My case for unluckiest driver of the year...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri May 31, 2013 11:25 am

Yep, I wouldn't expect them to get panels from Audi? (unless it's an Audi dealer

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sarah_h · Post by **sarah_h** » Fri May 31, 2013 3:19 pm

Well it's in the hands of Harlequin Motors in Leicester now. They just picked it up. Very sad seeing it disappear on a trailer.

Even sadder seeing the Peugeot 107 they've left me with. Jesus I have never seen a car built on such a budget - no door trim, no arch liners etc. it's an engineering feat!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri May 31, 2013 3:20 pm

lol sarah you certainly like your cars

sarah_h · Post by **sarah_h** » Fri May 31, 2013 3:35 pm

It makes me want to get an MOT tomorrow on the prelude so I don't have to drive the tinny garage advert on wheels! I have never witnessed such thrift! It only has one wiper blade for christs sake! The interior trim is so sparse it's like a track car that's been stripped out. Amazingly it does have central locking and electric windows (but you can't open the passenger side one without reaching over-not that it's very far away!). How they managed to make it a 4 door I don't know, the rear doors shut right up against the rear light clusters!

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Fri May 31, 2013 6:56 pm

Perhaps try to show your displeasure by returning the car with bald front tyres.
And removing the air filter will almost certainly make it sound a little bit sportier.

sarah_h · Post by **sarah_h** » Fri May 31, 2013 7:58 pm

lxstuart wrote:Perhaps try to show your displeasure by returning the car with bald front tyres.
And removing the air filter will almost certainly make it sound a little bit sportier.

Well I've just finished adding go faster stripes to it. Will whip the air filter out next then

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri May 31, 2013 10:46 pm

they will love you for it

sarah_h · Post by **sarah_h** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:11 pm

Well...first trip out in the 107 today. I reckon it's at least doubled the time it takes me to get to work, which makes sense since I have gone from 140bhp to 68bhp, will have to get up earlier tomorrow to compensate. I should point out that the actual model of this car is the 107 'Active' which I feel is probably a breach of the trade descriptions act. Thought I would bore you all with my thoughts on this horrible piece of French engineering (I'm not anti-French, my first car that I learned to drive in was a 1990 Citroen Ax GT which was bloody fantastic, even if it did have the safety properties of a biscuit tin).

Anyway, what I have noticed so far on the exterior:

- A single front wiper which appears to morph into a coat hanger shape when in use. The thrift stops there as you do get two washer jets.
- Somehow they've managed to make it a 4 door! Took me a while to notice since the door meets the rear light cluster and only just fits!
- There are no wheel arch liners.
- The wheel trims have been removed through fear of them being stolen, I never realised there was a black market for Peugeot wheel trims!
- The button to open the boot is completely sub-standard.
- The car is less than 3 months old/1200 miles and the engine mounts have surface rust already!
- It appears to have front fog lights, I don't know why because this thing is scary enough to drive in daylight and good driving conditions. I wouldn't dare risk my life in some foggy weather.

On to the interior:

- Central locking, although when you lock it you turn round thinking someone has just crashed into it because it makes such a noise.
- Noise intrusion is horrendous.
- Two front speakers which are truly crap. I traveled in silence (well, except for the road noise) rather than put up with the sound quality.
- Copycat Mini dial - but much cheaper looking and no menu showing mpg, range etc.
- Weird whale type air vent which you can't control the direction of facing the windscreen!
- No nice rubber linings in the storage pockets.
- No glovebox lid so you can't hide things.
- No bucket seats.
- Use of painted interior door skins to minimise on the plastic trim (not sure why as the rest of it is plastic so they must have got a good deal on the materials!)
- Electric windows, but you can't control the passenger side without leaning over..not that it's far to reach though.
- THE most plasticky centre console I have ever seen with buttons akin to those small red and yellow kids toy cars.

Oh the list could go on...no doubt I will notice more as the days drag by. I'm coming to the realisation that I might be a car snob. Not based on age obviously, but specification and build quality (and power)...definitely. If ever I needed further inspiration to get the prelude on the road, this is it. Tomorrow night after work I will be straight into the garage searching for that earth fault.

Anyway, I shall conclude my review of the 107 with some pictures for your entertainment. I probably don't need to say it to you Honda mad speed demons, but please never buy one of these. The sooner they discontinue it the better!

Hope everyone is well.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:17 pm

Are you challenging Clarkson for his job?

I have to say I actually think that's quite clever the way they've hidden the fact it's a 4 door. Plenty have tried to make a 4 door look like a 2dr/coupe, 99% fail but this one does literally make it look like it's just a quarter panel!

Does look cheap, but any worse than the equivalent Ka I wonder??? (not been in one of the current ones, though i can see one out of my window across the street...)

sarah_h · Post by **sarah_h** » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:30 pm

wurlycorner wrote:
Are you challenging Clarkson for his job?

I have to say I actually think that's quite clever the way they've hidden the fact it's a 4 door. Plenty have tried to make a 4 door look like a 2dr/coupe, 99% fail but this one does literally make it look like it's just a quarter panel!

Does look cheap, but any worse than the equivalent Ka I wonder??? (not been in one of the current ones, though i can see one out of my window across the street...)

Haha no I'm quite happy with my current job thanks.

Yeah I suppose they've done it quite well really to squeeze that door in, although the handles concealed in the window always look better - civic and giulietta spring to mind. Having said that, if my A3 had this design I'd only have been looking for a new door to sort the repair really which would have been much easier.

Not been in a Ka, but this is part of that alliance I think so the same as the Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo. I think it's worse because our work hire cars are always class D or better and this is a class A so bit of a step down

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