I read Railroad's original post not to mean that Peugeots were rustbuckets particularly, but that in the "old days", corrosion sent cars (of all makes) to the scrapper whereas nowadays failure of technically "advanced" features (electronics, DPFs, etc) are the more likely cause, as the parts to repair are either unavailable or prohibitively expesive.

Don't let me distract anyone from grabbing the wrong end of the stick and starting a flame war, however.

I do diagnostics around the North West on just Peugeots, so quite a few over the years.

None of them suffer from "structural corrosion" like you claim. Nor have the Pugs I've owned.

I find the biggest problem is owner neglect. I get blank looks and shoulder shrugging when I ask when it was last serviced, or if the fuel filter has been changed. If people would do the basics, then they wouldn't have so many problems.

But all this has nothing to do with the OP's fault, which seems to be dealer incompetence (it wouldn't be the first time). You just seemed to post to slate Peugeot, so why not take your marque hate elsewhere?

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Good afternoon Gibbo; mechanically I have no problems with the 607, but the failure of the Telematics Unit means I have lost my computer functions including sat nav and parking sensors as well as the radio. I guess my best option now is just to fit another radio and look into installing a rear parking aid too maybe.