2003 Peugeot 307 GLX review from UK and Ireland

New car was very good, quiet, comfortable, relaxed motorway cruiser with decent handling and space, plus excellent levels of equipment. All went well for first 9 months, then throttle pedal jammed under leading edge of Peugeot-fitted floor mat. Hairy experience having 138 BHP on full throttle in an automatic, on a dual carriageway approaching a lot of brake lights!

Managed to stop without incident, but dealer informed me "Oh that's quite a common fault."

From there on the car suffered from just about every engine management fault in it's, extensive, repertoire. I can log 14 visits to local dealer for new components and/or re-programming, including once in France.

Final straw 3 weeks ago when car went to full throttle on it's own. Following much hard braking and not a little sweating it came off full throttle, displayed "Catalytic Converter Fault" and settled to a fast tick-over. Unfortunately, the throttle pedal was now seemingly disconnected so we trickled home at 1200 rpm in Tiptronic 2. Following another reprogramming and another new part, my Company have decided that this is a potentially dangerous car and are disposing of it back to the lease company. Thankfully I work for a caring Company and it's not my own money tied up in this time bomb.

Great shame really. Two previous 406's have been brilliant motor cars. However, I have met quite a few nice, but equally frustrated, 307 owners whilst sitting in my local dealer's reception area. The Receptionists care, but seem nearly defeated by the almost constant moaning from upset customers.

Next car? Skoda or Honda.