Re: Why New Peugeots?

presslaff/bruce (yaleav@autobahn.mb.ca)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:37:15 -0600

>Ray--If a 505 goes through starter after starter, it is likely because
>a)engine is hard to start due to insufficient maintenance; b)uninformed
>driver is running the starter too long at a burst, overheating it; and or
>c)incompetent or crooked repair person says it needs a new starter when it
>doesn't.
>
>Brian

Right on Brian:

The 505s w/fuel injection are much better starting than their older brothers
the carbed 404 504 304 and 204. It seems to me that the starters in the
fuel injected 505s last twice as long. This I attributed to the advantages
of forced rather than naturaly aspirated fuel delivery. The Bosch K and its
electronic brothers will get a motor running right off W/O being plugged in
down
to 30 below zero F whereas carbed Peugeots rarely started and if so only with
much cranking at 15 below.

Bob Bruce
http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~yaleav/rb