However, conversely I have from personal experience found that "common
faults" really do mean common.
Over 6 years, our (when obtained) 3 year old 306 suffered from:
Repeated worn suspension bushes (replaced twice in 6 years with little
speed hump use)
Dodgy airbag/pre-tensioner wiring causing airbag light to keep coming on
(easy to fix tem****arily)
Dodgy central locking wiring due to break in door hinge (thankfully only
a problem when locking from drivers door, unlike other people which
stopped you locking at all)
Window regulator cable snapping (mild steel rusted through!)
Idle control valve failure.
Finally, coilpack spiking ECU causing odd problems.
I believe all of these are common problems for the 306.
We replaced it with a Ford Focus, only to find that within a week or
two, it had suffered from another 'common problem' for that model -
leaky washer jets leaking into the spark plug wells causing corrosion of
the plugs and leads leading to a misfire. Fixed under warranty, but
required a head removal as one plug snapped. Glad it happened then and
not 6 months later when warranty had expired.
So, from my experience - listen to these 'common problems'. I've yet to
have a car which has not experienced a number of them.
Of course, you need to determine which really are common, and which
aren't. Lets just say I didn't quite get that right with the 306
(although I loved the car, and all in all, it wasn't too bad once you
accepted its faults).
D
Gary G Jones wrote:
> I think if you went by all the re****ts you read on the web and the car
press
> then in the end you would not buy anything.
> I think with any car out there they are going to have some sort of
faults,
> if not when the car is new then a few months down the line, like the
406,
> rusty rear brake disks. Air con playing up, due to various reasons.
> Remember when the Ford Mondeo first came out and they had a problem of
> steering to the left. Or as seen on TV the Renault bonnets that fly
open.
> I think the trouble is that like they say for every bad re****t you tell
10
> people for every good re****t you only tell 1 person.
> So I think you have to add up what you see as plus points and take your
> chances unfortunately.
> GGJ
>
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> <mustaphasiddique@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 23 Mar, 15:55, Chris <ch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Go for a test drive and find out..then let us all know how it went.
>> Driving one is not the problem. It is the reliability that is in
>> question.
>>
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