Talk to me about: Peugeot Diesels

[carlo]

205s are equally delightful.  You'll have a ball.

[scruff]

205 diesels are massive winners, did you get it?

[KruJoe]

I'm impressed that your flaccid penis unfurls into the middle of next month.

[BorniteIdentity]

I'm impressed that your flaccid penis unfurls into the middle of next month.

So was your mum.

 

(Sorry)

 

No. Bollocks. Someone very cleverly bid 205 on a 205. With a sniper. My bid was just a few quid under.

 

Back to the drawing board.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Judging by the safety write up they get, one supermarket ding and my children lose their father.

Wish me luck.

Can't be any worse than a 106. And the front end on them is made of chocolate. Several mates who work with cars refuse to buy one for their better halves purely because there really is nothing to the front end.

On the other hand, if you don't like them very much...

[Lacquer Peel]

You're on the wrong forum if you're worried about the structural integrity of 20+ year old designs.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

You're on the wrong forum if you're worried about the structural integrity of 20+ year old designs.

No, you just missed the point, and the fact that the OP brought it up in the first place.

He mentioned the fact that the front structure on a 205 is woeful, much like the 106. Anyone entertaining the idea of buying a 205 or 106 would do well to shop around with other marques a bit if they're worried about safety. Any equivalent offering from different manufacturers is instantly going to give you a higher chance of keeping your legs if you have a front end shunt, including a Lupo, Clio, Polo even Corsa.

[Lacquer Peel]

I don't think they're inherently unsafe though, just of their time. I would feel safer in a 205 than in a Mk2 Polo for example. No doubt cars designed in the late 90s/early 00s crash better.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Put it this way, one of my mates worked in a Peugeot bodyshop when the 106 was around 3 or 4 years old. He did lots of front end rebuilds on damaged cars. Based on his experiences with them, and knowing the front end was way flimsier than competitors, he refused to let his wife buy one, and sourced her a similar age Corsa instead. To this day he vows he'd never be happy to let her drive a 106 as a daily.

Combined with the fact a neighbour almost lost his legs in a head-on in his 106 van (which was relatively low speed, with minimal damage to the other vehicle and should never have caused the damage it did) I going to have to agree to disagree with you.

[Lacquer Peel]

Corsa doesn't look very safe either.

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Despite the Corsa having 2Ncap stars, and the 106 having feck all, you must be right.

He should have bought her a Sherman tank.

[Lacquer Peel]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-LClF6rVL-c

 

Fuck!

[BorniteIdentity]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-LClF6rVL-c

 

Fuck!

Holy mother of God.

 

Yes... Safety is a bit of a concern. 25k when often tired does that.

 

Onwards and upwards.

[Cleon-Fonte]

Have you considered a 306? I've driven my friend's HDi regularly and have to say it's bloody brilliant. Soft seats and suspension, uncanny handling (it even has 4-wheel steering*, yo), incredibly feelsome steering and bags of interior space. Compared to those of its competitors I've driven it's leagues ahead. The only thing which lets it down is the crap gearchange, but that's something which does for all PSA cars I've driven.

 

It even comes with airbags if you're worried about safety. Plenty more about than 205s, too.

 

Or you could be edgy and subversive and get yourself an XUD-powered Rover R8.

[stripped fred]

I'm happy with the 90 hdi in my 406. Probably not veg friendly but that's not a concern to me. No dpf or dmf so quite simple and can last a while if looked after. Longer cambelt intervals compared with a vag diesel too.

[Cavcraft]

Have you considered a 306?

 

 

Listen to this man, he makes sense.

[dieselnutjob]

306 HDI is the bomb proof 8V HDI with no DMF or DPF.  You can block off the EGR and remove the cat and it won't complain either.

They don't have the central computer like the later 406s either, so the electronics are quite simple.  Each ECU does one thing and one thing only.

They are brilliant.

[sierraman]

I wouldn't have anything of the size of a 106 based on safety. A bang in anything like that and you are fucked.

[Lacquer Peel]

I wouldn't have anything of the size of a 106 based on safety. A bang in anything like that and you are fucked.

 

 

Drive safe... Sierras don't crash well either. Best get a modern car with fifty airbags just to be safe.

 

I think you're fucked in pretty much any old car if you're involved a serious crash, luck plays a large part (see bub and chompy's escapades).

[alf892]

I can't see what is so shocking in that 106 crash.

 

Car hits solid object with half of its front area. Occupants with no seat belts.

 

Bad ending.

 

At the end the voice over bloke even says the bulkhead was intact and if the occupants had seat belts on they would have only had minor injuries.

[dieselnutjob]

the search is over, I win

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222058870319

[sierraman]

I haven't owned a Sierra for about 10 years... I really ought to be called Mondeo or Focus man on reflection.

[KruJoe]

YAAAAAAS!

 

[HH-R]

I think luck has as much as anything to do with it. I'm not afraid of dying in an old/unsafe car, but I'd hate to be paralysed or similar.

[KruJoe]

luck plays a large part (see bub and chompy's escapades).

 

Will's also: 

 

 

He was lucky he didn't knock his silly block off.

[Cavcraft]

[Craig the Princess]

This thread was always going down the route of a 306 from CavCraft and a craving for a bag of chips on the drive home.

[chaseracer]

...306 from CavCraft... bag of chips on the drive home...

 

And running the car on the same oil.

 

AS nirvana...