Pug 309 retrieval and rehoming.

[Jim Bell]

Through the hole and out means nearly home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£1.60 well spent.

[HMC]

You were not wrong about the sunroof, its MASSIVE!  Great thread.

[Noel Tidybeard]

the big digital clock is rong it says 309!

[anonymous user]

Still looking ok.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hardly dare ask, knowing how pleased you obviously are to get your old car back, but are those your underpants on the bonnet?

[derskine]

Decent!!

[carlo]

When Peugeots used to be great...  And lope, and steer, and ride.

 

Love 'em.  Must be a nice place to be with those seats

[Jim Bell]

The gear on the bonnet is a bag of docs (which we will come to in a mo).

 

17:14 update. Beer stop.

 

 

 

 

And home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That'll do pig. I mean pug.

 

 

 

 

 

 

220 miles one way driving all told. Not very exiting but I did enjoy it.

 

11 hour shift in total. good way to spend a day.

[Jim Bell]

Look at the size of my nuts!!

 

 

 

They're the thru wheel trim 305 kind. They look like fuckin James Bond tyre spikes or something.

 

 

Gti door cards in the trunk.

[Jim Bell]

Now check this shit out.  Former owner told this tale:

 

Car went in for service.  Garage said it was dangerous, took all the wheels off and said they couldnt let it leave without doing the brakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of "having the brakes done?

 

£795.81

 

 

I feel sick just looking at the bill.  Like I've been raped.

 

 

Anyone had a bigger bill that that for a load of stuff that didnt need done (conjecture)?

[hairnet]

buy another for that and thats only a simple job - but cheeky fuckers if it didint need doing apart from caliper and a flexi

[hairnet]

ps 309 horn kalle grundell says hi

[loserone]

TOP RECOLLECTION BS.  

 

According to my PM history those discs and pads were new at the end of 2012..

Shamefully I didn't buy this for the then_Miss_L1 when you offered it up for sale early 2013, because it didn't have power steering and she was just learning to drive.

 

Not very long later, she took a school trip to Iceland (not the shop), and whilst she was away I bought her the ex-tonedepear Ginetta G26.  Now she has a K11 Micra, and I still wonder if she would have kept a sensible little Pug for a bit longer..

[Jim Bell]

If she had, she would have forearms like Popeye and Guns like Dwayne The Rock Johnstone by now.  Cheaper and more efficient than a membership at the gym mind.

 

PS, Congratulations!

[Lacquer Peel]

Pompe BOSCH?

[Jim Bell]

Pompe BOSCH?

 

Pompe Luke Cars. Enferior.

[vulgalour]

If you print off a Bosch sticker and apply that to the pompe won't that solve things?

[UmBongo]

You shood be on the stage, Shitepeas, you canny lad.

[forddeliveryboy]

 

 

 

 

How bloated moderns have become.

 

 

If you print off a Bosch sticker and apply that to the pompe won't that solve things?

 

As they get older, the pumps have usually worn sufficiently that they're quite Bosch, veg-wise.

[UltraWomble]

Look at the size of my nuts!!

 

 

 

They're the thru wheel trim 305 kind. They look like fuckin James Bond tyre spikes or something.

Im glad you said it first though I was thinking....

[MarvinsMom]

i've gotta lot of love for the last Talbot (Hillman?) designed out at Whitney.

 

me first proper GF's father had one, in diesel GRD flavour, and it was a fab thing. got chopped in against a 205 Turbo D.

 

love this thread, and to the earlier comment, no, i want first dibs on this....

[Jim Bell]

 

Race car genetics. Mine has more doors.

[IanMacfarlane]

Read this at work, saw 309 driving home later, not seen one for years or are they just invisible? Nice motor btw.

[New POD]

Good luck! Reading this with interest as I've just arrived at work in....... Shirley. It's a fair pull from Slade, hence mega early commute to avoid OMGM6KAOS.

 

Give us a wave as you go past the old Lucas R&D building (can't miss it , it's the big 60s thing next to the hideous Audi bling palace on the Stratford Rd as you head back out to the M42)

I spent 5 years working there in the Manufacturing Research centre from 1989 to 1994, and continued to visit on and off until 1998, when I left the Lucas fold.

 

Used to enter from dog kennel lane, and once had a verbal warning for doing a hand brake turn at 7am in the car park in a metro Turbo. The International Automotive head quarters were on the same site, and apparently I'd overtaken some senior exec on my cross country rally route via hopwood, and he'd witnessed the handbrake turn.

 

My boss had his 309 GTi company car stolen from the petrol station down the road, because he left the keys in the ignition. Twat.

[greengartside]

 

50p Handbrake - for the more refined gentleman.

[e287yba]

I've owned a 309SR for 6 years now, and feel - from comments on here and moreso on facebook/autoshite group - like I am a member of a rarefied club because everyone seems to drool over any 309 that comes along (in a way that they DON'T do with a Fiesta or a Metro or...) .

 

The same goes for any "old skool" (pre- x07 in essence?) Pug, it seems.

 

Most odd! But I'm not complaining... They are damn good cars! Mine's going in for a full resto in a couple of weeks, after 6 years & 24k miles of neglect.

 

 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I like the 309. My mum had one - in fact the posh SR model like e287yba's above, with front electric windows and the most dials I've ever seen on a car. It had dials on the dash for everything imaginable - including not one but two temperature gauges! One for oil, the other for the water. Blue velour too -  and that very distinctive Peugeot smell which I have always liked. It was a posh little thing and very luxurious. F543XFY was the number plate. She bought it new from Hall Motors in Warrington. It replaced a Y-reg VW Golf, which was God-awful in comparison.

[tooSavvy]

 

 

50p Handbrake - for the more refined gentleman.

... the Money Shot, right there!

 

 

TS

[stuboy]

 

 

50p Handbrake - for the more refined gentleman.

 

huh??

[michael1703]

When you re-read that bill, 7 hours to do pads/wheel cylinders/flexis/service /replace caliper/bleed brakes etc itsnt that bad, they probably counted their lunch and tea breaks too though,at £40 per hour plus vat it still isn't too bad.

 

They don't mention copper brake pipe as replacing flexis normally entails replacing the pipe as they tend to rot together and twist up as you undo them.

[Jim Bell]

When you re-read that bill, 7 hours to do pads/wheel cylinders/flexis/service /replace caliper/bleed brakes etc itsnt that bad, they probably counted their lunch and tea breaks too though,at £40 per hour plus vat it still isn't too bad.

 

They don't mention copper brake pipe as replacing flexis normally entails replacing the pipe as they tend to rot together and twist up as you undo them.

I was more suspicious of almost every brake component being in a "dangerous state", all at the same time, when none were mentioned at all as advisories on the previous mot. Which was conducted at the same garage.

I agree that the labour charge is reasonable though.

 

A lot of the copper pipes, including the front to back over the tank bastard were done before I sold it. So the flexis were good then as they didn't need changed.