I bought a GTi-6 last Thursday as a general run about car so I can crack on with the more timely parts of my 205 gti restoration. Since then I have been able to drive the car once, bit by bit I'm uncovering more and more problems with this 306. I bought it with 1 month MOT left which usually I would avoid but when the car was £700 with it "only needing ball joint and new front discs and pads". Got the car home and over the pit and went to put on the ball joint I was given, wrong size. got the n/s calipers off and they were seized solid, the disc lock screws had sheared and the wheel hub had the wrong bolts driven into them ruining the thread on 1 hole.

This morning I went to tackle the other discs and pads. discs screws had been sheared off again and I couldn't get the calliper out of the holder as the top part of the sliders was a stud . got a tyre lever on it and put it in the vice to un- seize them too, pulled the sliders out and they nearly fell to bits, and I was shocked to see that with the top one with the stud had actually been made up using a steel rod with a thread cut on it and a nut welded on as a back stop which didnt actually slide at all. Went down to Peugeot and thats another £48 and a day the car is left jacked up till I can pick it up in the morning.

Had a look round the car wondering if its worth carrying on the work in hope to get it through the MOT in three weeks, all the wheel bolts are the tapered type which are only just biting the thread in the hubs (about 3-4 threads), theres a small whole on the corner of the wheel arch which I should be able to weld easy enough, the air filer is a bit of drainage down pipe jammed into the old intake pipes and the exhaust isn't held on by the rubbers but speaker wire.

All these things I was unable to check as I couldn't get under the car with it being lowered so much.
I just hope that when it finally comes to the MOT they don't fail it on some majorly s**t thing, well fail it at all actually otherwise it'll either turn into another project or just stripped and ready for another 205

Anyone else got a duff deal when you first bought yours?

That does sound pretty horiffic to be honest.

The disc lock screws being sheared is pretty standard though.

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Ex SC-6

Now in a Megane R26

Whoever buys mine next will have.

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- Bespoke rollcages/additions/adjustments. Half cages right up to complete custom spaceframes - MSA/FIA spec, CDS, ROPT, T45, etc - PM me
Email me!
Custom-made polybushes available - need an odd size or fitment? - anything from batch work to one-off pieces.

one of the last owner of mine had glued the steering column covers on together
that one puzzled me for 10 minutes

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TEAM HIGH BOOST SUPERCHARGED RALLYE

My Rallye project thread

to be fair i don't blame them mine have never been right in any of the 306's once you take them apart!

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306 rallye reproduction decals (full sets/individual decals) | 306 b-pillar textured vinyl weatherstrips
306 slam panel esso stickers | 306 yellow / orange / pension fund red side door badges
gti6 inlet manifold badges | 306 rear boot badges (p2/p3)
winner of Extraction of toys from prams with outstanding vigour award 2009 [source: gti6 owners club]

...and the owner spends over £3k on insurance and tries to maintain the car on a shoestring.

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Less than 24 hours to go!

EFA

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Cherry rallye - DOB Thursday 29/04/1999
Team Rallye - the leaner, meaner, better looking sister of the GTI6

The best engine in the world is the vagina, it takes any size piston, its self lubricating, starts with 1 finger, and every 4 weeks does its own oil change. It's just a pity the management system is so fecking temperamental. 

Peety isnt yours an Ex Pugplus car?

I was lucky when I bought mine, it had been cared for with tlc.
A few priblems came up eventually but that was just general wear and tear nothing was bodged, not that I can remember anyway

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

I live for the 306 and I'm proud of it

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Cherry rallye - DOB Thursday 29/04/1999
Team Rallye - the leaner, meaner, better looking sister of the GTI6

The best engine in the world is the vagina, it takes any size piston, its self lubricating, starts with 1 finger, and every 4 weeks does its own oil change. It's just a pity the management system is so fecking temperamental. 

Retarded

Why do i find myself agreeing? lol

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Richies Project Rallye

Electrical work carried out in Portsmouth

- Top Tip!!!

Managed to get a couple of pictures up of the sliders I had managed to un-seize.

DanRM has attached the following image: