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I would rather buy a car from a compentent owner that has looked after the car and serviced it themself, if its an older car. Newer cars require ecu upgrades and all sorts of attention in the first few years that you just cant do yourself!!. , So when your car is 5 years old if you are happy it serv...

Followed Lozz,s advice and made a sill out of some scrap!! :wink: building cladding from work and folded the shape on a box&pan folder. Spot welded it in place with my arc welder and it looks tidy, this saturday my lads mate is going to finish it with his mig welder for the MOT. Then a quick grind ,...

Thank you for the offer omega, your a gent!.. I am going to try to find prices for a mk1 cortina sill and cut it to fit.

Sounds like a plan lozz, i will hire a mig welder for a saturday. How about the mk1 cortina sill idea, Has anyone cut one to fit. The sill is rotted from the front wheel arch to just behind the drivers door and a 4" plate running that length will cover it. Will have a look on speedy hires site for h...

I think garages are ok with laptops but expect you to scrap the car when it gets rusty, i only have a arc welder at home. I could buy a mig welder but i dont think i would use it enough. Its getting hard to find someone to weld a car nowadays with out charging the earth.

AAAAArrggg. You know when you see a small rusty hole in your sill, and think i shouldn,t touch that!! But do any way and end up with half the sill missing.. Well thats me :oops: . Has anyone fitted a sill from a Mk1 cortina as suggested or can you get a D8 406 sill drivers side somewhere. I,ve got 2...

Have you checked the breather pipe connection to the top of the rocker cover as this is were mine was leaking. The oil was then running around the back of the engine and dripping down, a clean up and new jubilee clip sorted it.

Turbo timers are a good idea and would help the turbo , but i bet the insurance companies dont like (understand) them.

Not only BMW drivers, But blatting down the motorway for hours then stopping and into meetings etc everyday is not good for turbos.

Fitted a motoquip fiter from a local motor factor, drained the filter bowl and cleaned the lid and bowl until nice and dry. All Good .
Thanks for the help..

My neighbour has a 2008 307 2.0 hdi and it seems to eat turbos, i think all the 406 turbos are most robust and run at a lower boost.

I think its best to let the turbo cool down slightly before turning off the engine, if the turbo has been working hard at high revs or along run. As the oil feed to the turbo bearings can carbonize if the turbo is shut down when very hot. The turbos on old peugeots are quite robust not like the new ...

Fitted a new filter today and no more air bubbles in the fuel line and running lovely again

I had a rough collie called buttons chip butty of pasagata, Chip for short. And he was named before i bought him.

Just had a look on ebay for filters and the genuine peugeot filter have a better design of sealer ring that looks to be bonded to the filter element, the cheaper one look like they can been awkward to seal. So maybe a trip to peugeot tomorrow as they cant be very costly