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Hello from Finland!
I bought my -97 406 V6 3.0 sedan in July 2012. I used to have -03 v6 wagon but i didnt like the power loss of automatic transmission.

It was drived 208tkm, and i have drived now about 217tkm.

Main reasons why I bought that car was: It was very cheap, black (rare colour in 406 at least in Finland), manual, full leather interior (electric)-


But becuse it was cheap, it aint perfect: only 1 tires with 15" steel wheels, timing belt change is coming , Driver side rear door is wrecked..


Here is couple of pictures at car when i bought it:








So what i plan to do with that car? Interior is taking ph2 leather doorcards, exterior needs to get clean and maybe phase 2 front end...


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Here is what i have done:


Engine and powertrain:
- Changed airfilter and looked that intake pipe isnt stuck, someone has changed it before me. ;)
- Transmission oil changed 2 times (total BV 210tkm and 212tkm) trans is working now very smoothly.
- Motor oils (1 New Life 0W-40) + filter changed (212tkm)
- Timingbelt + waterpump + rollers + tensioners + drivebelt (220tkm)
- Powersteering oils changed: Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF (221tkm)
- Passenger side motor suppourt mount changed (221tkm)

Chassis and brakes:
- Stock, too high and smooth.
- Drivers side rear caliber fixed with new parts (214tkm)
- Drivers side rear wheelbearing changed (214tkm)
- Reardiscs changed (215tkm)
- All handbrake cables changed (215tkm)
- Wintertires Nokia Hakkapelitta 7 205/55/16" with Ourang alloys.
- Summertires Keskin kt5 18" x 8,5"
- Front brake discs, pad and brakefluids chanced (220tkm)

Body and exterior:
- Side trims treated with heatgun.
- Front foglights taped with yellow film.
- Wiper arms painted to black.
- Lion badge on front grill painted to black.

Interior:

- Sun visors changed to one with lights. (those are changed leds ofc!)
- Phase 2 centreconsole with bottleholders.
- Boot and roof isolated with silentcoat multilayer.
- Package tray upholstered with black fabric.
- Dashboards lowerparts changed to black.
- All gray interior plastics painted to black.
- Phase 2 full leather doorcards.
- Phase 2 airvents with crome.

Electronics:
- Licence plate bulbs -> bright leds.
- Interior lights -> bright leds.
- Turn signal lights -> "silver" bulbs.
- Foglights are 3000K (yellow) bulbs.
- 75AH Optima yellow top at trunk.
- All switches (windows etc) leds changed to red ones.
- Dash & cluster lights changed to bright or red ones.
- Tripcomputer.
- Window switches changed to phase 1 -> phase 2.
- Auto dimming mirror.

ICE:
- Player: CDA-137BTi.
- Front: DLS Nordica 1 tweeters, DLS Nordica 6 midbass.
- Front amplifier: DLS Ultimate A4
- Subwoofers: 2x DLS Ultimate Nobelium 15".
- Subwoorers amplifiers: 2x DLS Ultimate A6.
- Signal processor: Alpine PXA-H100.
- Signal cables: DLS Ultimate.

All pictures comes here: http://s1342.beta.photobucket.com/user/Cacadu1/library/

And story goes on...

Good stuff, looks nice a nice example, you've clearly put a lot of work in. Is getting a replacement door panel going to be too difficult over there?

I'll be interested to see the pics if you decide to go for a Phase 2 (D9) front end

Also you appear to be missing your radio antenna!

jonsowman wrote:Good stuff, looks nice a nice example, you've clearly put a lot of work in. Is getting a replacement door panel going to be too difficult over there?

I'll be interested to see the pics if you decide to go for a Phase 2 (D9) front end

Also you appear to be missing your radio antenna!

Thx! Black door is very hard to find here! I know only 1 but, its too expensive. Ill get 5 diffrent color doors for price of that black one... I think i need to buy other color and head to paint job.. Antenna is missing becuse car was on wash before picture...

Ooh shiny
Very nice
Black isn't very common over here either.

Midsmike has put D9 leather door cards in his D8, so that can definitely be done.
Changing the front-end is harder if not impossible because the bumper, lights, wings, and bonnet are all different. Take a look at our pics from French Car Show last year to see them next to eachother.

How does heat treating the rub strips work? I haven't heard of that before.

rwb wrote:Ooh shiny
Very nice
Black isn't very common over here either.

Midsmike has put D9 leather door cards in his D8, so that can definitely be done.
Changing the front-end is harder if not impossible because the bumper, lights, wings, and bonnet are all different. Take a look at our pics from French Car Show last year to see them next to eachother.

How does heat treating the rub strips work? I haven't heard of that before.

I finally found D9 leather cards today @ finland.. tommorrow i will pick them up.. I think it can done, only wires are ?-mark.. But i think i can handle that..

Here is couple of pictures about finnish pugclubs dynoday: http://photour.net/sportpug-com-dyno-day/ as you can see strips are allmost deep black..

Heating is very easy, put heatgun near of strip and u will see the results.. No need for cemicals and the result will be much better and last longing... But be carefull so u dont burn them..

I used to use cemicals before, but heatgun trick is very efective.. They dont suck dust like cemically weared strips..

I love this picture:

Almost bang on 210bhp (156kW) which is what Peugeot say the ES9J4S engine should be producing. 6,000rpm as well. Oh and a full tank of fuel!

jonsowman wrote:I love this picture:

Almost bang on 210bhp (156kW) which is what Peugeot say the ES9J4S engine should be producing. 6,000rpm as well. Oh and a full tank of fuel!

thats not even best result off that day.. it made 159,6kW http://s1342.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=7

Oh, sorry, yours is a ES9J4, which is meant to be 194bhp. Even more impressive that you got 213bhp from it!

jonsowman wrote:Oh, sorry, yours is a ES9J4, which is meant to be 194bhp. Even more impressive that you got 213bhp from it!

Yeah, engine is stock.. Only mods are better breathing airfilter "induction kit" i mean the hose that goes to stock filterbox, it still got stock airfilter panel.. And rear silencer removed, straight pipe is replacing that backbox.

Hi welcome to the forum
considering pics,i belive you can resize them while uploading into imageshaq.

Very lovely color,i didnt notice black color so much before but now i see its good.
looks a little bit more luxury

And story will go on.


Roof isolated with silentcoat multilayer. Roofcard is upholstered with black felt type of cloth.


After searching about 6months at finnish scrapyards I finally found phase 2 full leather doorcards. Every door is re-wired excluding drivers side, and window switch lights are changed to red ones.. Every door excluding passenger side had connector to card light.. But thats no too hard to rewire.



Couple of pictures about tweeters, DLS nordica 1:s are quite bigger than stock ones

I found tripcomputer and new stalk too, and they will arive end of month.

Its making progress...

Got tripcomputer wired & working


Interior is allmost done..


One picture new lighting at the dark.


New summer rims.. Keskin kt 5 8,5"x18"

Other things i have done: Automatic dimming mirror, Phase 2 airvents with crome adjuster, Timingbelt + waterpump + rollers + tensioners + drivebelt (220tkm) , Powersteering oils changed: Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF (221tkm), Passenger side motor suppourt mount changed (221tkm), Front brake discs, pad and brakefluids chanced (220tkm).