halt, but we needed to earn, so our little Kwid (Beasty) soldiered on as a private/after-hours job transport for my husband’s construction business. I didn’t like this, but needs must!
I lost my husband in 2020, and I just closed myself off and stopped driving. But one day before my first birthday, without my husband, I looked out of the window and there she was, my “Beasty” waiting on the driveway for me, so I just got in and drove. For the first time in a long while, I felt as if I could breathe, and I felt safe. I took myself on road trips all over the Cape.
The one thing I kept reminding myself was to keep servicing my “Beasty” If I hadn’t had done this, I would have never gotten the KM’s out of her I did. – 253 600km and in all that time, apart from routine servicing and those parts, I only changed the fanbelt when it snapped!
I moved to Strand in 2022 and started my own transport business with my trusted “Beasty”, and now my business has grown so much that I need to buy another bigger car. And I will only buy a Renault!
My “beasty” is still going strong – no job has ever been too big for her, and my car has a big heart, and look what she is capable of if looked after correctly. I wrote this to shut up all those critics because my Renault can. It is the Kwid that never quit!
Anne-Marie Cookson-Mars