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By admin, September 17, 2010 5:36 am

There is nothing worse than a car that has broken down in the midst of an important journey! You may miss an important appointment or business meeting which may cause not just significant loss in terms of money but your professional reputation as well. You may have to face an odd occasion when the car has broken down along the roadside when you are with your family on an exciting weekend getaway. The break down of the car can spoil your mood. Nowadays, when time is of essence you can’t afford to adopt a casual attitude and postpone your car servicing to the next week or may be another month.

When your car doesn’t start in the morning, you will be late to the office and it may spoil your mood and adversely affect your concentration level. By following your car servicing schedule strictly you may turn the odds in your favor and get the peace of mind you really deserve.

Having regular Peugeot service ensures that potential or underlying problems are dealt with before they blow out of proportion. Sometimes a simple and small mechanical problem, if left unfixed, can rear its ugly head when you need your car the most. A small problem that can be fixed in a couple of seconds may assume gigantic proportion and the expenses to fix it can run into hundreds of pounds. Sometimes you may feel that Peugeot Service is an unnecessary expense, especially with all of the other running costs associated with owning a car. But when you view the situation from a long term perspective you can save much trouble and expense and keep the vehicle in tune.

Peugeot service ensures that your car is maintained to the highest standard, and performs at its optimum level. By choosing the right servicing point your car will always run smoothly, safely, efficiently and reliably for several months and you will definitely enjoy driving and experience satisfaction to the hilt.

You just need to search a highly reliable Peugeot service point that possesses qualified and trained technicians with complete knowledge of cars, accessories and parts. There are several Peugeot service websites in UK and you can schedule your car’s appointment with the technicians either online or on phone. They will collect your car either from home or the workplace, whichever is convenient to you. By simply allowing the technicians to inspect your car, you know that everything will be checked carefully, which includes tyres, brakes, battery and the engine.

Choose the Peugeot service that provide extensive network of garages all over UK. This will ensure that you will find the right one in your vicinity. You can save a lot at these garages as they charge nearly half the amount in comparison to a main dealer. There is no hidden cost as the technicians do not carry any additional work without your prior approval. All the spare parts and accessories are approved and of highly quality. Some of the Peugeot service points even offer warranty on their parts and labour. You have the option of paying through either debit or credit card. When the work is over the car will be delivered right at your door step and in this way you can ensure that you never have any problem with your car when you are in the long drive, traveling, or any other occasion or works.

Sienna A. Holmes is the author of this article on Peugeot Service. Find more information about Peugeot Service here

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By admin, August 27, 2010 5:36 am

Peugeot 207 SW Outdoor – Glass Act or Class Act

Peugeot billed this new release of the popular 207 range as being the car with room for a view!

Sounds interesting but is there any truth in this? For the un-initiated, the Peugeot 207 is categorised in what they call the “Super Mini” bracket of cars and the company unveiled this estate version of the car at this years Geneva Motor show and will be making the car available on the street by early 2008.

The new 207 SW Outdoor actually stands 20mm higher off the ground than the standard 207 SW and remains a front wheel drive as opposed to 4WD but probably won’t cost much more than the basic hatchback, and it is reckoned that prices should start round about the 11,500 ($23,000) mark.

When you think of it this is probably about 700 ($1400) more than the conventional supermini and actually represents I think quite good value for money. As has been mentioned the supermini is a fast growing class of car where the end user actually gets the performance and economy of the small compact Mini type of car with the value and additional extras of the traditional family saloon and priced somewhere in between.

So let’s take a look at the 207 SW Outdoor in brief detail.

Well first of all, the engine is a 1.6L 4cylinder. This provides 110 bhp and has a top speed estimated in the region of 121 miles an hour. The transmission system is a five speed manual with front wheel drive.

Standard equipment that comes with the car consists of driver and passenger air bags, air-conditioning, front electric windows and a versatile interior with a split folding rear seat that is controlled by a one touch lever.

The SW outdoor has a practical design and continues the sculpted theme and design of the mainstream 207. The rear end of the car is actually cleaner and much less complicated than the normal hatchbacks and some of the details such as triangular rear windows and gills around taillights make the back of the car almost as good to look at as the front.

The wheelbase of the SW Outdoor is virtually identical to that of the conventional five door version of the kill but the engineers have been working away like mad to give the car much more capacity in the boot. Not only that but through a fairly novel control system the back seat has been a tactic so that it splits and is controlled via a one touch lever system.

This loss fact alone actually is a godsend if you have to transport medium sized items around from home to any number of locations. Let’s be honest who doesn’t nowadays and for any musicians who wish to get one of these cars you can be satisfied with the fact that you can get a good-sized drum kit and all the trappings quite comfortably stored within the car.

The performance of the car on the road as has been mentioned is quite responsive but the ride quality of the caw is slightly affected by the longer springs and dampers which raised the car by 20mm.

Peugeot promised drivers that this car would be slightly better looking than the conventional hatchback with more importantly a much more spacious boot and a better and more comfortably developed interior.

They appear to have delivered on everything they have promised.

Stephen Morgan writes on a great many Auto issues on the Internet and more on the above can be found at Peugeot Dealer Manchester ,Texas Drivers Ed and The Auto Finance Business

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By admin, June 18, 2010 5:36 am

The Peugeot 206 was created in the early 1990’s with the replacement of the preceding 205 model. Peugeot changed their model under the idea that super mini cars were no longer profitable, therefore a change was in order. The Peugeot 206 did not immediately follow the 205 as the Peugeot 106, 306 and 309 models to capture different levels of sales from prospective customers. The Peugeot 106 was rivaling the Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo with the 306 and 309 models taking the mid and top end sales from the discontinuation of the 205. Because of this, many Peugeot enthusiasts believe the 206 should have been named the 207. The 206, although created early was not released until 1998.

The Peugeot moniker indicates that the 206 immediately followed the 205, but this is not true as other models were released before the 206. The eventual successor, the 207, was finally launched n 2006, but Peugeot recently announced that the 206 will stay in production until the year 2010. The 206 is the best selling Peugeot of all time but the end of the model in the upcoming years will end the ‘06′ generation of Peugeot cars in almost 20 years. The 206 was initially produced in France and England but production switched to Slovakia. The closure of the British plant matched with the closure of the Ryton plant, which Peugeot took over when Peugeot bought Chrysler’s European division in 1979.

The Peugeot 306 replaced the 309. The 306 is very similar to the Citroen ZX, which was released to the public two years before the 306 model. Both cars used the same structure and floorplan. The 205 was styled after the Pininfarina styling and has been a better seller. In the 1974 oil crisis, Citroen went bankrupt and Peugeot took over Citroen. This led to the similarities and identical cars produced by both manufacturers.

The 306 Phase 1 came to the market in March of 1993 as a 3 and 5 door hatchback with three different models being offered. The five door was more of a station wagon and was dubbed the “sw” for station wagon. Although not nearly as stylish as the 205, the 306 offered many practical uses in the vehicle. The sw estate model was not a hatchback station wagon, but a sedan with luxurious European styling to accompany the Peugeot racing spirit.

The engines used in the Peugeot cars were offered both in a gasoline and a diesel model. The gasoline engines were four cylinder units, which gained their outstanding reputation from being the power plant in the ever popular Peugeot 205 model. The idea for the Peugeot engines was to have a fair trade off between performance and excellent fuel economy. Three larger capacity engines were available but were restricted to automatic and performance models.

The diesel engines in Peugeot came with an excellent reputation and were largely available in turbo charged models. The original engine displacement for the diesel engines came in a 1.8 liter, but was soon upgraded to a 1.9 liter. The turbocharged Peugeot diesel became an excellent fitting engine to match the 306 as the performance matched similarly sized gasoline cars. The considerable extra weight was overcome by the turbocharged performance.

The Author writes articles on Peugeot Cars. More articles written by the author related to Peugeot Dealer, Peugeot 206 and Peugeot 207 which can be found in the web.