205 websites?

Hi,

No really "special features" on 205 D's, just some points you should not be surprised of : - badly adjusted tailgate ; - noisy tailgate on bumpy roads ; - cracks appearing above rear side glasses (on 3-doors), sometimes on lower parts of bodykit. May show how hard it has been driven. - fusebox not closing properly (at least on LHD models, experienced on a '88 XR, '91 DTurbo & '93 Junior D). Now, specifically to XU / XUD series : - bulletproof ; - may have oil leaks around camshaft cover - very common on early XU/XUDs (87-91), my '93 Junior D only have a tiny leak on an angle of the cam cover ; - might be hard to engage into 2nd (BE1), or into reverse (BE3).

mmm... I guess that's all. Nothing special or really annoying, indeed.

HTH, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

you could start from here

choice, always change oil and filter every 6000 miles, if you never do anything else, I do mine at 4000.

Thanks for the responses guys. Some useful sites there for me. Looks like I bought a nice little car.

Hello,

You've bought a good car (I'd say an excellent car if it wasn't 20 years old, i.e outdated, indeed). And anyway 5 millions customers can't be wrong :-)

Regards, G.T (I've got one) snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

Nice website G.T, Looks like I'll have to learn more than school French tho !!! I like the older cars. At the moment in my drive I have a '91 Volvo 740 estate 2.0l automatic, '90 Volvo 740 SE saloon 2.0l manual 5 speed, '88 BMW

318 coupe carb version so the Peugeot will feel right at home !!!!! I use the 740 auto as my main driver, but the Peugeot will be taking over that duty, cutting my fuel bill by a huge amount. Also I will have to learn diesel, never had one before, and I prefer to do my own maintenance so I know what has been done, what needs to be done and it has been done right. I just retired my old Volvo740 estate, that one was an '86 2.3l manual which did 340,000 miles before rust became too expensive to fix for the MOT.

The diesel is very, I mean, very very reliable. I drove about 346000 km in mine and it still started like new. Oil leakage may appear, but that's nothing to worry about. That's just a little sweat. I swapped the XUD7 engine for an XUD7T engine last year. But the car itself had had a little bit damage so it went to its maker, but I sold the engine seperately because it was still good. Now I've got another 205 Dturbo. I've bought an intercooler and i'm planning to build it on my car. I don't know about your dutch, but

is a great (dutch) site. My old one is still viewable, including some pic's of the engine swap. 's it.

Have fun with your car.

Jon.

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Hi Jon,

Quick question regarding the Dturbo. Where are you planning to mount your intercooler. I have the same car with the same plans so was just wandering. My idea was to get an auto bonnet with the raised bulge and cut a makeshift vent and mount the interccoler on top of the engine using the mounts from a BX/ZX/306/405. I have the intercooler and manifold, I just need to find the time and money to do it. Saying that the car may get passed on to my girlfriend in which case the parts will probably remain in the garage gathering dust :(

Hi,

Nice, I don't know, it still looks like an old russian site :-) And incomplete, 'cause I still haven't made a chapter for electrics. Perhaps I'll add some extra technical sections, like principles of CAN buses, for example - even if there is obviously no CAN into a 205. And, no, I won't translate it into english :-), as anyone here knows (keep in mind I'm posting here for a while now, perhaps since Feb, 2001 - can't remember) my english quicly shows its limits.

I agree, I feel the same, even if I let my car to a trusted mechanic for heavy servicing, like timing belt.

5 cylinders, I suppose... I'm not that keen on Volvos, they may well be reliable, but not really my ideal car...

That's where it proofs it's all made of steel :-)

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

Hello,

That seems to me it's the best place to fit an intercooler, 'cause there isn't enough room close to cooling rad', IMO.

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

Well, that's exactly my idea. I've got the parts and the hoses and the mount for the vacuumpump laying here too. You know that you've got to reposition the vacuumpump? I now need and bonnet from an automatic and some time to put it all together. I also need to find out how to raise the fuelpressure. I already found out how to raise the turbopressure. Let me know if you've made some progress with the ic.

Greets, Jon.

Didnt think about the vacuum pump, thats a good point. I was gonna put it all together myself and then take it to a proper diesel tuning place and have it set up on a rolling road. That way i know its been set up properly rather than just guessing my self. Make sure you keep us posted on your progress too!

Well, the place I'm buying the 205D from phoned to say they were having to replace the front and rear brakes and handbrake to get it up too scratch for the MOT. I've already agreed a price, so the work is coming off their end, costs me a couple of days extra not having the car - but seems to be a good deal to me. I'm happy to wait until it's sorted, gives me a couple of extra days with my Volvo, which I am sad about selling. I get the Pug tomorrow and have to visit friends after I pick it up, so I'll have the wife following me in the Volvo for a twenty mile drive, then a 50 mile drive back home, the 50 mile bit in the dark. That should show up any smoke problems etc. I'll probably get her to stop and swap, and tell her to stomp it while I'm watching from the back with headlights on. Great things mobile phones even if the 2 Jags pillocks have made them illegal to use in cars on the move. I refuse to look like an arse with some bluetooth thing sticking out my ear making me look like Lootenant O'Hura out of the old StarTrek series.

Hello Stuart,

Well, I guess you won't have annoying matters with your 205. I don't write that 'cause I'm a Pug ham (I could, as I consider as being one - you guys may confirm it, but it wouldn't be honnest), just because that's the way it's gonna be : the "road stage" shows it since 20 years. Last time I saw an R5 on a road with many tight bends, it was on its roof...

Same here, as long as you don't have a hands-free kit.

Oh, I didn't care about this point. Indeed, french mobiles are now provided with a hands-free kit as standard (most of time a wired-type, not BT), I bought one for my mobile (Nokia 3310) considering it was just 6EUR, and the bill up to 90EUR. OK, when I drive with both ear kit & car charger at the same time, I have wires everywhere, but I don't care :-)

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

Well - the little Pug is great. After filling up and driving home it's been faultless. After driving the Volvo the Pugs fuel guage looks like it's stuck. Hasen't moved from full yet !!!! This on a journey that has the Volvo showing half full. Amazing. Only thing that needs sorted seems to be the front brakes are binding. It has new disks and pads, so I'll have to have a look. Feels very sure footed going round the twisty bits. I'm going to like this little car.

Stuart.

Hi,

It IS stuck ! Indeed, fuel gauges are not that good on Pugs, esp. 205s. My gauge shows full until 250km, then goes lower and lower, then 0 after 700km. The "low fuel" warning light is quite reliable, tends to flick when there are only 10l in the tank, should stay on when at 6 litres. Of course, I usually don't wait that to fill the tank !

Regards, G.T snipped-for-privacy@worldonline.fr

205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel :

Yesterday I started on this project by removing the air filter, the battery, vacuum pump and a lot of hoses. This evening I removed the inlet manifold and started figuring out how all the hoses should be placed. I also fitted the new mount for the vacuumpump. I had a bit trouble to get the manifold of, because one bolt was mangled up. The only thing that could get the head of the bolt of was the grinder. Tomorrow I'm going to see how all the hoses should be fitted and I'll try to get me a bonnet of an 205 automatic. That's it for now.

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I got myself an automatic bonnet today. I've fitted it on the car to see if the intercooler would fit. It fits. I've bought a hose to fit it between the turbo and the airfilter. And I've placed the supportbrackets for the intercooler. The thing troubling my mind now is how I can fit a T piece in the small pipe to the wastegate of the turbo. I want to adjust the turbopressure by a bleedvalve. If anyone has an idea how to do that, please tell me.

Greets, Jon.

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fuelpressure.