The inevitable undertray issue....

[Welly]

Without the undertray you get 'buffeting' from underneath arund the sump area which interupts the smooth flow through the engine bay.

Stevie - why not fashion your own undertray with your leet welding skilz

[steve_earwig]

Leet? I think the idea is it's meant to be removable.

According to service box there is a sheet steel bash plate for the 406 (at least that's what it looks like to me- "GUARD SHEET MET "), and it costs less than an undertray

[Welly]

According to service box there is a sheet steel bash plate for the 406 (at least that's what it looks like to me- "GUARD SHEET MET "), and it costs less than an undertray

Maybe it was a French Farmers dealer option.....the 'Farmer Pack' for off-road use

[steve_earwig]

Could be, I'll go look for the flame thrower attachment (for all your English sheep incineration needs)

[teamster1975]

According to service box there is a sheet steel bash plate for the 406 (at least that's what it looks like to me- "GUARD SHEET MET "), and it costs less than an undertray

Maybe it was a French Farmers dealer option.....the 'Farmer Pack' for off-road use

Nah, it was the part time snow plough option!

[406Iain]

Mines still got its undertray.First thing I did when I got the car was clean the engine so it got took off and new retaining bolts put in with copper slip.Rechecked every few months,no probs.

[Molly's Dad]

The scrotes who did my clutch sheared the centre stud on mine. So I found an old M6 bolt, sawed the head off and 'glued' the stud in place with my welding kit. Just needed a nut and penny washer from my bits box and the job was done. Cost nil, time 15 mins.

[Doggy]

That's a good solution - I'm just not good enough at welding to do the same

[Doggy]

Whilst travelling along the delightful Huntingdon - Cambridge strech of the A14, (c/w average speed cameras), on Sunday, I had the joyous experience of avoiding not one, but two sizeable chunks of potentially airborne undertray.
The first, from a Citreon C3, was about 18" x 12" and I just managed not to clip it.
Not 5 minutes later, I caught up with one of those Munster-Mobile Ford Scorpios we'd almost managed to forget, (except perhaps after particularly strong cheese). This one seemed to have snared a black bin-bag which was flapping underneath. On closer inspection it was the whole undertray oscillating violently between scraping the road and jumping back into place. I thought about dropping back & letting someone else take the initial impact, but concluded this would probably give me less reaction time & possibly multiple hazards to avoid, so I just dropped back a bit, waited & hoped for the best.....
After a few minutes, Herman pulled into the inside lane & doggy took off like a lurcher avoiding the pikeys, (sod the average speed cameras)! Got past without further incident, but felt I'd been lucky not to have collected anything in the process.

[Welly]

I saw a Ford Scrapio the other day too, seems we all weren't quite ready for the cutting-edge 'styling'? at the time

Ford don't do a big motah anymore do they, you have to buy a Galaxy now

I hate stuff in the road - the amount of times I've had to 'straddle' something and just had to cringe and wait for the possible bang underneath