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2007 peugeot 308 
Peugeot is striving to match the class leaders for quality with the replacement for the 307, as well as add a dash of style to a sector where many mainstream cars are criticised for being ‘too bland'. The 308 has also been designed to maximise interior space as well as retain many of the ‘fun-to-drive' characteristics of Peugeots in the past. Petrol engines are new to the medium-sized Peugeot and are shared with the 207 and the second-generation BMW MINI. Diesel engines are carried over from the 307 but are still among the best in class. Prices start at £11,995 for the 1.4 VTi Urban.
106
Prone to flimsy trim inside and outside, Peugeot 106 best buy: 1.4 Xsi
Used Peugeot 106 most economical: 1.5 D 58.7 mpg
807
Electrical Faults
- Spurious low oil level warning on the central display
- Random oil level readings on display behind steering wheel (this took over two years to resolve)
- Spurious low tyre pressure warnings
- Missing wheel sensor warnings (over two years to resolve this and the low pressure warnings)
- Anti-pollution filter clogged warning
- Spurious braking fault warning
- Spurious passenger air bag failure warning
- Driver's electric seat moves randomly when car unlocked
- Electric seat loses memory settings
- The cable to the driver's seat back motor would fall out when the seats were rotated, stopping adjustment of the seat.
- The electric height adjustment of the driver's seat has failed.
- Side sliding doors intermittently failing to open when the button pressed inside the car
- Intermittently the side doors do not open first time from the remote control
- Intermittently the sliding doors would not shut or lock - disconnecting the battery and rebooting the car was necessary to solve this.
- Intermittent burning smell when driving
- Engine immobiliser fault - the car had to be recovered back to a dealer
- Complete loss of control of the car - windows going up and down, wipers starting and stopping, mirrors folding in and out, lights flashing; disconnecting the battery regained control.
- Doors refuse to lock remotely
- Headlights staying on when parked and locked (they should turn off after 30 seconds)
- Headlights failing to turn on in the dark.
- Ventilation fan failure in the height of summer, with a lead time of several weeks for a replacement (with no fan, the air conditioning is useless - a big problem in a car with this much glass).
- The ventilation fan started making a clicking noise, which became a squeal. The second replacement fan was also noisy - the car was on its third when we got rid of it.
- The wing mirrors originally folded in when the car was locked, then out when the ignition was started. A software "upgrade" changed this to fold out when the car is unlocked - making it difficult to get past them in a tight car park space.
- The wing mirrors have remained folded in when the car was started - a power cycle was needed to restore operation.
Electric Windows
- The windows should close when the car is locked - this became an intermittent feature
- The windows can no longer be opened from the key fob (due to a software "upgrade" in the car) - this means that on a hot summer day you cannot remotely unlock the car and open the windows to let cool air in.
- All four window regulators have failed - the symptoms include windows that refuse to wind up (they go up then back down again), or refusing to wind down fully. In total seven replacement regulators have been fitted. One door is on its fourth regulator. On one visit we were handed the car back with the metal channel that the window slides in badly bent - the dealer had bent it out to remove the glass, but not replaced it with a new one.
Trim/body problems
- All four door handles had the metallic coating crack and peel - in areas where you would not touch it, demonstrating that this was not wear and tear. Several attempts were made to refit new handles; we suffered poor fitting, loose handles, incorrect alignment between front and rear, faulty return springs and scratching to the paintwork.
- The driver's door did not shut properly, and needed several visits to have it correctly adjusted.
- The external black plastic trim on one of the sliding doors would gradually move forwards, until it fouled the driver's door
- The sliding doors intermittently would not open using the outside door handles, only from the inside or using the remote.
- Ventilation for the middle row seats comes through channels in the front doors, and then through the pillar where the front seat occupants' seat belts are fitted. The trim seals very badly, letting cold air blow onto the kidney area of the front seat occupants and getting minimal air flow into the rear. (There is now a modified seal availabe to cure this)
- The rear window washer pipe has a join in the rear pillar. This join falls apart, spraying the interior of the car with soapy water. This has happened twice.
- The plastic trim panels in the rear pillars (as used to gain acess to the rear light clusters and the wayward washer pipe) fit poorly, and once disturbed do not remain in place properly again (also seen in both of our 807 courtesy cars).
- The rear window wiper missed large areas of glass
- The driver's seat foam seat squab was collapsing - after less than 30,000 miles.
- The drinks cooler under the gearstick would open whenever we went over a minor bump, even when empty.
- The upper luggage net fixings would not remain in place.
- The trim panel on the passenger sliding door was badly refitted following other repairs - the whole panel was replaced on our next visit.
- The cables linking the rear seat folding mechanisms to the control levers comes adrift, needing a strip-down in place in the car as you cannot remove the seat.
- The air conditioning unit's drain pipe became disconnected, leading to a puddle of water in the passenger foot well. This took two visits to resolve.
- There is an extremely poor design in the rotating front seats (you can make them turn around to face into the car - ideal for picnics). If the driver's seat is at its lowest setting, the trim on the side of the seat fouls the base of the seat as it turns. On both the driver and passenger seat, the seat armrests foul the door pillars as they turn.
- The lining of the one of the upper dashboard storage areas was damaged by the main dealer mechanic leaving the locking wheelnut socket rolling around in it, rather than replacing it in the main glove box. This has not been repaired as it would cost the dealer too much (it is a full dash replacement, apparently), so we get to live with it ...
- The grab-handle on the inside of the driver's door (i.e. the handle you pull to close the door) is now loose. I assume this is due to the number of times the driver's door has been stripped down and rebuilt (as a result of having multiple replacement exterior door handles and window regulators). Update - following replacement of the door card, the door now rattles.
- The door rattle was diagnosed as a loose hinge. The hinge was replaced, now the driver's door doesn't fit correctly - and it still rattles!
Engine/Gearbox/General Mechanical
- When driven for a short time then parked, there is a puff of grey smoke (unburnt diesel?) from underneath the car and the whir of a motor in the same area. This can come into the car if you open the passenger side sliding door. Apparently this is a heater to get things warm quickly on a cold day, it is just poor design that it fills the car with fumes. Unfortunately nobody at Viking, Charters or Peugeot seemed to know about this!
- Excessive uneven tyre wear - the tyres would be illegal in less than 12,000 miles due to being worn out on one edge of the tyre whilst the other has more than half the tread still remaining. This is a design fault, the cure is to replace all 15" wheels with 16" wheels and realign the suspension.
- An anti-pollution fault left us in limp-home mode, driving slowly to get to the dealer.
- A gearbox fault meaning that the gear stick's reverse-gate sleeve would stick in the reverse position - you would then easily select reverse by mistake rather than first.
- This car needed new front brake disks and pads at 24,000 miles, then again at 36,000 miles (yes, that is 12,000 miles on a set of disks!). I have never had a car that needed new disks before at least 60,000 miles - several cars have done over 120,000 miles on the original disks before I replaced the car. Have you ever had a car where the brake disks wear out at the same rate as the brake pads? It appears that the disks are either badly made or badly specified for this vehicle.
- The car lost power and stopped on a busy dual carriageway. The AA patrol's fault code reader registered a primary fuel pump failure and a speed sensor failure.
- The starter motor was replaced due to very slow turnover.
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