After many hours of searching around, and watching videos on the famous www.youtube.com, here are some of my favourite 306 diesel videos.
The first one is this. Seems like the injectors are a bit shot but shows quite a bit of smoke:
The second is this, which is a follow on from the first one:
The third video is, talk about cold -22!
Forth video I found is this, a bit of a slow starter but much smoke!
Fifth is this, another smoky revving one:
Sixth video:
Seventy video, which is HD starting a 306
Eighth video is this flaming exhaust 306 Hdi:
Ninth video is a 0 to 60, well you have to show that the old Hdi has a bit of power in it!
Finally the tenth video of the classic 1.9 diesel engine running:
And lastly this one, which isn't a 306 but I wanted to put on here as I do secretly, and oddly, like watching it.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
My Two Peugeot 306 Diesel and Hdi
I have owned two diesel Peugeot 306's over the past 8 years! And you can't help but love them!
The first one I owned was a 1998 1.9 diesel, non turbo, model. She was a pretty simple car with manual windows and no air con but did have power steering.
I'd never owned a 306 before and from the moment I started it and drove it, I loved it!!
It is difficult to say why I loved driving her so much but I think it had something to do with the sound of it, on tick over, that I found relaxing - especially in traffic.
She was pretty cheap and easy to maintain mainly because she was a diesel pretty much mechanical rather than electronic. That means that in the 6 years I owned her, and with nearly 140,000 miles (225,000 km) on the clock, she didn't break down once!
The only reason I sold her was because I needed a car with 5 doors rather than the 3 it had. So I opted for another 306! This time a 2001 306 2.0 Hdi! Here she is being started up from cold:
I have owned her for 2 years now, although it's mainly my wife that drives her at the moment, and haven't had any major problems so far.
When I got her I changed the timing belt and gave her a good service. The timing belt wasn't too difficult, it took a few hours to do because it is a bit fiddly and at one point my stupidity thinking I had lost a screw but in fact I hadn't!
I did need to change the crack shaft pulley, a few months back, because it was making a terrible noise - more so when revving the engine. It was a close call because when I removed the belt I found it had a 6 inch split down it! So was lucky it didn't rip completely and rap around the pulleys.
Hopefully we will get quite a few more years of work out of her, she's currently up to 104,000 miles (about 167,000 km).
The first one I owned was a 1998 1.9 diesel, non turbo, model. She was a pretty simple car with manual windows and no air con but did have power steering.
I'd never owned a 306 before and from the moment I started it and drove it, I loved it!!
It is difficult to say why I loved driving her so much but I think it had something to do with the sound of it, on tick over, that I found relaxing - especially in traffic.
She was pretty cheap and easy to maintain mainly because she was a diesel pretty much mechanical rather than electronic. That means that in the 6 years I owned her, and with nearly 140,000 miles (225,000 km) on the clock, she didn't break down once!
The only reason I sold her was because I needed a car with 5 doors rather than the 3 it had. So I opted for another 306! This time a 2001 306 2.0 Hdi! Here she is being started up from cold:
I have owned her for 2 years now, although it's mainly my wife that drives her at the moment, and haven't had any major problems so far.
When I got her I changed the timing belt and gave her a good service. The timing belt wasn't too difficult, it took a few hours to do because it is a bit fiddly and at one point my stupidity thinking I had lost a screw but in fact I hadn't!
I did need to change the crack shaft pulley, a few months back, because it was making a terrible noise - more so when revving the engine. It was a close call because when I removed the belt I found it had a 6 inch split down it! So was lucky it didn't rip completely and rap around the pulleys.
Hopefully we will get quite a few more years of work out of her, she's currently up to 104,000 miles (about 167,000 km).
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