Mrs Piggys 206hdi - written off.

[Toms306]

Why would you need to hold the throttle? Cruise control is plug and play thanks to multiplexing.

Better for short trips as well with a hydraulic clutch and lighter PAS...

[Piggy]

Anything is lighter than my paddle clutch tbh. Is dead easy to park. Has a sort of last extra bit of turn on the rack which I assume is designed for slow manauvering only as it feels bad but gives a mega tight turning circle

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Not sure the early 206 we have has the multiplexi stuff

[Toms306]

Ah yeah, not sure when they changed to Mux, I know the 2002 was that I had.

Yeah the turning circle and one palm lock to lock is good, do it too quick you start understeering towards the kerb though.

[mr_fish]

2002 is the year they went multiplex. I have an early 2002 one that is pre-plex though.

The give away is the radio control stalk.

You have to have 2004+ to even have a chance at enabling cruise control.

[Piggy]

Yeah I believe mine is pre plex, I purposely went for an earlier one to try and avoid complex electrical issues.

And +1 on the mad understeer towards the kerb, first time that happened I went straight home and strung the wheels as I assumed they were towing in 45degrees!!!

[cully]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthr...t=18537032

Just found that thread on google, some major hate for the 206

Dont believe anything a computer geek site says! they dont know what fresh air smells like let alone a car as they are all spotty 13 yearolds

but as piggy says the 206 is quite girly but i do like to drive it

did i say that out loud?

[Piggy]

Got to admit. Its a nice thing to drive. Relaxing and easy.
But then, a lot of cars are compared to my animal GTd!!

[Piggy]

Xsara mist jets (the wrong ones for a 306) are also wrong for the 206! But I'll make good use of them

In other news...alloys on route for it!

And fans now work only on "4" so fan resistor needed!

[Piggy]

Mega annoyed but left the Osrams in the green 206

So got their latest incarnation, Osram Nightbreaker Unlimited!
£13.80 from amazon, ordered on a Saturday at lunch, arrived Sunday 10am!!

Anyway...difference is amazing from std crappy cheapo H4s...

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[Uberderv]

Nice motors the 206's slightly biased because I used to have a HDI which i'd 'tweeked' slightly.

[Poodle]

54mpg on a run isn't awful, it depends really, how do you drive on a long journey? A steady 65mph will see a lot better result than 75mph, for example. Do you hang back 100 yards and let the traffic brake and accelerate at random while you cruise, or do you sit in the middle of it? Coast down early to junctions still in gear?

Failing that it might be worth checking out your maf, i lost ~10mpg when that died. If you're still not happy reduce the frontal area by lowering it.

[Piggy]

I drove Eco style Poodle. Im all in that jazz, used to teach fleets how to do it.
I am wondering about MAF or boost leak as it does smoke a little on hard acceleration, JP rekons it shouldnt really

[Poodle]

Haha fair, living the dream!

Yeah could well be, i would have expected you to notice a boost leak significant enough for that though.

[Piggy]

Swapped beams today.

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replacement one doesnt creak but annoyingly has a little bit of camber on the right side. Old one had camber on left side!!
So...grand idea was rip apart the original beam and see if i could refurb it....errr.... Dont think so

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[Piggy]

fixed the fans...what a bugger of a job coz its a RHD!

[ozonehostile]

Did you notice how much heavier a 206 beam is compared to a 306 item?

Gotta admit I do quite enjoy thrashing one around a b road, still keep thinking of getting a 180 at some point aha

[Piggy]

Little bit lighter i would say.

It is fun little thing, back is eager!! TBH, stg1+/2 HDi be more fun I rekon, 3rd gear torque for the B roads plus the eco of it

[vtec power gt]

I had a 206 Hdi and thought that it went OK it was quite nippy around town and on country roads but it had a horrible habit of the back stepping out mid corner and it was only with luck I caught it in time lost faith in it after that and then sold it to buy my 306 Hdi that I must say feels so much nicer to drive and the back only ever slightly let's go as for the mpg the 206 at best was about 52mpg the 306 never gets much better than 45 mpg

[Piggy]

Yeah averaging about 52. But think I got boost leak or maybe EGR blank leak.
Back has been lively...but better now the compensator isnt seized!!

[Piggy]

[Piggy]

So, she did a little better at the weekend. About 56mpg.

Quite a lot of traffic on the roads, kept moving, but gave a chance to see how much its coaling if at all.

And she is mild hazing for sure.

So sprayed lots of 'boost leak finding solution' around the elbow and sure enough she is leaking there. Kindly Dumdum dropped a couple of the seals off on way to xmas meet so will have a bash at that this week and see the difference.

[Piggy]

And am currently looking into adding cruise control.

It seems possible from research.

Need to add a clutch switch and the obvious steering column controls.

Then its possible to 'unlock' it with PP2k supposedly. So I be getting that done soon I feel...but if anyone can confirm that, well that be great

[DeeTurbo]

I repaired the boost leak on my girlfriends 206 over the weekend. I found that the gasket on the elbow was missing between that and the EGR. I stuck a blank in, a home made gasket and the engine sounds a lot happier at idle and quieter under load.

I did start looking at CC for my 306 HDI but lost interest after doing the trip computer.

Have you thought about installing a TC in yours?

[Piggy]

Traction control!?

No!! Hate the thing!!

[DeeTurbo]

Sorry I meant trip computer.

[Piggy]

Ahhh. Yeah, had thought about it. Assume its possible?!

[DeeTurbo]

Is it a 3 plug ECU? The one I did only works on single plug ECU's.

The way you can tell if it's Mux is by the radio remote near the steering wheel. If it's like the 306 ones then it's not mux. The big flat ones are only onn mux cars.

[Piggy]

Nah its an early one. No fancy stuff

[DeeTurbo]

Best ones to have.

My girlfriends is a Dturbo spec on a Y and it doesn't even have an outside temperature read out next to the clock.

[Piggy]

Nope, same. No abs either.
Got it for those reasons!!