Lejog Peugeot 106 1.4 Diesel

[rpg77]

Some of you might recognise this little Key West – she used to belong to @sdkrc a while back. she was won by my brother in a Retroshite auction and i was "temporary" custodian as he already had an old peugeot on his drive and his significant other may not have agreed to a second.

Had a interesting year, broke down in October, snapped cambelt as I left the mancunian way. Replacement head and she has been running happily ever since.

Passed her MOT in August and decided we both needed an adventure, so lets  do Lejog,  see if a 32-year-old Peugeot and a 47-year-old bloke can still go the distance. Thought I’d share the journey here since the car already has a bit of forum history.

So on Thursday we set off, 447 miles from Manchester, taking in Cheddar Gorge, Lands End and Lizzard point. That's the southern most part covered.

 

Faults so far

Drivers seat runner only works in furthest position (no issue, I have long legs)

Drivers seat tilt stopped working

@sdkrc had already given me notice on the blocked fuel tank breather, which reared it's head as we pulled into Lizzard Point

Structural cable tie failure caused exhaust heat shield to bounce off the exhaust

 

[rpg77]

So day two, we had an early start again. First problem, our exuberant opening of the sunroof yesterday, perished rubber, and a heavy overnight rainfall led to a little water ingress, we knew we were tempting fate with it but we both wanted to live life 🤣

Up the M6 all clear upto Birmingham.

The peugeot met the enemy, diesel vs electric 

Small detour to my brothers, his first view of the car 12months after he won it 🤣

And onto Carlisle

 

Call into a fuel station after 468miles, first real issue of the trip, engine won't switch off.

Stall it to refuel, get to the hotel and will look at the solenoid valve tomorrow.

Faults so far

Drivers seat

Blocked fuel tank breather 

Exhaust manifold - temporarily solved

Leaking sunroof seal

Stop solenoid (hopefully)

 

 

 

[Jim Bell]

It's all going swimmingly so far. Great success. 

[Marshall2810]

Absolutely love this. I miss my 1.5d a surprising amount and should have made more of an effort to fix it. I would definitely have another!

[Noel Tidybeard]

push this lever to stop engine

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Great to see this one with continued stays of execution. It sounds like several hurdles would have fast-tracked it to the knacker's yard with a less sympathetic owner. They're still decent little cars and the 1.5 derv is beyond frugal, isn't it? 

A mate had a brand new 1995 Mardi Gras 106 when we were at uni and that thing was a trooper. I still have fond memories of bouncing the back end of his car around with my mates on several occasions, just to make it a little* more challenging for him to leave his parking space 😂.

Good luck with the rest of the journey!