from underneath from the new exhaust, and
several minor niggles, such as a broken spring in the
driver’s-side door handle and a general scruffiness
apparent when you’re within 15 paces of the car.
Other than approving noises from previous
MOT testers and people who’ve worked on the car,
I’ve not yet had the Rallye properly inspected, so
I booked it in with Brackley-based Pug1Off for a
proper check-up to see what’s what.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t quite expecting it to
spend an hour on the ramps, nor the full A4 page I
received of things that need attention, but that’s
what you get when you visit a specialist rather than
the average grease monkey.
Thankfully, verylittle of it – including the bits
involving the repeated use of the word ‘corrosion’
- needs imminent attention, particularly for a car
that is largely restricted to fair-weather use and is
permanently garaged. What I’d imagined to be a
problem with the engine mounts was actually the
front top mounts knocking, but more pressing is
play in the rear axle, which will require a new rear
beam(a common Peugeot malady). It would also
make sense to get the corrosion around that area
fixed while the beam is off.
The problem with this is cost. It’s hard not
to imagine the work breaching four figures –
previously a speciality of the Roadster – which
is a number I was rather hoping to avoid with
this car. By the time you read this I’ll have either
bitten the bullet or run away screaming, so we’ll
see how it goes...
AntonyIngram(@evoAntony)
Date acquiredAugust 2017Total mileage
112,908Mileage this month 307 Costs this
month£0mpg this month42.3
HE SALE OF MY EUNOS ROADSTER HAS
led to a flurryof activity for the Rallye
in recent weeks. At the end of last year
it went into hibernation, courtesy of Matthew
Hayward from our sister titleOctane, sharing
space with an amusingly rapid Saab and a motley
crew of old Citroëns, but on the day the Eunos
drove away a couple of months ago I was straight
round to repatriate it.
That first drive was a joy, reminding me of how
strong the eight-valve 1.6 feels and how much the
steering wriggles and relays its messages. At the
same time, that and subsequent short drives to
keep fluids flowing were a reminder that now the
Roadster is gone, I should really give the Pug some
proper attention.
The list was, I figured, fairly short. There was
a knocking at the front end that suggested worn
engine mounts, a further intermittent knocking
T
‘Iwasn’tquite
expectingafullA4
pageofthingsthat
needattention’
FastFleet
Peugeot106Rallye
The mothballed Pug is back on the road, but at what cost?