10 Jan 2007

Car Troubles

Posted by Tom M

Yes, today my car is back in the gar­age again for another repair under the guarantee…

I have so much sym­pathy for this guy — who wants to crush his 307 — mine hasn’t had half the prob­lems he’s had, and I’m fed up with the car, and the dealer too…

In the last year, I’ve had a small num­ber of elec­trical faults — which have taken repeat vis­its to the dealer to fix — in most cases, the fault reoc­cured before I even drove off, and I was able to walk back into the ser­vice recep­tion and book it back in for another repair.

The most annoy­ing prob­lem was in the spring of 2006, when there was a fault with the elec­tric win­dows, which res­ul­ted in a win­dow open­ing auto­mat­ic­ally when the car was locked with the cent­ral lock­ing. This took 4 dealer vis­its to sort out. After the 4th visit, it became appar­ent that they’d broken the wing mir­ror adjusters while fix­ing the win­dow con­trols — a 5th visit was required to put that right…

Now, since suf­fer­ing a flat bat­tery in Decem­ber, it’s been in twice more, once to fix a set of elec­trical prob­lems which occured after the bat­tery died, and today, to fix the same fault again, as they failed to fix it last week, des­pite telling me that they had.

In fact, there are sev­eral other web­sites devoted to how rub­bish Peugeot cars are — not least the fact that the 307 was second-last in the Top Gear sur­vey for 2005… a pos­i­tion it rightly deserves, only beaten to last place by the 807, which itself has a web­site devoted to it’s faults too.

Appar­ently I’ve been lucky, and haven’t had the car try to kill me by shut­ting down the engine at speed, or the fly­wheel dis­in­teg­rate… I have had a dash­board fail­ure, but only once, and it rec­ti­fied itself — but for a while the fuel guage was read­ing double the amount of fuel actu­ally in the car…

Other 307 web­sites:
http://​www​.peugeot​sucks​.co​.uk/ (this guy has also had deal­ings with my local dealer in Cardiff)
http://​www​.crushmy307​.co​.uk/

And the worst thing, the deal­er­ship is expect­ing to to part ex my lemon of a friday-afternoon car (their words!) for another Pug. I don’t think so…

Time to buy some­thing else

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13 Responses to “Car Troubles”

  1. French cars seem to all be the same, Cit­reon (part of Peugeot) are plagued with prob­lems, thank­fully renault aren’t fol­low­ing suit. I can highly rec­comend Ford cars, I have had one for 2 years and never had a mech­an­ical fault the par­ents have always had them.

     

    Tom Bannister

    January 10th, 2007 at 1:32 pmpermalink

  2. Never owned a Peugeot, but I have heard sim­ilar stor­ies from other people as well as you — I cer­tainly sympathise.

    Honda were always good to me, and noth­ing (ser­i­ously, noth­ing) went wrong with the Jazz I used to drive. The Volk­swagon group also make well-built motors. I had a small issue with the rear screen wash on my ’03 Audi, but they booked me in a time that suited me, fixed it within half an hour and kept giv­ing me cof­fee and cake while I waited at the dealer. Although, if it were my own money, I’d go for a VW as they’re a bit cheaper than Audi, but pretty much the same car.

     

    Oliver White

    January 10th, 2007 at 2:00 pmpermalink

  3. Hi Tom,

    Sorry to hear of your Peugeot troubles.

    Hope they do a bet­ter job on yours than they did on mine!

    Mark

     

    Mark

    January 10th, 2007 at 2:24 pmpermalink

  4. Just been read­ing the for­ums on Marks web­site, and they reminded me of 2 other prob­lems I’d had, and for­got­ten about (both fixed with BSI reloads) — the digital oil level indic­ator not work­ing, and the ser­vice inter­val count­down run­ning fast…

    Plus of course, I’m not the only one with the prob­lem with the win­dows open­ing when the door is locked…

     

    Tom M

    January 10th, 2007 at 2:54 pmpermalink

  5. I don’t think you’ll be dis­s­a­poin­ted with VW, my Mom’s 10 year old Polo has been a great little car.

    I have a Seat Ibiza (A Polo under­neath) which has also been superb. Only had a couple of minor war­ranty issues, which was noth­ing to put me off. The only thing that does let the Seat brand down is the Deal­er­ship net­work, espe­cially around here.

    Maybe also worth check­ing Skoda out, as they alway’s seem to come up trumps in the survey’s. Also a couple of friend rate them highly.

    Whatever you do steer clear of Fiat’s, I had a Punto which needed a new engine after 800 miles on the clock.

     

    Pete

    January 17th, 2007 at 6:46 pmpermalink

  6. Well, I ended up buy­ing a Ford. Picked it up yes­ter­day, and I’m still get­ting used to it (drives very dif­fer­ently — much more respons­ive than the Pug, and the steer­ing is much more “pre­cise” feeling)

    Haven’t had much time driv­ing it — basic­ally back from the gar­age, and into work this morning…

     

    Tom M

    February 1st, 2007 at 2:51 pmpermalink

  7. […] 1 Feb, 2007  Gen­eral I don’t know how they do it — even with cars that aren’t actu­ally new — but my “new to me” car (repla­cing the trouble­some Peugeot 307) does have “that smell”… […]

     

    That new car smell… « Tom’s View of the World

    February 1st, 2007 at 2:59 pmpermalink

  8. well my cur­rent car is still the peug 605 sve 24v.
    i have had this car for the last ten years without any mech­an­ical or elec­trical prob­lems apart from the usual wear and tear.

    its just a mat­ter of luck. i think peugeot makes great cars dont you.

     

    William M

    February 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pmpermalink

  9. Wil­liam M — old Pugs are indeed excel­lent cars — the one’s that pred­ate the Mul­ti­plex Wir­ing sys­tem — are indeed solid, reli­able cars — I know many people driv­ing older Pugs who are very happy with them. It’s the new ones that are trouble as the elec­trics are now so inter­twined that even the mech­an­ics at the deal­ers don’t under­stand how one faulty com­pon­ent can cause a symp­tom in a seem­ingly com­pletely unre­lated system.

     

    Tom M

    February 12th, 2007 at 3:03 pmpermalink

  10. hii am from Egypt and i was think­ing of buy­ing a new 307 model (2007).. can any one tell me if the prob­lems u r all talk­ing about exists in this model or is it com­mon in all of the new 307.

     

    M.Salem

    March 6th, 2007 at 5:39 ampermalink

  11. M.Salem

    I can only speak for my 307 — how­ever my research on the net sug­gests that prob­lems with them are com­mon­place. I would not advise you to buy one of those cars.

     

    Tom M

    March 6th, 2007 at 8:21 ampermalink

  12. Peugeot should just stick to small cars. As soon as it gets more com­plic­ated than a 206, they run into prob­lems. All the Company’s flashy tv mar­ket­ing sug­gests hap­pen­ing, soph­ist­ic­ated vehicles. In real­ity, this is not the case. In my exper­i­ence, stay clear of French cars altogether.

     

    Elizabeth

    March 9th, 2007 at 1:32 pmpermalink

  13. DONT touch a 307 with a barge­pole ..bought mine second­hand from a dealer with 29000 on the clock ;;have had it 2 years npw has 42000 on it …its the 2.0 litre turbo d hdi…nothing but a pig in a poke.. peugeot cus­tomer ser­vice is a joke…the car has cost me a small for­tune in repairs..anti pol­lu­tion faults all over the place ..door mir­rors with a mind of there own..warnings and limp mode commonplace..spares are a ridicu­lous price (they think of a num­ber ..double it ..then add on some more ..BE WARNED…THESE 307s ARE A COMPLETE AND UTTER NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!…PEUGEOT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES…THESE CARS ARE ABSOLUTE SXXTE.….

     

    bill brothers

    March 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pmpermalink