The final work to clean up under the hood was to eliminate the oil leak from the junction of the pan with the block. The pallet is metal, hanging on 20 bolts. When I unscrewed the bolts, the pan fell off on its own; the sealant no longer held it in place at all. After draining the oil, there was still about 300 grams of oil left in the pan. The mesh on the oil intake is clean, as is the pan itself inside. But the outside of the pallet is pretty well rusted. I treated it several times with a rust converter and sandpaper, and coated it with anti-corrosion

Repair
French cars are somewhat inferior in reliability to products from the German automobile industry. But they have many other advantages that make them popular all over the world. For example, Peugeot cars have an original design and are characterized by good handling. Recognizable design, supported by good technical characteristics, made Peugeot cars one of the best-selling European brands last year. On Russian roads You can also find these cars with a lion on the hood. After all, they are well adapted to the harsh Russian climatic conditions, and are also less sensitive to road surfaces. best quality. All these features undoubtedly increase performance characteristics car, but sooner or later the Peugeot may need to be repaired, and in this case the car owner must approach the choice of a workshop responsibly. After all, these cars have a design of some components that differs from the structure of similar units used in other cars. And their adjustment requires a highly qualified technician, knowledge of the features of design solutions of certain Peugeot systems in each specific model.

Peugeot repair

In our car service center, Peugeot car repairs are performed by professionals who have extensive experience working with cars of this brand. When carrying out all repair activities, our specialists are guided by the recommendations of French manufacturers; they have at their disposal the latest equipment for diagnosing and adjusting all Peugeot systems, as well as original maps and diagrams of all devices of this company’s vehicle.
And although the engines of the French company are considered reliable and durable, these units have a number of weak points, which are well known to our masters. If used incorrectly, the motor can fail much earlier than its service life is designed. The specialists of our car service center will carry out repairs of the Peugeot engine, both routine and major, with high quality, because they are familiar with all the design features of the “heart” of Peugeot, as well as all the “delicate” parts that need repair.
Automatic transmissions of French cars are highly reliable, but sometimes they fail. Not every master will take on the task of eliminating defects in this complex system. For the specialists of our company, repairing a Peugeot automatic transmission is a completely solvable task, because they know the design features of its components.
And they will be able to correct all the shortcomings in the work and eliminate all problems of all components and systems in the Peugeot car.

Repair Peugeot suspension 407, Peugeot 407

The Peugeot 407 car had excellent handling, the engineers outdid themselves. The Peugeot 407 suspension impresses with its capabilities and perfection. The reliability of the suspension is that each hinge of the Peugeot 407 suspension perceives loads each in its own plane, all suspension units are made of steel and heavy-duty light alloy. The Peugeot 407 suspension showed itself excellently in difficult Russian conditions. The reliability of the Peugeot 407 suspension is at its best high level! The nature of the suspension of the Peugeot 407 does the seemingly impossible: it takes turns with a squeal, without roll, while maintaining comfort and smoothness, reminiscent of an executive limousine. The problem was solved brilliantly by Peugeot engineers!

The automaker behaves like a bandit in pursuit of profits!

Car suspension repair Peugeot 407 in car services is to replace old parts with new ones. For this car, this approach can be a very expensive service, since manufacturer Peugeot took care of his own benefit in advance designing a non-dismountable suspension part (ball in the lever, ball shock absorbers, ball in the steering knuckle).

At this time Peugeot suspension parts are a single whole and in such cases silent blocks And ball joints not supplied separately, when one of the elements of the suspension fails Peugeot you have to buy the entire lever assembly. As a rule, the cost of such parts is high. This circumstance suggests that manufacturer Peugeot sells a spoon to a car enthusiast in which he will bring money to Him and the Auto Service on a schedule.

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Our company’s specialists have developed a comprehensive solution: suspension repair Peugeot 407 :repair of ball joints, restoration of silent blocks Peugeot. .
Choosing this program for the specified car brand allows you to save at least 50% on the purchase of new spare parts and 10% on labor. All types of work are guaranteed!

Four-door sedan PEUGEOT 407 2004. Over the past few years, in the “Car Showroom” section, publications about Peugeot cars have appeared almost every year - during this time, readers have managed to get acquainted with almost all the company’s new models - PEUGEOT 206, PEUGEOT 307, PEUGEOT 607... And today in our next publication - a story about new car PEUGEOT 407.

The traditions of creating middle-class cars (in modern terminology - European size class D) go back to the distant 30s of the last century. It was then, in 1936, that the company’s first car appeared, “exchanging” the fourth hundred in the digital model index - PEUGEOT 402

Automotive historians today consider the PEUGEOT 402 one of the most interesting and attractive cars, the creation of which made a significant contribution to the development of the concept of “aerodynamic” vehicle. The designers managed to create a car with a low drag coefficient, “hiding”, if possible, all the protruding elements of the body - even the headlights were installed behind the radiator grille.

The four-door PEUGEOT 402 with a two-liter 55-horsepower engine was designed according to a classic rear-wheel drive layout. When developing it, the designers tried to eliminate complex and expensive solutions, but some of the simplicity of the design was more than compensated for by the variety model range. The car was produced in the versions of a sedan, a utility vehicle, a convertible with a soft roof equipped with an electric (!) or mechanical drive, and a coupe-convertible with a two-section metal roof folding into the trunk.

The next from the fourth hundred was the PEUGEOT 403 - a sedan with a 65-horsepower 1.5-liter engine produced in 1955. This car was very popular among representatives of the resurgent middle class. The still unknown car designer Batista Farina, nicknamed Pinin (translated from Italian as baby, shorty), who later became the head of the Pininfarina company, was involved in the design of this car, which was an example of a classic three-volume sedan.

Despite the rather high price, the car was a wild success among the bourgeoisie and taxi drivers - the latter willingly bought the PEUGEOT 403B version with an economical 1.5-liter diesel engine with 66 hp. In 1960, the “four hundred and third” was replaced by the PEUGEOT 404 - a car with 1.6-liter gasoline and 1.8-liter diesel engines. The next of the fourth hundred appeared only 27 years later - it was a PEUGEOT 405 produced in 1987. True, experts claim that this car had predecessors that were produced before 1987, but were part of the more prestigious fifth hundred: the 1968 PEUGEOT 504 with 1.8 and 2.0 liter engines, the most luxurious car of the company of that period, which deservedly received the title "Car of 1968", and the mid-range model PEUGEOT 505 from 1979. Nevertheless, let’s return to the next “four hundredth” - PEUGEOT 405.

These cars of the European size class D, designed with the participation of Pininfarina stylists, have become real family cars, which, depending on the configuration, were equally suitable for people who were relatively poor and quite wealthy. Thanks to a well-designed chassis, the car had excellent handling and handled winding roads superbly. The car was produced in several modifications, including those that could be called sports cars - all-wheel drive PEUGEOT 405 SRX4 and PEUGEOT 405 T16. The latter, equipped with a 218-horsepower turbo engine, could accelerate to 235 km/h!

The premiere of the next model from the “four hundredth” family - the PEUGEOT 406 - took place in the summer of 1995. Cars with fully independent suspension were produced in sedan and station wagon versions with engines with a displacement of 1.8 to 2.9 liters and a power output of 116 to 207 hp. with automatic or manual transmission. At the end of 1996, the elegant PEUGEOT 405 COUPE model, developed by the Pininfarina body shop, appeared. The two-door modification has an excellent design, magnificent driving performance and increased comfort.

The last of the “four hundredths” was the PEUGEOT 407 - a front-wheel drive four-door sedan of the same European size class D. Design new car absorbed the most advanced technical solutions- both those that were developed during the design and operation of the “four hundredth”, and new products from the global automotive industry.

The streamlining of the new car is at the level of sports cars - drag coefficient Cx = 0.29. It must be said that well-designed aerodynamics ... of the engine compartment, in particular, ensuring the unhindered removal of heated air entering through the radiator, helped to achieve this value. It is interesting that at one time the issues of reducing drag were solved in the same way in aviation. At first, aircraft designers improved external streamlining aircraft, and when it became almost ideal, it turned out that the drag coefficient could be made even smaller by improving the aerodynamics of the engine compartment.

As is known, the main characteristic of the monocoque body passenger car serves as its rigidity - its value significantly affects both the handling of the car and its passive safety. As for the body of the 407, its rigidity, amounting to 22,700 Nm/deg, exceeds the same parameter of any of the Peugeot sedans - it can only be compared with a BMW car of the fifth model.

In addition to body rigidity, the car's handling and driving stability are also affected by the suspension design. The rear suspension of the PEUGEOT 407 is independent, spring, multi-link, with stabilizer. Most of its parts are made of aluminum alloys. Despite its somewhat external massiveness, it is quite light, however, the power elements of the suspension have increased rigidity, which ensures the highest accuracy of the kinematic connections of this multi-link and multi-joint design.

The front suspension is independent, spring, on double wishbones, with a stabilizer, made according to a modern design with a pivoting axle. The suspension rebound and steering functions are separated, which provides increased control precision. Both the front and rear suspensions are equipped with four-valve gas-assisted shock absorbers, and on V6-powered vehicles the damping efficiency automatically adjusts to suit driving conditions. The steering knuckle of the front suspension, as well as its lower and upper wishbones, are made of steel, and the multi-function steering knuckle support is made of aluminum alloy. Steering- rack and pinion type, in combination with the suspension it provides fairly accurate control responses, relieving the driver of search steering.

All modifications of the PEUGEOT 407 are equipped with power steering. On cars with a 1.8-liter gasoline engine and a 1.6-liter diesel engine, power steering pumps are driven directly from the car engines, while the pump performance is inversely proportional to the engine speed - at low speeds it is maximum (light steering), and with increasing speed the steering wheel gets heavy.

On cars with more powerful 2.0- and 2.2-liter engines, an electro-hydraulic booster is used, in which the pump is driven by an electric motor. Accordingly, the pump performance varies depending on the speed of the machine and the speed of rotation of the steering wheel. And on cars with a V6 engine, a hydraulic booster with an electronically controlled actuator is installed, which takes into account the speed of the car, as well as the rotation speed and angle of rotation of the steering wheel.

As already mentioned, the PEUGEOT 407 with a V6 engine and a Japanese Aisin automatic transmission is equipped with shock absorbers with variable stiffness. There are nine fixed modes of valve operation, and mode changes occur automatically, individually for each of the four shock absorbers. In this case, the computer receives the same data as the ESP control unit, as well as readings from the vertical movement sensors of each wheel. As a result, the roll of the car is significantly reduced and the sway of the car is reduced, and the smoothness of its movement improves.

The PEUGEOT 407 can be equipped with one of four gasoline engines displacement from 1.8 to 3.0 liters and power, respectively, from 116 to 211 hp. or one of two turbodiesels with a displacement of 1.6 and 2.0 liters, producing 109 and 136 hp, respectively. By the way, the 1.6-liter 16-valve PSA turbodiesel with an aluminum block is practically not inferior to a gasoline engine, but at the same time it is approximately 30 percent more economical in terms of fuel and 50 percent in terms of mileage costs. Unfortunately, Russians are unlikely to have to use the ultra-efficient diesel PEUGEOT - diesel fuel, produced in our country, are safely “digested” only by truck engines.

In Europe, however, dieselization of passenger vehicles is becoming increasingly widespread. In particular, of the 300 thousand PEUGEOT 407 planned for production in 2005, 210 thousand will be equipped with diesel engines. And only 17 percent of Peugeot cars with gasoline engines will reach the domestic (French) market.

The new machine is equipped electronic system stabilization newest generation ESP (Electronic Stability Program) with a course stabilization controller, which allows you to keep the car on course using automatic targeted braking of the wheels. That is, if the rear of the car begins to skid in a turn, then the outer one on the side of the turn front wheel slows down. When the front wheels drift, the inner rear wheel slows down.

The interior of the front part of the cabin is made in the traditional classic style of Peugeot. Directly in front of the driver - clearly legible pointer instruments. Displays navigation system and the air conditioning system are grouped in a single unit on the center console.

Official sales of the car began in June 2004. At the time of preparing the material about the new PEUGEOT, there was no information yet about the start time of its deliveries to Russia and how much it would cost. Official dealers They believe that it is no less than the current “406”, the price of which today starts at 17,300 euros.

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The final work to clean up under the hood was to eliminate the oil leak from the junction of the pan with the block. The pallet is metal, hanging on 20 bolts. When I unscrewed the bolts, the pan fell off on its own; the sealant no longer held it in place at all. After draining the oil, there was still about 300 grams of oil left in the pan. The mesh on the oil intake is clean, as is the pan itself inside. But the outside of the pallet is pretty well rusted. I treated it several times with a rust converter and sandpaper, and coated it with anti-corrosion

TIPS AND TECH: USED CAR Peugeot 407 SW HDi 110

Constant suspension problems

Previously, Peugeot sedans were famous for their particular reliability. But those days are long gone, and the 407, introduced in 2004, is the complete opposite of this opinion.

By transporting used Peugeot 504 and 505 to Africa, many students earned their way to university. In the 80s it was extremely profitable business, since these French cars were in great demand on the Dark Continent - their suspension was considered indestructible. But the 407 would probably have pleased the Africans much less. Because the suspension is clearly its Achilles heel: equally complex rear and front axle are subject to wear and tear even on relatively good Central European roads faster than any warranty on a used car expires. Hinges independent suspension, supports, silent blocks, steering and connecting rods are the main culprits of breakdowns that owners are forced to fix every 40,000-60,000 km. A small consolation in this case: the rear stabilizer links can be purchased over the counter in a reinforced version from Meyle. We recommend paying attention to independent auto parts dealers when looking for engine parts: the often-needed turbochargers for the 1.6 HDi can be purchased for €300 cheaper than from Peugeot. Our advice: when installing them, it is worth replacing the oil supply system, malfunctions of which in most cases lead to breakdown of compressors. Otherwise diesel engines are considered reliable unless the owner skips replacing the timing belt. All HDi turbodiesels are equipped with a dust filter from the very beginning of production. Unfortunately, it is prone to clogging, especially if the car is often used for short trips. Gasoline engines - with the exception of the 3.0 V6 - are less vulnerable. Automatic transmissions are prone to problems, while manual transmissions are, of course, stronger. The gearbox linkage joints often wear out, which can be felt when handling the gearshift lever. And since we are talking about levers: the turn signal lever often does not turn on - or does not turn off. The list of other minor dirty tricks includes capricious power windows, a ventilation system that cools and warms according to the mood. On the 407 SW station wagon, the protective curtain of the large glass panoramic roof goes on strike from time to time. At least in Europe. In hot Africa - unlikely.

TEST DRIVE

OUR TEST CAR, Peugeot 407 SW HDi 110 for $10,500, can be described as follows: it is six years old, it has covered a little more than 112,000 km, and it looks quite decent in appearance. Thanks to the large panoramic roof, climate control and a couple of electronic assistant systems, it is also quite well equipped. However, under its outer shell in a fashionable black metallic color, a technically unpleasant surprise awaits the new owner.

VERY TIGHT Despite being worn chassis, 407 handles the road well,
which, however, is also a merit of the stiff suspension

OUR TEST RIDE turned into a disaster. Although the small 1.6-litre HDi thanks to its short gear ratio nimbly propels the heavy 407 forward from a standstill, it immediately becomes obvious that the suspension is squeezed like a lemon. The worn-out independent suspension joints rumble in front, and the station wagon swings freely at the back, as rear axle strongly pulls to the side on every wave of the road surface. It looks like replacing one bushing won't be enough here. Also unnerving are the shortcomings of the assembly, such as the constant noise accompaniment in the form of rattling of the trim and crackling from the depths of the driver's door. In addition, the turn signal lever does not work as expected - another typical “illness” of the 407.

SMALL AND CULTIVATED 1.6 HDi economical, quiet and fundamentally reliable,
but its turbocharger is considered extremely vulnerable

OUR ASSESSMENT cannot sound otherwise than: hands off this car! Because even if the dealer, within the framework of its warranty obligations, makes a complete repair of the entire suspension, the horror of another breakdown will still not leave you for a minute. But, most likely, this 407 with its numerous defects will be exported, since it is simply not economically profitable to repair it.

DRY NUMBERS Plastic everywhere you look. Tiny display and the same air conditioning control buttons

SOURCES OF PROBLEMS

TECHNICAL DISASTER ON WHEELS- that's how the 407 can be called due to its unreasonably complex design. Any repair requires a lot of time, and when paying for it, amounts are generated that go far beyond the average class. Added to this is sloppy assembly: power windows break, mirror glass shakes in the air flow, six-speed automatic transmissions shift too sharply or freeze in high gears. Serial headlights are very dim, but if you find such a car with xenon, you will immediately have to take into account the cost of repairing the control unit. The question of choosing the lesser of two evils also arises in the case of engines. The basic rule here is: small gasoline engine in combination with manual transmission minimizes the risk of early repairs; and V6 - diesel or "automatic" - are more suitable for gambling enthusiasts.

RESULT

In the AUTO BILD TÜV report, the Peugeot 407 is ranked 123rd. Out of 125. And all because of its rattling suspension. But oil leaks also guarantee numerous expensive visits to service stations. You wouldn't recommend this car to your enemy. Neither its nine airbags nor its good road holding will make this diagnosis easier.