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Forums › Tuning, Modification & Legal › Project Cars › Back after about a year to show you what I've been doing :) |
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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:01 pm |
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Joined: Jan 07, 2011
Posts: 224
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Leyland, Lancashire
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Well I haven't been on here for a while now, mainly because I removed most of my modifications to my car and took out a new motoring based hobby, as I will explain...
I've driven peugeot 206's for nearly three years now. My first being a Diablo red 206 1.4 petrol, my mother owned it from new from 2002 and passed it onto me in may 2010. I unfortunately had a little skid on some ice and took me and my best mate through a drystone wall.
I replaced the wall beaten 206 with a china blue 2004 206 1.4 Hdi costing £3000 with 69000 miles on the clock. It currently sits at 110000 miles so I'd say it was a good buy :).
The day I bought 'poppy'
I decided I wanted a sort of euro look but without the stretched tyres and speed bump scraping ride hight (I'm a farmer and drive down some god awfully bumpy roads) so set about the modifying as follows...
De badge
M3 rears
Exhaust tip
Bright white nimrods
About a million hours of polishing
Removal of back box and replaced with pipe (more sound effect than performance)
Remap to 90bhp
Gti front bumper with mesh grill
Fogs wired as sidelights will dull led lights
5000k hids and sidelights to match
Replaced w5w bulbs in middle brake light with LED's
Bosch wipers
And it looked something like this...
I also fitted a touch screen computer into the dashboard but removed it after about 3 months as I found myself browsing iTunes more than browsing the road for hazards.
Car more or less finished...
After the summer of 2011 I more or less lost interest in maintaining a modified car and returned it to standard. Keeping the remap.
From here my car more or less turned into a landrover, off road, on road, through fields, over hills.
Mingling with the farm machinery...
I had several minor collisions too,
Hit a deer damaging a light, bonnet and radiator fan. skidded off the road and through a hedge after a car pulled out on a blind bend, somehow receiving no damage. A jogger didn't look for traffic and jogged up my bonnet breaking his wrist. I've skidded off the road several times this winter with the roads round here turning into sheet ice and me needing to get to work, several ditches and dykes have had my car on top or in them, again somehow receiving no damage. A quick pull from works tractor soon solved these problems:)
I've reversed into so many gate posts and trees at work, they have a habit of blending in with their surroundings no matter how many times check my blind spots and mirrors.
Deer damage.
In the summer of 2012 I fitted a towbar to my beloved Poppy and purchased a towable item that I have craved desperately since I watched a program about them before I started driving...
Here's my sprite musketeer 4 berth touring caravan costing £400.
I took my beloved car and caravan to the Lake District several times and also to the isle of mull, Scotland.
Off for a bike ride...
Also to Anglesey for a weekend.
Recently I've finally got myself my first girlfriend (I'm 20 now lol), who has a little baby boy (5 months). I've not just jumped into a relationship with a girl with a kid who I don't know, we've know each other for more than a year. But this had changed my vehicle requirements therefore in two or three months time I will be upgrading to a five door.
I however have that much faith in the 206 that I will purchase my third peugeot 206 and use my current 206 for spares. Hopefully saving a decent amount in maintenance and allowing the unstoppable spirit of poppy to continue through another car. I'm about to get all soppy about a car here so grab your tissues....
This 206 has been through so much stress from my occupation and bad driving habits. It's taken me through a handful of jobs and carried me and my friends wherever we've wanted to go. Then to add to the stress I start towing an 800kg caravan behind it but she shrugs it off her shoulders and takes me to some of the most breath taking places in the country. I've had 30000 miles of pure joy out of this peugeot and it's only cost me £1000 to maintain over two years. I never thought I would get so attached to this car when I first bought it, or did I think I would still own it two years later. One small metal box can influence our lives so much and we don't even realise it. I'm truly grateful for what this car has achieved and I love it to pieces. Lets just hope my next 206 is as unstoppable as my beloved poppy.
Over and out  x
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:09 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 632
Trade Rating: +16
Location: South Coast
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Very good post and great read..
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:16 pm |
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Joined: Jan 29, 2011
Posts: 6526
Trade Rating: +10
Location: Westhoughton, Lancashire
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Good to have you back. Wondered where you had disappeared to but the new girlfriend explains all that 
If you take the caravan to any North West meets, I'm sure we could transform it into a burger van.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:20 pm |
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Joined: Jan 07, 2011
Posts: 224
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Leyland, Lancashire
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I was literally just thinking of bringing it out for some industrial brew making haha
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:11 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 2369
Trade Rating: +15
Location: Gloucestershire, UK
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Always good to hear of someone as happy with their car, as I nearly am.
Although I often can be caught in two minds, the upshot is that my 206 has been with us since 2003, and even after 1 ice-related incident, and the rear drums getting stuck on - she is still powering through life, and only recent has started to show signs of her age. (Hopefully, all she needs is a good servicing seeing-to to put her back to full health which I'll do when the weather improves).
It sounds like you are in a good place, and long may that continue! Although while you are thinking of getting a second 206 I'd advise you now to think a little further into the future, if you haven't already, as you never know when 1 child will become 2!
I guess what I am saying is that if you are looking at another 206, look to get an SW, as the smaller 5-door variants will leave you struggling for space on standard shopping trips with 2 small children in tow (and associated luggage)!
Although you could do what I did, which was buy a Picasso (or similar vehicle) as the family run-around and turn the 5-door into another little project!
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