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May 27, 2008 16:46:15 GMT
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Never really been a fan of French cars, but lately, I've really been feeling 405's. I haven't got a clue about them or even been near one, but really do fancy one. I was thinking of a diesel one as I've heard good things about them, but as I already said, I've got no idea about them. I've tryed searching RR about them, but not found much on them. The search facility unfortunatly doesn't like searching for 3 letter/number words. Tryed Google as well but no look there. Only picture I could find as well was this. So if anyone could help me out with some info and pictures I would be most apreciative
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slater
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Peugeot 405'sslater
@slater
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May 27, 2008 18:06:00 GMT
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haha i can tell where youve been!
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May 27, 2008 18:07:04 GMT
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3 or 4 years ago I bought this.... It cost me £100 from the local auction. It had a top-spec sony cd player still fitted, alloys, aircon, electric everything, MASSIVE load capacity and probably the most comfortable ride in any car Ive owned. It was ratty as hell, had done 250k miles, had the shonkiest extra seat conversion you could imagine in the boot, it smoked like a steam train when started in the morning, and it smelt of wet dog. I loved it. I binned the extra seat, folded the normal rears down and used it as a builders van when I was rennovating a house. It swallowed pallet-loads of wood, tiles etc from the diy shop, I shoveled rubble directly into the back and shoveled it out again at the dump, it ran and ran and ran without fault, gave decent MPG, was pretty nippy, amazingly comfortable on any road surface, comfy interior and 100% reliable until the water pump started leaking. I changed that - a cheap and relatively easy easy job, and it was back on form. I ran it for a year until the MOT ran out and after getting curse word about on ebay I put it back to the auctions. I forgot to put a reserve and it made £30. I had to subtract about £27 in fees. They never sent me the £3 I made I got a good deal on a newer, shinier, nicer, low mileage, fsh 406 estate. It was pish in comparison. Id have another 405 tdi in a heartbeat.
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1986 Panda 4x4. 1990 Metro Sport. 1999 Ford Escort estate.
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BiAS
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@cheeqi
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May 27, 2008 18:15:05 GMT
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Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun.
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ezzysi
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May 27, 2008 18:19:07 GMT
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Used to have a base model "style" as a company car, twas a diesel but none turbo and woefully slow, I hated it! That said another chap inherited the bosses top spec turbo diesel and that was lusher than a lush thing. So to sum up, if your getting one get a decent spec and a hairdryer on the engine
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1991 Mk2 Golf Gti 8v 2005 Passat tdi (daily) 1971 Mk1 Escort 2004 Touran (her's)
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May 27, 2008 18:45:41 GMT
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I've really been feeling 405's. Oo-er!! 405s are very neat though.
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1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org
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May 27, 2008 18:53:59 GMT
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I've never had one , but a friend had a 405 (petrol I think) and thought it was amazing...
If I wanted a saloon or estate of that size and age they'd be near the top of my list.
I would love a 605 though...
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1967 Simca 1301 1981 Austin Mini 1.0 HL 1981 Austin Allegro 1.3 HL 1993 Volvo 480ES 1995 Peugeot 405 GLX TD 1995 Renault Clio 1.4 RT
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May 27, 2008 19:14:36 GMT
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haha I can tell where youve been!
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May 27, 2008 19:43:58 GMT
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My dad had a couple when we were kids, great cars. He did have an Mi 16 though, awesome car!
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May 27, 2008 20:10:07 GMT
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Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun. That bonnet looks mint did u just paint strip it
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May 27, 2008 20:22:49 GMT
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Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun. That bonnet looks mint did u just paint strip it I just got an urge to make a bmw logo out of rust on the e28 bonnet! How did you do that?
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Shortcut
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May 27, 2008 20:38:12 GMT
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My dad had a couple when we were kids, great cars. He did have an Mi 16 though, awesome car! Not as teh awsumz as the 405T16 though 220BHP with a boost to 240 for overtaking. Gallic cosworth eater.
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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BiAS
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@cheeqi
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May 27, 2008 20:44:11 GMT
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Angle grinder, fibre disc, mask up, paint, Apply salt water twice a day for a week, then let nature take its course
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May 27, 2008 20:55:33 GMT
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Wicked mate i love it!!!
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purplevanman
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Way too orangey for crows
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May 27, 2008 21:44:19 GMT
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dad has a petrol estate and we are about to weigh it in any one want spares?
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Welder, fabricator, general resto work
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BiAS
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@cheeqi
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May 27, 2008 22:19:09 GMT
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Oooh, plastic strip across the tailgate (where the badges go), osr seat base, front foglights, bonnet maybe? What colour is it? *edit- elec window switches? carpet? How far up the M5 are you? Pm me
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Last Edit: May 27, 2008 22:22:48 GMT by BiAS
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klunk
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My wife had a 405 1.9 diesel for about four years. Absolute blinder of a car, only ever had to replace the track rod ends. A set of glow plugs and a few filters, oh and a door after I had a brief 'black ice and jeep incident'. But luckily there is a good Pug breakers in Dagenham and we got the right colour even the stripes lined up for £20....Result. Found syncro on third died, but we muddled through. It dropped a bit of oil every now and again. The drivers door dropped a bit, the central locking solenoid on the boot died a death, but the actual car itself refused to die. Until.................... We sold it to a mate, who couldn't be RSed to change a brake pipe come next MOT and scrapped it! If I had to buy a cheap diesel I'd buy another one of these in the drop of a hat. Standard one's would need a bit of beating with a stick IMO, but still look cool. If you want inspiration, just go and get TAXI (the french version, not the wibblepoo American Queen Latifa curse word) from Bollockbusters and watch that! Granted it's a 406...but still a damn fine bit of inspiration.
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Owned 3 of these. I had a 1.9 standard Diesel, wife had a TD estate. I also had a 1.9 petrol estate briefly.
TD drove the best and was a great car. Both were fine mechanically, but the rest of the car fell apart around the engine. Door handles snapped off, the central locking used to sometimes lock on it's own when you lifted the handle, bits used to fall off the dash and the gas strut mounting snapped off the tailgate. Eventually the clutch release arm snapped so I welded it up and sold the car!!
My Diesel was probably an ex minicab though, so considering that it had done fairly well. I'd have another one as a cheap load lugger in a flash. It seems you can chuck plenty of abuse at them and they keep going. Only other car we had like that was an A reg VW Passat estate.
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DutyFreeSaviour
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Mate has one - he swears by it - never once let him down he was bragging last week. of course he tempted the gods and it managed to leave him stranded a few days later - but glow plug change and he's sorted again. They just seem to keep on going!
edit* - he has the turbo version too, he said the non-turbo wasn't worth bothering with
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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I've had 5, including the turbo diesel and the Mi16 and I really rate them. Thousands of taxi drivers can't be wrong either.
I was amused by a neighbour who told me I was unpatriotic for buying a Peugeot, which I pointed out to them that the 405 was built in Coventry unlike their Vauxhall Carlton which they thought was made in Luton!
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205 GTi Mi16
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I've found in life if someone is an idiot, they generally stay and idiot.
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