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Originally Posted by FuliHdi
Congratulations and I hope you have much better luck with the new 807 than you had with your previous C8's - if I remember 6 or 9 monthsago you were sure your next car won't be an EV2  , But here we have a proverb saying: "Good luck follows the brave". You're definitely brave and you deserve good luck ! 
Rgds Bor |
* Absolutely true - I didn't want another EV2 (HDi engine!) again.
I was very happy with my 2nd C8 without pbl's
(compared to the 1st with plenty of pbl's, and compared to the Ulysse I with same engine and pbl's too) until..... the broken timing belt at 117.000km
. Luckily mostly repaired under warranty while car was 5 months out of warranty.
But it was only a question of money / lack of good alternatives:
- VW (Sharan) didn't offer a lot for my C8 altough good offers for a new Sharan (but cf. neighbours the Sharan is not recommendable because of expensive maintenance & -aircon repairs)
- Ford (Galaxy) offered almost the same as Peugeot for the C8, but much more money to pay extra even 'only' for the 1.8TDCi - but cf. the SGAF forum still pbl's - I wouldn't pass to a period of recalls again cf. 1st C8
- Renault Espace IV - for same headroom on 3rd row only Grand Espace possible => don't want to pay that money for just a car
* The first thing I did yesterday evening is studying the Service Book:
- on 2.0HDi 136hp the timing belt needs to be replaced only at 240.000km (normal conditions) or 180.000km (heavy conditions) - this is still 150.000km/120.000km on 120hp version
So maybe I'll be more lucky now - cf. one of my sons who just finished his Bachelor Autotechnology (will continu for Master Automotive Engineering) the quality of (timing) belts is improving continuously, let's "wait and see".
Let's hope the EV2 finally arrived in a mature phase.
Peter