Model: 306 tdiesel
Year: 1999 T plate [last year before the HDi replacement engine in this model]
Mileage: 90k on car but 68k on engine and box [see below]
Tax: none on SORN
MOT: Full years MOT as of 08/04/2011
Pics: see below
Location: Glastonbury, Somerset
Price: £1350 1100ovno 900ovno
Contact details: pm me or email Morgan@orme-architecture.com
Due to needing to free up funds for my other projects I need to move along my ex daily driver 306 Tdiesel. The Meridian model, 5 doors and in blaze yellow, I bought this 12months ago from Bristol, as a replacement for my Audi coupe, with full service history and a clean HPI report. This all still checks out.
Having used it for four months I was driving along the M5 at 80mph when it threw a leg out of bed and in the process smashed the bottom and most of the back off the sump, tore off the pulley brackets and flung most of the above into the radiator or back under the car. So with rather limited methods of propulsion I got it to A52 with the intention of buying a replacement engine and fitting it over a couple of weekends. Unfortunately real life caught up with me and moving away from Bristol for work and personal reasons meant I had naff all time to spend on it, and a real need for a daily car. In step the parents and I bought a Vectra off them. It’s not retro, it’s not cool but it does get me from a-b via c and hasn’t let me down yet.
So the car sat licking it’s wounds for a few months [appreciate putting up with the inconvenience A52] until I had the new place set up for an engine change and so fetched it back to Glastonbury. So since July last year my supposedly “wise and informed choice for a daily” has been sat in a garage of some description waiting for me to weild some spanners. That time came in February. Since then it’s been fitted with a 68k engine [with reconditioned turbo] from an elderly owned victim of the winter ice, the gearbox from the donor car, a new clutch, new tensioners and a cambelt, all service fluids and new plugs, new battery and a new rad. The fuel pump is chipped to the keys [of which I have both plus the original blanks and the radio card] and so this was transferred across from my old engine. It’s had the brakes overhauled and a decat pipe fitted. The only modification on top of this is a cone filter that I fitted prior to the motorway incident. So essentially it’s a turbo diesel car with running in miles on the engine, and these engines are famed for their frugal nature and long running history. Admittedly it appears as though the interplanetary mileage promised was rather lacking on the original incarnation of this car, but with the new items that I’ve fitted, plus the care and attention spent on running it all back in correctly, I see no reason why this little car wouldn’t be the long term and reliable answer to someone’s daily family car prayers.
For those that don’t know the Meridian is the top of the spec tree when it comes to these, although perhaps not the top of the style tree! Fake wood dash inserts anyone?! However, for your money you get the practicality of 5 doors and a hatch to a deceptively large boot. Internally the black upholstery is half leather with contoured ‘sports’ seats and leather finish to the tactile bits [gear knob, door card inlays etc]. I bought this car not because there were a shortage of models in this price bracket, but because of the condition it was in, and the leather is testament to this. Since owning the car, I’ve reconditioned the leather and had the carpets out, shampooed and refitted. The steering wheel shows some shininess where use has buffed the leather but to be honest this isn’t really cosmetic damage, just general useage to be expected of a car this age. New mats fitted throughout and the boot carpet is all in place. The headlining is also unmarked and the dash and parcel shelf are the original items and are unmarked and haven’t been cut around to fit aftermarket I.c.e.
As the spec leader of the model the car comes with air conditioning [all pipes and connections checked during the engine transplant], electric windows and mirrors [all move and descend/ascend at the same speed], remote central locking [all working correctly], drivers and passenger air bags, power steering, stalk controls for a Peugeot headunit and abs. All of these are working as intended [although I don’t have a Peugeot headunit available so the buyer will get an aftermarket unit if the asking price is met] and there are no fault codes on the dash. In addition to the veritable treats that Peugeot saw fit to bestow upon it’s driver there is an aftermarket cruise control stalk that was fitted by the previous elderly owner for his journeys to his villa in the South of France...I kid you not. The chap must have been in his 80s, bought this Peugeot to travel back and forth between the UK and France, and when he deemed it too small for ferrying the goods he transported back and forth he bought a Cayenne. Go figure!
It had new tyres a month before I bought it last year, and these have gone onto alloys with a few scratches but no kerb rash or lumps knocked out of them. It drives smoothly, starts promptly, doesn’t smoke and was last serviced at 85,803 miles [26.02.2009]. I have a full service history for the car, V5 in my name, cruise control manual and a few MOTs. Externally the car only has one area of damage, that I can’t really understand how it’s come about. When I bought it I noticed that on the tailgate, next to the boot release, there is a section perhaps 5 inches long that is pushed in. Not by a lot and actually, you can only see it as a feint shadow when the light falls the right/wrong way. It’s not damage as such, and I’ll investigate closer to see if it can’t simply be pushed back out, but I thought I ought to be as honest as possible. There’s a few stone chips on the bonnet leading edge, but again, no rust present. The Blaze yellow polishes up a treat [there are cleaner/updated photos to come] and looks great in the sun. I’ve been over any external black plastic with linseed oil and all lamps and lenses are as new if not new [been over lenses with 3M to clean and then a plastic polish for clarity].
So all in all a good example of one of the most highly regarded diesels [returning well over 50mpg] whilst being pokey enough to raise a smile as you sit there in leather clad comfort. Insurance isn’t a biggie on these, and parts are plentiful to the point of being dirt cheap. We’ve all had dirty thoughts about joining the ‘no smoke, no poke’ brigade and with the relatively simple tuning of the fuel pump and boost on these engines it would be an ideal candidate for a touch of that if it was your thing.
Reading all of that back, I wouldn’t mind it back on the road myself, but the practicality of the Vectra [plus the cost of the 18” AMGs and suspension that I’ve since fitted] mean that really I need the larger car. It’s a close call though. Being far closer to my new job now also means that one car on the road, and a bike for the summer is enough transport options for me at the moment, so this needs to go really.
Any questions welcome, and serious viewings welcome although tyre kickers or knock down monkeys need not apply.
May p/x for something two wheeled and pedal powered but there’d need to be some cash in it. I’ve priced to sell so would like to see as close to the price above as possible.
Morgs
More recent clean photos to follow once I get home in daylight hours.
Year: 1999 T plate [last year before the HDi replacement engine in this model]
Mileage: 90k on car but 68k on engine and box [see below]
Tax: none on SORN
MOT: Full years MOT as of 08/04/2011
Pics: see below
Location: Glastonbury, Somerset
Price: £
Contact details: pm me or email Morgan@orme-architecture.com
Due to needing to free up funds for my other projects I need to move along my ex daily driver 306 Tdiesel. The Meridian model, 5 doors and in blaze yellow, I bought this 12months ago from Bristol, as a replacement for my Audi coupe, with full service history and a clean HPI report. This all still checks out.
Having used it for four months I was driving along the M5 at 80mph when it threw a leg out of bed and in the process smashed the bottom and most of the back off the sump, tore off the pulley brackets and flung most of the above into the radiator or back under the car. So with rather limited methods of propulsion I got it to A52 with the intention of buying a replacement engine and fitting it over a couple of weekends. Unfortunately real life caught up with me and moving away from Bristol for work and personal reasons meant I had naff all time to spend on it, and a real need for a daily car. In step the parents and I bought a Vectra off them. It’s not retro, it’s not cool but it does get me from a-b via c and hasn’t let me down yet.
So the car sat licking it’s wounds for a few months [appreciate putting up with the inconvenience A52] until I had the new place set up for an engine change and so fetched it back to Glastonbury. So since July last year my supposedly “wise and informed choice for a daily” has been sat in a garage of some description waiting for me to weild some spanners. That time came in February. Since then it’s been fitted with a 68k engine [with reconditioned turbo] from an elderly owned victim of the winter ice, the gearbox from the donor car, a new clutch, new tensioners and a cambelt, all service fluids and new plugs, new battery and a new rad. The fuel pump is chipped to the keys [of which I have both plus the original blanks and the radio card] and so this was transferred across from my old engine. It’s had the brakes overhauled and a decat pipe fitted. The only modification on top of this is a cone filter that I fitted prior to the motorway incident. So essentially it’s a turbo diesel car with running in miles on the engine, and these engines are famed for their frugal nature and long running history. Admittedly it appears as though the interplanetary mileage promised was rather lacking on the original incarnation of this car, but with the new items that I’ve fitted, plus the care and attention spent on running it all back in correctly, I see no reason why this little car wouldn’t be the long term and reliable answer to someone’s daily family car prayers.
For those that don’t know the Meridian is the top of the spec tree when it comes to these, although perhaps not the top of the style tree! Fake wood dash inserts anyone?! However, for your money you get the practicality of 5 doors and a hatch to a deceptively large boot. Internally the black upholstery is half leather with contoured ‘sports’ seats and leather finish to the tactile bits [gear knob, door card inlays etc]. I bought this car not because there were a shortage of models in this price bracket, but because of the condition it was in, and the leather is testament to this. Since owning the car, I’ve reconditioned the leather and had the carpets out, shampooed and refitted. The steering wheel shows some shininess where use has buffed the leather but to be honest this isn’t really cosmetic damage, just general useage to be expected of a car this age. New mats fitted throughout and the boot carpet is all in place. The headlining is also unmarked and the dash and parcel shelf are the original items and are unmarked and haven’t been cut around to fit aftermarket I.c.e.
As the spec leader of the model the car comes with air conditioning [all pipes and connections checked during the engine transplant], electric windows and mirrors [all move and descend/ascend at the same speed], remote central locking [all working correctly], drivers and passenger air bags, power steering, stalk controls for a Peugeot headunit and abs. All of these are working as intended [although I don’t have a Peugeot headunit available so the buyer will get an aftermarket unit if the asking price is met] and there are no fault codes on the dash. In addition to the veritable treats that Peugeot saw fit to bestow upon it’s driver there is an aftermarket cruise control stalk that was fitted by the previous elderly owner for his journeys to his villa in the South of France...I kid you not. The chap must have been in his 80s, bought this Peugeot to travel back and forth between the UK and France, and when he deemed it too small for ferrying the goods he transported back and forth he bought a Cayenne. Go figure!
It had new tyres a month before I bought it last year, and these have gone onto alloys with a few scratches but no kerb rash or lumps knocked out of them. It drives smoothly, starts promptly, doesn’t smoke and was last serviced at 85,803 miles [26.02.2009]. I have a full service history for the car, V5 in my name, cruise control manual and a few MOTs. Externally the car only has one area of damage, that I can’t really understand how it’s come about. When I bought it I noticed that on the tailgate, next to the boot release, there is a section perhaps 5 inches long that is pushed in. Not by a lot and actually, you can only see it as a feint shadow when the light falls the right/wrong way. It’s not damage as such, and I’ll investigate closer to see if it can’t simply be pushed back out, but I thought I ought to be as honest as possible. There’s a few stone chips on the bonnet leading edge, but again, no rust present. The Blaze yellow polishes up a treat [there are cleaner/updated photos to come] and looks great in the sun. I’ve been over any external black plastic with linseed oil and all lamps and lenses are as new if not new [been over lenses with 3M to clean and then a plastic polish for clarity].
So all in all a good example of one of the most highly regarded diesels [returning well over 50mpg] whilst being pokey enough to raise a smile as you sit there in leather clad comfort. Insurance isn’t a biggie on these, and parts are plentiful to the point of being dirt cheap. We’ve all had dirty thoughts about joining the ‘no smoke, no poke’ brigade and with the relatively simple tuning of the fuel pump and boost on these engines it would be an ideal candidate for a touch of that if it was your thing.
Reading all of that back, I wouldn’t mind it back on the road myself, but the practicality of the Vectra [plus the cost of the 18” AMGs and suspension that I’ve since fitted] mean that really I need the larger car. It’s a close call though. Being far closer to my new job now also means that one car on the road, and a bike for the summer is enough transport options for me at the moment, so this needs to go really.
Any questions welcome, and serious viewings welcome although tyre kickers or knock down monkeys need not apply.
May p/x for something two wheeled and pedal powered but there’d need to be some cash in it. I’ve priced to sell so would like to see as close to the price above as possible.
Morgs
More recent clean photos to follow once I get home in daylight hours.
