Peugeot Expert Reviews from UK and Ireland

The side loading door fell off.

The turbocharger started leaking oil, and then died while waiting for the replacement to arrive.

The blue tooth radio locks up and the only way to turn the radio and everything else off is to disconnect the battery.

Paint finish under the bonnet is appalling, yet this is "to spec".

The van has more room than its predecessor, and appeared to be a totally different design, and has a better feel to it as well.

How wrong I was, the side loading door fell off in the pouring rain one day and damaged the bodywork, leaving me to try and reload the door into it's runners.

Driving along one day, and the blue tooth just locked up, and took the key out of the ignition and everything was still running.

When it went back to the dealership, the area manager took one look at it, looked down upon us as if we had dared critisise the build and paint quality.

Really should of learnt our lesson with our previous Citroen, and now we believe we have.

The radio and interior lights turn off after 5 minutes of stopping the engine, so called 'economy mode' The only way to get the radio back is to turn the engine on and off again to get another 5 minutes.

Don't Peugeot think that customers might like to sit in there van or car and have lunch/read the paper/listen to the radio? Seems to me that they might be selling a lot of batteries/ starter motors in the future!

Will never ever buy another Peugeot.

Swirl chamber fell out and engine seized at 76000.

Can only get one key to work with the immobilizer.

Leak around the windscreen - pre 66000.

I like this van. We bought it for conversion to a camper van, but it's also our only vehicle.

It is spacious - the sensible cab design with flat floor (dash-mounted gearstick, handbrake on right hand side) makes it easy to walk through into the back - very nice when the weather is miserable.

The 1.9D is rather underpowered. It's OK for town deliveries, but for motorway use and steep hills it's noisy and struggles. Now that it's blown up, I'm putting in the 1.9TD engine in instead, which is more appropriate for our type of use. The XUD engine used on this car is normally extremely reliable. Swirl chamber failure is very rare and most unfortunate! I obviously got a duff one.

The car is well-built and designed, although getting spare cinch crimps for extending the electrics using the native connectors, is difficult.

The alarm/immobiliser has been tiresome as we can only get one key to work at a time, and the Peugeot dealership don't seem to know what to do about it. It is also easy to accidentally set the alarm when you are in the vehicle, and then it goes off in an embarrassing fashion.

The rear suspension is a bit harsh for camper-van use: it is too stiff for sleeping in the back to be comfortable whilst traveling.