406 1.9TD LX newbie

[NollingtonHards]

I recently upgraded me 106 (which treated me well as a first car for a year and a half), to a 1.9TD LX 406. Purchased it yesterday from a very nice guy in slough for £800. 1 owner from new only and currently on 122,000. I aim to tidy it up, there's a little rust in the arches, give a thorough clean (although very clean already), maybe a 406/5 spoiler but generally just tidy it up. These are the pictures from the dealer but i aim to get some new photos up tommorow

[mjb]

Nice low miler for the money, although 406s really aren't known to be too susceptible to tinworm, so I'd check out those wheel arches and front end in general to see if the car's had a front-end collision in the past

[NollingtonHards]

I'll check out the wheel arches tommorow, i'll also go through the history for any dubious documents as i got all the MOT's and services and history from day one.

[NollingtonHards]

Slight rust on the wheel arches but nothing i cant handle. Anyone else have trouble reverse parking it? i drove round a busy car park looking for a space i could get the swing on an then eventually gave up ha.
As promised some of me own photos;

A pretty much immaculate interior for how old the car is still needs a proper clean

[teamster1975]

Pretty tidy car that!
Welcome in mate

[afk40]

nice lookin car,, I beat you in the £££££ i bought one the nite there 700 bucks again a good looker like yours,, hope to do some good miles smiles init,,,116k miles.... a lot o car fur the money i think,,,needs tax,,, ma pal says his is a 110horse an his is 68 afur 6 months,, mines is a 90 an its more expensive 112 hows that ??

[NollingtonHards]

After two weeks of using a tape player which i don't mind that much, but after a while it gets annoying not being able to listen to my CD collection.
After a bit of looking on the forum i found a link to autoleads and then found a link to halfords. Im wondering though if this is the right fascia plate for my 406;
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165626

[NollingtonHards]

Well i took a £11 gamble and bought a fascia plate of amazon, fingers crossed ha.

[DaiRees]

Yeah that is the right faceplate. Car looks tidy

[steve_earwig]

I wasn't sure, it looks too short in the pics but it's the only one everyone seems to be selling

[NollingtonHards]

Very annoyed, upon looking at my exhaust it out it isn't even attached it's completely rusted off



How much do people reckon it will cost for a new one??

[mjb]

handily it just looks like the back box that's rusted so you should be able to get sorted for £50 or so on ebay

[NollingtonHards]

A quick trip to Kwik Fit and a new exhaust system later and its been fixed. I drove out off there and it felt much better to drive i.e. you can really feel the turbo kick in

and my stereo fascia arrived and 10 minutes of muddling about with kitchen knifes (to get the head unit out, i'm not some sort of maniac) its in and working no problem

[highlander]

Kwik-Fit?

You can get better exhausts cheaper elsewhere.

I bought a stainless steel Powerflow cat-back exhaust system for at least £100 less than Kwik-Fit were going to charge me for a standard 406 exhaust.

They're cowboys - don't leave them alone with your car

[mjb]

You went to those muppets? I'm surprised you haven't had a new hole burnt out of the bumper by a badly fitted pipe...

Why did you get a new middle section? The old one looked perfectly serviceable!