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Mike T

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  1. At Peugeot TT, CDG Airport Gare du Nord waiting to pick up our daughter and her husband Galeries Lafayette Paris Louvre Louvre Autobahn A96 Munich-Lindau Oct 22. Traffic was heavy but there was a very short ~ 2km chance to boot it a little and I landed about 9 km/h short of the limiter. Would easily had pegged 240 if I'd not had to slow early for traffic crawling at 160. Note the "balls out" symbol on the dash in place of the speed limit.
  2. Thank you, we will be heading to northern France, then Alsace, then Munich, then Spain right down to Gibraltar (and Morocco sans véhicule) and then back to France. Maybe some other time.
  3. 225 so I guess only 240 then.....BORING! I have already done 240, was hoping for more this time.... It will be charged where possible but often not but that's OK.
  4. In a month we'll be headed to Europe for 6 weeks. Sadly - post Brexit - it's no longer possible to bring a car on TT plates into the UK, so we have to rent something there (probably an Octavia). But for 23 days on the Continent, we will be taking delivery of a brand new 508 SW Hybrid. The top speed of the car is said to be 250 (155 MPH) so we will see if there's a chance to try that out on our way to and from München. The official fuel consumption figures are impossibly low (presuming electric only operation) so I'd be happy with 6.x L/100 km overall. We will probably be driving it about 8000 km, to the very south of Spain and back. Generic 508 SW photo for context.
  5. Yes, more sidewall would help the look (and ride quality!)
  6. Agree - the 405 was basically a scaled-up 205 and built super light to the point of being a little scary. I remember racing my 8 year old son to our 405 once on foot and we both hit the car with our hands to end the race and both of us dented it just below the C pillar with a light hand tap. The rear suspension of the 405 was godawful. I really enjoyed the 406 much more and they look better too. It's a shame they were not sold here because they really were very nice cars.
  7. I prefer the look of the 406 to the 405. It's more stylish to my eye, and having driven one around Europe in 2008, it's quite a nice car. The 405 and 406 were both Peugeot designs for the most part and I'd say the 406 is the high water mark. Pininfarina had a bit to do with both (second gen. 406 only).
  8. If the oil's milky, don't run it any more.
  9. Our youngest daughter's wedding is in just over 2 months and then we'll be in Europe for 6 weeks, so work on the 404C will resume in earnest in late November 2023. Meanwhile I will get cycling again, after being off the bike for 6+ weeks, it's overdue. I may have to buy a new set of rocker arms; the shop that did the engine (poorly, which is why it's apart again) may not have put the little divots in the bronze replacement bushes. Will check that before I go to France and pick a new set up when there, if required.
  10. Recommend online ordering: Peugeot Classic #1 and Serie 04 #2. Der Franzose #3.
  11. Damn, get that eye checked out in a hospital or clinic.
  12. Recovering well from surgery; the parts from Chad Hagen were handed over to my son in Seattle last weekend and are now home. Except for two of the headlight rings, which are on their way to France as of Tuesday. The four complete NOS SEV Azur wiper blade mechanisms and 12 refills for the same is a good score - the 4th one is hidden in the 405 wiper blade box in this shot. One of the CIPA mirrors is already on my car. I'd like to think that Jim would approve of me acquiring this stuff, Jim was a friend of mine.
  13. Haha, it'd have helped in your question to point that out. Glued is probably A LOT easier than crimp seal. Buy some urethane and easy peasy.
  14. One held in by a rubber gasket, yes.
  15. Once bad geometry is evident in driving behaviour, it's too late, the rear beam will have been scored and will need replacement. It's an absolute must to do this job pre-emptively. The "seals" on the inside of the trailing arm where it meets the beam do absolutely nothing to keep dirt, water and salt out of the bearings and I guarantee they will be rusting right now. Maybe not quite turning to powder. Even rusty roller bearings damages the beam. If not, one day you will be making a low speed turn and the car will suddenly oversteer at an impossibly low speed. Or if you're unlucky, on a freeway cloverleaf....eventually the trailing arms will set up a regular oscillation that shakes the car like hell. Slide hammer may not be powerful enough to dislodge the arms so be prepared to use an air chisel with sacrificial bolts threaded into the torsion bar ends, to be replaced over and over while you get the rusted splines to move one more mm. It's a hell of a job on a car that''s seen winter, but it MUST be done.
  16. Have you inspected the trailing arm bearings? The undercarriage looks very rusty (surface). With the bodyshell rusted out like that, I've no doubt that those are suffering, if not gone completely. I'd recommend a preventative re&re and then installing grease nipples and packing the (large) void with grease. This is - next to the atrocious electrics - the worst thing about the 405. My 405 had no rust perforation at all when it was scrapped, despite living in HARD winter//salted areas for many winters. And despite this, the trailing arm bearings were totally shot at 200,000 km, to the point of no camber, toe or other geometry being stable.
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