Peugeot 205 XR

[Mr Happy]

You're gonna need to rub back the hard edge in the paint whatever you do really - just be careful not to go too far into the existing paintwork.

Once the edge is gone, you can go over it with paint and work on blending it in.

Good news on the valve clearances though!

[aaron_2000]

I found all my old Pug engines a little bit tappy, wouldn't be worried about it. I've done much worse with a rattle can than that

[TEKNOPUG]

Rattle can the whole car?

[Cascade360]

aaron_2000 said:

I found all my old Pug engines a little bit tappy, wouldn't be worried about it. I've done much worse with a rattle can than that

I was actually quite pleased with the finish and that is before polishing! Just shame about the lack of blending...

Going to try and smooth out the edges and apply some more paint

[Cascade360]

Getting a few miles under its belt this week. Driving well, idle is a bit rough but not too bad.

Out at the pub this evening:



O/S indicator is playing up. Got an auto electrician out last weekend - 60 quid for him to wiggle it and say it is fixed and for a few days later it become apparent it is not. Will be calling him back up and asking him to fix it...

[Cascade360]

Booked in for the MOT Thursday

Need to try and get the dicky indicator sorted by then ...

[carinaman]

It's still providing that learning experience.

[Cascade360]

MOT in the morning ... got the indicator sorted by swapping in a second hand bulb unit. However, it refused to start and I about burned the starter motor out trying. It is on charge and let's hope it is just the battery being a bit low, though it was turning over fine just not firing ...

[HustleRussell]

Gotta love a late spanner in the works

[Cascade360]

So it was not happy this morning, did not want to start, but a bit of easy start eventually got it going. Drove to the MOT centre okay, though the idle is still a bit lumpy - albeit it never really got a chance to properly warm up. The garage is used to old cars so asked them to take it for a quick spin pre-MOT and let me know their views on how it's driving and why it might not have been keen to start. It has always started on the button before, possibly just it's cold and its been sitting for a few weeks without moving.

Will report back on MOT ...

[Cascade360]

Not actually spoke to the garage yet but did a quick check on the website ...



Not even an advisory! Shocked!

[ReverendCounter]

Congratulations - guaranteed trouble free motoring for the next 12 months

[Cascade360]

It drove lovely on the trip home from the garage, no idea why it was in such a huff this morning haha. It started no problem as well.

[aaron_2000]

My 405 and 205's were the same way on occasion, no logical explanation as to why

[HustleRussell]

Cascade360 said:

Not actually spoke to the garage yet but did a quick check on the website ...



Not even an advisory! Shocked!

You’re going to need to tell me where this garage is

[mercedeslimos]

169 miles in the last year!

[Cascade360]

HustleRussell said:

You’re going to need to tell me where this garage is

It is a small garage local to me that did the bit of work on the 205 a few months ago, odd thing is the cert shows it was a different garage a few miles away that actually did the test. Not sure how the first garage makes any money doing this?!

[carinaman]

Congratulations.

[Cascade360]

Had him out about recently, driving well.

Here he is looking rather small next to more modern machinery

Do need to try and sort out the couple of bits of paint blending

[ReverendCounter]

Not being picky, just pointing out that the usual parked position of the rear windscreen wiper is normally horizontal at the bottom of the screen, pointing to the right.

Maybe your motor/mechanism has been adjusted in the past. If you do decide to anything with this, beware the plastic cap on the wiper mount bolt, they break easily these days. Plus if you just decide to mount the wiper in the 'right' position, it will swipe down onto the boot plastics and probably break itself/something.