RE: 240,000 Peugeot 307s Recalled
Discussion
Della said:
Having had a couple of 205 1.9 GTi's, I can honestly say Peugeot know how to make good cars. They just seem to struggle with technology. My 205's had no ABS, no power steering, no engine immobilisers, no traction control - hence not much to go wrong. They should go back to that rather than these overweight comfy mobile MP3 players with no feel that they produce now.
I spent a year looking for one and gave up as I never came across one which wasn't coming apart at the seam just above the "B" Post!Della said:
Having had a couple of 205 1.9 GTi's, I can honestly say Peugeot know how to make good cars. They just seem to struggle with technology. My 205's had no ABS, no power steering, no engine immobilisers, no traction control - hence not much to go wrong. They should go back to that rather than these overweight comfy mobile MP3 players with no feel that they produce now.
well they were pretty quick and handled well until they had a few miles on the clock, but how many do you see around now? compared to say vw golfs of the same age? hardly any, they all fell apart long ago! (along with R5 turbos and Astra GTEs)French cars = landfill trash
Unless they want to drive something that will be a few times more likely to break down and/or to cause reliability problems than most other volume euroboxes, they should scrap those plans. This is not to say they all have problems though, as I am sure the majority of them are fine buy why compromise when you can buy something properly built for the the same money and/or which will depeciates less for that very reason. As a rule of thumb, don't buy French cars. Being French myself, I can't be accused of being bias...
nickfrog said:
Unless they want to drive something that will be a few times more likely to break down and/or to cause reliability problems than most other volume euroboxes, they should scrap those plans. This is not to say they all have problems though, as I am sure the majority of them are fine buy why compromise when you can buy something properly built for the the same money and/or which will depeciates less for that very reason. As a rule of thumb, don't buy French cars. Being French myself, I can't be accused of being bias...
HAHA, well, we owned a 205 from new between 1991 & 2003 with few problems other than with paintwork which was my fault. The Grandparents have scrapped the 307Estate and I think my parents have dropped the CC, it's Megane CC, Leon, Golf, Mazda 3, MX-5 and I'm trying for Octavia vRS. Much better bets I'd say, other than the Megane.Also, back to the 307 recall, I believe that it is only for Scandinavian spec 307s
Well at least they've spotted the problem and are fixing it...
I think car companies have to just live with the inevitability of these things in their products - search google for 'Toyota Recall' and you'll see what I mean, they have recent recalls in Japan and the US - in fact their steering problem has caused 11 accidents, IIRC
I'm worried about when the cost of these things cripples car companies, so they are either bankrupted or they choose not to do the recall, or can't afford to develop their next model fully and it'll just contain similar problems...
I think car companies have to just live with the inevitability of these things in their products - search google for 'Toyota Recall' and you'll see what I mean, they have recent recalls in Japan and the US - in fact their steering problem has caused 11 accidents, IIRC
I'm worried about when the cost of these things cripples car companies, so they are either bankrupted or they choose not to do the recall, or can't afford to develop their next model fully and it'll just contain similar problems...
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