Show Us Your Motors!

Stormster · 2 Mar 2015 at 23:33

Dav4 said:
Nice focus ST. Is that the advert photo? Did u buy that private? As that looks a lot like one I seen re advertised on auto trader a handful of times over a few months. like he had trouble shifting it. Did u get it for a good price?

Hiya mate, I don't think he'd had this one advertised for long. He's owned it since 2010, only done 14k since then also, I've got a few grands receipts for stuff done etc so he's not been too shy about looking after it despite hardly using it.

It just needs a really good clean inside and out. All booked in to get done on Saturday

That is a pic from the advert until it's clean and I'll take a few.

I paid £5700 for it.

Clearcut · 2 Mar 2015 at 23:36

dessimpson said:
Is this an attempt at a joke?

She's happy. It's only for the first year after she passes her test.
Then she can get whatever she wants.

Sorry but is it for your wife or your daughter?

dessimpson · 2 Mar 2015 at 23:36

[TW]Fox;27717540 said:
Which is why probably the last car to pick would be a 14 year old convertible Peugeot 206. Nothing to do with whether it has a million bhp, is 'cool' or meets the approval of people on the internet but everything to do with it being one of the least reliable cars of the last 15 years and likely premium priced due to the fact its a convertible.

It certainly wasn't premium priced.
We were out all day looking for a car for me to replace my Evo and she spotted this through the fence at a garage that was closed.
We went back on Sunday morning and took it for a test drive. Everything on it works. So we bought it.
I couldn't care less how crap it is. She likes it and is happy. That's all there is to it.
As long as it's reliable enough to pick me up from the pub then I'll be happy too.

Stormster · 3 Mar 2015 at 00:00

Should have bought a big overpriced BMW 530d or something along those lines, to fit in of course

Dav4 · 3 Mar 2015 at 00:28

Stormster said:
Hiya mate, I don't think he'd had this one advertised for long. He's owned it since 2010, only done 14k since then also, I've got a few grands receipts for stuff done etc so he's not been too shy about looking after it despite hardly using it.

It just needs a really good clean inside and out. All booked in to get done on Saturday That is a pic from the advert until it's clean and I'll take a few.

I paid £5700 for it.

Ah right. Looks really good anyway best colour and the rear tints and tinted rear lights look great on black. Exactly what I'm after when I sell my ST220. Sound like a good price considering the mod's he's had done. Get some pics up when it's all clean!

[TW]Fox · 3 Mar 2015 at 07:56

Stormster said:
Should have bought a big overpriced BMW 530d or something along those lines, to fit in of course

Yes, absolutely - that would have been the most credible alternative to a Y reg 206 for a new driver.

My point was to highlight that peoples comments were not simply based on not 'fitting in'.

Howard · 3 Mar 2015 at 08:01

dessimpson said:
I couldn't care less how crap it is

You will when it breaks and you have to fix it.

dessimpson · 3 Mar 2015 at 08:09

Howard said:
She will when it breaks and she has to fix it.

There. I fixed that for you.

Howard · 3 Mar 2015 at 08:15

Well aren't you supportive

geekman · 3 Mar 2015 at 08:18

I see thousands of 206s every day - I struggle to believe they're that unreliable or they'd all be in scrapyards by now.

Most girls I know would be over the moon with a 206 convertible as a first car - small, cheap to run, easy to park and the roof comes off, i.e exactly what almost every girl wants in a car. I can guarantee you if you gave them a choice of a 206 convertible or the OCUK approved Fiesta 1.25, the overwhelming majority would pick the 206.

[TW]Fox · 3 Mar 2015 at 08:51

Cars tend to get fixed when they break Geekman

geekman · 3 Mar 2015 at 09:22

[TW]Fox;27718237 said:
Cars tend to get fixed when they break Geekman

But because she chose it, it's her problem and not his which = a happy life

Cars at this end of the market don't tend to get fixed when they break though, especially if they're unreliable anyway. Just look at the Rover Metro - they all seemed to disappear from the roads only a few years after they were made. The 206 is an old car now, and mostly driven by people who have little mechanical sympathy, and you still see them everywhere.

[TW]Fox · 3 Mar 2015 at 09:46

They are cheap to fix, nobody scraps a car because it needs 200 quid here and 160 quid there. There are no big ticket items that cause scrapping really.

mattyprice4004 · 3 Mar 2015 at 12:24

geekman said:
But because she chose it, it's her problem and not his which = a happy life

Cars at this end of the market don't tend to get fixed when they break though, especially if they're unreliable anyway. Just look at the Rover Metro - they all seemed to disappear from the roads only a few years after they were made. The 206 is an old car now, and mostly driven by people who have little mechanical sympathy, and you still see them everywhere.

Reliability wasn't a killer in the Metro - rust was.
The running gear of a Metro is pretty solid - unlike the bodywork!

GinG · 3 Mar 2015 at 12:44

[RXP]Andy;27697614 said:
My new car

Bet you can't wait for it to come back from the bodyshop.

What colour have you opted for?

mrk · 3 Mar 2015 at 13:23

I've got a new Golf GTD for the day via work due to none of the pool cars being available, one of the managers said "take mine, but be careful it's quite powerful and might catch you out"....

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The steering in Eco mode feels sharper than in Sport mode but is Honda light. Sport makes it feel like there's disconnected friction which adds a fake weighty feel. The car itself handles quite nice, sharp turn in and lots of grip. No complaints there. The brakes aren't bad either.

Engine is a bit meh though. It feels like it struggles to get up to " decent" speed and the torque band is very narrow and low in the rev range. I don't drive diesels at all so am not sure of even performance diesels are like this?

Feels like a false sense of sporting performance.

Obvious post is obvious

Oh also a sloppy gearbox too but I didn't expect much to begin with in this area I guess.

antijoke · 3 Mar 2015 at 13:25

J1nxy said:
Finally...

Touching every piece of wood I can find that it won't need to go back again

What was wrong this time?

J1nxy · 3 Mar 2015 at 13:42

anticonscience said:
What was wrong this time?

They repaired the wheel after they damaged it, sorted the headlight washer jamming open and realigned the headlights. In the process of repairing the wheel though they managed to not fit the tyre properly so it was leaking air, which tripped the warning when I was on my way down to see the DP after it'd been dropped off about an hour earlier. This is it back with the tyre re-fitted and fully leaked tested.

geekman · 3 Mar 2015 at 14:05

[TW]Fox;27718504 said:
They are cheap to fix, nobody scraps a car because it needs 200 quid here and 160 quid there. There are no big ticket items that cause scrapping really.

I think you're overestimating the general car buying public

Most of my friends will (and have) scrapped a cheap car that needed a couple of tyres, brake disks and bushes/shocks, all of which is fairly typical old car MOT stuff.

GT3 · 3 Mar 2015 at 18:53

He's done the right thing letting his missus get what she wants.

My gf wanted a crap car like a clio or a 206. I pretty much forced her to get a Yaris T sport, in the first month it needed a new brake caliper, front drop links and 2 new tyres.

I've had the ear ache for telling her to buy an unreliable first car :rolleyes: