Hi,

You must be cursed!

I've had virtually no problems with a 306XRd and a later 306 1.6LX.

You don't happen to live near a cliff with a road?

Only joking.

I'll email you tomorrow with some ideas.

Ian.
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From: <stuartspeugeot306club@...>
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:40 AM
Subject: [Stuart's Peugeot 306 Club] Digest Number 551


> There are 2 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. 1998 306 XSI problems
> From: jonathan_talbot_weiss
> 2. 1998 306 XSI problems and moans
> From: jonathan_talbot_weiss
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:19:13 -0000
> From: jonathan_talbot_weiss
> Subject: 1998 306 XSI problems
>
> Hi, I have had my 306 for almost 5 years now and a lot of money out
> of my pocket on maintenance.
>
> 1
> alarm goes off all the time and has to be set to internal for it to
> work - Peugeot told me I'd have to buy an new alarm control unit
> which is at least a couple of hundred. I'm sure there is a
> sensitivity adjuster somewhere
>
> 2
> Every year all my exhaust pipes and cat die - my car is standard, I
> do 6000-8000 miles a year most of it on the motorway.
>
> 3
> My power steering went, a garage fitted new one however it was
> misaligned and caused the timing belt to shear. The garage admitted
> fault and replaced the destroyed valves. The engine now taps lots
> any idea what this is? I have moved and can't go back to the garage
> now.
>
> 4
> My fuel gauge is not accurate at all I have ran out of fuel before
> and it was reading quarter of a tank, any incline and the gauge will
> be off.
>
> 5
> The remote fob has gone down to the metal where it wears so quickly.
>
> 6
> My car sound like a baby den it rattles soo much - I could never
> fall asleep driving.
>
> 7
> The gear box linkages make a creaking noise now and then. Perhaps
> new bushes at some point.
>
> 8
> If I pull out of fifth gear and press to the right the gearstick
> goes all sloppy and feels very very wrong afraid to repeat in case I
> lose my gearbox. It feels like the mechanism has become free.
>
> 9
> When I press down on the clutch is feels like a cable is splitting.
> New cable
>
> 10
> Clutch might be starting to slip
>
> 11
> From getting on and off the drivers seat it has work down to the
> foam, some seat from eBay might sort that out.
>
>
>
> Had nothing but problems with this car; the doors dent too, someone
> almost wrote my car off by accelerating in to the back of me when I
> was stationary on a slip road, they had 1/4 to see me in excellent
> conditions(3k of damages later and 6 weeks in a garage)!!!! A white
> van man did a hit and run on my car when I was shopping and took out
> my nearside wing - black is the most expensive colour to sort out. I
> have replaced most of the braking system and my radiator went last
> Monday.
>
> Having driven a 1.7d van for a week I realised how powerful it is
> compared to a lot of vehicles on the road. So many vehicles are flat
> out most the time when I sit happily barely touching the accelerator
> pedal.
>
> Is this much hastle typical of a 306?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:21:02 -0000
> From: jonathan_talbot_weiss
> Subject: 1998 306 XSI problems and moans
>
> Hi, I have had my 306 for almost 5 years now and a lot of money out
> of my pocket on maintenance.
>
> 1
> alarm goes off all the time and has to be set to internal for it to
> work - Peugeot told me I'd have to buy an new alarm control unit
> which is at least a couple of hundred. I'm sure there is a
> sensitivity adjuster somewhere
>
> 2
> Every year all my exhaust pipes and cat die - my car is standard, I
> do 6000-8000 miles a year most of it on the motorway.
>
> 3
> My power steering went, a garage fitted new one however it was
> misaligned and caused the timing belt to shear. The garage admitted
> fault and replaced the destroyed valves. The engine now taps lots
> any idea what this is? I have moved and can't go back to the garage
> now.
>
> 4
> My fuel gauge is not accurate at all I have ran out of fuel before
> and it was reading quarter of a tank, any incline and the gauge will
> be off.
>
> 5
> The remote fob has gone down to the metal where it wears so quickly.
>
> 6
> My car sound like a baby den it rattles soo much - I could never
> fall asleep driving.
>
> 7
> The gear box linkages make a creaking noise now and then. Perhaps
> new bushes at some point.
>
> 8
> If I pull out of fifth gear and press to the right the gearstick
> goes all sloppy and feels very very wrong afraid to repeat in case I
> lose my gearbox. It feels like the mechanism has become free.
>
> 9
> When I press down on the clutch is feels like a cable is splitting.
> New cable
>
> 10
> Clutch might be starting to slip
>
> 11
> From getting in and out the drivers seat has work down to the
> foam, some seat from eBay might sort that out.
>
>
>
> Had nothing but problems with this car; the doors dent too, someone
> almost wrote my car off by accelerating in to the back of me when I
> was stationary on a slip road, they had 1/4 to see me in excellent
> conditions(3k of damages later and 6 weeks in a garage)!!!! A white
> van man did a hit and run on my car when I was shopping and took out
> my nearside wing - black is the most expensive colour to sort out. I
> have replaced most of the braking system and my radiator went last
> Monday.
>
> Having driven a 1.7d van for a week I realised how powerful it is
> compared to a lot of vehicles on the road. So many vehicles are flat
> out most the time when I sit happily barely touching the accelerator
> pedal.
>
> Is this much hastle typical of a 306?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>
>
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