Best hidden secret
Battery replaces 4 times.
Starter rebuilt 54 times.
Alternator rebuilt 4 times every 50000 miles or so.
Transmit ion rebuilt at 150000 miles.
Power steering repair at 90000 miles.
Seat have started to wear badly.
This is the most reliable car ever.
When it dies I will buy an other new Peugeot, though I don't know how yet.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 13th April, 2002
An awesome car if you are on good terms with your local mechanic
My head cracked, so I had to keep putting water in it. When I thought it had finally stopped needing water, it started to overheat, but by the time I realized this, it was an air-cooled engine and died shortly thereafter.
Other problems I had with it, I had bought knowing they were there.
The parking brake would get stuck sometimes.
The sunroof wouldn't open with the motor, you had to use your hands.
Finding someone to work on Pugs is hard in the US, but I think I finally found someone.
My friends took a trip to New York and back and I slept most of the way in the back seat. It turns out that they had been going near 110 MPH for a lot of the way, but the car is so smooth it never woke me up. The independent rear suspension is very nice.
I love pulling up to Mustang Cobras and revving my little four-banger and having them laugh at me until they hear my turbo spool up and hiss right by them.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 28th February, 2002
Few Tips:
Diesel
If it won't even try to start having just driven somewhere, try taking the cable off the stop solenoid and shorting to engine block. If the solenoid plunger is stuck, this will reverse polarity and may free it.
Manual
-Watch the push-rod, which attaches to brake pedal arm and goes into servo. It can rub through enough to snap.
-The weld on squared rod and the actuator arm for the gear change can fail. Cut a two-inch hole through the body (you don't still have carpet, do you?) to align with place to weld, and off you go.
Estate
Fuel tank can fall off.
- If engine overheats, wedge a block in bonnet opening and hold with elasticised straps between wheel arches.
- Check fuel filter first if car starts and runs, but engine soon dies
You don't have to be a masochist, but it helps.
If it wears out I will get another one
Alternator failed.
Seat heat switches stuck on.
Water pump started leaking, and normal maintenance.
This is the best driving car I have ever had. I like it better then the Alfa ut replaced and it is much more fun to drive then my new Mercedes Benz E-class. I use it as my daily driver and will be bummed out when it wears out. The most comfortable seats in the world bar none. I installed a elite suspension kit from Europe and it is a Handler. I could go on forever, a neat car.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 25th March, 2001
I totally agree with your comments. A couple of months ago I had the good fortune of being offered the opportunity to purchase one, which I did. I am now the owner of a 1988 Peugeot 505 V6 STX automatic trans, leather seats, colour metallic silver odometer at 80,000km, never driven in winter, therefore not a spot of rust, the owner applying anti-rust every Fall season! Even for storage inside a barn. Impeccable condition, and runs like a charm on the highways and byways...
I have owned/driven 504 and 505 since 1972. On the job I have driven top listed N/A cars, a lot.
What I've found most enjoyable about Peugeot autos are the very comfortable seats. I believe their engineers concentrated on ergonomics... seating and comfort for human beings as clients...
1st Apr 2009, 15:59
You said the starter died 54 times, then called the car the most reliable ever! I would have never replaced the starter that many times, I would have junked the car.