Back Room Forum - Honest John
This week’s motoring mutterings include limp excuses, missing wheels, damage limitation, hopping madness and many more that were unprintable in Telegraph Cars. Make a whoosh foundation Our Peugeot 4007 encountered problems yesterday. We were driving steady at about 50mph when there was a sudden pop and whoosh and the car went into limp mode with the engine management light illuminated. We then heard more whooshing noise, which sounded like air rushing up above the dashboard as if it was air conditioning related, but this is working fine. Turbo air pipe popped off. (JP later wrote back: Fantastic thanks - there was indeed a pipe popped off the Jubilee clip – cured. Now just have to pay Peugeot to turn the engine management light off. Smart thinking I’m trying to sell my 99,600-mile 2004 Smart Roadster before the end of summer. It is in desirable red and silver, comes with a hardtop in the original bag, one owner from new, paddle shift, new Goodyear rear tyres, always garaged, 12 months MoT, well-maintained, everything works 100% including cruise control, CD/radio. To me the ‘value’ is around £3,000, give or take a couple of £100s either way for an exceptional car. However punters apparently think otherwise as on AutoTrader at an initial price of £3,595 (3 days) and £3,050 (7 days) the market clearly disagrees as 181 ‘website viewings’ have. Source: www.honestjohn.co.uk
