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Hi,
My old mans car has almost died on him and I want to get him a new one as a surprise.
He likes Diesel's and has had a few Peugeot's so this my natural choice (but open to ideas)
I found a 308 1.6 SW at a local garage, about to be 5 years old, 23,000 miles on clock.
Went and seen it today and its very tidy.
Started it up and popped bonnet - for the first few mins there was a weird light smoke/vapour/steam coming out of the area I have put red square around in picture below.
Could it just be water that has got in from rain/when I opened bonnet and started engine? Within a couple of mins it stopped/went away - Car may also have been sat there for awhile so not sure if that has anything to do with it?
Appreciate any advice.
Secondly - I dont think he does the mileage to justify a diesel, but that is what he likes/has always had so I am not going to argue/get him petrol when I know his preference - but I see most of the cars I am looking at have "FAP" in their title which looking up seems to be a french DPF.
All I have ever heard about DPF is bad things ie if you are not doing decent mileage then it causes nothing but problems as it cant burn off/regenerate.
What do you all think?
My experience was from Mazda 6 Forum - I was doing 35K/year at the time so I never had an issue but lots of other people on the forum were having to take it into dealer weekly to have things cleaned/reset.
Given he is retired now and the car will be out of dealer warranty want to make sure I am not give him problems like this.
Never bought a car that is out of warranty before so any guidance is appreciated.
My old mans car has almost died on him and I want to get him a new one as a surprise.
He likes Diesel's and has had a few Peugeot's so this my natural choice (but open to ideas)
I found a 308 1.6 SW at a local garage, about to be 5 years old, 23,000 miles on clock.
Went and seen it today and its very tidy.
Started it up and popped bonnet - for the first few mins there was a weird light smoke/vapour/steam coming out of the area I have put red square around in picture below.
Could it just be water that has got in from rain/when I opened bonnet and started engine? Within a couple of mins it stopped/went away - Car may also have been sat there for awhile so not sure if that has anything to do with it?
Appreciate any advice.
Secondly - I dont think he does the mileage to justify a diesel, but that is what he likes/has always had so I am not going to argue/get him petrol when I know his preference - but I see most of the cars I am looking at have "FAP" in their title which looking up seems to be a french DPF.
All I have ever heard about DPF is bad things ie if you are not doing decent mileage then it causes nothing but problems as it cant burn off/regenerate.
What do you all think?
My experience was from Mazda 6 Forum - I was doing 35K/year at the time so I never had an issue but lots of other people on the forum were having to take it into dealer weekly to have things cleaned/reset.
Given he is retired now and the car will be out of dealer warranty want to make sure I am not give him problems like this.
Never bought a car that is out of warranty before so any guidance is appreciated.