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Discuss the 406's Bodywork stuff in here (what parts fit what, what can be interchanged with what etc etc).

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well the old girl seems to have succumbed to the peugeot curse of the shite front
springs :shock: merrily driving along and heard a bang now get a loud thud
whenever i drive over a pothole on the nearside... shall take it garage tomorrow
get it confirmed :( :cry: :cry:
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Oh no Puggy, sorry to hear that :(
These cars do pick their moments don't they :frown:
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dont they just teamster good job dual carrigeway was quiet :shock:
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Oh noes!!!!!!

Not another one :shock:

You'll know because the ride goes really choppy - maybe it's not dropped the ride height too much for some reason? :?

I have a confession to make about my broken spring - it actually happened overnight on my drive :oops: I realised what it was when I pulled away in the morning and saw that I could nurse it along for 3 slow miles with the spring just touching my already worn out tyre all so that I could call the AA for recovery as I don't have home start (3 mile radius rule) :oops:

So it seems they mostly fail on their own when parked up :?

Hope you get it sorted ok Puggy!!
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cheers welly, mine happened on dual carrigeway ,a bang little swerve then
ok and i can see when sitting in it the left side is lower.So off to garage
shortly to let my man check and see when i can get it in,have priced the
parts £32 a spring shall have them both done and £66 for a pair of shocks
shall probably have them as well while it stripped.. main (robbing thieving
stealing supplier of piss poor suspension parts)dealers £269 for the same :shock:
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...for Hitler and Germany!

Ohh, no, not again! Will the replacements be the same length? All there seems to be here is OE (Outragiously Expensive?) parts, unless I want to scrape the thing over every bump in the road :(
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sure hope so steve shall keep that in mind :shock:
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Update !! took it to the garage told the mechanic i thought a spring
had gone, first words out his mouth, common on them at that age :evil:
jacked up had a look at it and its broke at the top not the bottom where
they rust. No sign of rust in fact lovely black paint still :shock:
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