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Sat 24 Dec 2005 19:48
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Railroad.
Peugeots are 5 year cars, and anything more should be considered as on borrowed time....

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Sat 24 Dec 2005 22:12
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - madf
"Peugeots are 5 year cars, and anything more should be considered as on borrowed time"

.. so all these 10 year old 106s/306s and 20 year old 205s I see on the road are actually figments of my imagination...? and the 12 year old 106 in my garage has been on 8 years' borrowed time?

Next you will be telling us Rover designed modern up to date cars..:-)
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Sat 24 Dec 2005 22:32
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Civic8
>>Next you will be telling us Rover designed modern up to date cars..:-)

Maybe not modern,but a lot are still going strong,very much more than a lot expected,200 series cheap and reliable/after 213/216.that car was-or needed a lot to be desired...having said that I had both.I have owned a rover since 1985/pugs are a good car and know several that have had one,with no complaints
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Sat 24 Dec 2005 22:43
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - BobbyG
Edinburgh Andy, I assume from your name you are Edinburgh based. However, if you work anywhere near Airdrie let me know and I will give you the details of the Peugeot / Citroen independent specialist that I use. He does all the work on my 90k Saxo Diesel.
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Sat 24 Dec 2005 23:48
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Xileno {P}
Rubbish. Their diesels are about as good as it gets. I have a 1989 205 GRD, apart for a dodgy rear wiper motor it's perfect. No corrosion either.

If you go to Africa, you will see loads of old Peugeots some with huge mileages. And back in the UK Peugeots are often used as taxis and the last thing a taxi operator wants is a car with its bonnet up at the side of the road.

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Sun 25 Dec 2005 08:56
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Stuartli
>>If you go to Africa, you will see loads of old Peugeots some with huge mileages. >>

...and Egypt and many other similar countries where there has always been a strong connection with the French car manufacturer.
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 00:00
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Crinkly Dave
Ignore the messages about people who have Pugs which last ages. My 224k 405 petrol and 179k 309 diesel are definitely getting a bit rough around the edges, and will only just make a quarter of a million if I maintain them
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 08:59
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Stuartli
My 224k 405 petrol and 179k 309 diesel >>


We were really looking for high mileage examples to make the point about Pugs...:-)
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 10:44
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - DavidHM
My 1996 126k 406 1.9 was rubbish. That's why I sold it to friends, who asked to buy it. They also have a 124k mile, 1998 306 2.0 that has been completely reliable in the year and 24k miles they've had it, despite er... no servicing whatsoever until MoT time when it needed tyres and brakes only. It's ex-police and I had my reservations about them buying it, but it's been fine.

I've replaced my car with a 108k mile, six year old 406 2.0 HDi and I've actually spent more in the last 3 weeks on repairs than I did in the whole 18 months of my time with the 1.9 so the jury's still out on that one.
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 21:01
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Bromptonaut
Peugeots are 5 year cars, and anything more should be considered
as on borrowed time....


Only if you define life after the point at which repairs cost "more than the car is worth" as borrowed time.

Never understood the point of chucking away a car just 'cos it was fully depreciated.
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 21:42
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - local yokel
205 diesels could well outlast much more recent cars. Almost never rust, engines fairly bullet-proof, and they handle just great. Took a 1.0 205 past 165,000 with no trouble. 106s might not be so robust, they do look a bit tinnier.
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 22:29
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Pugugly {P}
fully depreciated

Brilliant a PC phrase for an old banger !
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Sun 25 Dec 2005 22:55
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Chuffer Dandridge
In which case Chuffers 106xnd has been on borrowed time for the last 8 years & is still in daily use. In fact just completed a 270mile round journey in the last two days, using a mere £20 worth of diesel in the process.
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Mon 26 Dec 2005 09:47
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - madf
"106s might not be so robust, they do look a bit tinnier."

yes: SWMBO's 1993 106 diesel has 2 dents so the bodywork will struggle to last another 12 years in immaculate condition.. :-)
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Tue 27 Dec 2005 16:35
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - james86
I've got a 10 year old 106 1.0 and it's still going strong on about 95k miles. Regularly does the 250 mile journey from London to York or the other way round and never has any trouble. I'm not planning on keeping it for long because of the lack of power of a 1 litre engine but that's the only thing wrong with it.
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Wed 28 Dec 2005 09:17
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - madf
Older son's 1.1 petrol 106 bought 3 years ago with 20k miles, Now 76k - only problesm apart from normal being ignition key immobilser induction ring and one drive shaft. Maintained by me irregularly does 45mpg on a diet of thrashing and neglect between services nad burns no oil.

Might struggle to exceed 150k miles .. I don't think:-)

Cheap spares, easy to repair, tough body..
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Tue 18 Jun 2019 20:17
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - mkultra

Doing some light MOT work (gear linkage a bit sloppy and a front ball joint with advisory) on our 95 106 1.5D and came across this thread.

Ours is at 249K, tows trailers to the skip most weeks, takes us to Heathrow from Shropshire several times a year (quite fun see it there in short stay muscling in with the Mercs, BMW's and Tesla's :-) ).

And next week it's off to the bottom end of Spain to see friends there near the border and tour round a a few days.

For sure it needs £40-£60 worth of welding each year somewhere underneath but other than that? .... well it's still doing near 60 mpg without smoke or suchlike. Mind it is harder get breakdown cover for older models like ours on Euro trips.

Don't fear high milers .... so long as it's a simple model and you can do simple lego fixes on it then there is really little to fear other than rust and having a friendly welder every now and again. I don't think mine is anything so unusual.

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Tue 18 Jun 2019 21:24
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - SLO76
Holy thread revival Batman! Only been 14 years.

Great wee cars mind, very simple and robust. Held off rust well and that old normally aspirated slug of a diesel would run forever if it seem fresh oil every year. The killer here was almost always neglect due to low value, that and their tendency to eat CVJ’s which aren’t that cheap to replace on these and not so easy to come by now. Sad really as they were a hoot to drive, even the basic 1.0/1.1 petrols or 1.4/1.5 diesels. I’d love an early 1.4 XSi.

Edited by SLO76 on 18/06/2019 at 21:24

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 00:01
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Andrew-T
Great wee cars mind, very simple and robust. Held off rust well and that old normally aspirated slug of a diesel would run forever if it seem fresh oil every year. The killer here was almost always neglect due to low value, that and their tendency to eat CVJ’s which aren’t that cheap to replace on these and not so easy to come by now. Sad really as they were a hoot to drive, even the basic 1.0/1.1 petrols or 1.4/1.5 diesels. I’d love an early 1.4 XSi.

I had a nice one in their early days but I didn't keep it long as it was designed round a small person with small feet, which I don't have. The pedal box really was too small. Good fun though.

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 07:24
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - madf

I last posted on this thread in 2005.....

Ours lasted for 17 years till SWMBO write it off in a crash....

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 12:31
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - John F

Why was Peugeot steel and paint so good? Nearly twenty years ago I bought my two teenage sons a brace of teenage white 309s. No rust on them at all and none developed while we had them. In stark contrast, dealing with door bottom and sill corrosion on our teenage Focus, made nearly twenty years later, has been an annual chore for a few years now.

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 13:37
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Gibbo_Wirral

Diesels certainly fare better in the car life wars. My 1998 306 is still going strong, as is my 2003 307.

Every year they sail through their MOT with little or no advisories.

Edited by Gibbo_Wirral on 19/06/2019 at 13:37

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 15:06
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Andrew-T

Why was Peugeot steel and paint so good?

I don't know about the steel, John, but in the late 80s Peugeot made a lot of noise about their 7-stage (I think) electrophoretic paint process. I still have the leaflet somewhere. It certainly protected the cars well if they didn't get bent and require surgery.

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 17:08
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - mkultra

Can't say as the paint on ours is so pretty .... it's the red of that era that the lacquer used to peel off ... roof and bonnet anyway. Rest of panels still pretty good.

Mind what I found early this year is that if you lucky enough to have that bog standard Peugeot red of that era, it is almost precisely the same colour as Hammerite smooth spray red. Sounds unlikely but is an amazingly good match.

I did the entire bottom half below the bump strip and unless you really looked, you'd be hard pressed to tell.

Not exactly clay block detailing but solid looking enough to pass well for a 24 year old car. :-)

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 17:22
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - mkultra

I had to look SWMBO up :-) ... nice one.

Yes very few left .... common place in scrap yards up till maybe 3-4 years back. Now somewhat rare to track down in pre-facelift form.

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 14:23
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - madf

I had to look SWMBO up :-) ... nice one.

SHE by Rider Haggard...A great read...

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Wed 19 Jun 2019 17:03
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - mkultra

:-) .... yeah my first post on HJ to a 14 year old post ... made me laugh.

Which I could say mine held off the rust well .... mind it's been shaken down well enough to have see some rust free blue sky ... for a while anyway.

If it's a 1.4 Xsi you'd like, take a look at this incredible example. .... being sold right now...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-106-XSi-1-4-1993/323830175063

Have to say, if finances were less of an issue I'd fancy this myself

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 12:04
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - FoxyJukebox

Totally agree re Peugot cars. Wonderful for the first 3.5 years of life-then you can bet your bottom dollar that not only will you be replacing all the usual brakes, tyres and silencer(yes!) at once, but the electronics everywhere imploded on my 1995 405, then water got through the base plastic windscreen housing and filled up right over the fuse box, shorting everything. After that-The car was off the road for over a week trying to diagnose an engine management issue....we got there in the end-but at 80,000 miles I traded it in and got £300 for it(1980). Then bought a Golf.

I could go on. To be fair though-it handled like a dream, cruised beautifully, excellent bodywork and nicely designed inside.

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 21:07
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - mkultra

You surprise me. I had a 405 GTX Estate as a company car in 94 or 95 and it worked hard as you like without any significant issue. In fact we bought it after lease for the wife's dad and it carried on clocking up huge miles for another 5 years.

Then had a 406 V6 3.0 Exec as another company car. And what a car ... it's only failing being it lacked badge cache and you needed a petrol tanker following you to replenish the unleaded!!! Was mad quick. Also bought off lease for a neighbor.

But these were new, company cars fully maintained so I guess not a truly valid comparison. Mind you the 406 V6 communicated from Stafford to London every day for a year .... it did a fraction under 92k ....in one year!

When I finished work in 2009 I picked up the 106 as a trade in to a Peugeot main agent for £250 and it simply cannot be killed ... it's been stolen, recovered, used for many building projects and fun trips and daily commute to work for the wife.

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 19:09
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Westk

I post here rarely but I must come to the defence of Pugs.

Had diesel Peugeots most of my life including the 1.6 HDI and only recently changed to a Civic simply because I don't like the current range.

I've had zero breakdowns and run most to well over 100k.

Another fact is their rust proofing is tremendous and parts are cheap.

It's about time Brits stopped the French car bashing

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 19:22
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - badbusdriver

I post here rarely but I must come to the defence of Pugs.

Had diesel Peugeots most of my life including the 1.6 HDI and only recently changed to a Civic simply because I don't like the current range.

I've had zero breakdowns and run most to well over 100k.

Another fact is their rust proofing is tremendous and parts are cheap.

It's about time Brits stopped the French car bashing

Not sure anyone, at least in the current phase of the thread (as opposed to its original 2005 date) is bashing them, indeed it seems most regard them with fondness!. I certainly do, working in a car and van hire company in the late 90's, we got a brace of the 2nd gen 106 1.5 diesels. Utterly brilliant (as long as your feet were not too big!), an absolute hoot to drive, bullet proof engine and 60+mpg!.

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Fri 21 Jun 2019 00:21
Peugeot 106 Life Expectancy - Andrew-T

<< 2nd gen 106 1.5 diesels. Utterly brilliant (as long as your feet were not too big!), an absolute hoot to drive, bullet proof engine and 60+mpg!. >>

Liam may have something to say when he looks in next. He only wrote off his 106 a few months ago .....

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