Our bad boy 307 just had its last ever visit to a Peugeot main dealer for
its 30,000 mile service, now out of warranty.

They reported that the radiator was completely empty... and wanted ?240 for
a new radiator.

Hold on. How has this happened? And wouldn't we have noticed? They reckoned
it could have been empty all winter and the car would've run okay, not
showing hot on the temperature gauge. Can this be right? Have we been
'running on empty' for months?

This only happenend yesterday, so haven't had time to thoroughly test it,
but haven't noticed any water leaking out since they topped it up. Didn't
let them put in the new radiator. Told them to top it up.

They also found that one of the brake lights wasn't working and said they'd
have to replaced the whole unit since whoever put the last light in had
damaged the socket or something. Didn't really understand that. It does tend
to go through rather a lot of bulbs.

Don't trust them an inch, so haven't let them do any of it. The search is on
for an independent dealer to look after it until we decide whether or not
it's worth keeping now it's out of warranty.

Androo