My Love Pug, 1996 406 1.9 TD LX

[mandelbug]

well, thought I would put some pics of the pug of love on here, always useful. Anyway I have bought it for doing a 160 mile daily commute. So far very impressed with the car, it's nothing special but does it well















Got a dent in the rear quarter to try and push out, new Alpine head unit coming tomorrow hopefully to do bluetooth hands free, ipod control and then run a boot build from an old car. Got to sort the earthing to the instrument cluster as the speedo in particular is possessed new front pads and discs are coming this week and fluid to be changed (might need master cylinder). Other than that am pleased with the car, very surprised with it. Just need a flat cap for driving it

[teamster1975]

Very nice! Pug of Love eh? I bet the seats go all the way down!

[Doggy]

Looks very tidy All the way from Northamptonshire too.

The speedo is a common fault - to do with a black box behind the glovebox, I believe - try a search on here.

[mandelbug]

Looks very tidy All the way from Northamptonshire too.

The speedo is a common fault - to do with a black box behind the glovebox, I believe - try a search on here.

I looked at the £36 black box from pug but thought that was for completely dead speedo's. Mine will stick, smack the top of the dash and it will work, hit a speed bump and it goes nuts then sticks, smack dash and find speed

plus the fuel guage has decided I have about 3 tanks of diesel in it at times which made me question an earth somewhere.

It might look tidy but it's a little rough on the edges, will show it some TLC and keep it as a nice tidy motorway mile muncher

Not found out if it is a true pug of love yet though, will have to convince the Mrs on that I got the car from Luton although previous owner was from Northampton and some service history is northampton based . Am currently living in Manchester for the next 3 weeks before moving to London

[Doggy]

I've heard a few references to dry joints on the circuit board, so could be that.

I looked at the £36 black box from pug

More environmentally friendly to 'recycle' one from your local scrappy
It might not work, true, but it's very unlikely to misbehave in exactly the same way.

[mandelbug]

yeah was going to get the instrument cluster out and check it all out. The dealer was a bit pikey, it needs new front discs and pads, the brake fluid is brown (hoping this is the spongy pedal not the master cylinder) and to get around it they have removed the lights from the dash lol. So suspect the monkey has bent a pin or something similar so will check it all out.

I would recycle one from a scrappy but with electrics I am suspect as they are not necessarily known good working units, and when looking at electrical faults it's easier to go new and rule that out

[steve_earwig]

I suppose 36 quid isn't too bad

[mandelbug]

Aye, £36 isn't too bad for stealership part, unless it is nothing more than a resister wrapped in plastic in which case it's a rip off

[mandelbug]

Goodies arrived yesterday



And after about 3 hours shifting cables and connectors around, finally got it fitted. I really should get a decent camera



Next job will be to get the two JBL W12 GTi's installed in the boot, really should have done the amp wires before getting it fully in but hey ho live and learn. Hands are a mess now though

[mandelbug]

Not another picture (will get one when I have it on the ramps) but today have had the cat chopped out of it. Got sick of the raspberry noises the exhaust was making at me so for the cost of the replacement cat which I couldn't just go out and buy I had the cat removed. It's like driving a whole new car Just been to halfrauds to spend some gift vouchers, and picked up an oil and fuel filter so will get them done this weekend.

Am on the lookout for a set of braided front brake hoses that I don't have to wait for Goodridge to manufacture as I could do with them by the weekend. Everywhere seems to be advertising them but then saying they are shipped from the manufacturer I just want the hoses

[mandelbug]

OK so it turns out I have two pictures from when I did the brakes





MUM!!! I HAVE NO BRAKES

[Gary406]

i can bet your cluster fault is not due to earth problem, i have same car but 1998 and my clocks were faulty when i bought the car,

the circuit board inside the cluster was FULL or dry solder joints , take them out and inspect them, you will notice a dry joint it will be cracked all the way round were its soldered to the board, 1 hour of my time and a soldering iron sorted mine, they have NOT been faulty since

[mandelbug]

RESULT Thank you very much for that, will hopefully get them out at the weekend

[Gary406]

no probs, if you need any more help of have any more questions about our car just ask,

[Gary406]

quick question ???

do you know if that spoiler on the boot is a genuine peugeot one or not,

it looks good and i want it on my car lol