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Thank you everyone for the welcoming. I'm glad there is some love for the little Pug. To paraphrase; people are so, so kind.

 

Ps, because you're new you're on 'approved posts' which everyone (new) has to go through. If your posts/threads don't appear immediately, don't worry as sometimes it can take a while if we're busy.

Apologies. If you're referring to my attempted multi posts I hit F5 a few times thinking it was my crap wifi. Then I got my head wand stuck and had to wait for a member of staff to come and help.

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Welcome along to the AS "poster" club :)

A 106 GTi is something I've always fancied in the 106 flavour. No doubt will be big money by the time I get around to them.

 

Iirc it's 5 posts before you can post at will.

 

Surely, mods, you could move dougie to the full members group already as he doesn't seem to be a spam bot? :)

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Thank you everyone for the welcoming. I'm glad there is some love for the little Pug. To paraphrase; people are so, so kind.

 

 

Apologies. If you're referring to my attempted multi posts I hit F5 a few times thinking it was my crap wifi. Then I got my head wand stuck and had to wait for a member of staff to come and help.

 

Haha, no worries ace.

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Excellent first post mate! Genuinely made me laugh a few times.

 

Nice wee cars the 106s, I cant say im a Pug lover after having a 206 that I utterly despised, anytime I see even a late 106 I think "where the fuck did it all go wrong Peugeot, you had a brilliant range of cars in the 106/306/406 and managed to royally screw it up"

 

That said my aunt and her ex boyfriend both had 106s and they were cracking wee things, very basic for my tastes but cracking all the same. K plate green 1.0 XN Graduate and an R plate S2 1.1 XN. They both liked to eat exhausts but other than that troublefree. 

 

As for the decals, id say keep them, but im just OCD so feel free to ignore that suggestion. 

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Here's the UNIT. It's allegedly an 1124cc TU1. I don't know if it's been touched inappropriately in the past but it feels bloody lively for what it is. I was expecting it to feel dog slow after the 325 but its really sweet zippy little thing. Short gearing helps here but its really nippy through 2nd and 3rd. I've driven S2 106 1.1's loads and they didn't feel as eager. Were S2's strangled by Euro emission shit perhaps? To be honest I have pretty much zero history for this car, so I guess its feasible someone could have dropped in a 1400 or something in the past and not changed it on the V5 (unlikely) but these early TU's all seem visually the same to me. If anyone can confirm that'd be nice? Whatever, its as smooth as you like and makes an amusing rorty sound when you boot it which reminds me of an old school Downton Mini or something except without the shit transmission whine. Also I know there's meant to be a pipe at the front there but they seem to disintegrate within about two years on all the 106's I've ever known.

The 106 weighs 2/3rds of bugger all so even 50 french mokes will shift it off the line if it's just you inside.

 

The missing pipe seems to be hot air from the manifold for winter running.

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If you've got oil in the cooling system it'll most likely have a slight oil to water head gasket leak. I'd wager it's also weeping from the gasket above the alternator as they all do before the swapped to better gaskets on the much later s2 cars. Can get worse but in my experience it doesn't seem to rapidly go to shit, just the odd glob of oil appearing every so often with no other ill effects but still worth a flush to get the oil out so it doesn't kill any rubber coolant pipework.

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Blimey, who would have ever thought that the half-cut witterings of a card carrying mental about a bog-spec French shopping car could garner so much positive interest! But I'm glad the little spaztec has found some fans. 

 

Welcome in dude. Nice introducing. You are obviously a gentleman of unpeckable taste.

 

It was actually stumbling upon your 106 dizzler thread whilst Googling photos of red underpants at work that inspired me to join up Mr DoubleWilson, so cheers for that innit.

 

Welcome along to the AS "poster" club :)
A 106 GTi is something I've always fancied in the 106 flavour. No doubt will be big money by the time I get around to them.

Iirc it's 5 posts before you can post at will.

Surely, mods, you could move dougie to the full members group already as he doesn't seem to be a spam bot? :)

 

GTi's are already going for ALL ZE MONNAIE. Seems as though you're doing well these days if you pay less than £2k for one that isn't totally fucked.

 

The fuel gauge on the 106, as part of the deal when Peugeot and Citroen amalgamated, had to be taken from the original Citroen DS parts bin. That is why it is as accurate as this statement.

Oh, and welcome aboard.

 

Cor! You learn something new every day. Although I'm a bit disappointed to find out that Citroen, being at their zenith, didn't equip the DS fuel gauge with some sort of gyroscopic self-levelling for exactly this reason. QUELLE MALHEUREUSEMENT! 

 

Something about an R8? I have one for sale but it's nowhere near as economical.

 

I love R8's (and pretty much all Rover/BL chod) Ghosty, but I only have room for one item of shite right now - although I'm working on that front... 

 

If you've got oil in the cooling system it'll most likely have a slight oil to water head gasket leak. I'd wager it's also weeping from the gasket above the alternator as they all do before the swapped to better gaskets on the much later s2 cars. Can get worse but in my experience it doesn't seem to rapidly go to shit, just the odd glob of oil appearing every so often with no other ill effects but still worth a flush to get the oil out so it doesn't kill any rubber coolant pipework.

 

Thanks for the info on that Uncle Cal, my current thinking is, expansion tank off > clean gloop out > tank back on > coolant system flush > new coolant > run for a bit and see if mayo returns.

I've a theory you do sometimes get a bit of oil in the water on these TU's and its not necessarily the end of the world.  

 

Welcome aboard squire. I've currently got this in my watch list. I think it's pissibly the rarest car in the whole of the middle east.

 

Cheers Rod/b/ney. Get that bought! They're ace. The only car I've had that I ever really regret selling was my Saxo VTS. Call me a yobbo but I loved that car, I actually have a spare 16v engine kicking around somewhere...

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Welcome in dude. Nice introducing. You are obviously a gentleman of unspeakable taste.

 

EFA

 

Which is an even bigger compliment in this semi secret society.

Those 90s Pooshows are surprisingly good in the go department, unless they are powered by tar, which way too many of them sadly are.

I'm also a big fan of those irresistibly gopping 2nd class Northwest Trains style interiors.

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Welcome mate. I've got the ex-WW 1.5D now and I love it. A few years ago I had a black S1 Rallye for a while, I bought it at an auction with 54,000 miles, paint by Stevie Wonder and a fairly thick wad of history. Browsing through it revealed that it had had no fewer than 3- 3!- replacement head gaskets before I got it. I don't know if it was a friday afternoon job, or what, it didn't require another in the short time I had it. Long story, but I lent it to a friend for a while and then ended up selling it to him after he fell head over heels in love with it; he then spent two grand on a bare metal respray for it, and AFAIK still has it, though last time I checked it was SORNed, I should try and catch up with him and see how it's doing.

 

The 1.5D seems just as nippy in normal driving; it just doesn't scream round to 7500rpm like the Rallye did if you kept it planted. I'm getting more like 60mpg from a mix of town and a-road driving...

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Welcome mate. I've got the ex-WW 1.5D now and I love it. A few years ago I had a black S1 Rallye for a while, I bought it at an auction with 54,000 miles, paint by Stevie Wonder and a fairly thick wad of history. Browsing through it revealed that it had had no fewer than 3- 3!- replacement head gaskets before I got it. I don't know if it was a friday afternoon job, or what, it didn't require another in the short time I had it. Long story, but I lent it to a friend for a while and then ended up selling it to him after he fell head over heels in love with it; he then spent two grand on a bare metal respray for it, and AFAIK still has it, though last time I checked it was SORNed, I should try and catch up with him and see how it's doing.

 

The 1.5D seems just as nippy in normal driving; it just doesn't scream round to 7500rpm like the Rallye did if you kept it planted. I'm getting more like 60mpg from a mix of town and a-road driving...

 

I ARE JELLOSS. A 106 as clean as that little red one looks is but a pipe dream for a pikey like me.

 

Wait are you Dangerous Doug, confounder of the sadly defunct SNAO Pnzaa and YUGOSnaaaa forum?

 

I've been outed. I am he.

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