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Hi All,
I know we all love a good shed on here, so i thought i'd contribute! After getting rid of previous sheds and going a few years without, i wanted a little runaround of my own, just to get me to work and to see family occasionally when the family runaround was already taken. Having taken to facebook and gumtree (and usually beaten to it by the driveway traders!), i got lucky yesterday and stumbled on this just as it was put up on FB Marketplace:
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|https://thumbsnap.com/bPp7lNmx[/url]
As i was the first one to message, he gave me first refusal as long as i turned up that evening to collect it. As i was at work, i couldn't get there until gone 5pm, but it looked a clean car, assured me it was a good runner. MOT history is immaculate for a car of that age, so i agreed to go and collect after work. Pretty much broke every rule in the book here. It was raining, it was dark, and I had no breakdown cover arranged! But anyway, i went along, met a lovely chap who explained the car had been owned by an elderly lady friend. Her son had bought her a new car, so she was selling this one but had left it to someone more savvy to sell it for her and she just "wanted whatever she could get for it price wise". When i arrived the car was parked undercover at his place of work, in a warehouse, so i got the opportunity to have a look around and take it for a spin round the industrial estate before making the 40 mile journey home, in frankly horrific weather down the M54!
Good bits:
Absolutely immaculate condition inside and out. Old lady owned for the past 13 years and done 900-1000 miles a year. Its been well looked after
As a runner, it drives absolutely spot on.
66,000 miles from new
Came with half a tank of petrol even!
All the electrical bits work, however it lacks power steering, aircon and even has keep fit windows, so i guess less to go wrong all round!
The best bit, was the price for all this. a grand total of £250! The guy did say that he had offers from traders after my initial message, offering him more for the car but he kept to his word and let me have first refusal.
Bad bits:
On the drive home, for some reason, i had no heater control lights on, but after stopping and restarting the engine, they came on? all good after that.
Interior light dead.
Biggest problem i found was that when the car is in gear, i can still move the gear leaver around, its very "sloppy".
only 3 stamps in the service book. When old lady got the car, it was maintained by a local mechanic so unsure of service history / cambelt change etc, but i will get a family member to give it a good service for me.
It is certainly different coming from the refined comfort of the family Nissan Qashqai. It is like being put into a little go kart. the 1.1 engine is very nippy and sat very happily at 65-70 along the motorway.
As a runaround, i think i have done rather well here!
I know we all love a good shed on here, so i thought i'd contribute! After getting rid of previous sheds and going a few years without, i wanted a little runaround of my own, just to get me to work and to see family occasionally when the family runaround was already taken. Having taken to facebook and gumtree (and usually beaten to it by the driveway traders!), i got lucky yesterday and stumbled on this just as it was put up on FB Marketplace:
[url]|https://thumbsnap.com/bPp7lNmx[/url]As i was the first one to message, he gave me first refusal as long as i turned up that evening to collect it. As i was at work, i couldn't get there until gone 5pm, but it looked a clean car, assured me it was a good runner. MOT history is immaculate for a car of that age, so i agreed to go and collect after work. Pretty much broke every rule in the book here. It was raining, it was dark, and I had no breakdown cover arranged! But anyway, i went along, met a lovely chap who explained the car had been owned by an elderly lady friend. Her son had bought her a new car, so she was selling this one but had left it to someone more savvy to sell it for her and she just "wanted whatever she could get for it price wise". When i arrived the car was parked undercover at his place of work, in a warehouse, so i got the opportunity to have a look around and take it for a spin round the industrial estate before making the 40 mile journey home, in frankly horrific weather down the M54!
Good bits:
Absolutely immaculate condition inside and out. Old lady owned for the past 13 years and done 900-1000 miles a year. Its been well looked after
As a runner, it drives absolutely spot on.
66,000 miles from new
Came with half a tank of petrol even!
All the electrical bits work, however it lacks power steering, aircon and even has keep fit windows, so i guess less to go wrong all round!
The best bit, was the price for all this. a grand total of £250! The guy did say that he had offers from traders after my initial message, offering him more for the car but he kept to his word and let me have first refusal.
Bad bits:
On the drive home, for some reason, i had no heater control lights on, but after stopping and restarting the engine, they came on? all good after that.
Interior light dead.
Biggest problem i found was that when the car is in gear, i can still move the gear leaver around, its very "sloppy".
only 3 stamps in the service book. When old lady got the car, it was maintained by a local mechanic so unsure of service history / cambelt change etc, but i will get a family member to give it a good service for me.
It is certainly different coming from the refined comfort of the family Nissan Qashqai. It is like being put into a little go kart. the 1.1 engine is very nippy and sat very happily at 65-70 along the motorway.
As a runaround, i think i have done rather well here!
Glad to see a good 106 thread. The 106 is a brilliant little bargain car. I have an R reg 1.1 myself that I use to commute with and do just under 20,000 miles a year in it 
The sloppy gear change that you speak of will probably be the gear linkages. There are 3 rods of different lengths that connect to the gearbox and they can get a fair amount of play over time. A good quick and cheap job to sort if it is that.
The sloppy gear change that you speak of will probably be the gear linkages. There are 3 rods of different lengths that connect to the gearbox and they can get a fair amount of play over time. A good quick and cheap job to sort if it is that.
Th29 said:
Glad to see a good 106 thread. The 106 is a brilliant little bargain car. I have an R reg 1.1 myself that I use to commute with and do just under 20,000 miles a year in it
The sloppy gear change that you speak of will probably be the gear linkages. There are 3 rods of different lengths that connect to the gearbox and they can get a fair amount of play over time. A good quick and cheap job to sort if it is that.
I did think it would be something like that myself so i'll get that looked at ASAP. Thank youThe sloppy gear change that you speak of will probably be the gear linkages. There are 3 rods of different lengths that connect to the gearbox and they can get a fair amount of play over time. A good quick and cheap job to sort if it is that.
I bought a 2001 model. Although it had a few creature comforts.
Did 24k miles in 2 years. Spent about a tenner on a oil & filter change. Spent nothing more on it. Reasonable on fuel aswell tbf considering it was doing 60 mile a day at 80-90 mph
Played cambelt roulette with mine. It was over 120k miles when I sold it on. Bought it for 495 and sold it for 395 after 2 years service
The sloppy gearstick on mine was a nylon Bush at bottom of gearstick cost about £3 from Peugeot. That took 95% of the play out of the gearstick.
Did 24k miles in 2 years. Spent about a tenner on a oil & filter change. Spent nothing more on it. Reasonable on fuel aswell tbf considering it was doing 60 mile a day at 80-90 mph
Played cambelt roulette with mine. It was over 120k miles when I sold it on. Bought it for 495 and sold it for 395 after 2 years service
The sloppy gearstick on mine was a nylon Bush at bottom of gearstick cost about £3 from Peugeot. That took 95% of the play out of the gearstick.
aland75 said:
HubNut (Ian) is great, on my subscribe list 
Same here, just can't keep up with all the NZ videos he's doing though.Good to see a 106 still in the wild. My wife had a 1.5d when we first met, which was rather more knackered than yours looks. But nonetheless was still a good little runaround, one of the last of the old school cars.
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