Pugrot 106 - a few questions

[ashmicro]

Mornin, Shiters

 

A mate has got himself a cheap runabout in the form of a 98 106 "Style 2" diseasel. Wonderfully shite, 161K, grubby but complete. The rubbing strip is off the passenger door, but is in the boot and the radio doesn't slide out because it's jammed in with a crushed fag packet. Autoshite gold!

 

Anyways, do any shiter know is the 1.5D in this the same as the one as fitted to the Rover 100? It looks kinda familiar. ISTR they (ironically) can suffer HGF?

 

While it's a bit shit to look at, the car appears to have been looked after - clean brake fluid, new rad lately by the look of it, serpentine belt looks new too, no Hellmans in oil or coolant and reasonably recent heater plugs. As yet I haven't had the chance to check the timing belt which was due @ 160K.

 

Anything else we should look out for chaps?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

 

 

 

Andy.

[M'coli]

It sound wonderful! The 1.5 is the same as that found in the Metro/100, nd do suffer from HGF. The only other thing I'd look at is the injector pipes, these cracked on my Metro on the way down from Scotland and we had to get recovered home - after a scary sideways moment on our own diesel!

[garethj]

Chap in work looked for a 106 diesel when they were newish, apparently he saw three at dealers with HG failed before finding one that was ok. One was burping oil visibly over the engine bay, inner wings, his shoes....

 

Dealer: I’ve never noticed that before, sir

Buyer: Thanks, I’ll let you know

 

After a bit of searching he found one with an intact head gasket. 8 months later the head gasket went.

 

It’s not a scientifically admissible sample size for statistics, but I’d say check the head gasket.

[Guest]

Great cheap motoring choice - had a few petrol / diesel 106's myself. The only real problem I found was the same as the 206/205/ax in that the rear axles can need replacement. Look at the car from the rear to see how straight the wheels are.

[ashmicro]

Thanks all, duly noted. Sadly, it does have the 106/Spaxo issue of a loose driver's seat. I'm hoping it's just the mounting spreader plate, but I have welded a few before where the seat mounting has ripped a hole in the floor. The metal is shitly thin.

 

Cheers everyone, M'Coli I shall check the injector pipes forthwith!

[r.welfare]

IIRC, the HGF propensity is not helped by Peugeot's decision not to fit a water temperature gauge to the instrument cluster (the Metro/114 was the only car to use this lump that did!) so once the idiot light flashes it's usually game over. On that basis, if it's a keeper, it might be worth fitting an auxiliary gauge of some kind.

[Cavcraft]

Heads like to warp too and the bodywork always seems really flimsy. The door catches have a tendency to give way if a sparrow coughs twenty miles away. Seem to recall inner wings and boot floor can rot. They're actually a fairly endearing car though in a peverse way and not without a sort if basic charm. I call shit not shite.

[ashmicro]

Ta everyone. I'm gonna give it a proper look over and reddin up hopefully tomorrow, so I shall endeavour to take a few snaps. The seat problem is probably being exacerbated by the fact that my mate is about 18 stone and built like a heavily-tattooed tank. Carpet OUT!

 

Like all things French, it'll probably respond well to being shouted at. In German.

[trigger]

I once owned a 1994 106 1.4 D (Just checked DVLA L562 AJR is now dead ) but i remember it being ok, It was slower then a slow thing, the brakes were shite, the CV joints were always going and it had really tiny pedals which meant every time i changed gear I'd headbutt the windscreen, But god was it cheap to run, cheap road tax and over 50 mpg meant it was a bargain to run.

 

I remember opening the door at work one windy day and the door blew out of my and and wrapped around the front wing leaving a big crease up the length of the door, common problem on these.

 

Still, I didn't pay much for it off ebay and the young girl who bought it of me liked it though i fear it's her fault it's not been taxed since 2007 seeing as it was her first car and it wasn't long before that i sold it to her.

[ashmicro]

So that's what happened to the door strip!

[Pillock]

I had (the use of) a petrol Saxo, in that horrid gold colour. Anyway, yeah, suffered the same rubbing strip problem in that it got tapped about a gnat's cock along the door which was enough to make it catch on the wing and bend the end. Replaced it, new one did the same a while later.

It was a good car to own, pretty nippy (no idea on the diseasel models, but the 1.1 petrol takes no end of stick and cruises at 90mph on the autobahn I've never been to). Thin metal, but that gives good economy.... esily cracking 45mpg whilst giving it death. Plenty of spares in the breakers. This one just kept on going...... in the end, only the drivers door and quarter panel were the original metal after three different accidents to the front, back and passenger side.

 

Horrible colour though.

[Gompo]

We've had one at work for about 6 months, it's not been looked after and I would imagine done 10k since we've had it - but as far as I know it's not failed in anyway.

 

..No power steering so quite heavy up front, small footwell/pedals, but not bad for what it is.

[Pete-M]

Has it got a sunroof? If so, you'll need to do the emergency 106 test.

 

Reverse it at about 15 mph and yank the handbrake on.

[Pillock]

???!?

[Pete-M]

It's very important that you do the emergency test. Compulsory in a sunroof equipped 106.

 

Anyone who's driven one will have done this at some point.

[trigger]

Mine had a sunroof but i can't recall doing this!, The rear suspension does lift up about 5 foot if you reverse and pull the hand brake up though.

 

Oh and Gompo is right, Mine never had P/S neither and i had arms like Popeye when i sold it on.