Popped out in my 205 today

[Triumph205]

Well I haven't really posted on here before but, I thought I'd share a picture of my 205 in the Lake District today. I use it daily for work all year around despite the odd little rain leak sometimes.

[kevin]

Hey up, nice pic there.
I have a soft spot for the 205, had a 1.6 gti and a 1.9 Gld back in the day.

Kev

[Grumpy Northener]

I saw a really nicely presented 1991 205 auto with full service history go through the auctions at Kings Lynn on Saturday and was sorely tempted to acquire it for a temporary daily - it sold for £1650 - now where else could you pick up a smart little 80's / 90's classic like that for that type money http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... -205-auto/

[kevin]

The Gld one I had was superbly cheap to run and went really well too!
That a nice example Chris

Kev

[JPB]

That's a very nice looking example, though I do wonder whether the GTI wheels catch on the inner arches when fitted to a non-GTI shell. I tried fitting a set of those on a 205XAD that I had briefly and wanted to make desirable to sell on but after finding that the tubs lacked the space found in GTI shells, I gave up. That van was a 1.8 litre n/a Diesel thing and because they're actually pretty light, it went well even in the absence of a turbo, with real grunt being available in spite of its peak torque figure being less than half as much as a current Golf TDI SE 108 provides. And the Peugeot also wins by being simple to fix if something does go wrong. But where have they all gone? Although not Galvanised as urban myth would have us believe, the shells really were much less rustprone than most of its rivals and the oily bits lasted well so why aren't the roads still wick with the things?

I always found the 205 in all of its forms to be a very likeable wee car, if only later Peugeots had been more like them..
And the 205 looks a bit like an AMC Pacer in 3/4 scale. That's a compliment by the way.

[rich.]

id like one brother had the 1.7 diesel called puddles as it leaked everywhere, after much research the injector pipe had a tiny hole which washed dirt & oil off the engine.. it was a great little car solid body & went on forever until he had a funny five minutes & bought a dicsovery thing that was umm a shall we say disapointment..