Peugeot 307 Gearbox Oil

[Gaetan Horton]

Im the owner of a Peugeot 607 with automatic gearbox, everything seems to work correctly when the car is cold, but when the car is warm, i'm unable to change from D-R, R-D, or Parking - D,R, if i push the gear lever hard enough, the gear will shift, but not always.

This sounds like a problem in the gear shift linkage somewhere, the shifter mechanism or cable seizing when heated due to the expansion of metal, or the lubrication applied to those components has lost its mojo.

First, if you can get under the car I'd check to make sure the shifter cable is not kinked, restricted in some way, or coming in direct contact with the engine. Touching the engine will cause the cable to heat and that could make it seize, routing it away and making sure it isn't bent somehow could resolve the issue.

Lubrication may also help if you can get at the right areas, a spray of lithium grease and exercising the mechanism could fix it right up. You could try lifting up the fabric gaiter/boot that covers the shifter mechanism and getting some spray lithium in there (WD40 may help initially but it isn't a long-term solution). If you can get access then a spray at both ends of the cable and the transmission lever connections would be a good idea too.

Many were sold here in the 70s. He settled on a Renault. Not just any Renault, he had to have the Gordini version. His dealer was able to order one for him. There were no free oil changes from dealers then so at 3000 miles the drained his oil and removed the filter.

Even though my junkyard computer had the same exact number, whenever I would swap them I would have to open it up and swap the prom at the same time. I have no idea about your car but that was what I needed to do with my Gm.

The engine computer is linked to the immobilizer security system, you have a computer mismatch. It might be possible to register the used computer with the immobilizer/key using a professional scan tool.

Yes the original ECU is working with the replacment TCU and it removed the gearbox faulty message, but the problems still exists. i dont have a professional scan tool for now since we have a holiday and everyone is closed.

just wanted to make sure that i may need to perfom kind of a reset to the ECU replacment.

I will do it as soon as i can, will probably in few days, hope i can make it work since it looked like it could fix all the problems.

This car is 2005 and for its year it has so many electric technologies that was only new to the french car industry (as people say), i guess this car was kind of ahead of its time, years ago french cars were known as mechanically reliable but electric wise they were awful. this specific car was the most unreliable, but the most enjoyable.

his car is 2005 and for its year it has so many electric technologies that was only new to the french car industry (as people say), i guess this car was kind of ahead of its time, years ago french cars were known as mechanically reliable but electric wise they were awful. this specific car was the most unreliable, but the most enjoyable.

2013 508 1.6 tdi with 83k and the EGC semi auto gear box. I have heard of the reputation of this box and till now avoided it. That all went out the window when i was desperate to sell my oldest car and here i am now with a problem.

When you start the car and select either drive or reverse no gear is actually selected and you can rev the car stationary in gear. When selecting either drive or reverse a gearbox fault comes up on the dashboard and a i few "ping" noises. Now my customer came 2 times from 40 miles away to test drive and collect this car and then i drove the car trying to induce a fault and i could find nothing wrong. It selected all gears and even in manual sequential setting performed fine. There is no judder or vibration when setting off. My diag reader could not connect to car but there were no warning lights illuminated on dashboard.

If you have a decent Mechanic and not a "Fitter" he should be able to strip the Actuator Motors and then source and fit new Brushes, if that is the problem, which it very often is at that sort of mileage

I read it might be the actuator and it kinda makes sense. I plan on getting it over to specialist after bank holiday. I have read if you leave it ticking over 15 min then try this works ???. I will have to try this. Currently its lifeless in my unit.

When I had the Transmission Firm, my Head Mechanic used to fix the Actuators very cheaply, according to him there were only 2 different kinds of electric motors across the broad range of Marques that these were fitted to, and he bought a big bag of motor brushes from RS or similar, 2 minutes with a piece of sandpaper along one edge of the brush, fitted and worked a treat, never saw them again !!

"When I were a lad" I drove a Jensen GT for a while until it rusted away. But even as an enthusiastic teen I couldn't kill that Getrag 5spd box. The dog leg first was a pain, but that's the price you paid for a box designed for racing

going to Peugeot specialist in my area today to have a chat, hopefully he fills me with confidence and i think his workshop team will hsve a good grasp as to my problem without costing the earth, I will report back on this one

Visited 3 Peugeot specialists on Wednesday and gave the work to the one i thought had the greater understanding of my issue, Owner of the company has 25 years of Peugeot experience there workshop was full of 10-16 plate Peugeot and upon hearing of my issue he said Clutch and flywheel......................... he then said lets put on the diag and came back with a report with fault codes, I did not understand them but he said again its the Clutch and flywheel, Anyway we agree to give him the work and they call me on the Thursday that they now have the bell housing off and i should pay them a visit to look, The clutch is toast and the DMF is one of the worst they had seen and this was worn away to nothing, This other things was worn in a particular way i was there looking at same thing with them and i dont know a good one from bad so i did not have a clue, I did see a load of micro dust fillings however in the bell housing and he said the only way that could get there was from something going wrong on the clutch or DMF,

Long Story short, Its a 1200 job for DMF and LUK Clutch and many hours of labour and then setting up, They did say that the working of the Actuator and the other mechanisms that go on to make the ECG gearbox was it looked all in good working order, Oil in reservoir for gearbox and no splits in the hoses supping the oil, Not yet got it back but will report when i do, Fingers crossed and all that

Absolutely. Well, if it's any consolation, I've just been hit with a gearbox rebuild on a 12 plate auto Juke done 22k! I know a great guy if anyone is ever stuck with auto headaches (Southcoast) he's very reasonable too.

Final update......................collected it this morning from a company called "Just Peugeot" near Walsall, great bunch of guys really knew there stuff, I had new clutch, Dual mass flywheel, Thrust bearing, New oils for actuator as well as it being all set up on there diagnostics machines, Works exactly as it should now, I was there this morning for the 1st start up of the weekend the garage them selves having done 2 stone cold starts already,

1200 and i wont get any of that back on the sale price but i will make a big thing on the add and anyone who visits, Its a very salable point, luckily the cosmetics are decent so its not quite the margin i wanted but at least its now working and soon to be on sale

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i have the above engine in my garage just begging to be used in a kit car only trouble is its fwd does anyone have any ideas what rwd gearbox would fit the peugeot bolt pattern, if i can,t find something the other possibility is buy a 106 / saxo chav mobile and create a mid engine monster along the lines of a 6r4 metro

The V6 used the ML5 box I believe, not sure if the bellhousing pattern is the same as the BE series (I doubt it) but if it is, the Leyland Sherpa van used an XUD engine with an in-line gearbox for rear wheel drive setup. If the engine bellhousing pattern is the same, it might work, although I can't vouch for the gear ratios being suitable. I believe there was also an FSO Polonez that used the XU series engines which means anything with a BE gearbox pattern should fit.

Renault and Volvo used the same early V6 engine as Peugeot. If the later engines use the same gearbox pattern then Renault used the V6 with a manual gearbox in the 2nd generation espace and I think Volvo used a manual gearbox in the 260 series although both models were rare. HTH Gary

I think on the Renault/Volvo platforms the problem will be finding one rear wheel drive. The Espace certainly wasn't. According to Wikipedia the Volvo V6 lump was a 90 degree V6, which the 406 Coupe/Laguna lump definately isn't (it's 60 degree for a FWD setup). Midn you, if you're talking putting the whole engine/box in the back, mid-endgine GTM-like, then not such an issue.

Dan, I think you might be fighting an uphill struggle here have a look at Elite racing gearboxes, I wonder if they do a transaxle that would fit it with a custom bellhousing.... but I think you was after something cheap and off the shelf, wasn't you ?

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