19-04-2025, 09:21 AM (This post was last modified: 19-04-2025, 09:22 AM by Charlie0.)
Hello and goodbye
I only ever made a few posts on here and recently wondered what had become of the forum. I think it is time to consider it officially dead. Maybe admin doesn't quite want to officially call it. But it seems wrong to go out on a whimper. So if anyone is still out there, here is the farewell thread.
I know there's a few Facebook groups knocking about where I suspect most have ended up now
If anyone has any nostalgic photos, or even new photos, post them up!
You're right, from a new post point of view the forum is pretty much dead. The process of decline started a long time ago. By 2021 I was one of the few Moderators left who was keeping the site free of trash, but it was becoming increasingly impossible. Bots were creating dozens of accounts a day and plenty of them were spawning nuisance threads that had to be manually deleted. It wasn't feasible for me to continue doing it on my own considering genuine traffic on the site had already fallen off a cliff at that point. Facebook was partly to blame for that.
I had a discussion with Fooby, who hosts the site, at the time. It runs on an old platform with significant limitations & the only real solution to blocking all of the spam was to stop access for new members. Sadly that was always going to sound the final death knell for further contributions, other than from the handful of still active members.
It's not just here that's quiet though. There's barely any activity these days on the 306GTi6 forum. I'm a member on Peugeot Forums but the 306 section on that has hardly any activity on it either. The fact is, relatively speaking, that there aren't that may 306's left. In the UK there are quite a few SORN'ed but many are projects that are never going to get completed.
Despite the situation, I had a conversation with Fooby very recently & he is still committed to keeping the site hosted as a resource to help any future 306 owners. I seriously take my hat off to him for doing that. I still point people towards the forum as I know there are threads on here that will be helpful.
Anyway, I have two 306 XSi's which are in the process of being cleaned up. The rear end of one is pretty much done, but don't have any pics of that. Here's a pic of the other, which didn't require any welding, but a lot of cleaning up. Wire wheel, grinder, multiple treatments with Bilt Hamber Deox Gel, before spraying with Miparox, primer & top coat. The rear beam has been rebuilt to go back on & have restored all of the other parts for the rear, or have new (such as mounts & dampers). It's getting new brake lines front to back, some of which have already been made up. Should have some time to get back on it soon.
21-04-2025, 11:56 PM (This post was last modified: 21-04-2025, 11:58 PM by Charlie0.)
(21-04-2025, 10:20 PM)Mighty306 Wrote: You're right, from a new post point of view the forum is pretty much dead. The process of decline started a long time ago. By 2021 I was one of the few Moderators left who was keeping the site free of trash, but it was becoming increasingly impossible. Bots were creating dozens of accounts a day and plenty of them were spawning nuisance threads that had to be manually deleted. It wasn't feasible for me to continue doing it on my own considering genuine traffic on the site had already fallen off a cliff at that point. Facebook was partly to blame for that.
I had a discussion with Fooby, who hosts the site, at the time. It runs on an old platform with significant limitations & the only real solution to blocking all of the spam was to stop access for new members. Sadly that was always going to sound the final death knell for further contributions, other than from the handful of still active members.
It's not just here that's quiet though. There's barely any activity these days on the 306GTi6 forum. I'm a member on Peugeot Forums but the 306 section on that has hardly any activity on it either. The fact, relatively speaking, there aren't that may 306's left. In the UK there are quite a few SORN'ed but many are projects that are never going to get completed.
Despite the situation, I had a conversation with Fooby very recently & he is still committed to keeping the site hosted as a resource to help any future 306 owners. I seriously take my hat off to him for doing that. I still point people towards the forum as I know there are threads on here that will be helpful to people.
Anyway, I have two 306 XSi's which are in the process of being cleaned up. The rear end of one is pretty much done, but don't have any pics of that. Here's a pic of the other, which didn't require any welding, but a lot of cleaning up. Wire wheel, grinder, multiple treatments with Bilt Hamber Deox Gel, before spraying with Miparox, primer & top coat. The rear beam has been rebuilt to go back on & have restored all of the other parts for the rear, or have new (such as mounts & dampers). It's getting new brake lines front to back, some of which have already been made up. Should have some time to get back on it soon.
Have you still got a 306 on the road?
I actually came back here when I found a picture of my first one. Scrapped it because at the time it wasn't worth the price of a near rear axle. This was about 8 years ago if I remember right. Not sure there's any in that colour still around (Champagne). I do however have one still on the road as a daily (the blue one). Plan to keep it on the road indefinitely until it becomes worth someone stealing then would have to sell
(21-04-2025, 10:20 PM)Mighty306 Wrote: You're right, from a new post point of view the forum is pretty much dead. The process of decline started a long time ago. By 2021 I was one of the few Moderators left who was keeping the site free of trash, but it was becoming increasingly impossible. Bots were creating dozens of accounts a day and plenty of them were spawning nuisance threads that had to be manually deleted. It wasn't feasible for me to continue doing it on my own considering genuine traffic on the site had already fallen off a cliff at that point. Facebook was partly to blame for that.
I had a discussion with Fooby, who hosts the site, at the time. It runs on an old platform with significant limitations & the only real solution to blocking all of the spam was to stop access for new members. Sadly that was always going to sound the final death knell for further contributions, other than from the handful of still active members.
It's not just here that's quiet though. There's barely any activity these days on the 306GTi6 forum. I'm a member on Peugeot Forums but the 306 section on that has hardly any activity on it either. The fact, relatively speaking, there aren't that may 306's left. In the UK there are quite a few SORN'ed but many are projects that are never going to get completed.
Despite the situation, I had a conversation with Fooby very recently & he is still committed to keeping the site hosted as a resource to help any future 306 owners. I seriously take my hat off to him for doing that. I still point people towards the forum as I know there are threads on here that will be helpful to people.
Anyway, I have two 306 XSi's which are in the process of being cleaned up. The rear end of one is pretty much done, but don't have any pics of that. Here's a pic of the other, which didn't require any welding, but a lot of cleaning up. Wire wheel, grinder, multiple treatments with Bilt Hamber Deox Gel, before spraying with Miparox, primer & top coat. The rear beam has been rebuilt to go back on & have restored all of the other parts for the rear, or have new (such as mounts & dampers). It's getting new brake lines front to back, some of which have already been made up. Should have some time to get back on it soon.
Have you still got a 306 on the road?
I actually came back here when I found a picture of my first one. Scrapped it because at the time it wasn't worth the price of a new rear axle. This was about 8 years ago if I remember right. Not sure there's any in that colour still around (Champagne). I do however have one still on the road as a daily (the blue one). Plan to keep it on the road indefinitely until it becomes worth someone stealing then would have to sell
Good to hear you've managed to keep one on the road, and hope you manage to do so for many years to come. Some parts re getting hard to come by though. Fingers crossed they don't become a major target for thieves, as I suspect there's more value in them parted out then there is with them complete! will probably use a steering lock when I get one of mine back on the road, and have also to plans to fit a kill switch as extra security.
Never ever remember seeing a champagne 306 so must have been super-rare!
22-04-2025, 09:21 PM (This post was last modified: 22-04-2025, 09:22 PM by Charlie0.)
Funny enough when I lived in Yeovil for a period, I saw another one in town! Never seen one since, surely none left on the road.
Funny enough when I lived in Yeovil for a period, I saw another one in town! Never seen one since, surely none left on the road. Only cost me £600 the champagne one.
Some pics from Castle Combe, where the 306OC had a stand ....that was probably the last time. The Blaze Yellow 306 was mine. Cost me the princely sum of £800, which I only paid because it was fitted with GTI6 alcantara seats, which I've kept. (The car has now been scrapped - killed by rust).
In the end the car was actually free. After I'd owned it for a bout a year a lorry cut me up on a roundabout & the trailer damaged the front of the car. I had a dash cam & the transport company admitted liability & compensated me £800 - the value of the car as it was technically a write-off. I pulled the wing back out, glued & stitched the rest of it back together with cable ties & used the car like that for at least another two years!
My two remaining 306's only cost me £600 each, one back in 2014 & the other in 2015. They both have minimal rust so have a reasonable chance of keeping them on the road.
The Nile Blue 5-door one I have strangely it spent it's first 3 years in Japan. That's the one I posted a pic of the underside from.
The other one is a 3-door phase 2.5 in Diablo Red. It has typical lacquer peel. Am still debating whether to try to do anything about it.
