That’s a feature.
Renault's feature list:
Use model train wires everywhere.
Use low flexibility (nearly non-stranded) wire on moving parts, like doors.
Use PVC insulation with plasticisers that will evaporate in very few years.
Use M$ Windooze style error messages like "on-board electronics failure" (Real error: faulty brake pedal switch)
Locate fuses at the most inconvenient places (I.e. back lights fuses under the ECU and battery)
Don't ask how I know...
Occasionally, Renault get things right, like the R12---ugly as sin (though better looking than an R16) quite fast, good handling, & very reliable.
My first one, was an old "roughie" which was about 20 years old, & I had next to no problems with it, apart from a failure of the gearbox, which was still worth fixing.
It was the "Australianised" version, with all Australian Bosch electrics (the distributor points were the same as a Holden 6).
Eventually, after a lot of pretty much trouble free km the gear problem recurred, & I opted to buy another old R12 "roughie", this time a bit later model Station wagon.
It had the original French electrics, which gave a bit of trouble, & was a lot more beat up than the original, but I got quite a few km out of it, before the engine failed.
No worries said I, I've got a good engine in the dead one!
The bastards changed the primary shaft on the gearbox, & a couple of other things, so it wouldn't fit!
Ok, I bought the right engine, fitted it, drove the wagon for a bit longer, then ditched it for an early 1980s Toyota Corona.
The Toyota did what Toyotas do, & gave trouble free motoring for years, till the engine started to smoke.
Becoming a bit older, & disinclined to get all greasy & messy working on a "second car", I in turn ditched that, & looking around, saw a Renault R25.
It was lovely!
Far from the fairly Spartan R12, it had a luxurious interior, auto box, early LCD instruments, a built in stereo , & a synthesised voice warning system.
It behaved itself on my test drive, & I got a bad attack of the "Vroom , Vrooms" & bought it.
Well it was a heap of crap! ----the little chap under the dash would rabbit on about non-existent faults, the stereo didn't work & the thing which was supposed to tell you how far you could drive on the amount of fuel in your tank "lied in its teeth".
I could live with all this stuff, but when the "Electronic" auto transmission went crazy, that was pretty much it..
I made a few desultory efforts, but my heart wasn't in it!
So from the crap looking but reliable R12 to the gorgeous, but really crap R25 was a sad come down!