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[Gaffers]

This is the advice I gave to my neighbour which was duly ignored.  Sure enough it failed it's MOT on rear brakes which have caused me no end of trouble to sort out, hence the many posts about it on here.

End result was the adjusters, being made of swiss cheese, had failed so I got replacements at Peugeot and new shoes because the ajuster on there was buggered and you cant get it individually.  Once back together it was working great until the 1 month old cylinder procured at Eurocarparts decided to explode!

Much cursing and kicking of cars (with the proper foot protection) later it went back through it's MOT earlier today with a clean bill of health.  Fair dos to ECP for replacing it without hesitation but still that's the 3rd item I have had to take back to them over the last 3 years or about 40% 

Yet they slag off Camberley Autofactors everytime I am in there, not had an issue with their parts yet plus they give trade price to HM Forces

[Darth Loo-knee]

You are lucky to get the rear drum off a Peugeot 206.... I ended up cutting the bloody think in half to get it off..... 

[feeutfo]

The French love em though. Don't see many French members on here....
Ever searched French eBay for omega stuff? Bit thin on the ground to say the least.

[Darth Loo-knee]

I actually like the 206 though, especially the 2.0 HDi

[cem_devecioglu]

in the last years Peugeot cars have definitely failed.. and there are some groups here that move in common to get their rights in front of the law.. however, renault has factories here (for more than 25 years) and their production is designed towards our road conditions, so I can say (at least for the last 10 years) we dont have much problem with their cars except some small problems and their relatively high price..
 
and for the citroen: my mechanic friends love them so much 

[Dishevelled Den]

In that heading you're more than correct G. 

In the late '70's - '79 from memory - I bought my wife a new Renault 18 as she was tired of driving Volvos.  What a mistake.  The car was woeful - appalling build quality, a gear shift that wobbled about like a dog's dick and horrible torque steer to mention but a few (dozen) things.

She kept it for a year and ditched it for the known quantity that was Volvo.

We also used some Renault 30's in the Ghost fleet - but they never lasted long given the requirement to lug heavily tooled-up Peelers about: sadly, this was far more than the questionable build quality of the cars could manage in most cases.

[CaptainZok]

In that heading you're more than correct G. 

In the late '70's - '79 from memory - I bought my wife a new Renault 18 as she was tired of driving Volvos.  What a mistake.  The car was woeful - appalling build quality, a gear shift that wobbled about like a dog's dick and horrible torque steer to mention but a few (dozen) things.

She kept it for a year and ditched it for the known quantity that was Volvo.

We also used some Renault 30's in the Ghost fleet - but they never lasted long
given the requirement to lug heavily tooled-up Peelers about: sadly, this was
far more than the questionable build quality of the cars could manage in most
cases.

That description gives me the mental image of the Keystone Cops in the middle of a chase with the car falling to bits around them.

[the alarming man]

Den mate the french have only got worse...I drive a peugoet 308 ( not by choice it is what my employer ( the co-op) supplies) and belive me they are rubbish, the electrics on them are the worse I have ever endured.....

[Dishevelled Den]

We also used some Renault 30's in the Ghost fleet - but they never lasted long
given the requirement to lug heavily tooled-up Peelers about: sadly, this was
far more than the questionable build quality of the cars could manage in most
cases.



That description gives me the mental image of the Keystone Cops in the middle of a chase with the car falling to bits around them.

  They were dogs J - without doubt.

[Darth Loo-knee]

I had to laugh Den at "wobbled about like a dogs dick".... Class 

[CaptainZok]

Here you go Den. Bring back any memories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlZaSWocQk

[Gaffers]

You are lucky to get the rear drum off a Peugeot 206.... I ended up cutting the bloody think in half to get it off..... 

I nearly went there but the puppets got it off although the pins.holding the shoes to the hub went.  If they hadn't the angle grinder would definitely have been deployed 

[05omegav6]

Could have told you that for free

Only two good things about them:

1. Most are quite fun to drive
2. they don't rust wot like they used to

Else best avoided.

p.s. £4 for a sump plug washer for my old Renault 25. No wonder it had never been serviced...

[Dishevelled Den]

Here you go Den. Bring back any memories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlZaSWocQk

    I could tell you some stories about incidents that would have made those scenes believable - but that would be for a meet. 

As well as seeing my ugly mug, you'd get a laugh (at the stories, not my fizzog)

[Dishevelled Den]

Could have told you that for free

Only two good things about them:

1. Most are quite fun to drive
2. they don't rust wot like they used to

Else best avoided.

p.s. £4 for a sump plug washer for my old Renault 25. No wonder it had never been serviced...

That Renault 18 I mentioned earlier, Al, started to rust along the rear wheel arch to boot floor seams within a year from new.