Well that was a laugh!
The old girl failed on a few things. Some I thought would be fails were fine, some surprises but about what I was budgeting costwise £500 (gulp).
The main fail was corrosion to the chassis rails on both sides, not a surprise, or uncommon, about £200 to weld up. Both headlamps failed, one with no beam pattern (?) one cos it was left hand drive !!
The main surprise was a leaking front strut. As these are genuine Peugeot Sport ones they are fairly hard to replace. A friend from Holland has suggested that all that really needs replacing is the seal on the damper inside the strut and is sending me a PTS repair kit. Is this likely to be a)easy and b)true.
The other option is a lengthy search for another pair of struts. The garage say that using the original struts with the tarmac springs will give me most of the uprated handling while I repair, is this true. I guess the springs do most of the work, while the dampers less, but I'm probably wrong about this.
Comments? Advice?
Ta
The old girl failed on a few things. Some I thought would be fails were fine, some surprises but about what I was budgeting costwise £500 (gulp).
The main fail was corrosion to the chassis rails on both sides, not a surprise, or uncommon, about £200 to weld up. Both headlamps failed, one with no beam pattern (?) one cos it was left hand drive !!
The main surprise was a leaking front strut. As these are genuine Peugeot Sport ones they are fairly hard to replace. A friend from Holland has suggested that all that really needs replacing is the seal on the damper inside the strut and is sending me a PTS repair kit. Is this likely to be a)easy and b)true.
The other option is a lengthy search for another pair of struts. The garage say that using the original struts with the tarmac springs will give me most of the uprated handling while I repair, is this true. I guess the springs do most of the work, while the dampers less, but I'm probably wrong about this.
Comments? Advice?
Ta
and that's not really the car's fault.
