Peugeot 207 various dashboard warnings

mazy_m

Hi all,


My MOT is due on my 207 and as it had the ABS faulty light showing I was concerned about it not passing it and costing more than the car was worth ( it's got numerous dents not due to my driving but someone crashing into me and driving off and my partner scraping it up against a bollard) so it looks awful but as long as it's safe and drives I'm fine with it.


I took it to get a pre MOT test done at my friends partners garage and they gave me a list of all the things it would fail on and how much each would cost to get fixed.


I was pleasantly surprised that the ABS and little bit that needed doing wasn't as much as I thought and it was worth getting it done so I got that booked in for a week before the MOT was due and that was all fine. I just had to get new tyres ( 4 I didn't realise I was driving around with four illegal ones so I had to get those the same day!) and bang a bit of a sharp edge out.


As soon as we drove out of the garage well when we restarted it and the warning lights appeared - sods law it didn't show up when we were there another warning light flashed up saying anti pollution faulty and has been there since.


The next day LH indicator light faulty flashed up which isn't an issue as this is easily fixed.


Then I noticed a couple of times after it had been hot ( not sure if that's relevant) that the engine warning light came on and now seems to have stayed on.


Does anyone have any experience with 207s and knows if this is going to be costly and what on earth they could mean?


When researching it quite a few people have said to put reddex and premium petrol into the car and take it up the motorway at a steady speed and not to rag it and this does make sense as the car was used to driving up and down the motorway but for the last few months has not been driven far at all. However I'm concerned about doing this now that the engine warning light has come on.


In an ideal world the car would have only cost the couple of hundred we thought (plus the £100 for the tyres) to be useable until December. When the insurance ends and when we were thinking of leasing one ( but that's a whole new thread on finding out all about leasing) so if the car is going to cost much more than this I can't afford to get it done and will have to forego one for a while.


Thanks in advance


Maz

BeenThroughItAll

I'm assuming since you don't bother ever checking the tyres are legal, that the car hasn't been serviced religiously, and that you've not bothered to check things like oil levels, coolant level, etc?

Some of your lights could be on due to low brake fluid level, coolant, etc.

mazy_m

Actually it's been serviced yearly since I got it. The tyres were an oversight this year due to moving.


Thanks for your suggestions I will however look into these.

bigjl

mazy_m wrote: »

Actually it's been serviced yearly since I got it. The tyres were an oversight this year due to moving.


Thanks for your suggestions I will however look into these.

That isn't really a good enough excuse for driving on four illegal tyres.

They don't got from plenty of tread to illegal just like that, they wear gradually.

A car can get beyond economical repair for many different reasons.

But those kind of electrical issues would likely make me get rid.

takman

Just out of interest why did you get a pre-mot done?, was it free?. I've heard of people getting this done before and actually paying an hours labour for it!, which is obviously completely pointless considering that you can get a free retest at almost all MOT centres if it fails.

Muscle750

Thankfully you didnt aqua plane into some unsuspecting person with those tyres sorry but its no excuse some years ago i saw a year old BMW M3 with illegal tyres on it that had ended up on its roof in a field the car was written off however the insurance would not pay out due to the tyres and the owner was some £35k out of pocket...................lesson learned Alot of Peugeot electrical issues are down to the steering wheel squab ring that sits behind the sterring wheel and also wiring looms burning and spliting Citroen DS3 are very bad for this

windup

Either return it to the garage (if these fault lights didn't appear beforehand, what work did they do on the car other than tyres and bodywork?), or buy an obd reader yourself.

Additives/premium petrol/motorway runs are a waste of money. Researching or asking on the internet will prove fruitless unless you want petrolhead myths, pure guesswork or rants about tyres, (which may not have been illegal in the first place).

engine management light staying on and anti/depollution system fault messages (those words sound quite specific, but it covers a wide range of fault possibilities) are connected, ie it's more likely to be one underlying fault rather than several.

it just means the system is sensing something is not working as it should, that something can be identified or narrowed down with a £9 basic obd reader which can also reset the engine management fault light. You can't identify the cause or the likely repair cost (which could be zero, £10, or £100's) without reading the fault code first.

arcon5

It will cost between £0-£1k to fix

pappa_golf

arcon5 wrote: »

It will cost between £0-£1k to fix

or £1k to £5k at kuik fit

snowscreamer

We had an intermittent anti-pollution / engine cut out problem on a '07 207 1.6 HDi Sport.

Local independent garage who have been very reliable for our servicing and MOTs and other repairs couldn't recreate the issue and drew a blank.

Peugeot garage charged us £430 for replacement filters and a new engine management unit.

The problem recurred the following week... rang the Peugeot garage and they said "well what we fixed was a problem but there's obviously something else going on as well... leave it with us for a week and we'll run some tests."

Decided it wasn't worth throwing good money after bad: OH has a long commute and the car was dangerous, cutting out at high speed. I've read numerous reports of these sorts of problems with Peugeots without many success stories. Get rid.

Luckily we were in a good enough financial situation at the time to replace with a much newer, lower mileage Toyota Auris Hybrid which we are absolutely delighted with.

I'd get rid of it and replace with a more reliable brand, something German, Japanese or Korean? You can get something a few years old if the brand is reliable. If you can't afford outright get a personal loan to pay for it. It'll work out much cheaper than leasing in the long term.