Will I say goodbye to the Peugeot 106? Meet the Fleet Episode 1. 

It's the unremarkable cars, trains, trucks, etc. that'll end up completely lost to time without a few folks here and there keeping them around for very valid sentimental reasons. Everybody else looks at them and goes "eh, there were a jillion of them made, no reason to keep this one around" and before we know it they're all be gone.

I think your Nan would be very proud of you and very happy you're keeping the little 106 going Stay safe and keep up the great videos Rick B

I currently have a 3 door look diesel, only 78k miles and still going great, no rust and 70mpg. i love it. No idea what the 'look' ascertains to but its poverty spec, no power steering, windows, mirrors etc, but that means less to go wrong.

I own an 106 XR 1.1 unleaded dark grey colour. It was bought back in the 1995 and then was abandoned for almost a decade in my home yard in the country side. It belonged to my aunty and then was gifted to my grand father and was mistreated throughout its life. I managed to restore it by deeply cleaning the interior which was full of mud and dirt. The meter was reading almost 80.000km and now after 7 years 132.000km. I have replaced many parts except the main engine itself. This car is so reliable and love the overall shape and performance. It's a pity that lacks a/c and hydrolic steering.

I fully understand you not wanting to sell it

No se en que mundo viven pero en el que yo vivo Uruguay esoso coches que ustedes los tienen en un museo aca ruedan todo el pais y son muuy importantes 😮

Lovely video and proof that cars become part of the family and contain so many memories. I hope you get Legacy up and running soon and enjoy many more adventures together.

Great cars, great story. I miss mine so much and the're still so cheap, I might just have to get another one. Even with that tiny 1.1 they feel so eager and happy to be driven combined with weighing basically nothing and go kart handling one of my favourite cars ever made

That is two of my numerous favourite Automotive youtubers that have given me the major feels recently. You and Aging Wheels!

0:50 my nan was powered by eating food and drinking :P

love this new series! and 106's are amazing little cars to!

I had a Peugeot 106 that was also originally my nan's - Registered in Jan 1997, it had this weird security mechanism where you had to enter a 4 digit code before you could start the ignition. She would pick me up from Primary school in it, and eventually, it became the car I learned to drive in and own by around 2009. It also took me on a trip to Skye, and I don't think it ever really let me down. Unfortunately, I had to say goodbye to it in 2015, but it still has a place in my heart.

Cue the HubNutters shouting "Celebrating the unexceptional!" I like the 106! A friend had a Diesel one, called a 'Graduate'. I wanted to delete the 'e' and chop the crossbar off the 't'. That would've made it more accurate! Nice one though Lawrie, I'd suggest that you keep the car, keeping it running as long as you can! Maybe taking some of the pressure off by getting another vehicle to share duties! :-)

I understand the attachment to this little car, I'm the same way with my Toyota pickup that I've had rolling up on 35 years. As for miles... it's over a million miles.

Exactly how I feel about my late dads Phase II Xsara. After 300k km it’s pretty much a shitbox with peeling clear coat, mismatched mirrors, and banged up all around. I could get a VTS, or a different car in general but nothing can replace the feeling of sitting in that old Citroen.

my 106 is 27 y old now , petrol 1.1 l 60 cv with TU1M+ engine, i bought it 5 years ago 70000 km ..i replaced 4 tyres, all brake system renewed (front, back, master cylinder) , timing belt .total cost lest than 3000€ a real bargain for a virtually new car . Easy to drive even without power steering ..🖤 You can remove the back seat very easily if you have to load big stuff like a washing machine ...i love this car !

With that kind of story behind it I don’t think he’ll ever sell it

I know this video is now a year old but pretty much one year ago, I bought my 106. She was a 1.4L with heated seats and electric windows at just about 120k miles. Sadly she didn't stay with me for long, since I couldn't get her to pass the MOT and couldn't really afford fixing her up at the time. It was a truly remarkable 2 months of ownership. A car for 350 quid that brought more smiles onto my face than anything else. And I loved her more than anything else. She was replaced by another "unremarkable" car, lost to time: A V40. A T4 in fact. A lovely car which I managed to build a very similar connection to as the 106. But you can't deny the magic of this little French nugget. It is and always will be one of the all time greats. Miss you, Marie.

Love it, and it has connexion to family this is why we keep things.

Great car I had a red one for my first 1.1 zest 2. Had it for 4 years never let me down

Thank you for sharing your feelings about your nan , and her later years, via the car.

"Was my Nan, and she is powered" sounds like you're still talking about your Nan 😄 I have my grandparents old car as well. It's not great but I love it.

Such a nice spec, love the color and the sunroof! They were sold here in Brazil from 98 to 02, then the 206 became a smashing hit and Peugeot came up with a cheaper version of it to replace the 106.

I have a 106 zest 2. I bought it 3 years ago for £500 and its literally never let me down. I love them when my friend learnt to drive I recommended he got a 106, he did and then we worked on them together. The cars saved me some good money! I love your 106 lawrie! It's why I first started watching your channel when I came across you, you had the 106 and the mr2 and I had a 106 and a mk 1 mr2. Thanks for the content, like the new series! Ben.

A great little story. As someone who has a nan who is just like a mum to me I exactly know how you feel. I’m sure the 106 will do you proud for many years to come.

This is why we all love our own cars. They go through hell and back with us and keep on plugging. My 1998 Jeep XJ has been with me for 2 years now and I couldn't love any more, waking up every morning and going to drive it to work. Excellent video man, can't wait to see more. Your nan is proud

Good man for keeping it going. I inherited my girlfriends grans snot green 106 when she died and I scrapped it (head gasket went, didn't have storage, money or mechanical knowhow at the time) and I still regret scraping it 5 years later. 20 years old with 50k miles (30k of which I did in 2 years lol) when it died - I still miss driving it. Nothing special but somehow it felt such fun. Blasting it around North Wales roads to my summer job is still a highlight of car ownership for me My girlfriend had memories of chippy runs as a toddler and we even found her grandads golf t and betting slips hidden deep into the seats. Would love to have it still today.

Time for some attention for the 106, get it running better & keeping your memories & tribute going. Thanks Lawrie for the background info!

It makes sense to hold onto items that mean so much to you. I wish that I had been able to own my favourite Aunt's Rover 45 as I drove the car when I visited her on many occasions, but it was sold with everything else when she passed away. (Oh the Happy Memories)

I've always thought the narrow lights on this generation of Peugeot were particularly pleasing. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the fleet in-the-metal!

I have a 106 with 182631 miles and a 106 with 132973 miles still drives wonderful

Clicked to see a video on the car, got a beautiful story behind the car and made me appreciate how close i am with my nan, just lost my grancha earlier this year and although he owned his fair amount of cars his peugeot 406 is what got me my love of these smaller cars. I have a family so no time or money for car collecting at the moment but I do get such joy seeing these cars on the road too. And fun fact about your nans car, it was registered the day i was born, couldnt believe that when i heard it lol 😂

My dad owned a 1st gen 106 in the late 1990s, he said that it was one of the best handling cars he had ever owned

Thanks for sharing how important out emotional attachments can be to cars that are "unremarkable" because they are quite remarkable to us. As I have time I'll have to watch more of this series. I don't know how you have the time to create all this content and work on cars and have a life too.

I rebuild a Honda f2 motorbike with my dad and to this day I still won't let him sell it as my memories of me and him working on it mean more than anything else.

What a remarkable car, one with hundreds of memories too. I am so very glad you are still keeping hold of it! Maybe a lower mileage engine would be a good idea, maybe find another car with fewer miles and swap the mechanicals over?

All aboard everybody we're going on a feel trip

Knowing what is going to happen with the 106 I’ve been patiently waiting since we met last year for the series on this

I totally get why you'd never want to get rid of this car. Growing up, my family always had Opels (Vauxhal in the UK), which means that the Opel cars of that era have something special for me too. It's not that they were particularly remarkable, and one of them (a small, yellow one, a colour that makes it very easy to find on parking lots) even had a 'choke' feature on the dashboard that was required to make the darn thing start on cold mornings. Even so, you see the darn thing, and right behind it are all of those memories and feelings. It makes such vehicles more of a gateway to the past, rather than just something that gets you from point A to B. Thank you very much for this very touching story behind what would otherwise be a rather unremarkable, if very decent, car :)

I love how much I can relate to this story. I have passed my driving test in April and have gotten my grandma’s 306 break. I know exactly how that feels. Wonderful car with a wonderful story.

Lovely video Lawrie. A great tribute to your Gran and the pretty little 106 - the archetypal French small car. Love to see more in this series - Good Luck!

Lovely story, Laurie. Looking forward to the 106 refresh.

Fantastic story to the car. Hopefully you can get it fixed after the current project. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.

Completely understand the sentimentality of these frankly unremarkable little cars. My grandfather had a 1995 or so Oldsmobile Cutlass. V6 front wheel drive, white with red fabric seats. I'd give many things to have that car again. Cheers to you for keeping the 106 around. Can't wait to see her truly brought back to the roads

We need an Lmm museum for all the vehicles owned

The most humble of cars hold the most cherished of memories. I currently own a Fiat Grande Punto, which I've had for more than 8 years, and it has truly become a mechanical 'friend'. That modest car has taken me to some amazing events, the memories of which I will cherish for life. It has also outlasted a few "friendships"! I do know what you mean about a car becoming rare: when I bought mine, according to howmanyleft, there was 1,800 Punto Eleganza 8v on the road; now there's barely half that amount, sadly. With regards to your cherished 106, I'd definitely try and keep that forever, and possibly try and keep it to the same mechanical spec as when your Nan owned it?

What a wonderful insight into one of your most cherished vehicles, I can't wait to see more in this series! Oh and is that another excellent piece of music from Alex? ^_^

I've driven a few examples of both generations (mainly diesel) and they really are cracking little cars, an absolute pleasure to drive due to their ability to handle as if on rails and soak up the worst potholes the UK can throw at them. Un-enlightened Brits mock them for being French, but they really don't know what they are missing. The Mighty 106 will live again I am sure.

I was looking at the obvious choice for a first car (you know the usual fiestas and whatever) which I soon turned away from to try and find a cheap to insure gem (like an Ignis sport or something a little under the radar). I got pretty fed up with that and one weekend I thought stuff it, there’s a 106 for sale not far away and it’s getting me cheap quotes, I’ll get that. So I did. It took me a few weeks to get around it but I must say I’ve fallen in love with it. The gas struts came as standard btw, it baffled me too since I don’t have the luxury of power steering or front fog lights on mine. It’s a bit rough around the edges (people see an old cheap car and seem to forget people actually own it, so it’s covered in door dings and someone decided to rip the jack off before it became mine) but it is barely run in compared to yours. Just clocked over 49500 miles in 21 years. It’s basically new. Currently it’s my only car and, touch would, will remain so until insurance prices start coming down but I’ve never known something with so little power be so fun - I wouldn’t even call it slow because it’s short gearing makes up for its measly 59hp. I’ve not done a lot with it, so there isn’t many memories to go with it, but if there was I’d never want to see it go. Cars do become friends and family to plenty of people - it’s an amazing thing.

It's the everyday unremarkable cars that need saving.

Thank you for starting a wonderful series Lawrie, I think this will be great thanks! :) Also, this was an excellent video as always, thank you Lawrie. I look forward to and enjoy every video you make…

Sweet backstory, wouldn't wish that on anyone.

I used to do quite a bit of rallying in 106s, mostly the 1.4 first generation - quick, but very skittish as they have so little weight on the back wheels, and not always the most robust... I fully understand the emotional attachment too, we've got a car that came the same way, through an elderly relative giving up driving, and many other objects that might not mean much to most people, but which have a story to tell.

I politely disagree with your conclusion. Most Peugeot 106s, no doubt, are truly unremarkable cars. But that particular one... no. That is perhaps the most remarkable "unremarkable" car I've heard of in a very long time. I know terribly old people with stories that are less interesting and less beautiful -- and I fully confess, as a grown man a mere week from turning 36, I was quite literally tearing up out of being moved at the story of that little car and what it means to you, why, and how it got there. Even the car itself is beautiful in its own way. The 90s arcade sort of patterning to the interior carpet, the misfit engine bits, the infallible reliability of it nearly to the point of being a matter for myth and legend, even just the simple, innocent-looking exterior that belies the absolute *wealth* of story and experience and travel that little thing's had. I especially love the Transformers badging, which in so many ways is just brilliantly perfect -- especially as a metaphor for a vehicle that, in so many ways, truly is far more than "just a car". You keep that thing and never let it go... and I look forward to seeing you fix it up and get it working again! A bit of a similar story, sort of, of my own. I live in a tiny town in North Carolina, USA. It's an hour to the state capital of Raleigh, an hour to Chapel Hill where UNC of basketball fame is (if you are at all familiar with US sports) along with the vast UNC hospital network's seminal location, a teaching hospital that has, and has had, multiple Nobel prize winners within its wings for quite some time. It's another hour to Durham and the equally famous, for the same reasons, Duke University and Duke Hospital (although theirs is one hospital and not a vast network of hospitals, clinics, satellite providers, and everything in between). Duke and UNC -- as well as NC State over in Raleigh -- are all rivals, by the way. My grandmother bought her last car from the local Ford dealer here in our tiny little town, back in 1991. It was a Ford Escort LX, which at the time was a Mazda 323 (Mazda Protegé in the USA) with the famous Blue Oval slapped over top and a bit of customized trimwork to match... the headlights are a quite distinctive shape, for instance. It was also sold, albeit in a far-closer-to-stock-Mazda-bodywork form, as the Mercury Tracer. It, too was a very simple economy car, a four-door sedan (UK/EU: saloon) with a rather stubby trunk (UK/EU: boot) lid and very few frills. This particular Escort was bright metallic silver on the outside, and in the few places inside that it wasn't some variation of cloudy grey inside, it was pitch black instead. Seats were cloth, and sort of comfy as long as you weren't going to be there for more than an hour or so. The trunk actually protruded into the cabin a bit, so that you could fit more in there than a single suitcase and a fruit-basket (ha!) and as such, there was a flimsy little shelf over the part behind the backseat, but under the rear window glass that would otherwise be open, and that was covered in a fairly reasonable, if blatantly inexpensive, facsimile of carpet that was decently soft and fuzzy and matched the seats. This was a lighter grey, a bit like when it's overcast but not dreary -- a bright, almost optimistic sort of grey. The hard plastic of the dashboard, on the other hand, was the sort of color it is when it's just chilly enough outside to nip at you and make you miserable, yet without being properly _cold_ somehow, and it threatens rain all day but never quite bothers to deliver. Not so much ominous as gloomy in a distinctly Marvin the Paranoid Android sort of way that really only the weather can properly do. _That_ grey. You got a driver's side airbag -- but none for the passenger, as I recall -- windows that cranked up and down (just like your Peugeot!), a radio with an audio cassette player but no CD player, a relatively adequate glovebox with a little shelf molded into the dashboard beside the instrument cluster for what didn't fit into the glove box, and... not a lot else. I haven't a clue about the engine except that it was a positively somnolescence-inducing four-pot coupled to an automatic with an "overdrive" gear that I've never seen elsewhere, and that you could take it to an anatomy course for an entire semester at Uni and it _still_ wouldn't know what guts were. At 65mph (UK/EU: ~105kph), it started making mildly concerning rattling noises. At 70mph (UK/EU: ~112kph), it would generally be rattling and trembling quite alarmingly. By 75mph (UK/EU: ~121kph) one would typically be quite convinced that the doors were about to fly off! As I recall, it only reached 80mph (UK/EU: ~129kph) once during its entire life, and that was a rather memorable occasion indeed, for multiple reasons actually (that speedometer reading being one of them). The speedometer pegged at 85mph and that was, as far as I'm concerned, on the border of deceitful advertising, as one could construe it to mean that the car was supposed to actually be capable of attaining such a speed, if one was sufficiently dimwitted. My grandmother died of emphysema in 1995, having finally succumbed to final effects of the forty year run of cigarettes she'd ended in the early 1980s. (She did cigarettes, my Grampa Cliff smoked a pipe. It was fashionable, in the era. Grampa Cliff died in 1981, before I was born... complications of acute myeloblastic leukemia took him away. I would've liked to meet him.) However, her little Escort lived on long after she left us, and it served my mother and I well for quite some time yet -- it wasn't until the early 2000s sometime that Mom could afford another. She got VERY lucky, a nearby Chevy dealership had gotten a trade-in of a 1998 Saturn SW2 station wagon with 10k miles on it... the usual little old schoolteacher story. Who knows what actually happened, as Mom accepted the schoolteacher tale without question and paid a dollar for every mile on the odometer. Considering the deal she got, I don't think I blame her... although I think it's a bit funny that she actually believed the story! So, the Escort became somewhat sidelined. Mom always hoped I'd learn to drive, but has gradually come to understand why that's just not something I'm capable of. (I wish I could say the same for my father.) Eventually we lended it to a handyman we had at the time... he was not the brightest of fellows and at some point the water pump broke... whereupon he kept driving it till the block cracked. When he finally brought it back with a tow truck we told him, as politely as we could muster, that we'd prefer not to see him again. Mind you, it had recently had a transmission put in it that, although used, was easily worth another 300k miles in addition to the 300k already on the odometer at that point -- our local mechanic at the time was an absolute wizard of a fellow and, although deceased himself, is a minor local legend in the town even to this day. The car sat for a while and was eventually scrapped, as not long after those unfortunate events my mother became disabled herself -- a doctor made a bit of a mistake, screwed her up good, sadly -- and the money for a replacement engine just wasn't there. To this day, when someone asks me what a good used car is, however, I immediately think of the early-90s Escorts. If you dawdle around on the back roads around here a bit, you can usually find one in someone's driveway, parked for far too long after something minor broke and they just never bothered to track it down and deal with it -- a bad alternator, starter motor problems, "just this funny little problem" that takes the better part of a week's work tracing out the wiring harnesses to find... only to discover that it's just that a field mouse chewed through a single wire. Probably it will need every fluid known to automotive mechanics flushed out and replaced, and for sure it will need everything rubber done over as well. Once repaired, they're as fast as a Sinclair C5 lit on fire, and they're about half as exciting as the "Beuller... Beuller... Beuller..." professor from "Ferris Beuller's Day Off", if that... but, despite being about as sexy as a zombified Steve Buscemi, unless you do something genuinely deplorably stupid to them, on a level of "there ought to be a law about that" in regards to motor vehicles and intelligence tests, you really just can't kill an early 90s Ford Escort. I actually kind of miss that little Escort, truth be told... although I don't remember much about Nana (that's what I always called her)... she died when I was all of nine, so I suppose there's a reason for that. Mom hasn't been able to drive for the better part of a decade, now, but somehow can't seem to bring herself to get rid of the old Saturn. I can understand it -- she knows she'll never drive again, but actually getting rid of the car brings a certain finality to it that's just too much for her. It's probably a bit like when you've had a friend over all day and they've just left, and now you're by yourself again... suddenly, your home feels three times bigger, and it's just incredibly quiet and empty in this really lonely sort of way that it somehow wasn't before they came to visit. Maybe when Mom finally passes on, I'll dig that old Saturn out of the bushes and get it fixed up, see if I can entrust it to someone local who can drive me around occasionally and will treat it right in the meantime. I'd like to fix up the old house, but honestly at this point it just needs so much... I think that may have to be someone else's project. But maybe I can save the car.

Congrats on 51K subs

My grandfather tolde me that I should have his snowmobile before he past away. And yes its old but I will never Be able to sell it. Because it has meant alot to me to drive it and think about him. And it is the most reliable snowmobile we own it has started year after year just needing some love sometimes.

They're brilliant little cars, huge fun to drive. I have a CITROEN Saxo 1.1, so same car, and it's brilliant! Liking the new series and looking forward to more videos on the fleet.

If you love it then keep it. Simple. Yes, it's going to take some work to sort out but it will worth it. And I'm sure your nan would approve!

It’s great to see you still have your ‘one car I regret selling..’

can't wait to see you nurse the 106 over the 200k mile mark quite an anchievement for a car like that

well Lawrie, it is good start of new series from your fleet. i never hate your 106. i really be funny with the autobot logo on it. but still i understand your feeling and the story behind it. i hope you keerp many safe miles with your little 106 i also hoping that others also explain about their cars?

I know most people will want jupes, i honestly would want to see humpty next, but despite that i think the next video should be rather redroof of fergy....a vehicle we have seen little or no time on the road or in use so that we know them better

This r plate had more features than my t-reg 106 zest like an airbag and fog lights. I went through several cars after that from a mercedes a-class , volvo s60 , and toyota yaris . My last car the Volkswagen up sorta reflects my firs car though . btw like the “autobot” symbol .

I did wonder (fear) from the title that you were going to announce you were getting rid of it.I’m so glad that’s not the case. Great little car, my mum’s 1991 205 1.6 automatic is sitting in the garage in Noirmoutier awaiting some serious love. I’m attached to it for precisely the same reason you’re attached to your nan’s car. Mum too suffered from dementia. My wife says we have too many vehicles. I guess she’s right, but what can I do ? Selling an RHD automatic is not going to be easy in France. I’m hanging on to my dads 1999 Saab 9-5 (he also suffered dementia, though milder than mum’s at the end of his life) Then there’s Rita the R4, I can’t sell her either, she was my first « classic » and a genuine barn find. Obviously the T4 California is a keeper and so is my 95 MX5 1.8iS (which with Rita has taught me all I know) what to do? 🤔

Lovely car

Nowt wrong with a little unremarkable car to get the daily stuff done, and they do dig into your heart. My deepest sympathies for your Nan, we are going through the same now with my wife's mum, it is absolutely heart breaking seeing the decline of dementia.

Lovely backstory to the 106. I quite agree on the engine being gutless as I had the same engine in my first car which was a Peugeot 206 except my car had the massive disadvantage of having extra body mass and even though it air conditioning you never wanted to turn it on as you instantly felt the power drop on the engine. Items I had faults with over time were alternator getting covered in power steering fluid because some joker at Peugeot thought that mounting a power steering pump fluid reservoir that was liable to crack above a alternator was a great idea, original (postage stamp sized) radiator developed a small leak and was replaced and the funniest one was the radio aerial seals failed and I ended up finding out that a car with a solid roof can leak in water when it rains. I unfortunately decided to trade in this Peugeot for the car I brought new about 9 years ago which is a sporty SEAT Ibiza FR 5 door.

Wish he did more of this Seiries

Since you're doing some work on the engine anyway, it might be interesting to see if you can upgrade to a 1.4. It give it a slight performance boost and that brings a lot more comfort while driving since you don't have to push it as much to drive along in traffic. I'm currently still driving my 4th Peugeot 205 (diesel) and I have my 1st car and 1st 205 stored until I have time to look at the head gasket and/or upgrade it to a 1.4.

Hey, I've got one of theese and my fuel consumption is off the ramp. Killed my spark plugs and all. Change injektor and MAF sensor, check thermostat - to no avail. Any suggestions?

i understand so much but my car is now at rest forever missed

To some, a car is just a machine. To you, the 106 will never be that. Fix your Nan's car and continue to love it as you loved her.

106 rallye upgrade?

Ma sulla marca della peugeot ho visto la faccia di Trasformer 😂😂😂

Can you do a video about your Rolls Royce?

We have lots in common, a dislike of 3 door cars, a love of the Peugeots from the 80/90's (after the 90's, crap!) and also unfortunately dementia, my mother has Alzheimers and it's possibly the cruelest condition out there ☹. You have the space so for me this car for the forseeable future just cannot leave your ownership, no matter how galactic the mileage gets, even if you have to put another engine in it.

That a ? You could have answered in a short, which I would have then ignored.

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When the bmw coupe gets a fault, ie ecu or modules 🤬the trusty 106 blue independance comes out of its hibernation, always starts, purrs and sips petrol, nippy on A roads and no electrics to go wrong im never selling it.