Sold Veggie 205 with MOT to September £300 (fixed and for sale again!)

[timolloyd]

Deja vu...I advertised this a few weeks back and had a buyer within minutes. Then the alternator packed up. I've swapped in a replacement, and fitted a new alternator belt at the same time.

 

Same info as below. I *really* want this to go to a good home.

 

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I'm selling my 1993 205 diesel.

 

I'm desperate for it to go to a good home and ideally a shiter. This place feels like the right home for such a wonderfully basic and cheap car.

 

This is the second I've owned, and they have helped lift me from the badlands of how-new-is-your-reg and how-many-extras, to the sunlit lanes of shitedom. I'm only selling Patrice (as he's affectionately known), because I have other chod to worry about.

 

I paid a bit over the odds for him two years ago, when we needed a cheap-to-insure commuter. However, I was taken by how clean the car was (and still is), and lots of evidence of regular maintenance. 150k on the clock.

 

He comes with some provenance as well: a sticker I found under the dashboard saying he was built in Dieppe, 4.30 on a Friday afternoon...hmmm.

 

The good bits:

 

• MOT to end of September
• New battery and starter motor last year
• Fully stamped biffer record book and receipts for the various bits I've done (including an oil change about 7k miles ago)
• Two new front tyres with about 2k miles on them
• Remaining tyres good, including the spare
• Vegetarian
• Everything works*

 

Bad bits:

 

• Original Pug radio/cassette doesn't work
• Clonking noise from front o/s - suspect bush or damper (but passed latest MOT like this)
• The heater fan can be turned up/down but the temperature knob has fallen off, meaning the heater, when it's on, is stuck to maximum heat. Brittle French plastic means this is a tricky fix. I'm not going to lie.
• Latest MOT advised tyres (done), rear brake pipes and front discs. However, I suspect these will go at least another year depending on mileage.
• It's a very basic Pug. There are zero extras, apart from the sunroof and a passenger door mirror. And I suspect these were after-market.

 

I've completed regular round trips of 100 miles + and it bumbles along the main roads and motorway at 65mph, no problem. I've calculated a true 56mpg.

 

Patrice has been garaged most of his life, including with me.

 

I need £300 for it. And, I'm so confident in the car, and keen for it to go to a new home, that I'll deliver for the cost of fuel and a return train ticket. (I'll do a thread too, obvs). 

 

Will consider p/x for something interesting but no BEST PRICE 2NITE M8

 

[Jim Bell]

Thats an absolute bargain.  Sounds great to me.

[purplebargeken]

Jeez, nearly 45 mins and this hasn't sold yet? I'd have thought this would have gone as soon  as the digital ink was dry on the ad. 

 

Seriously though, I doubt that there will be any issues with passing this on to another custodian.

 

Most excellent, or should that be moist excellent. 

 

Fab!

[Fabergé Greggs]

What's the deal with the heater being hard to do?

[bramz7]

PM sent.

[timolloyd]

What's the deal with the heater being hard to do?

It's probably not hard to do, but I think requires pulling a substantial chunk of dashboard out, in order to replace some fiddly bits of plastic. I set it to max heat for Winter defrosting duties, and now realise that's less helpful in Spring!

[Jim Bell]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/peugeot-205-1-6-1-9-gti-xs-xe-mi16-all-205s-phase-1-5-2-heater-controls-grey-/121284003027?hash=item1c3d1704d3:g:xsQAAOxy4fVTDlPL

 

 

Looks easy enough.

[castros_bro]

Where?

[Lacquer Peel]

PAS?

[timolloyd]

Where?

 

Lingfield, Surrey. About 15 mins from Junction 6, M25

[timolloyd]

PAS?

 

No just PAS

[timolloyd]

Sold

 

To @bramz7

Will try and remember to do a drop-off thread next weekend, though he isn't far from me so it won't be full of drama (I hope).

[Jim Bell]

This place is getting more like similar to what it used to be before people started saying that this place isnt what it used to be.

[timolloyd]

Is that a good thing?

[Jim Bell]

indeed.

[nacho man]

 

Edit...Too late.

[Cavcraft]

Two cars sold in no time at all on here, great stuff!

[timolloyd]

Thread bump, 'cause this is now for sale again. See updated first post!

[jonny69]

Ha! Had a feeling that a genuinely good looking and bargainacious 205 selling on here was a bit too good to be true. Was going to call shens. GLWTS.

[timolloyd]

Well, here's hoping it will sell on here. It did the first time, but then it broke. Fixed now.