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Peugeot 307 Transmission failure

TO ALL 307 OWNERS HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED FAILURE OF YOUR TRANSMISSION WITHIN 110,000 or in 3 years? I have!!!!

I had to write the following message (excerpt shown below) to Peugeot Citroen Automoniles UK which I believe is the headquarters for Peugeot in the UK . Dear Sirs,

The transmission of my Peugeot 307 Hatchback has failed and needs to be replaced as confirmed by the authorized dealer in Trinidad and Tobago - City Motors Ltd. The car is only 3 years old and at 103,000 miles approx. I believe it may well be one of the few 307's if not the only one whose transmission has failed completely in such a short time. I have twice requested the local dealer to waive completely all costs associated with the replacement of this transmission but to no avail. I cannot believe that the reputable Peugeot brand can produce transmissions that fail in such a short time. There could well be a major manufacturer's error in producing this particular transmission. While I am appealing to your office to approve a complete waiver of the costs quoted by City Motors for replacement of the transmission ($23,375 TT ) I also think that this feedback to you would assist in enabling a correction of the manufacturer's error. I have also not even been offered a courtesy vehicle for the entire period -July-3rd,

2006 to July 26th, 2006 and continuing since the car has been in the service shop. I believe that you can do something to assist me and I thank you for your consideration. If necessary I can forward copies of the correspondence engaged in between myself and City Motors Ltd

With Best Regards.

LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE HAS HAD A SIMILAR PROBLEM AND WHAT WE CONSUMERS ARE DOING WRONG!!!

Reply to
Amagonian
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What kind of transmission are we talking about here?

Greetings Aat The Netherlands

"Amagonian" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Reply to
Aat

You haven't said if the car is within the 3 year warranty. 103,000 miles is in 3 years is pushing it a bit. How come? Is it a taxi?

Reply to
Godfrey Wilkes

How... i drive my 307 HDi 60 000 km/year...3 year 180 000 km.... and no a taxi, Finland is longtrip everyplace... ;---) My home and workplace distance is near 100 km, no train or something else, only own car....

Reply to
Ilkka Maatta

Sorry, I don't understand this. You are in Finland, yet you say your Peugeot dealer is in Trinidad and Tobago. What is going on here? I am not disputing that your transmission may have failed, but more information about the failure and why it is not down to your driving habits might be more likely to produce a helpful response from Peugeot. I know from my own experience that, given a good Peugeot dealer and a reasonable case, the factory will stump up for quite considerable sums of money - in my case the substitution of 16" wheels and new tyres for the 15" worn ones on my 807. Peugeot's attitude to your problem is probably that anyone can wreck one of their transmissions in 180,000km if they try hard enough (and they're probably right) and if you want any recompense from them you will have to prove it was their fault, not yours.

Ron Robinson

Reply to
R.N. Robinson

No, I don't say it - he/she is (pseudonym) Amagonian.

Reply to
Ilkka Maatta

"R.N. Robinson" wrote in message news:44db8323$0$23755$ snipped-for-privacy@free.teranews.com...

It's not the same bloke!

Reply to
mUs1Ka

Ah. That explains a lot. I blame the homebrew - very handy excuse, but the hot weather has been playing all sorts of tricks with it lately.

Ron Robinson

Reply to
R.N. Robinson

But that is not the case in Trinidad, it's a relatively small island (compared to the size of Finland).

Reply to
Brian

Ok, I surrender. ;-)

Reply to
Ilkka Maatta

Transmission is said to be an AL4. A serial number ? 2222 VS was shown on the estimate received from the Dealer.

Aat wrote:

Reply to
Amagonian

The car came with a 1 year guarantee/warranty .

Godfrey Wilkes wrote:

Reply to
Amagonian

Hello and Thenk you Ron,

No I do not live in Finland- It reallly was "some other bloke". The car is not a taxi and yes I do have a lot of trips to make even though Trinidad is not as large as Finland. It makes the lack of a courtesy car more painfully inconvenient. I take your point about driving habits as the possible cause. However the thing is that the transmission always had rough gear changes when the car is slowing down. The dealer never completely addressed this during services and I feel this could have contributed to the failure. There was an attempt to replace the "solenoid valves" in the transmission when I took it to the shop after getting the "AUTOMATIC GEAR FAULT " reading but that did not solve the problem. This is as much as I can say now. If there are other owners who have exprienced the rough changes I would like to know and what happened with them. Anyway I would like to hear from "ilkka.maatta"

-FINLAND on what happened with their car. Did the transmission fail during its 3 year guarantee period or after and did Peugeot replace the transmission free of charge?

R.N. Rob> >> You haven't said if the car is within the 3 year warranty. 103,000 miles

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Amagonian

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