Peugeot 405's

[MiniDan]

Never really been a fan of French cars, but lately, I've really been feeling 405's.

I haven't got a clue about them or even been near one, but really do fancy one. I was thinking of a diesel one as I've heard good things about them, but as I already said, I've got no idea about them.

I've tryed searching RR about them, but not found much on them. The search facility unfortunatly doesn't like searching for 3 letter/number words. Tryed Google as well but no look there.

Only picture I could find as well was this.


So if anyone could help me out with some info and pictures I would be most apreciative

[slater]

haha i can tell where youve been!

[dave21478]

3 or 4 years ago I bought this....

It cost me £100 from the local auction. It had a top-spec sony cd player still fitted, alloys, aircon, electric everything, MASSIVE load capacity and probably the most comfortable ride in any car Ive owned.
It was ratty as hell, had done 250k miles, had the shonkiest extra seat conversion you could imagine in the boot, it smoked like a steam train when started in the morning, and it smelt of wet dog.

I loved it.

I binned the extra seat, folded the normal rears down and used it as a builders van when I was rennovating a house. It swallowed pallet-loads of wood, tiles etc from the diy shop, I shoveled rubble directly into the back and shoveled it out again at the dump, it ran and ran and ran without fault, gave decent MPG, was pretty nippy, amazingly comfortable on any road surface, comfy interior and 100% reliable until the water pump started leaking. I changed that - a cheap and relatively easy easy job, and it was back on form.
I ran it for a year until the MOT ran out and after getting curse word about on ebay I put it back to the auctions. I forgot to put a reserve and it made £30. I had to subtract about £27 in fees. They never sent me the £3 I made

I got a good deal on a newer, shinier, nicer, low mileage, fsh 406 estate. It was pish in comparison.

Id have another 405 tdi in a heartbeat.

[BiAS]

Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun.

[ezzysi]

Used to have a base model "style" as a company car, twas a diesel but none turbo and woefully slow, I hated it!
That said another chap inherited the bosses top spec turbo diesel and that was lusher than a lush thing.
So to sum up, if your getting one get a decent spec and a hairdryer on the engine

[dollywobbler]

May 27, 2008 16:46:15 GMT MiniDan said:

I've really been feeling 405's.

Oo-er!!

405s are very neat though.

[garycox]

I've never had one , but a friend had a 405 (petrol I think) and thought it was amazing...

If I wanted a saloon or estate of that size and age they'd be near the top of my list.

I would love a 605 though...

[MiniDan]

May 27, 2008 18:06:00 GMT slater said:

haha I can tell where youve been!

[goldenwonder]

My dad had a couple when we were kids, great cars. He did have an Mi 16 though, awesome car!

[natedogg]

May 27, 2008 18:15:05 GMT BiAS said:

Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun.

That bonnet looks mint did u just paint strip it

[dude]

May 27, 2008 20:10:07 GMT natedogg said:

May 27, 2008 18:15:05 GMT BiAS said:

Mine,1.9STDT, £75 with MOT and tax, needed a head gasket, awesome daily, brought a scooter back from Southampton yesterday in it, leccy seats, sunroof, windows, aircon, comfy as a comfy thing in comfyland. Gets 40-45mpg on veg with the boost turned up to 16psi, loads of fun.

That bonnet looks mint did u just paint strip it

I just got an urge to make a bmw logo out of rust on the e28 bonnet!
How did you do that?

[Shortcut]

May 27, 2008 19:43:58 GMT goldenwonder said:

My dad had a couple when we were kids, great cars. He did have an Mi 16 though, awesome car!

Not as teh awsumz as the 405T16 though





220BHP with a boost to 240 for overtaking. Gallic cosworth eater.

[BiAS]

Angle grinder, fibre disc, mask up, paint,

Apply salt water twice a day for a week, then let nature take its course

[natedogg]

Wicked mate i love it!!!

[purplevanman]

dad has a petrol estate and we are about to weigh it in

any one want spares?

[BiAS]

Oooh, plastic strip across the tailgate (where the badges go), osr seat base, front foglights, bonnet maybe? What colour is it?

*edit- elec window switches? carpet? How far up the M5 are you?

Pm me

[klunk]

My wife had a 405 1.9 diesel for about four years. Absolute blinder of a car, only ever had to replace the track rod ends. A set of glow plugs and a few filters, oh and a door after I had a brief 'black ice and jeep incident'. But luckily there is a good Pug breakers in Dagenham and we got the right colour even the stripes lined up for £20....Result.

Found syncro on third died, but we muddled through. It dropped a bit of oil every now and again. The drivers door dropped a bit, the central locking solenoid on the boot died a death, but the actual car itself refused to die. Until....................

We sold it to a mate, who couldn't be RSed to change a brake pipe come next MOT and scrapped it! If I had to buy a cheap diesel I'd buy another one of these in the drop of a hat.

Standard one's would need a bit of beating with a stick IMO, but still look cool.

If you want inspiration, just go and get TAXI (the french version, not the wibblepoo American Queen Latifa curse word) from Bollockbusters and watch that! Granted it's a 406...but still a damn fine bit of inspiration.

[dubzi]

Owned 3 of these. I had a 1.9 standard Diesel, wife had a TD estate. I also had a 1.9 petrol estate briefly.

TD drove the best and was a great car. Both were fine mechanically, but the rest of the car fell apart around the engine. Door handles snapped off, the central locking used to sometimes lock on it's own when you lifted the handle, bits used to fall off the dash and the gas strut mounting snapped off the tailgate. Eventually the clutch release arm snapped so I welded it up and sold the car!!

My Diesel was probably an ex minicab though, so considering that it had done fairly well. I'd have another one as a cheap load lugger in a flash. It seems you can chuck plenty of abuse at them and they keep going. Only other car we had like that was an A reg VW Passat estate.

[DutyFreeSaviour]

Mate has one - he swears by it - never once let him down he was bragging last week. of course he tempted the gods and it managed to leave him stranded a few days later - but glow plug change and he's sorted again.
They just seem to keep on going!

edit* - he has the turbo version too, he said the non-turbo wasn't worth bothering with

[paulmi16]

I've had 5, including the turbo diesel and the Mi16 and I really rate them. Thousands of taxi drivers can't be wrong either.

I was amused by a neighbour who told me I was unpatriotic for buying a Peugeot, which I pointed out to them that the 405 was built in Coventry unlike their Vauxhall Carlton which they thought was made in Luton!