Help with a french POS please.

[Seanl]

Missus's mate has a 98 pug 306 1.4. She has just got a new car, as the warranty from the garage ran out on the pug, and she was having problems with it. She has offered it to me for £150, which I'm seriously thinking about as I wanna sell my Golf and save a bit for a Corrado in the spring. Obviously dont wanna buy it if its gonna cost me a fortune to sort out.

I've had a look on some of the Pug forums, but their not very good, and seems like aload of young chavs speculating and pretending to know what their talking about! 

The problem is that it idles irratically at start up, and stalls when quite often when dipping the clutch coming to a stop. It also randomly revs to about 3k rpm when warm.

The throttle cable is pretty stiff, so thought that could maybe account for the high revs, but not the stalling. Reading up I'm hearing about diry/dodgy stepper motor/isv, duff lambda, injectors, and even dodgy coil packs causing spikes and blowing the ECU. There are obviously some general checks as well like vac pipes, fuel filter, intake pipes, TB and air filter etc which I dont mind having a look at before committing to buy.

Anyone had any experience with these and could tell me what the most likely culprit could be?

Cheers Gents. 

[ortega277]

I know nothing about Peugeot other than there French. But saying that had two friends that both had 306 s and they both caught on fire then like an idiot he got another one and the gearbox went. But I did travel 5000 miles around Europe in a 106 with over 120000 miles on the clock and it never skipped a beat once. Think you just need to give it a thorough check before you commit to buy.But hey 150 quid for a car, can't really grumble at that. Sorry it doesn't help you in anyway at all just thought I'd share my stories 

[jmorris]

My mate had a 205 with the 1.4 engine he had two stepper motors in 3 months, turns out the fault was a handful of faulty Sensors. He changed them but the car never idled properly again. Even Peugeot were baffled. if you want my advice AVOID!!

[haf1zur]

Missus's mate has a 98 pug 306 1.4. She has just got a new car, as the warranty from the garage ran out on the pug, and she was having problems with it. She has offered it to me for £150, which I'm seriously thinking about as I wanna sell my Golf and save a bit for a Corrado in the spring. Obviously dont wanna buy it if its gonna cost me a fortune to sort out.

I've had a look on some of the Pug forums, but their not very good, and seems like aload of young chavs speculating and pretending to know what their talking about! 

The problem is that it idles irratically at start up, and stalls when quite often when dipping the clutch coming to a stop. It also randomly revs to about 3k rpm when warm.

The throttle cable is pretty stiff, so thought that could maybe account for the high revs, but not the stalling. Reading up I'm hearing about diry/dodgy stepper motor/isv, duff lambda, injectors, and even dodgy coil packs causing spikes and blowing the ECU. There are obviously some general checks as well like vac pipes, fuel filter, intake pipes, TB and air filter etc which I dont mind having a look at before committing to buy.

Anyone had any experience with these and could tell me what the most likely culprit could be?

Cheers Gents. 

that sounds like sensor where it cuts out when you dip the pedal

crank speed?

[Guy]

you'd get more for it in scrap... so its worth getting anyway isn't it?

[Seanl]

you'd get more for it in scrap... so its worth getting anyway isn't it?

Thats what I thought. Gonna do the basics first though and see if I can get it sorted, then maybe spend a little if that doesn't work. Like said, dont wanna spend too much on it, as its just a stop gap until Spring. Worth it though even if I break it, or scrap it. 

[Thom89]

Clean out the ICV, if that doesn't do it, fit a new O2 sensor
Don't believe the sh!t that you read on the net about these cars, most don't know what they're talking about, the 1.4tu engine is one of the best of its type out there! but like anything else, if it's abused, or not serviced properly, it will suffer

Thom

[Seanl]

Cheers Thom, that was what I would have thought that it was a dodgy icv or stepper motor on these. Its the only reason I seriously thought about buying it as well, knowing that the 306's were actually one of the good ones in the French............. arsenal......................