1992 309 Goodwood impulse buy
Discussion
There was a really nice one of those at the retro show at Santa Pod a couple of weeks ago...
Peugeot 309 Goodwood by KevSeymour, on Flickr
Peugeot 309 Goodwood by KevSeymour, on Flickr
There's a bit of rust on the inner an outer sills - I need to investigate thoroughly but it doesn't look too bad. Also a little bit round the rear lights.
The standard grille was one of the spares included in the sale, so that will be going on as soon as the rain stops (maybe 2013 then!).
Actually, thinking about it I had a 1.6 SR too, but it was never roadworthy and was used as a spares car for for my GL, SRi and later 205s of both mine and my friends! Learnt a lot from stripping that one down!
Loving 'MRV' a lot. I don't think mine will ever look that good though
The standard grille was one of the spares included in the sale, so that will be going on as soon as the rain stops (maybe 2013 then!).
Actually, thinking about it I had a 1.6 SR too, but it was never roadworthy and was used as a spares car for for my GL, SRi and later 205s of both mine and my friends! Learnt a lot from stripping that one down!
Loving 'MRV' a lot. I don't think mine will ever look that good though
Want this too! Like the direction readers cars is going with the old hot hatches I used to read about and want when I was 14 or so. Always wanted a black 3 door GTI one of these until I discovered the Goodwood but couldn't find any straight ones for sale last time I looked Looks lovely, enjoy the Frenchy experience.
First job done:
Much better!
A proper nose round the engine bay revealed quite a few odd jobs need doing where corners have been cut in the past, which to be fair the previous owner warned me about. Should keep me occupied!
I was also checking the exhaust to work out where it was blowing and realised it doesn't have a cat. I thought 309s at this age should have one - has it been binned or am I wrong? Either way, ideally I need a full exhaust to replace the blowing downpipe/centre box and get rid of the nasty Peco back box.
Definitely needs a good wash and polish, but so happy I finally got one of these in my life:
Much better!
A proper nose round the engine bay revealed quite a few odd jobs need doing where corners have been cut in the past, which to be fair the previous owner warned me about. Should keep me occupied!
I was also checking the exhaust to work out where it was blowing and realised it doesn't have a cat. I thought 309s at this age should have one - has it been binned or am I wrong? Either way, ideally I need a full exhaust to replace the blowing downpipe/centre box and get rid of the nasty Peco back box.
Definitely needs a good wash and polish, but so happy I finally got one of these in my life:
shalmaneser said:
The first thing to check for the starting is the brown multiplug near the battery - this gets corroded and increases to resistance to the starter motor causing the classic 'click but no start' problem.
This. Me and my friend both had the infamous 205/309 starting issues on our cars, both turned out to be above problem. Fantastic thread OP!
hoppo4.2 said:
also very common for poor earthing and bad connections all over. this can also cause the "click" as well as knackered starter.
It also stalls a lot when it's cold so i think i'll just be pulling apart everything, cleaning connections, securing loose bits and testing components. Luckily I've got some old Jetronic manuals from when my Dad worked for Peugeot so they should prove useful!CarlosV8 said:
It also stalls a lot when it's cold so i think i'll just be pulling apart everything, cleaning connections, securing loose bits and testing components. Luckily I've got some old Jetronic manuals from when my Dad worked for Peugeot so they should prove useful!
Clean the afm.CarlosV8 said:
It also stalls a lot when it's cold so i think i'll just be pulling apart everything, cleaning connections, securing loose bits and testing components. Luckily I've got some old Jetronic manuals from when my Dad worked for Peugeot so they should prove useful!
this is another very common one. there is a device called a Secondary Air Device or SAD. This can fail and cause all kinds of running faults.these engines also need to be set up correctly. there are adjustments on the airflow meter and throtle body.
its quite difficult to get spot on if you dont have the equipment or experence.
im not sure where your based but i no of a very good peugeot specialist in the midlands i dont want advertise on hear so let me no if you would like the details they will also have all the goodwood bits your missing i would think.
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