Alleged One Owner 405

[Essex V6]

I keep being drawn back to this on www.trademe.co.nz listing #1019706765.

 

The Manta is just too hard to run as my daily out here due to its rarity out here and consequent difficulty in getting parts - been out of actions for weeks on end on more than one occasion.

 

I know there is muchos love on here for these Pugs.

 

Given I already have an impractical car (Capri) - would be much handier having a four door as a stablemate.

 

One of my mates is currently away on holiday and has kindly given me his Mazda 2 to use - it is an excellent car but has just reinforced my opinion that I am just not into modern cars.

 

What say you on this 405 - is it worth checking out?

 

Slainte

 

Essex V6

[Junkman]

I'm on the 5th 405 now and all I can say is, that if you are into hilarious FTP romanticism, they are not the cars for you.

Apart from the stereotypical, but essentially trivial, electrical niggles, they are downright boring to own.

Haunted P6 V8s are a lot more entertaining.

The one you found on trademe will have a minor water leak into the boot, courtesy of the spoiler (guess how I know).

 

Besides, please feel free to PM me for all your Manta needs.

[Essex V6]

Cheers Junkman - much appreciated!

 

Funnily enough, since my original post, my mate has just got in touch to advise the part I need for the Manta has finally arrived.

 

The 405 is still tempting me though!

 

Am sure once I get the Manta back though, I will change my mind (such is the way of things with me!)

[carlo]

If you can call a car which rides and steers better than most cars twenty years its junior, is reliable, fun to drive, very cheap to buy, resistant to rusting and good looking boring; then yes it's boring.

[Junkman]

Yes, that's what I mean. A car, that doesn't have any real weaknesses. Quite possibly the Zenith of Peugeot's history.

It's also fairly safe, I have you know.

 

 

[Faker]

Tis a thing of beauty. Owned quite a few over the years. Can't beat them. 10 times the car of a 406. That one looks a stunner. 1owner with full history with those kms! Get it bought. Reasonably priced too, looking at other prices on that site.

[Faker]

Love the manta by the way.

[STUNO]

It looks a good one, very well kept, note the paint wear on the sill under the drivers door, a sign of the same driver for years. like !

[Junkman]

All of mine display this kind of paint wear. You can either wear the paint on the sill, or kick out the loudspeaker, the choice is yours.

[Faker]

I completely forgot about the sills on these!!!

[406V6]

Tis a thing of beauty. Owned quite a few over the years. Can't beat them. 10 times the car of a 406.

 

I am not taking the bait.

 

I am not taking the bait.

 

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[Faker]

I am not taking the bait.

 

I am not taking the bait.

 

I am not taking the bait.

 

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heh heh heh !!

[Angrydicky]

Did anyone else read the title of this thread as a one owner Allegro for sale, £405?

[sutty2006]

love the manta. glad to see one down under. Does your roof rot before the chassis legs?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Tis a thing of beauty. Owned quite a few over the years. Can't beat them. 10 times the car of a 406. That one looks a stunner. 1owner with full history with those kms! Get it bought. Reasonably priced too, looking at other prices on that site.

 

Such a pretty car. I drove a 405GTX in 1989, someone's company car and could not believe how much better than a Sierra it was, a stonking good car.

[Parky]

Does it have a dent in the boot, 20p stuck in the handbrake, no MOT and 5000 watchers?

[Junkman]

This is the result of being hit by a Nissan Bluebird at 30+ OMGMPH. Note that all glass except the tailgate window remained intact.

There was zero damage to the contents of the boot, which included an entire hood storage bin for a Sunbeam Tiger.

In fact, the car actually still drove.

[Lacquer Peel]

Were you stopped at the time Junkman? A moving car into stopped car can wreck the stopped car, my stopped Xantia estate was rear ended by a Passat CC driving at only 20MPH and it was fucked.

[New POD]

Did anyone else read the title of this thread as a one owner Allegro for sale, £405?

 

I did.

[Faker]

Did it reverse into a rabbit?

"safe" is not a word i would use for these as they are made out of the same kind of tin as a xantia

405's stand up well in collisions.

[Junkman]

Were you stopped at the time Junkman? A moving car into stopped car can wreck the stopped car, my stopped Xantia estate was rear ended by a Passat CC driving at only 20MPH and it was fucked.

 

Yes, I was. Open two lane black top, guy in Audi (what else?) in front of me stopped to turn left (Germany, thus RHT) in order to yield oncoming traffic. So I stopped behind him.

Note: I wouldn't have stopped there to save my life. I would have continued until a suitable occasion to turn around emerged, do a 180, come back and turn right. I realised that I was sitting there like a dead duck in the waiting. Didn't take less than 30 Seconds until I was proven right as usual and a septic serviceman's bride slammed into my 405 full blast.

Unfairlyly she got full blame, despite I think, that that daft Audi twat actually was fully responsible. Law and justice, you know.

 

Be it as it may, after this, I consider 405s fairly safe. Because they most obviously are.

 

I bought three more 405s since. None of them was replaced because it was no longer useable. If you do your homework, you will realise, that all of them are still on the road. I did buy other stuff, because I wanted something more unreliable. Which I had. Japanese. Total rubbish. But wifey isn't into this kind of thing. Thus I bought another 405, because I know, that this is the only way to avoid being nagged by SWMBO. Mind you, she considers OVLOVS unreliable.

So do I, but I didn't say this on this forum, you hear.

 

Me? Must get me a Shitroen SM again one of these days. Or some totally useless Italian shitbox, like an Alfa.

 

But to make one thing perfectly clear here - we never had the slightest technical problem with our 405s and we drove them hard, and far.

Be prepared though. You have to put up with them for a long time, once you committed yourself to them. They don't break and don't rust.

[Essex V6]

love the manta. glad to see one down under. Does your roof rot before the chassis legs?

It has minimal rot probably in no small part due tio being NZ new.

 

The worst bit is underneath the rear spoiler

[DSdriver]

Being rather taken with the styling when they were new and fresh I did go and test drive one. Every time I turned my head to look to the right I banged it on the side window. Moral of story: this car will not be suitable for you if you are used to the spacious interiors of big Volvos.

[Petrolize]

Trade me' knows me well and sent an email to say it's just been re-listed..someone buy it !

 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=1042020812&cc=602&pid=414404868&hbc=&member_hash=&ct=title-link

[D Spares & Tyres]

"safe" is not a word i would use for these as they are made out of the same kind of tin as a xantia

A peculiar kind of stretchy metal. On a previous 405 estate with a smacked in rear quarter, I knocked it all out but then ended up with more metal than I started with.