Relief - 807

That's it - the 807 has gone. Peugeot bought it back from us, after over
three years of abysmal reliability, too many faults to count (over 40
now!), incompetent repair attempts and a general thread throughout that
Peugeot thought I was being unreasonable in expecting a £23K car to work
as advertised, for at least a short period during the first three years
of its life.

I've been a Peugeot owner for fifteen years, usually having two on my
drive, but never again. Our other car (also Pug, bought brand new) was
changed almost two years ago for a non-Pug, getting rid of the 807
finally cuts my ties with a company that is now characterised by
incompetence and complete disregard for the customer.

It really is a shame - the 106/205/306/405 era cars were bomb-proof,
reliable, handled great and were fun to own. If you own one of those,
I'm sure you're enjoying it just as much as I did mine. Just resist the
temptation to "upgrade" to one of the newer models...

Matt
http://www.807faults.co.uk

 

I'm about to get rid of my 307 for much the same reasons. The clincher
was that the outside edge of the cushion on the driver's seat back has
collapsed. The car is 4 years and 4 months old and Peugeot say that it's
not their problem to deal with.

I've had to resort to trying to get the the garage from which I bought
the car to fix it under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 provision about
"durability". I sort of feel guilty doing this as the car has never been
back to that garage since the day I bought it. I've always had it
serviced at a more local Peugeot dealer.

I'm having a test drive of Skoda Octavia next week.

Raymond

 

Peugeot did replace our seat squab - for exactly the same reason. Ours
had collapsed in under two years (it was showing signs of wear after 1
year/15K miles, by 18 months it was bad, we complained at 2 years).

Good luck. We pick up our Grand Voyager tomorrow - maybe it doesn't have
the same level of gadgetry as the Pug, but the heavier engineering
should make it more robust (fingers crossed - it can't be any worse!).

Matt