Unhappy 405 shite

[carlo]

Well, might as well post a couple of pics of the latest acquisition despite the horror story that was the ebay transaction, detailed in a seperate thread a short while ago.

 

Despite the blown head gasket, I'm thinking really now to at least have a go at doing the work, or at least getting the head off to have a look. Rest of the car doesn't look too bad, and everything seems to work (apart from the engine). Have been looking for a 405 automatic for about a year so don't really want to throw it away along with my £500. And I'm still more angry about the way I was conned than potentially losing any money, but some of it is probably my fault for being too trusting. Moral; don't accept a car too quickly that's been driven out to you in the dead of night, but I expect all you shiters wouldm't do that anyway!

 

 

[Father Ted]

Looks very nice.

Hope you get the CHG sorted out cheaply.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Is it a GTX? Looks like a nice enough example HGF aside

[carlo]

Tis indeed a GTX, also had cruise control which I wanted - they started to put cruise on the last few GTX automatics when the Executive was dropped late 1995.

[theorganist]

Thats a lovely looking car, looks a lot nicer than the bulbous blobs that Peugeot make nowadays!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

It went a bit wrong when they started designing their cars in-house over farming the styling out to Pininfarina. The 307 was the first of the in-house designs I think.

[boobydoo]

How come it took so long to find one, Carlo?

 

Are they hard to come by in auto, or were you being choosy?

[r.welfare]

Looks alright that. Does it have the centre caps for all four alloys? If so, it's been looked after!

[carlo]

How come it took so long to find one, Carlo?

 

Are they hard to come by in auto, or were you being choosy?

 

I wanted one with cruise and a roof, which are hard to find, although any 2.0 auto saloon now is a bit scarce. And | put the centre caps on, from my hoard of 405 spares!

[Gompo]

As others have said, it looks great - for some reason it looks more like a 605 than they usually do..

[Timewaster]

This might help:

 

http://www.elmotor.net/manuales/Peugeot ... Haynes.pdf

[dollywobbler]

Hope it works out. Any older car can have random painful failures, so better to get it out of the way right now. Should be a decent tool that. And has been mentioned, it's from a time when Peugeots looked good!