Re: 1984 vs. 1986 - 505
presslaff/bruce (yaleav@autobahn.mb.ca)
Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:59:15 +0100
>rootbeer^2 = Beer
>
>On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, presslaff/bruce wrote:
>
>> >Here's a theory:
>> >
>> >I don't know what you all think about this, but I firmly believe that the
>> >1984 505 is better built than the 1986 505. My odometer on my '86 stopped
>> >working at 177 000 Km (it now counts 100 meter increments). My wife's '84
>> >has a perfectly operating dash board. I believe that Peugeot might have
>> >been trying to "Americanize" its dashboards in earliy '85 to try to gain
>> >American favour.
>> >
>> It was all down hill after 85 . The 86 dash is a rattle trap full of crap.
>> Save me from the climate control heater incnsistent heat with 10X the
>> problems of the pre 86 heat system. The beat heaters were the old style w/o
>> AC . You could modulate the amount of fresh air into your face.
>>
>> Bob Bruce
>
>Maybe as far as the dash goes, I thought the engine in the later models
>did not need to be retorqued as often as the 84 models.
>
>michael
Maybe so but I had to get the top of my block refaced as well as my head in
my '86 because of corrosion on the rigt side ffrom leaking. Peugeot used
that motor from '70 to '85 then because nobody ever retorqued them they
redid it for '86. I remain unimpressed but I've never owned one from new
all I can afford is stuff that's been abused for years .