Up for sale is my Nan's Peugeot 306 Xnd 1.9l diesel hatchback, 44k miles, serviced annually since new, fresh MOT and 6 months tax.
Car owned by my grandparents from near-new, and until about 12 months ago gently driven by my nan to the shops and back!
I bought it off her last year to use for keeping miles and rust off my MX5 but have now moved in with my girlfriend and we don't need 3 cars between us, so genuine reason for sale.
Bad points, I'll put down everything I can here.
- Car is covered in scratches and dents. My Nan in her last years of driving (bless her) seemed to have a habit of slowly knocking into things. Car has never been crashed though. Interior in good condition.
- There's something odd with the central locking, if the fob button is pressed, all the doors lock and then unlock. Doors can be manually locked, though.
- I suspect this might be something to do with the only other fault which is that the drivers door doesn't switch on the interior light...I'm sure this is just a simple fix but to be honest with you it's not bothered me in the 12 months I've been running the car.
- Glow plugs are quite slow, takes about 15 seconds for the light to go out and you really don't want to fire it up cold. Once they go out, engine starts and runs very nicely and sounds like the same kind of tractor it did when new.
- It's a normally aspirated diesel...so it's pretty slow but plenty of torque. Will cruise comfortably at 80mph on the motorway and get 50mpg doing it.
- She probably wants and oil change.
- The driver's side wing-mirror is all taped up to hide a scuff..not the prettiest job.
- MOT advisories are a bit of uneven brake-wear (the brakes a quite under-servo'd, so feel a bit pants until you stamp on them), a scratched windscreen, a bit of a wimpy passenger washer jet and some outer-edge tyre wear.
Good points:
+ It's a £600 car with 12 months MOT and 6 months tax that gets 50mpg, has very little on it to go wrong.
+ I put some half-decent speakers in it and a bluetooth head unit that lets you dock and charge an android (or windows) phone.
+ I believe these are very veg-oil friendly, but it's not something I've ever attempted. These engines do literally last forever (I was going to run this into the ground, but ran out of patience, it has never missed a beat)
+ Newish battery (My nan used the car so rarely the old one wasn't in a great state)
+ Despite generally not great paintwork condition, I've not seen a drop of rust on the whole car, apart from one cosmetic patch on the rear window (pictured)
+ MASSIVE service history. While the car was only used for short journeys by my Nan, half of those seemed to be to the garage for routine services. Clutch done recently, glow plugs changed too. I haven't bothered to go through it all to be honest but it's been looked after. I've not done much maintenance on it in the last year to be honest, but checked fluids once a week and it's never lost a drop of oil or coolant.
+ Ideal daily hack for a petrol-head with other projects, or even as a first car as it's really easy to drive and damn-near impossible to stall.
No offers, it's cheap enough, but might take a px if you've got something interesting, maybe an old VW or an E30...potentially some money your way, try me. (Don't tell the girlfriend, as we don't really have space, I'd have to hide it somewhere)
£100 of sale is going to Parkinson's UK.
Car owned by my grandparents from near-new, and until about 12 months ago gently driven by my nan to the shops and back!
I bought it off her last year to use for keeping miles and rust off my MX5 but have now moved in with my girlfriend and we don't need 3 cars between us, so genuine reason for sale.
Bad points, I'll put down everything I can here.
- Car is covered in scratches and dents. My Nan in her last years of driving (bless her) seemed to have a habit of slowly knocking into things. Car has never been crashed though. Interior in good condition.
- There's something odd with the central locking, if the fob button is pressed, all the doors lock and then unlock. Doors can be manually locked, though.
- I suspect this might be something to do with the only other fault which is that the drivers door doesn't switch on the interior light...I'm sure this is just a simple fix but to be honest with you it's not bothered me in the 12 months I've been running the car.
- Glow plugs are quite slow, takes about 15 seconds for the light to go out and you really don't want to fire it up cold. Once they go out, engine starts and runs very nicely and sounds like the same kind of tractor it did when new.
- It's a normally aspirated diesel...so it's pretty slow but plenty of torque. Will cruise comfortably at 80mph on the motorway and get 50mpg doing it.
- She probably wants and oil change.
- The driver's side wing-mirror is all taped up to hide a scuff..not the prettiest job.
- MOT advisories are a bit of uneven brake-wear (the brakes a quite under-servo'd, so feel a bit pants until you stamp on them), a scratched windscreen, a bit of a wimpy passenger washer jet and some outer-edge tyre wear.
Good points:
+ It's a £600 car with 12 months MOT and 6 months tax that gets 50mpg, has very little on it to go wrong.
+ I put some half-decent speakers in it and a bluetooth head unit that lets you dock and charge an android (or windows) phone.
+ I believe these are very veg-oil friendly, but it's not something I've ever attempted. These engines do literally last forever (I was going to run this into the ground, but ran out of patience, it has never missed a beat)
+ Newish battery (My nan used the car so rarely the old one wasn't in a great state)
+ Despite generally not great paintwork condition, I've not seen a drop of rust on the whole car, apart from one cosmetic patch on the rear window (pictured)
+ MASSIVE service history. While the car was only used for short journeys by my Nan, half of those seemed to be to the garage for routine services. Clutch done recently, glow plugs changed too. I haven't bothered to go through it all to be honest but it's been looked after. I've not done much maintenance on it in the last year to be honest, but checked fluids once a week and it's never lost a drop of oil or coolant.
+ Ideal daily hack for a petrol-head with other projects, or even as a first car as it's really easy to drive and damn-near impossible to stall.
No offers, it's cheap enough, but might take a px if you've got something interesting, maybe an old VW or an E30...potentially some money your way, try me. (Don't tell the girlfriend, as we don't really have space, I'd have to hide it somewhere)
£100 of sale is going to Parkinson's UK.