2004 Peugeot 206 Coupe Cabriolet from UK and Ireland - Comments

Oil indicator has never worked properly and always flashes too much oil, too little oil or electrical fault. Dealer has now tried to fix four times without success.

Roof has started to leak.

Rear electric window jams half way up and then front window shuts instead.

Engine loses power for no reason.

Engine has now started to 'pink'.

Ignition did not recognise key and engine would not start.

Major problem with handling and suspension. When roof is down car shakes and judders violently and feels unstable. Dealer changed front wheel bearings to no effect.

Noise from windows rattling is now becoming unbearable.

Central locking button on dash is beginning to become defective.

My dream car is going horribly wrong. Spent too much time back at dealers already.

Suspension is far too rigid with roof down.

Car looks wonderful, but inside lurks a disaster.

When you say your car loses power do you mean as in there's no power for a couple of seconds and all of a sudden the power comes back. I own a Renault Scenic 1.6i 16v it can lose power and then it will come back all of a sudden.

In general, all convertibles tend to lose much of the torsional rigidity of the fixed-roof platform they are based on (in this case the standard 206 platform), even if the original platform is strengthened. For instance some years back, the Alfa Spider featured only 30% of the rigidity of the Alfa GTV, whose platform shared.

Naturally, this is not the case with roadsters as the MX5 which were initially designed as such, i. e with a special platform structure (the MX5 features a reinforced central tunnel much similar to the original lotus elan).

Anyway, when the steel roof is up, the structure is stiffened up a bit: that's why you only notice significant rattles with the roof down. That's also why many convertibles have softer spring/dampers settings than the fixed-roof models they are based on.

My 206cc is excellent, very few problems and works the way it was meant to work. A shame you have had so many problems, but from the many other owners I have spoken to in general they have no problems either.

I have had similar problems with the power cutting out. Quite a scary thing while trying to cross a busy road and your car cutting out in the middle of the road. I was disappointed with reaction of dealer. He said it would cost a lot of money to find out what problem was. Number of other things went on my new car, locking system, alternator etc. Was told by service manager "that's the luck of the draw". I wonder is this Peugeot's new sales motto. I'm one annoyed Peugeot driver. Selling my 2 and half year old car with only 19 thousand miles because I am so dissatified.

I'm having problems with my Peugeot 206cc electrical roof at the moment. It seems that the roof will go down some times at at other times refuses to go down or up. Also I get a lot of warning beeps coming from it, especially when I go over humps or around corners and it is indicating that there is a fault with the boot. Has quite a lot of electrical faults going on at the moment. Feeling very disappointed as I think it is a beautiful looking car and have always wanted one.

My roof won't open, had new sensor fitted last year don't think its that, it just beeps at me can anyone help.