406 Engine Quality

"R.N. Robinson" wrote in message news:dff5oc$lcj$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...

Now, now children. It will be tears before bedtime, mark my words. ;o)

Lucky thing, but our petrol is 94p/litre at the moment, so me returning to a car with a decent engine is a real nono!

Artie

You have a good point, but it's not the engine that is at fault if it is put in a car that is really too big for it, and there have been a few of those. Life was much easier when I bought my first 403: Choice of saloon or estate car, one engine size, four colours IIRC.

Apart from the tendency of the 106 to leave bits of its reverse selector in the sump (yes, it was one of those) I have never had trouble with a Peugeot 'box, but they tend to be stiff to begin with. I think a lot of people are fooled by the spring loading to 3 & 4 which is appears to be a hangover from the rather strange gate the old worm drive cars used to use with the steering column change (the best one in the business). One of my other cars is a 1952 Lea-Francis with the gate biased to 1 & 2 which causes a bit of confusion if I am not thinking what I am doing!

Keep up the good work

Ron Robinson

You're probably right. It's just that I don't believe that a firm that started building petrol engines in 1889 has never built a good one - not even the 1912 twin cam GP one, which I doubt if our friend has even heard of.

All right, I'll go and pick up my rattle now...;-)

Ron Robinson

"R.N. Robinson" wrote in message news:dffol0$24o$ snipped-for-privacy@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...

Ooops, sorry. For 106 please read 104. It's getting late...

Ron Robinson

to whom you wrote your follow up?

i wont say yours wont go over 120k miles i just think the engine is underpowered as the car is a lumpy piece to drag around.

Good to see they know what they're talking about then :)

Hi,

True, but I would have expected some more peps from a 103HP unit.

Plus the Diesel engine in 1959 ;-)

Stiff, but not too much, IMO. Some boxes are way too soft for me, you never know when you're in gear or just foolin' around neutral - best example I can think of yet is the Mk1 Megane.

Well, I don't know that car. Have you got any picture ?

And BTW, a well known problem on XV series were the camshaft being worn out by the tumblers (spelling ?).

Regards, G.T

you started this remember?... please read your comment "Never? You're a great one for generalisations aren't you? And like most generalisations, it's wrong.

And who is this 'we'?"

Just because you haven't had any problems doesn't mean they are generally good?? . yes i am the person with the factory qualifications just remember that .Also remember that obviously your older and i'm younger BUT i've probably worked on more peugeots than youv'e had hot dinners .Also don't answer a question with a question when asked to name good and bad points about peugeot engines.The reason why you can't answer is because you don't know (but you think you do) .At the end of the day i have nothing to justify to you.GOD HELP THE U.S watch out mr jobsworths on his way!!!!!