About 6 weeks ago my 307 (2001) just stopped cut out and wouldn't start
> again there was messages on the dash about emergency stopping or something.
> I hadn't the chance to read it before the whole car died.
> Everything went off as if the battery had been disconnected. When I opened
> the bonnet there was a bad smell of burning and the main battery lead to the
> starter motor was very hot.
> I didn't hear it running in the short time I had travelled about 3/4 of a
> mile and I am quiet observant to engineering problems whilst driving, being
> an engineer.
> When I bought the car six months prior to this they told me that the car was
> due for a recall on the steering lock and they would inform me when the part
> had come in which I was waiting for them to phone me.
> Its bad press deservedly for Peugeot.
So what had happened? was the starter spinning without throwing in the bendix, or what was causing the power drain? I missed the Watchdog show, in fact I always do.
rgds jim.