Miss406

Thanks Paul! Well, I picked it up Friday. Saturday I spent 30 minutes max vacuuming it out. Front middle interior light doesn't turn off until doors are shut - so this light drained the battery! I thought a nice big battery, 30 minutes is nothing.. anyway when it wouldn't start I thought whoops. Clearly this is quite a weak battery. Thankfully my trusted 2.0 16v petrol 406 estate jump started her. Anyway, went shopping yesterday after school with another mum from school, she has a 206cc 1.6 and again, flat battery so I had to get a jump from her lol. I'm rather surprised these petrols can jump a diesel? Anyway, today I've a nice new battery with 4 year guarentee coming today hopefully, with 670cca it should be plenty powerful for these cold mornings. In April this year the chap replaced (with receipts to proove) he has replaced the glow plugs, however I don't know until the battery comes whether the glow plugs are a bit weak. Maybe he's fitted the wrong sort? Starting on a cold morning it's best off warming up twice (which also means entering the immobaliser code twice too, quite annoying to be fair!) then starting and he starts okay. Wait til battery comes then if we still have not promising starts then I think I will look at the glow plugs. I booked him in for the MOT on Monday (it doesn't run out until 26th September) but thought sod it - give it a try. FLEW through the MOT, a couple of advisories but nothing major really. A flat spare didn't bode well and was an advisory too - my fault I should have checked before hand but completely forgot, I checked other things like lights, lamps, tyres etc. Didn't come across my mind to check the spare! I am hoping to deactivate the immobaliser because it's more of a pain than anything, having to enter the code each time is annoying me. I understand it's there for a purpose though. Also, he only locks on dead lock via the drivers door so will set about a complete lock change and hopefully get a working fob out of it all. This fob doesn't work although the battery was replaced by previous owner so maybe it needs re-pairing with the vehicle? Fingers crossed my battery comes today, it's not a good look when your 'new' car needs jump starting from mums at the school.. and to make matters worse I sold my 205 yesterday (going back to the previous owner) and even that needed a jump!

Hi all I am new to the forum. I have 6 children and have sadly waved goodbye to my trusted Peugeot 406 estate (Family version means it was a 7 seater). I am tonight collecting my new but old car. It's a 1996 P reg, Citroen Synergie. I am a massive Peugeot fan, when I was married my husband had 2 806's (Both blew 3 head gaskets within 6 months of each other) so I am a little skeptical but after speaking to two highly trained mechanics it seems the heads blowing is no common than any other car, you look after the car and service it well (like I do) and it'll be okay. I try to do much of the maintence myself but having just had a new baby (10 weeks old today) I am finding little time to carry on with even the most simplest of jobs. I'm 29 years old and female, but I am not afraid to break a nail like most. With my 406 I have had to re-wire the seat belt pretensioners, change an ABS speed sensor, replaced the rocker cover gaskets, I also tinted the rear windows (I will be doing this to my synergie too!) and a few other jobs I can't remember. I am looking forward to getting the car, I test drove it last night and apart from the dead heavy clutch (I am used to the hydroulically adjusted one in my 406) I think it'll take me a while to get used to stepping UP into the car rather than lowering yourself into the car... My Synergie is one of the very very rare 8 seaters still left. Looking forward to getting involved with forum meets (If you run them) and also no doubt posting questions about the running of my new car, I know it's a pug engine, 1.9 DT old school is (I believe) better than newer HDi's, you know where you stand with them, no multi plexed electrics to worry about, no BSI shut down procedures (Well, that I am aware of on a vehicle of this age), just generally - more easy to work around.... Also looking forward to reading anyones experiences with Lexia, I currently have Peugeot Planet 2000 and I am debating whether to try again at installing the lexia part so I can run diagnostics on the car (IF it has a port of course). I've heard Lexia has a much different user interface than the Peugeot Planet. Chat soon