You appear to be a glutton for punishment .. first a Clio and now a 206 ..Dick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:13 pmGht, ive lived here for a while now and there are lots of brits who haven't made the effort to speak the lingo...
Anyway clio has started playing silly buggers so ive bought sis in law's 206.. its 20 years old with only 80k on the clock and fairly tidy apart from the fact it smells like an ashtray its fine.. wish me luck
We've had both
A Clio 1.5dCi which lunched its gearbox last year in the Lake District (as well as throwing up random engine management warning lights .. mostly to do with the brake light switch which I changed three times).
We still have a 206 1.4Hdi which is almost ready to go back on the road after sitting for a year following it needing two new water core plugs in the head - which are behind the manifolds - which you can't get off without removing the steering pump - not according to the manual anyway - btw it is possible!). I fixed the leaks and got it MOTd in late 2019 only for Covid to basically "stop play". So left it on SORN. It will probably need a new battery now as I've neglected it. It let my youngest son down once when the o/s balljoint popped out of the arm leaving him at a jaunty angle on a BP forecourt! The one also suffered major performance fail when the catalyst collapsed to the size of a small ball and blocked the exhaust outlet! It passes the MOT without out BTW!
We also had a 206 CC in the family! Bright green and a royal pain to do any work on. Underneath it looked like it had spent most of it's days in salt water (used to live in Dundee) .. so green on top, and orange underneath! It ate lower suspension arms on a regular basis and then the tyres. Then the rear trailing arm bearings failed and wrecked the rear tyres in a matter of days!! Eventually it had a EML that would not go out!! Both 206s were a pain to work on, especially the cambelts. I think the CC still had some of me attached to the engine bay when we part-ex'd it!
Electronically all three were royal PITAs which the Pugs hiding a lot of the settings in a different system .. possibly to get around the EU law changes about allowing third-party maintenance. Not every diagnostic reader will work with them and both 206s had different diag systems!!
Would I buy another?? Not a chance .. and this is a family who has owned three Alfa's: 1988 75 Twinspark, 1994 156 2.0 TSpark and a 2009 1.4 MiTo. In comparison the Alfa's were reliable.
Actually they were very reliable .. the 75 is still on the road in hands of a 75 enthusiast - I sold it with 110,000 on the clock, the '98 156 got to 210,000miles, even after a major cambelt failure at 73k, before the tin worm ended its life in 2016 and the MiTo has been a real peach with only a flat battery to stop it and still with us! My wife still refers to it as her new car wven though it is nearly 11 years old. The 75 and 156 were both my company cars and I bought them off the fleet once their contract life was up so they worked hard for their first three years!
Hope the 206 proves more reliable than ours ever did!