Peugeot 306 Saloon 2.0 ST 4d (SR) (1996/P) Owner Review
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Economy
Value
1450 for a car with 37.7k on the clock, fsh, ok its white, but apart from that its a damn good buy.
Costs
DOH! nothing really expensive, though at 8 years old you do expect one or two problems. Servicing is every 9k but pretty cheap, and parts are available quite cheap also (full set of discs/pads all round for just over 110 quid!!)
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On the road
Driving
Not a bad drive, comfortable, the seats are a little softer than my previous mondeo though, and not quite as sporty as i think they should be but good all round car, took ford long enough to knock it off its top spot for being the best in its class!
Performance
Not quite the quickest car around, probably wasn't too bad in its day, still keeps up with 2ltr mondeos quite easily, good mid range grunt from the 2ltr 8v engine.
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Living with it
Reliability
Wear and tear parts in 10k driving, heater matix went (70 quid for part, labour was a touch more but BIG job), coolant sensor went (12 quid but a pain) intermittant fault with the speedo, fixed at the same time as heater matrix.
Image
Old mans car..... well from the inside its still a 306, and this is my 3rd one (2 GTi-6's before this one)
Comfort
Has pretty much everything i need, good seats though slighly soft, electric everything (f/r ew, elec s/r, heated elec wingmirrors etc), huge boot so good for what i use her for.
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Security and Service
Security
Comes with an alarm and keypad immobiliser, still quite good today, classed as cat 2, includes deadlocks though these wont keep out a determined thief.
Service
Only used the Peugeot dealer once, though courtious, they stopped at the first possible fault, cost me 2 hours labour and they didnt fix the fault, took it to my usual garage, 30 mins and fault diagnosed (subaru garage) you tell me...…
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Problems and Ownership
Problems
Engine
Its had a headgasket job at sometime but its low mileage and still feels very new, no probems here.
Other
Heater matrix, radiators can go after 6-8 years, I'd bank on replacing sometime between these intervals.
Ownership
Did you buy the car new?
Used
Would you buy the same model again?
Yes
Did you buy from the same manufacturer again?
Yes