Peugeot 308 Problems

A HOPEFULLY you have a receipt from the servo showing the date and time you bought the fuel, and armed with the report from the dealership showing the water content, you need to go to the servo to show them they have a problem that might affect other motorists. Also, go to the fuel company involved and seek compensation for the costs you've incurred.

Generally it was always felt that the air-conditioning of European cars wasn’t up to the task for Australia; that was because there wasn’t the demand for powerful A/C in Europe where the climate is generally milder. But when the European carmakers began to move on to the world market and export their cars to places like America where the demand for good A/C is very high they have improved the performance of the A/C systems in their cars. The cars you say have had good air are cars that are typically built for the US market, those you say don’t have good performance are not. A/C systems soak up quite a bit of engine power in driving the compressor and that has a greater impact on smaller engines than big ones, and again the cars you are critical of have smaller engines, so they will also probably run smaller compressors.

HOPEFULLY you have a receipt showing the date and time you bought the fuel and, armed with the report from the dealership, go to the servo and show them they have a problem that may affect other motorists, and go to the fuel company and seek compensation for the cost you have incurred.

WE CONTACTED Peugeot and this is the answer we received: ``With an overall rigidity greater than that of steel panel, the panoramic glass roof is assembled from three layers of dark-tinted glass with a thickness of 2.10 + 0.76 + 2.10 mm respectively. The combination of the different layers optimises their performance in terms of filtration, giving a particularly pleasant view while at the same time limiting light and energy transmission into the passenger compartment to 17 per cent.'' Basically the glass roof is probably going to be better than a steel roof in the hailstorm and the rollover.

Nowhere I'm afraid. Brakes are considered by all companies to be wear and tear items and not covered by the warranty, so it comes down to what is acceptable wear and what is not. In the old days 30,000 km would certainly have been unacceptable, but today it's probably not, certainly not on European cars. You could fit other brands of discs and pads, but you probably won't get the same braking performance as you would with the factory parts.