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One final consideration - the engine in your original 2.2 HDi may well have some broken piston rings or worse. I know you have the other engine, but it's still a lot or work. Do you think that such a damage could have happened during a sudden engine stop?! I was thinking towards a possible one toot...

Mate,i live in Croatia,where life standards are a bit lower than UK but even here peugeots 406 are cheap. I would advise you to buy other car. I also saw a few cars with damage like this fixed but it was newer the same again,there was always something. Previous owner of my 406 Coupe had close encou...

As mentioned, on Saturday a mechanic will see the car (visit already scheduled since last week); even if he makes me 'an offer I can't refuse' , most probably I'll turn down the offer since he cannot guarantee the final result. As I said, I saw cars much more damaged repaired by him but he makes the...

About the tax: before Romania entered the EU (2007) there were some customs tax for import which affected also cars (both old and new). Immediately after entering EU, the import taxes had to be removed but they 'invented' a pollution tax for second hand cars import in order to protect the local new ...

My concern is not related to how my car will look after reparation - I saw cars in worse state than mine repaired by this guy and wings/hood/bumper were perfectly aligned etc, so the car looked ok. The concern is referring to possible engine vibrations sent to chassis due to not perfect engine sitti...

The wife is fine. It's really strange - I suppose they do not call the front-right seat as the 'deadman seat' for nothing. My wife was driving and I think it was one of the very few times when she wasn't wearing the seat belt; I was on the front-right seat with seat-belt on but I have much more brui...

Since I'm addicted to the 406 model, during the recent vacation in Austria I had a quick run to France and bought a car identical to mine: same color, same engine, same year (mine has DAM code 8830, 'frenchie' has 8850), higher mileage (mine 120.000 miles, 'frenchie' is 150.000 miles old), Ouragan r...

Hi, First of all I'm not sure if I'm opening the thread in the right section, so I'm asking an admin to move it if it's needed. So this weekend my wife had a bad accident with our beloved 406 sedan 2001 2.2HDi (pre-mux electrics). Short damage list: airbags and dashboard cover, all three radiators, ...

Hi, Last week it happend to my car also (2.2 2001 saloon with 118.000 miles on it) - I almost always use it from full tank to full tank resetting the daily odometer. It was at around 700 (my usual range with a full tank is 700 to 800 depending on highway speeds) - the gauge was close to red. I enter...

Thanks a lot for the reply, I was on vacation and didn't have time to look into this. I think I'll also postpone the oil temp installation since it seems quite complicated (the easiest way remains swapping the whole cluster instead of "tuning" mine) and also I have other pendings more important to s...

Thanks a lot for the detailed pictures and all other details. It doesn't seem too difficult to solder in place the dials. Still there are some question marks referring to poles (how the 4 pins are connected in the electrical circuits)... @hassler88: if you could post or send the electrical schema of...

The thing about that video is that i was working on a multiplexed instrument cluster, i havent really done a full dissection of a pre multiplex cluster but ill take a look in my garage tomorrow just to see what the inside of them is like, the dial faces is a bit of an issue as you say you will most...

Min, here is a 5 gague cluster from a 2000 406 so pre multiplex (although its worth emailing to check that it has the two plugs): http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MK1-2000-2-0-HDI-90HP-66KW-PEUGEOT-406-SPEEDO-INSTRUMENT-CLUSTER-9644231480-/331195101385?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Car+Make%3A...

Thanks everyone for the replies. Conclusions so far: a) premux clusters have 2 sockets, mux have one socket; most probably the scrappyard guy either confuses or is just trying to convince me to get him rid of the clusters he still has for sale... b) my premux car has the full 3 wired probe (plus gro...

Hello everyone, I drive a January 2001 406 2.2HDI (pre-mux generation) and I am interested in fitting a cluster which includes the oil temperature gauge . From the research I made so far I found out the following (please correct me where I am wrong): a) pre-mux D9 ('99 - mid '01) has a cluster with ...