Peugeot 306 GTI-6 Restoration Project

You may get people moaning about them, but not from me . The oldest GTi-6 will now be around 24 years old in Phase 1 form. Yikes!

I loved my GTi-6. Yours being a 2001 is a very late example. Many of these have been scrapped for their brakes and their engines by 205 owners. A shame as they're such a great car

Mine was China Blue .



Mine was quite a tidy example. It was stock bar a Jetex cat-back exhaust .

The 306 & 309 are Classics just as the 205 and 106 are from the age when each manufacturer actually designed each model of car they produced and cars were individual not like the boring no fun S**t boxes that are every where now.

It will be nice to follow your restoration of this Welcome.

It was only used on the Phase 3s, which I think were only out for 1 year in the GTI-6 range.

IIRC, the Phases went as follows:

-Phase 1 1996-7: Square foglights, early front lights (2 piece indicators and headlights) with the heavily bolstered seats. Diablo Red, Silver and a Blue I've forgotten were available.
-Phase 1997-1999: This had the facelift front end, with the early versions having the heavily bolstered seats (also sometimes called Phase 1.5s). They also gained a digital odometer. I "think" the Bronze Orange colour first came out in this generation
-Phase 3 1999-2000(ish): The headlights became Crystal lights. The earlier blue was replaced with a similar, but richer China Blue, like mine. I think Diablo Red stayed, and Moonstone Blue, which is what this car is (the silvery Blue) was only ever used in the Phase 3. The Phase 3s were made for that long IIRC. Out also went the ABS proportioning valve on the rear beam and in came an Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD) system for the Phase 3.

Originally, I wanted a Phase 3. However, these days, it's between a Phase 1 and a Phase 3 .

The one thing I remember with these was the in-gear acceleration. The 6th gear was not really a cruiser gear. It was a means to get as much acceleration out of the car. This video may convey that from mine . It then had a PiperCross Induction kit fitted:



Sorry for the curse word video and the minor hijack! In my defence, video quality wasn't as easy or as cheap to get now back in 2008!

It gives perspective though. Back then my M3 was sold to its second owner for £11k on 90,000 miles, and I sold the GTi-6 a year later for £1.8k. I've not seen similar age cars now go for similar money.

I had a couple of 306s in my youth, (both D turbos), great handling cars. I've also been craving getting one as a project now they're getting to be a rare sight.

Yay broken French POS!

The only pug I had was a 405. Handled like a shopping trolley until i put some decent wheels and tyres on it. Transformed it, and if that was anything to go by i can imagine these 306's are great fun when sorted. I'll keep an eye on this.

They were immortal those turbo diesels, mate did 200k miles in one and only sold it cause he wanted a change.

Yup, they are mental prices!

Years ago I wanted a 309 GTi16, but the prices in France (the home market for them) are just crazy!

Too right.
I had my 2.0 HDI from 20k miles until 250k. I was young, it had a Skip Brown suspension kit (all 2.5k of it) and it was driven at maximum attack constantly. I went through a couple of lift pumps, an engine mount, and more tyres and brake pads than I’d care to admit but nothing else ever gave bother.

I sold it, and the next owner had it until a bit over 300k miles with no major issues.

Great cars.