205 buying advice
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TECHNOPUG said:
Budget on replacing everything.
Quiet frankly, you may as well spend a couple of hundred quid on one with a really straight body and very nice, working interior and then spend another £1-2k on replacing all the mechanicals. That way you'll have a nice "new" reliable 205. Even the last of the line ones are over 15 years old now and unless the car comes with a huge stack of receipts expect to replace: all suspension, all bushes, brakes (calipers, discs, pads, lines), numerous electrical components (plugs, leads, dizzy, afm etc) all the fluids, tyres etc. There are lots of cheap engines to drop in if the one that you have has been badly neglected.
Once you've done that there is very little routine maintenance to do and you should get a few years of trouble free loo-nacy.
Or check out 205gtidrivers - there are usually a few well maintained ones on there for sale.
Quiet frankly, you may as well spend a couple of hundred quid on one with a really straight body and very nice, working interior and then spend another £1-2k on replacing all the mechanicals. That way you'll have a nice "new" reliable 205. Even the last of the line ones are over 15 years old now and unless the car comes with a huge stack of receipts expect to replace: all suspension, all bushes, brakes (calipers, discs, pads, lines), numerous electrical components (plugs, leads, dizzy, afm etc) all the fluids, tyres etc. There are lots of cheap engines to drop in if the one that you have has been badly neglected.
Once you've done that there is very little routine maintenance to do and you should get a few years of trouble free loo-nacy.
Or check out 205gtidrivers - there are usually a few well maintained ones on there for sale.
Tis what I have done (over a period of years), but if you pay a garage to do all the work it will get expensive...
Rob_the_Sparky said:
TECHNOPUG said:
Budget on replacing everything.
Quiet frankly, you may as well spend a couple of hundred quid on one with a really straight body and very nice, working interior and then spend another £1-2k on replacing all the mechanicals. That way you'll have a nice "new" reliable 205. Even the last of the line ones are over 15 years old now and unless the car comes with a huge stack of receipts expect to replace: all suspension, all bushes, brakes (calipers, discs, pads, lines), numerous electrical components (plugs, leads, dizzy, afm etc) all the fluids, tyres etc. There are lots of cheap engines to drop in if the one that you have has been badly neglected.
Once you've done that there is very little routine maintenance to do and you should get a few years of trouble free loo-nacy.
Or check out 205gtidrivers - there are usually a few well maintained ones on there for sale.
Quiet frankly, you may as well spend a couple of hundred quid on one with a really straight body and very nice, working interior and then spend another £1-2k on replacing all the mechanicals. That way you'll have a nice "new" reliable 205. Even the last of the line ones are over 15 years old now and unless the car comes with a huge stack of receipts expect to replace: all suspension, all bushes, brakes (calipers, discs, pads, lines), numerous electrical components (plugs, leads, dizzy, afm etc) all the fluids, tyres etc. There are lots of cheap engines to drop in if the one that you have has been badly neglected.
Once you've done that there is very little routine maintenance to do and you should get a few years of trouble free loo-nacy.
Or check out 205gtidrivers - there are usually a few well maintained ones on there for sale.
Tis what I have done (over a period of years), but if you pay a garage to do all the work it will get expensive...
Same here!
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