Car kaput! - fixable? salvage yards pay for it?

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bobk

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Our '00 Peugeot 406 has finally given up the ghost.
It doesn't reverse very well (keeps slipping out) and the engine is misfiring(possible injector/timing belt/coil problem).

So know the car won't start.

everything else is fine with it except for a couple of knocks

Questions
1. anyone know if it's easily fixed? - we would need a new gearbox for the reverse, but anyone know about the engine?
2. Anyone want to buy it?
3. Who could i take it to sell? would they pick it up as well?
 
Did you drop it off a tall building?

....everything else is fine with it except for a couple of knocks
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What is everything else if the engine & gearbox are knackered? :D

How many miles on the clock?
 
nearly 150k miles on it -
radio works fine, seats are comfy and tyres still full of air
 
doesn't sound like it's fit for the scrapper.
what else doesn't work on it?
 
bobk said:
Our '00 Peugeot 406 has finally given up the ghost.
It doesn't reverse very well (keeps slipping out) and the engine is misfiring(possible injector/timing belt/coil problem).

So know the car won't start.

everything else is fine with it except for a couple of knocks

Questions
1. anyone know if it's easily fixed? - we would need a new gearbox for the reverse, but anyone know about the engine?
2. Anyone want to buy it?
3. Who could i take it to sell? would they pick it up as well?
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Well get the problem diagnosed - it may be a simple problem like dead battery etc.. bottom line is, you can only find out if its economical to fix if you know what the problem is.

Your best hope is coils gone...

Slipping out of gear you can live with.

Don't write it off just yet! :)
 
This car is still quite young - far too young I would have thought to be fit to break. My Skoda is a year older, with 10k more miles on it and it's running absolutely grand.

If you got all the problems solved with your Peugeot, would you intend to keep it? It could be that if you paid to fix it, then it could be cheaper and less hassle than buying a new car.

Gearbox trouble is either really simple or horrendous. It might be suggested that a new box is fitted and this is major work. Getting it started should be easy and any decent backstreet mechanic should be able to deal with that. I would certainly get it running because a car that won't start is pretty useless and I'd not suspect anyone will be much interested in taking on your problem unless you virtually give it away.

It sounds like the car hasn't had a decent service record - which has resulted in a few problems cropping up. This may also influence whether or not you would want to hold onto it: i.e. what else is likely to go wrong.

If anyone can suggest a decent workshop (not a main dealer as they'll charge an arm and a leg), that has experience of Peugeot, then they might be able to fix the immediate problems. You could ask them to be frank about the car's condition to give you an impression about the condition of other bits and pieces. You can decide then to sell it or hold onto it but I think scrapping it would be extreme at this stage.
 
thanks for the advice, the car has a good service history.

the gearbox does need to be replaced, but you might be right about getting it started again.

can anyone recommend a workshop?

Thanks,

Bob
 
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