Hello everyone

I'm a British guy who moved to Sweden about 2 years ago, and still getting used to the cultural differences.
My user name is "immigrant" in Swedish, if anyone was wondering.
I've driven many different 306 hire cars, from a 1.4 to xsi. I enjoyed driving every one. This is the first ownership of a Peugeot, if you don't include bicycles.
I discovered it on a very popular second hand website here. Just after buying an Audi Coupe the GTI-6 turned up, and I just had to have it.

The advert said "too many modifications to list". You know...the usual used car advert 'BS'. After a good nose around and a test drive I discovered one wheel had no balancing and the car vibrated like hell! Best bargaining chip I've ever been thrown. Luckily the owner knew very little about cars, and turned out this was the reason he was selling it. But nothing felt like anything had been done to the engine to improve performance.

For around £1,000 I bought myself a phase 1 GTI-6 with about 80,000 miles on the clock.
What I do know is that it has a 3-inch cat-back exhaust (looks like a JapSpeed back-box, but can't see any branding) and a Jetex Induction kit. It sounds beefy, it does become annoying on longer trips. Luckily the stereo helps solve this problem.

The rest you can see from the photos. I know many of you here are purists and will 'poo poo' the styling. But nothing screams late 90's car styling than a set of TSW Vemons and clear Lexus style rear lights.

The bodywork had no rust but a myriad of stone chips ranging in size from 1mm up to 5mm, luckily most of them have just chipped away the clear top coat. Sweden uses gravel on the roads for part of the winter (after 3 months of salting it!).

I have a 'to do' list, but I'll ask my wise and learned forum friends in the right place (not 'ere).
I hope my knowledge of car audio (set-up, blah blah) will be of use to someone at some point.

So, here it is

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GglnWI8DbyVklwMzhVYnZJZE0/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GglnWI8DbySHZFSkFaRG81dWc/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GglnWI8DbyTXhJRk4yYjVEbnc/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GglnWI8DbydFpHbTE0U1lSOUk/edit?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7GglnWI8Dbyamw1QWRKbkVRazA/edit?usp=sharing

Sorry about the links. I couldn't find a way to embed them.

Hi and welcome

Quite like this on the venoms

If you host them on a normal image upload site like tiny pic or photo bucket not google it'll provide u with a .jpg link that u can put inside [img] [/ img] tags that'll make em embed.

And welcome buddy. Good to see another 6 on the forum

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CLUB BLACK RALLYE


||B8s||60-70mm drop||Black Partner Steels||P1 VTS Rack||Refurbed Beam||Hybrid ARB||VTS Torsion Bar||

Thanks for the welcome, I think I will follow your advise. My phone uploads the images directly to google drive. It's the first time I used it on a forum, and probably the last!

Welcome to the forum

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http://s1160.photobucket.com/albums/q486/mcvite/

Welcome to the website

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Senior Test Automation Engineer for the 306GTi6 Owners Club Forum

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Welcome.

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Goldie the track car.

Is it just the camera angle or do these seats look slightly different to the UK ones?...the bolsters on the base look bigger (yours actually look better!). Also strange seeing the dash we all know so well but mirror imaged! I agree with others, lose the bumpers, side skirts and rear lights then put back to standard and you'll have yourself a very nice car there. Oh, and try to get the rip in the drivers seat sorted now before it gets worse.

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1999 GTi-6 (china blue)
1999 Rallye (black)

My eyes........my eyes

Welcome to the club

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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost

Makes sense actually, I used to have an XSi on a 97 plate and the seats in that car were far superior to the GTi6 and Rallye I have now!. They gave better support when cornering and felt more comfortable.

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1999 GTi-6 (china blue)
1999 Rallye (black)

I live in the south of Sweden there's not much difference between them in this part of the country, I actually bought the car from a Danish fella.
The Swedes are VERY nationalist. They don't understand why I find it amusing when friends say stuff like "Did you see that really cool Volvo in the car-park?", if you go to Swedens version of exchange & mart and look for cars, and search just in your county, you'll see a list something like this: I've copy/pasted the list directly from the website.


Alfa Romeo, 57
Audi, 1032
BMW, 1414
Cadillac, 46
Chevrolet, 238
Chrysler, 126
Citroën, 422
Dacia, 75
Dodge, 93
Ferrari, 49
Fiat, 165
Ford, 1047
Honda, 401
Hyundai, 446
Jaguar, 184
Jeep, 69
Kia, 490
Lamborghini, 6
Land Rover, 130
Lexus, 59
Lincoln, 10
Maserati, 37
Mazda, 265
Mercedes-Benz, 1327
Mini, 103
Mitsubishi, 430
Nissan, 499
Opel, 559
Peugeot, 879
Pontiac, 33
Porsche, 219
Renault, 688
Rover/BMC, 42
Saab, 3526
SEAT, 179
Skoda, 373
Smart, 17
Ssang Yong, 19
Subaru, 183
Suzuki, 160
Toyota, 636
Volkswagen, 1031
Volvo, 4282


They do like their american cars in this part of the country. I guess you could call it Swedens 'Norfolk'

I've had 3 gti6s and all have been diablo. I don't seek them out, it's just that whenever I've been in a position to buy one the nicest one I can find is always diablo.

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61k miles Ph.1 Diablo '6 Project Thread