Peugeot 208 Active 1 litre review 2012 - 2019 (facelift) 

Yea…I just watch because I find him really entertaining and calming. Keep up the great work.

Love these “normal” car reviews, I’d love to see this compared to another super mini like the Mazda 2. I think a common fault with these 208s are the exhaust, especially the mounts/clamps

I'm in the process of learning to drive and Richard is helping so damn much ! And yes I love watching your videos because of how calm and collected your voice is and how easy it is to listen to you :)

Reviews from Richard are spot on! Literally covered everything I was wanting to know. I like the honest critique too which makes it a ‘real’ video for someone needing good comprehensive information. Thanks for posting 👍

Nothing beats the 205s and 206s for me brilliant little runarounds a lot of fun to drive

Brilliant review Richard!

Just bought one looking forward to driving it,

This is the best review so far, because of how funny you are :D thanking you from Morocco Edit: Technically the review is great too and detailed on many often forgotten details (y) thank you

Love the 3-cylinder growl.

A very thorough review! please do more :)

Great video as usual Richard! Wish we had these smaller cars here in North America.

I've got the Peugeot 208 1.6 gti and its great

I had loved your mx 5 review on the conquer driving channel and wanted to watch few more, then somehow I found this channel, ur reviews are amazing!, why dont you mention this channel in that channel

Nice to see an intelligent and courteous driver on the road. Can't quite come to grips with this talk of the steering wheel being too small/fidgety from so many? To each his own I guess, oh! hers too. Personally, I find the wheel to be a great feature, LOVE IT! I'm 5ft/6 and have absolutely no problem whatsoever clearly viewing the dash sitting comfortably. Just needed to adjust the height of the chair slightly, nothing more. If a particularly small person, GOD BLESS!!! to rectify simply make the necessary adjustments, Chair/steering column is all there at your disposal and convenience. I own a Peugeot 1.2 Purtech 82 edition 2019 and think they really are good cars. however, all said and done it's an individual thing when deciding which car is right for you. "Of course it is." Nice video!

Quite a popular driving school car these. Several ADIs and PDIs around me use them. Slightly quirky, which some new drivers may struggle with, but the visability and ease of driving must claw it back for these cars.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="583">9:43</a> The delayed reaction on the digital speedo haha

Owned one of these for around twelve months - although it's the pre-facelift (64 plate Allure) and it's the 1.6 diesel. Horror stories galore about the wet timing belt in the petrol versions and I wouldn't touch a Puretech engine with a bargepole - but the diesel engine is great. I agree with a lot of what you've said - it's a comfortable car. I do a lot of motorway driving in mine and it eats up the miles. I've never really understood why people complain about not being able to see the dials - I'm around 6ft and no matter whether I move the wheel up or down I can still see everything. One thing I don't agree with what you've said is the gearbox. You said it was fairly decent - in my opinion it is crap. Very vague, noisy (seems to clunk a little going from 2nd to 3rd) and you need to rev it quite high - e.g. in other cars I've driven the car is quite happy accelerating from around 18mph in third - not so for the 208, you get massive vibration until the car gets to around 25mph. This is a brand new gearbox replaced by Peugeot under warranty (testament to how rubbish the gearbox is as it had failed after 50k) and honestly I've driven vans with nicer gearboxes. I partially agree with you on the interior - I actually think it's quite nice inside but by God does it rattle - the door handles, the glovebox, even the trim around the dials all rattle at certain rev ranges - there's a point at about 1500rpm where they all rattle at once and it drives me nuts. Other than that though it's a great looking little car that is cheap to insure and fill up - the HDi diesel engines tend to go on for longer than you might think as well (see plenty of examples for sale where they've done in excess of 120k - 130k.)

Cruise control stalk... while hidden, is frankly the easiest system I have used. As it's on a stalk, it's in the same place ALL the time, the buttons are large so easy to press the right one. Whereas other cars have it on the steering wheel itself where it's harder to press the correct button.

I bought a used 2014 model allure trim. It came already with the face lift visual changes. It has a 1.6 e hdi engine with 115hp and let me tell you, it's one of my favourite cars! It's a lil pocket rocket in the city and it has a 6 speed for the highway. If you are economical you can go has low has 4.0/4.1 l/100km and if you like to press the accelerator it responds really well. The sound of the engine is nothing special below 2000rpm, just quiet, but after that I never knew a diesel could sound so good. It revs with no problem to 4000rpm, it asked you to do it hehehe. It corners really well, the small steering wheel makes it really responsive. I wouldn't say the steering feedback is good, you don't feel basically anything but that quick response really makes it fun to corner. At the end of the day it's a wonderful lil car, 115hp is more than enough for what it is and because it is a diesel, it has really fuel efficient. The 6 speed gearbox and the low torque make it a beauty to drive in any circumstance. You can shift at 1500rpm and it has more than enough torque to go with it. The only bad thing until now is the hard ride. Maybe because I have the 17inch wheels but it's not the most comfortable car in bad roads. On the highway or in good roads no complaints, it absorbs the low bumps of the road really well, but when the road is really bad you will notice it. In general a really good sporty all arounder for daily use!!

Great review, but ( and I might be a bit bios on this ) , I own a left hand drive Peugeot 208 from late 2018 and it's missing a few features, however it has other. I invite you to review mine 😅

Thanks for the Review! I bought a 14 Plate and its great. Did some background on it and it was sat for almost 2 years in a Garage because of the Lockdowns and slow trade. The dealer had to do some work on it for its MOT and the tyres where all replaced. Seems they ran it every so often to stop it seizing up. in 2 years it did less than 400 miles lol. Anyway I don't mind the small wheel and you get used to the engine noise after a while. I did start to develop a knock going over uneven road so I will get that checked, MOT has no Advisories.

would love it if ou could review a 2016 ibiza

The 2012 pre face lift model is my dads car which i have been driving for 4 months now and i'll also be doing my practical exam in this car the 29th of April. I have to say its quite alright to drive for me personally, even tho it has no sensors and no reverse camera i do find it easy to parallel park and navigate through gaps regardless.

You should mention something about the 208's huge oil consumption and it wet--belt.

Could you do Vauxhall corsa please 🥺this video was so useful

Mines a 2013 208 Access pre facelift 3 door model mines a 1 litre my model is below the Access+ trim level on the pre facelift ones.

The one I’d have is the 1.2 litre 3-cylinder PureTech.

The snail :D i'm dying haha Do you use a gimbal or some person in the backseat to capture these front faced parts? they tend to swing sometimes so i wondered if it's handheld (if thats not too much to ask)

This review feels like asmr hehe, kiddin aside i would suggest to invest on a better mic because the audio is a tad bit quiet. -man from a left side driver

Could you review a skoda citygo or vw. Up. Sometime.

I have one. The gas is incredibly sensitive and the clutch is certainly one of the harder/ more sensitive ones. It goes from A-B 🤷‍♂️

Is this decent for daily commuting on the motorway? First car. Was looking at fiestas in the same year but the interiors to these look much better imo. The one I'm looking at is a 2013 1.2 VTi Intuitive.

You can by a 2015/2014 Skoda Rapid or a fabia for the same amount of money, and these are way more practical

Does this one has a turbo?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="656">10:56</a> I think French cars are ruined by their high clutch bites. I learnt in a C3 where the clutch bite was almost off the pedal. Same with a clio. Too annoying to control at low speed

It’s small and European so it’s cool.

Would you recommend this as a second car? (For reference I currently own a 2004 seat arosa) and is it reliable?

I heard they have lots of problems. Does this Peugeot have standard timing belt? Or one of these wet belt systems

Yeah my girlfriend got the 5008 22 plate and the bite is high

should i upgrade my 2011 base model 1.25 82hp fiesta to a peugeot 208?? is it a big difference?

Please tell me you saved the snail? 🙂🙏

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1067">17:47</a> 3,600RPM at 70? That’s crazy my fiesta does 2,600 in 5th gear

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="635">10:35</a> Fingringhoe road 🤣

Can i own these for so many years? Is the 4 cylinder gt line model reliable? How do they fair on bad gravel roads?

The steering wheel is so dinky.

I'd avoid the petrol 208s. They have a wet timing belt. This means the rubber timing belt is immersed in the engine oil. This degrades the belt over time, causing it to crack badly. If bad enough, chunks of rubber can break off the belt & block up oil channels. The problem is exasperated by the extremely long replacement interval for the timing belt. Change the belt well before the interval!

pretty sure this is 1.2 liter puretech engine , not 1 liter...

But it's not really reliable though 😕

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