hey all
i saw a sticker on a sweet looking 205 in the carpark at top gear this afternoon which led me here.
i dont actually own a french car, i own a toyota hilux which i have just got back on the road in december after cutting it all up and fabricating airbag suspension, please dont hold it agianst me....
i have been interested in peugeots for years, we imported a 306 GTI afew years ago and it was awesome, handled great, was great on gas and went pretty good also.
im 24, live in auckland and during the week im a consulting engineer.
im interested in finding about what the scene is like and learn a bit more about peugeots.
Cheers
Guy
You have come to the right place for French cars bud.
Welcome and feel free to ask anything
*waves*
oh hello.
You think you'll own another frenchie?
Hey Guys
Yea i think i will, im interested in getting one, maybe a 106 or 306 pug, but we'll see.
its all about the moolah really, if/when i get bored of my other car ill definately be considering one.
an architect i know has a 106GTI which i might ask him if he's ever interested in selling it to come to me first.
Quote from: greylux on February 21, 2010, 09:47:11 PM
im 24, live in auckland and during the week im a consulting engineer.
What sort of engineer?
oooo another new member from my sicker! haha
Welcome mate. good to see you let your curiosity get the better of you!
106 GTI'S are sweet but hard to come by same with the GTI-6/S16'S really. But if your patient a nice one WILL come up and when it does buy it! haha very much a game of you snooze you loose with these cars.
also post some pics of your ute so we can laugh at it..... (jks :P)
What sort of engineer?
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we do mainly geotechnical, civil and structural, a little bit of mechanical if our clients what us to do it.
Quote from: 2052autobonnet on February 22, 2010, 07:52:36 PM
oooo another new member from my sicker! haha
Welcome mate. good to see you let your curiosity get the better of you!
106 GTI'S are sweet but hard to come by same with the GTI-6/S16'S really. But if your patient a nice one WILL come up and when it does buy it! haha very much a game of you snooze you loose with these cars.
also post some pics of your ute so we can laugh at it..... (jks :P)
haha, your 205 looked so clean aye, almost made me go out and get one after seeing it...lol, i always liked them.
heres a little gif i made of my ute on the weekend.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q149/200_rtct/bagging%20my%20truck/luxgif2.gif)
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q149/200_rtct/bagging%20my%20truck/luxgif1.gif)
just a bit fo fun aye, wanted a challenge with fabricating something.
i dont mind waitig to find a decent 106, if i find one and its meant to be then ill get it, if not, theres always next time.
also, wish i could get into the for sale section!
guess ill have to post afew more times..... (this post is prety much a fill in, hope thats ok)
5 more posts til you're allowed in there
choice
yep!
out of interest, how much do pug 106 gti's go for these days? in a round about way?
cheers
Guy
It really depends, but I normally see them going for around the $6-$8k mark
Quote from: greylux on February 23, 2010, 12:48:20 PM
yep!
out of interest, how much do pug 106 gti's go for these days? in a round about way?
cheers
Guy
Yeah 6-8k depending on condition... real crap ones maybe 4k?
Similar with GTi6s... rubbish ones around 4-5, good ones around 6-8. Mint ones 9-10.
Quote from: greylux on February 23, 2010, 10:08:45 AM
What sort of engineer?
we do mainly geotechnical, civil and structural, a little bit of mechanical if our clients what us to do it.
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Geotechnical eh? Not Tonkin & Taylor or similar?
There's quite a bunch of engineers here now - Myself, V6Pete, Esprit... I think a few others also.
Quote from: Zealot on February 23, 2010, 06:15:03 PM
Geotechnical eh? Not Tonkin & Taylor or similar?
There's quite a bunch of engineers here now - Myself, V6Pete, Esprit... I think a few others also.
And another, I'm a structural engineer, residential mostly.
Quote from: kiwibrick on February 23, 2010, 11:17:04 PM
Quote from: Zealot on February 23, 2010, 06:15:03 PM
Geotechnical eh? Not Tonkin & Taylor or similar?
There's quite a bunch of engineers here now - Myself, V6Pete, Esprit... I think a few others also.
And another, I'm a structural engineer, residential mostly.
Good to hear there are afew engineers out there.
We are a small family type business based in remuera, we also undertake architectural drafting and structural drafting as the other partner in the business is an architectural designer, and there are 4 drafts people.
So we do about 50% Residential and the rest would be commercial, structural deisgn work, geo etc. We also do crane/monorail design and certification, inlcluding lifting beams, c hooks etc.
Everyday is different which is great.
if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.
always good to put yourself out there....
on another note....
my sister is looking at buying a car and we went and test drove this yesterday evening.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q149/200_rtct/pug206gti.jpg)
206 GTI, has a Superchip installed and a Remus 'Exhaust' (which im sure is just a tip/muffler and didnt make any difference to the noise of the thing, maybe just looks?)
great fun to drive and shes pretty keen on it so i think shes going to get it. (if the salesman agrees on a price)
Nice one, that car will be fast. It has a cool number plate as well, maybe the car should be called Korey Boyd http://www.myspace.com/krazzyk61 (http://www.myspace.com/krazzyk61)
Quote from: greylux on February 24, 2010, 07:47:37 AM
on another note....
my sister is looking at buying a car and we went and test drove this yesterday evening.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q149/200_rtct/pug206gti.jpg)
206 GTI, has a Superchip installed and a Remus 'Exhaust' (which im sure is just a tip/muffler and didnt make any difference to the noise of the thing, maybe just looks?)
great fun to drive and shes pretty keen on it so i think shes going to get it. (if the salesman agrees on a price)
My stainless steel remus makes a way different noise to standard,and at the top of 4th and into 5th gear sounds like it's reaching V2 on takeoff....lol. Mines on a RS 172, but remus are supposed to be a good exhaust brand for sound, so it surprises me that it it makes no difference on a 206.
to be honest i havn't heard a standard one...haha. it just seemed very quiet when reving and driving it around the lil area where i drove it. i didnt get over 80kph.
im used to my hilux which is a noisy POS.
Quote from: greylux on February 24, 2010, 07:39:29 AM
if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.
always good to put yourself out there....
Giz contact details plz.
Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20 ;)
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ;D]
Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.
I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.
Quote from: V6Pete on February 24, 2010, 05:05:55 PM
Quote from: greylux on February 24, 2010, 07:39:29 AM
if anyone has any work they would like completed, alterations to their house / building or design check and certification on any buildings, lifting beams, c hooks monorails or gantries hit me up for the contact details.
always good to put yourself out there....
Giz contact details plz.
Hey Pete
Have sent you an email.
Cheers
Guy
Safety factors, eh...? :D
Quote from: Zealot on February 24, 2010, 07:17:30 PM
Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20 ;)
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ;D]
Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.
I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.
Electrical and Computer Engineering is where it's at ;) I have a remus exhaust on the 306 they were an option from factory i think? Autonomous forklifts? Are you working for Inro by any chance. Oh and staying on track welcome greylux!
Quote from: Zealot on February 24, 2010, 07:17:30 PM
Ahh. More civil engineers. Pete and I are of the breed of engineer who uses safety factors less than 20 ;)
[Nothing like a bit of cross-disciplinary rivalry ;D]
Mechatronics engineer here, working for a company doing autonomous forklifts.
I like the 206. I've also got a Remus exhaust, but it's 2 1/4" pipe the whole way off the downpipe and is rather loud. Not irritatingly so but I'd happily drop it a notch.
Safety factors less than 20!!! you guys are living on the edge! haha.
Your remus exhaust, how many muffers/resonators does it have and does it have a cat? did it make much of a difference?
On my hilux i have headers, one muffler and 2 1/4 piping. its stupidly loud and it sluts me, but it was a make shift exhaust so i could get a cert and a wof, needs another muffler or reso to quieten it down, but there not a hell of a lot of space when it needs to be tucked up higher than the bottom of the chassis rails and the diff moves up past the chassi rail so it dumps just behind the cab.... ill sort it one day
took that 206 for another drive today, had afew scratches so i took it to my panelbeater.... turns out its been in a side collison, the bottom driver sil is a new piece and has been fixed in a mediocure way, not in a bad way, just in a way that he said dont buy it because it'll need money thrown at it later on.
my sister is all gutted but its for the best, she's still after a 206 gti though so we're sill on the hunt for a 'ressonably priced/good condition' one.
and thanks Imran for the welcome.
Imran:
Yep, Inro. EEE or CSE?
greylux:
Bummer re: the 206. It's probably for the best though - better to wait and find a genuinely good one. My exhaust has a rear muffler (with a slightly oversized tip... I didnt have many options though) and a central muffler where the catalytic converter used to be. It made zero difference in power - exhausts don't seem to do anything in that dept for peugeots (probably designed properly to start with), but certainly made a difference in noise. It used to have a fantastic loose baffle rattle at 2200rpm, which disappeared, and was replaced with generally more noise everywhere else :D
Quote from: Zealot on February 24, 2010, 10:31:56 PM
Imran:
Yep, Inro. EEE or CSE?
Doing CSE eh. Nothing like the loose baffle rattle :D
Quote from: greylux on February 24, 2010, 07:57:06 PM
took that 206 for another drive today, had afew scratches so i took it to my panelbeater.... turns out its been in a side collison, the bottom driver sil is a new piece and has been fixed in a mediocure way, not in a bad way, just in a way that he said dont buy it because it'll need money thrown at it later on.
Strewth! Good call on the taking it to the 'beater. If it was just a few scratches (and not really obvious) I mould have just used them in the haggeling process instead of having it checked :-\
Imran: What year? If you were 2nd or 3rd year last year? If so I would have either been a TA for your paper, or a student in a paper you took (respectively) :p
Quote from: Zealot on February 25, 2010, 05:36:53 PM
Imran: What year? If you were 2nd or 3rd year last year? If so I would have either been a TA for your paper, or a student in a paper you took (respectively) :p
Third year last year, some frogs lurking about in the nooks and crannies eh. Which paper/s did you take?
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