Long-term update: 2005 Peugeot 307 XSI
After selling our 2005 Peugeot 307 XSI to my buddy, I had made a deal with him to fix the non-working windshield washers and replace the lost remote key. That turned out to be a bit of a hassle.
The washers were easy enough to get fixed at the dealer, costing us Dhs 145 to have water squirting onto the windshield again.
The key, we had to buy in stages. We were already made to buy a non-remote key many months ago for Dhs 465, shipped in from France. So now, first the dealer sold us the remote key-fob part only for Dhs 275, and then we had to wait three weeks for the Dhs 20 metal key part to be shipped in. We then had to drop off the car for key-cutting and programming at additional cost. That took almost two days because they flubbed the cutting. All in all, the remote key cost Dhs 425. Why they couldn’t just import a remote key from the start, I’ll never know. So with almost 900 bucks down, the car now has two keys.
My buddy reports that the car has been running fine since I sold it to him a month ago. The only things he’s spent money on since then are three air-fresheners. He hates his own odour.
Original Mileage When Bought: 40,500 km
Latest Mileage To Date: 55,000 km
Latest Average Fuel Economy: 10.9 litres/100 km
Cost of Latest Problems: Dhs 570
Cost of Latest Maintenance: Dhs 0
Total Non-Fuel Running Cost Since Bought: Dhs 3701
rooney:
May 28th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Mash…sorry to say its a stupid post..there was no point in writting this..do some test drives man..do for d new ferrari 458…a video test drive ..
Peace
royer:
May 29th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Mash, my Focus’s door look works no more. Dealer gave a quote of 1800dhs. Seems i have to do something to lock, like what Mr.Bean did to his mini.
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury:
May 29th, 2010 at 8:48 am
^Try buying a lock mechanism in Sharjah and getting it fitted in some ghetto garage. I had a lock issue with my Jeep, and I think my cost for one lock was well under 500 bucks.
royer:
May 29th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
lock…hmm will try..
assassin:
May 29th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
royer, I had like your problem with my civic back in 2006. I went to a normal lock shop in sharjah (in Rolla area) to see what’s wrong. The guy opened the civic’s door, took the broken lock from the door and fixed it in minutes. He charged me 40 AED. And the lock till now is working properly.
royer:
May 30th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Can some one suggest the shops or the area where their are couple of lock shops around. I am not too familiar with Sharjah (except Al Wahda, that too main area.)
royer:
May 30th, 2010 at 8:47 am
I mean in Sharjah area… Dubai is too expensive, except naif, but again there are more accessories shop there than mechanics, Rashidya and Um Ramool not too sure…
assassin:
May 30th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
You will find 2 shops there.
Ask the guy to repair the lock; he will take some time to open the door’s cover.
I never knew that broken locks could be repaired before, but after seeing this guy’s work, i became a believer.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/5523/78320277.jpg
royer:
May 30th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Thanks buddy will check and post the outcome.
rooney:
May 31st, 2010 at 10:00 am
Mash..care 2 reply?
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury:
May 31st, 2010 at 10:42 am
^About what?
rooney:
June 1st, 2010 at 5:14 am
wat i wrote in my first post about doing video test drives…
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury:
June 1st, 2010 at 1:15 pm
^when the time comes
atamer:
September 1st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
how much did you sell it? if you allow me to ask….. (price range if you can tell me, plz)
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury:
September 1st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I sold for 20k-21k (can’t remember) to my friend.