Farmer’s grand-daughter

If you had a 17 year old grand-daughter who lived out in the country (in Northumberland actually) and who had just passed her test and was hell-bent on buying a small used car with a budget of say £3,000...

Buckingham pally

My friends in County Durham are hoping to move down to Buckinghamshire, where they will no longer need the 4WD of their Nissan X-Trail, which is not economical to run, either. The husband is a tall man...

Gripping yearn

I come from Cyprus and I have found your site to be extremely helpful and a serious source of information re cars. I am interested in a Peugeot 3008 and I have a question regarding "grip control". Can...

Sat fright

My Peugeot 406 HD90, now 5 years old is fitted with factory satnav. I have not used it a great deal locally but now, about to go away, I find it unreadable. The main dealer states that it has to be returned...

Exhausted exhaust

My son-in-law’s Peugeot 307SW has a light flashing saying the particulate filter wants servicing. He contacted his local Peugeot dealer who wants £400 plus to rectify this. Surely this is a monumental...

The roofers tree

Just a thought but the problem with "sticking" retractable hoods such as the one on my wife's Peugeot 206CC can be caused by opening or closing it on a slope. Dealers don't always think to ask the location...

Do you think I’m sixy?

Do you think that petrol 6-cylinders are still a viable option? I ask because, when returning from a recent holiday in the South-West of England, I managed to obtain 38.6 mpg on the trip computer of my...

Serious blow

We have a 53 plate 307 2.0HDI and recently every journey was enhanced by the ‘anti-pollution fault’ appearing - and an accompanying rev cut to 2,200rpm. This was tolerable because we found that switching...

White fan drivers

I have a 2005 Peugeot 307 HDI and occasionally the fan comes on during and after driving for no apparent reason. This would last for between 10 and 15 minutes and the noise coming from it is extremely...

More folk broad

We are very concerned about the increasing width of modern cars. we hired a Peugeot 308 in Toulouse last October and it was frankly too wide for the little villages in the Aude Department. We think that...