1.2 Puretech 130 Allure EAT8 Start+Stop 5dr

update to last year's review

Most of last year's comments still stand, but I've changed my views about the dodgy shut-lines and colour mismatches. I no longer think they the result of a minor repair, but of quality problems at the factory on early cars. I examined a 2019-plate e-208 parked near mine, and the side door alignment was even more approximate than mine, and no sign that it was accident damage.
The only new fault in 2022 has been a broken hinge on the fuel flap, but it never actually fell off and my dealer replaced it promptly and without argument - things are looking up on the dealer front! The lamps - front and rear - still mist up from time to time, and the stop-start still works for 4-5 days after a trickle charge at most. But many of my journeys are short so I've got used to it.
Just like a road tester said of the new 308, my 208 seems like a good car - quite fast, refined, fun to drive, stylish- but in too many ways an annoying one. Why fit a short-cut switch to turn off the heater/aircon, if when you switch it back on, it forgets the setting and reverts to LO, blasting you with cold air on a winter's day? Why do the instruments go dim if you select side-lights rather than auto-? Why fit an auto-dimming mirror but no high-beam assist? And as for android-auto, maybe it's my or my phone's fault, but it's seriously unreliable. Its tricks include - constantly flashing rerouting messages, audio instructions going silent with no obvious way to recover them, going onto night colours if on side-lights, screen displaying location map but no route, screen going completely blank and refusing to connect with phone even after switch off-on. It was just as well we had a paper map in mid-Wales, as it let us down completely.

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