Peugeot STOP light

Hi, Just bought a Peugeot 306 1.4, when I turn the ignition on the STOP
light appears but this disappears when the engine starts, is this normal ?

 

Completely normal. It is a bulb check.

 

YES THIS IS NORMAL
Chris from Addlestone Surrey

 

Ahh thanks for that guys.

 

Bloody hell, didn't you do a driving test?

When you learn to drive they teach you to put the key up to the point before
ignition to check that all the lights work.

 

Which decade was that?

I learnt in 1997 and never had anything like that mentioned.

D

 

I learnt all that just by sitting in my Dads car way before I was even a
teenager.

 

Yeah, same here - that diagnostic lights are there for a reason, and
worth checking to be okay etc - but certainly nothing was ever specified
during my teaching that you should do that.

Of course, they've since now added the requirement to do some
maintenance questions in the test I believe - maybe they've added such
things into the teaching now.

D

 

When some of us learnt to drive there was only one warning light fitted on
cars, a red one, and if that came on you knew that their was no current
coming from the dynamo (yes dynamo). We didn't have any of these new
fangled flashing indicators either. Posher cars had a little semaphore arm
that popped out to point in the direction you were turning, on cheaper ones
the drivers arm did it all out of the window.

 

LOL, thats one of the first things I remember. The trafficators on my Dads
Morris Traveller.

 

We had trafficators on a Morris Eight. The right hand one stuck so to turn
right you pushed the switch over, leaned back, thumped the door pillar and
then executed the turn. The joys of motoring )

 

David Hearn wrote:

I passed my test in 2004, and it wasn't in the maintenance section then.
You overestimate the standard required to pass this part of the test.
(e.g., you don't have to open the bonnet of the car yourself. Someone else
can do it for you if you prefer)

Sean

 

I'm about to take mine, and believe me calling it a 'maintenence
section' is *vastly* overstating it.

It's hardly a test. 2 questions, only one of which you only have to
verbalise. The first one isn't exactly rocket science - 'show me how
you would switch on the lights'. Yes, they're that basic.

All you need to know to pass it is how to check the various fluid
levels and where a couple of buttons are.

An no, I wouldn't have known the answer to the OP's question either -
it's probably in the manual though.

Tony

 

Now I know why I see cars (other than Volvos) with their lights on in broad
daylight.

There's no "show me how you switch OFF the [fog] lights?" question.

 

Nope..

All the questions are listed here:
http://www.learnerstuff.co.uk/driving-test/show-me-tell-me-questions.htm

Even if you get both questions wrong it's only a minor fault - so it's
quite possible to pass not knowing how to open the bonnet...

Tony

 

What are you on about here? when I passed my test in 1977 the 'most
important dash lights' were OIL, BATTERY and HANDBRAKE I would think it not
much different this day and age - how on earth can you expect the driving
instructors to know about all the lights that appear on modern cars.

Fluke

 

what about the 'orange' oil light?

Fluke

 

We didn't have one of those, grasshopper, we had an oil pressure gauge
instead. ;-)

Ron Robinson

 

The Pommy cars sold down under were fitted with trafficators also some of
the European cars had them as well. I remember VW and Peugeot being
fitted with them. I never used trafficators but taught to stick one arm
to indicate turning , stopping plus givening the occasional two finger
salute. In later years the flashing amber lights arrived and some smart
backyard mechnic would wirer them into the trafficator circuit save
fitting the turning arm switch if it worked you got the turning lights
flashing plus the trafficator arm poping out in most cases it never worked
properly.


Keith
* Yandoit Australia
* *
"There was method in his madness"
* J.D.Boatwood


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