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tommy89

tommy89

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Some of you may remember that I bought an old 206 for £350 from a barn - Well, over the months of owning it my partner really fell for it so we decided to use it for our wedding car (like the twingo would have been if i didnt have to sell it)

So it started out like this :



Then I set to work:

Sprayed front bupers
Sprayed mirror caps
new drive shafts
new tyres
old stereo I had knocking around
New side speakers
replaced some hubcaps that were missing (scrappers £2!! Yay)
general cleaning (took me two days to get the interior back to blue)
small service :)

And on the day it looked like this:




Not a lot of a change tbf - but all done nice and cheaply (apart from the drive shafts and tyres - dont want to economise on those things! :D
 
Ha! thanks :p

I think I may have locked myself into a life of peugeots aswell .... the wife loves the 206 and wants to swap it for a newer one, she found one that was £3500 for an 07 one! Could get a decent twingo for that!
 
tommy89":3fkk15rh said:
Ha! thanks :p

I think I may have locked myself into a life of peugeots aswell .... the wife loves the 206 and wants to swap it for a newer one, she found one that was £3500 for an 07 one! Could get a decent twingo for that!
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At least its frenchbred.

(however I get a funny feeling my next one wont be)
 
tommy89":304lmiox said:
oooo! How can you leave the delights of french motoring? :D
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Just having a couple of thoughts at the mo, all will be reveled
 
Aww well done, it looks fab! Congrats on the wedding & money saving vehicle! Martin Lewis would be proud!!
 
I look forward to the reveal weebob :D

Thankyou Blondie - at the moment its a money saving car but as soon as it goes pop i wont be spending too much on it - straight to the scrappers in the sky! hopefully replace it with a 107/ aygo or similar simply for their massive chapeness to run!
 
I loved the two weeks I had in a 107. Did about 1k in it, leathered it everywhere. Just good basic fun.
 
My mum used to have one and my brother had a C1 - Took mums to the isle of wight whilst I was between cars (clio went pop) It was so easy to drive and great fun getting to 60. I know I may get shot down in flames but it seemed to be quite powerful to me coming from a 2004 1.2 clio loaded full of heavy extras.

Wanted one ever since (Twingo was cheaper) but they are finally getting cheap enough for us to have as a second car :D
 
If only they did one with firmed up suspension and decent seats. Wouldn't change the engine, I know what you mean, it doesn't feel gutless when it really should.
 
My friend has an XS - looks great on the outside and love the rear central exhaust - But it could certainly benefit from some twingo 133 seats or something peugeot -y. Maybe some nice citroen C2 seats... ooo I can feel the ideas coming on!
 
I had a pug 107
Great lil car, cheap and cheerful but I was talked into getting the wrong colour & never bonded with it so it had to go!!
 
Blondie":1fpupn60 said:
I had a pug 107
Great lil car, cheap and cheerful but I was talked into getting the wrong colour & never bonded with it so it had to go!!
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Was it bright yellow?
 
tommy89":dnf8on8i said:
My friend has an XS - looks great on the outside and love the rear central exhaust - But it could certainly benefit from some twingo 133 seats or something peugeot -y. Maybe some nice citroen C2 seats... ooo I can feel the ideas coming on!
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Xs would be the one, but not around new anymore, like you say, seats still need work.

Did the Toyota or citron ones do similar?.
 
Damit - I have just spent half an hour looking at xs's on autotrader - this may be an expensive summer!
 
tommy89":3a3p55j1 said:
Damit - I have just spent half an hour looking at xs's on autotrader - this may be an expensive summer!
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I will get slammed for this. But by jebus I had fun in that bogo basic 107. Got 40mpg + driving it as a loan car should of been.
There is always something about a 3 pot that just begs a thrashing.

If I went for a run in the 'wingo (to a lesser extent) or now the Clio it hurts my pocket. This didn't, which is a win. You also didnt find yourself in 'lose your license' speeds. Can't afford to go for a thrash in the Clio any more and I miss it.

When you are bottom rung, performance doesn't matter.
 
It does feel like more of an achievement in an underpowered car to have a spirited drive, actually makes you use the gear box a lot more - my driving got very lazy when i had the sportka (not fast to most, but it was to me) no changing down as the engine was capable in higher gears - now in the 206 (or soon to be future 107 haha) I have to work to get it to speed.

The ka used to go 210 miles on a full tank - that was painful!! now the 206 will go 490 miles before the red light comes on for about £50!

Love the burble of the 107 at "pushin it" revs - sounds like a chavs saxo! :D
 
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