Our first 6 weeks with a Symphony

Hi all,

We're wondering if anyone would be interested in our first 6 weeks of owning a Symphony? Actually, we can't tell you as we don't know what its like. We've only driven it twice, both times back from the dealer (and his MOT garage) where it's been sat for repairs.

We thought we'd bought the right van for us (we still feel we have), but it has a few issues... and it's these issues that have not been sorted by the dealer or the garage. I don't really want to mention the dealer or garage or go on about the vans faults. Suffice to say that today we picked the van up from the garage and halfway home, the N/S rear brake started to smell like it was burning. I pulled over and the wheel was too hot to touch. This was after they had adjusted the brakes! Anyway we limped home.

My question is, does anyone know of a 'proper' garage near to us (Abergavenny) that knows and cares about servicing Boxers?

TIA,
Mark.

Think a phone call to Trading Standards is called for,,,Had a couple of Pugs,,never had much bother,,BUSBY65.

This is a problem with the running parts of a van. It could happen to anyone and does not have any bearing on the conversion; it could be a panel van, pick up or any other variant.

That said, I know how frustrating repeated failure can be. This looks at first sight, and I stress that, as a simple repair failure. Your braking system is hardly revolutionary and is well proven. Hope you get it sorted soon

Hullo Mark,
Try your local Citroen or Fiat garage as they are all the same base vehicle and engine. I prefer our local Citroen garage as Peugeot and Citroen are part of the same group 

Trust this is of use and gets you back on the road. The weather is too nice to be stuck on a driveway.

B.rgds,
Richard G.

Thanks for your replies. We've got the brakes sorted by a local garage. Just the clutch to sort out now!

Hi all, well, I changed the clutch cable and that made using the clutch smoother, no clutch pedal movement grab. But it didn't change the gearbox gear change problem. And as we found out at Mulhouse, there's a bigger problem with the gearbox. I've started a separate thread for this though...