Peugeot 405
Peugeot 405 (1987-1993)
The Peugeot 405 is a mid-class car of the French car manufacturer Peugeot. It replaced the settled between compact and mid-range and smaller Peugeot 305, also gradually larger in the middle class and upper middle class settled Peugeot 505 This was 605 offered up to the appearance of the upper mid-range model Peugeot parallel to 405 in higher quality equipment and engines.
The 405 was launched in Europe from autumn 1987 to late summer 1995: made (Break spring 1988 to autumn 1996) and CKD to date in Egypt ( at Arab American Vehicles) and Iran ( Iran Khodro in ) produced.
Was succeeded in the late summer of 1995, the Peugeot 406
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History
The car was initially available only as a saloon in October 1987. The combination with the traditional additive break came in May 1988 on the market.
The body showed, as with many other Peugeot models, significant influences of the Italian Karosseriers Pininfarina. She looked at the time of their appearance in the late 1980s very modern. Outwardly she wore to their time by the very good drag coefficient of about 0.3. Similar to other constructed according to these aspects cars ( like Audi or Opel Omega 100 ) therefore also has the 405 in the summer high inside heating.
There was a wide range of engines, with displacements ranging from 1.4 to 2 liters. There were initially carburettor engines. The Consolidated Diesel ( also known by the 205) were very popular and reliable to 300,000 km for the petrol variant and even more in the diesel equipment are not uncommon. The basic equipment began with the GL 405 with 47 kW/64 hp and reached to 405 SRI with 88 kW/120 hp. The top features in the 405 was the Mi16 with 1.9 liters and 116 kW/158 hp and 108 kW/147 from 1988 with Cat PS, from 1993, with 112 kW/152 hp.
The 405 was also available with all-wheel drive offered in the upscale amenities, namely with manual differential lock in 405 SRI x4 and permanent four-wheel drive in the 405 Mi16x4. There were numerous special models, such as the special series Chamonix.
Wanted and rarely is especially the available solely as a break Roland Garros version with green metallic - colored paint, alloy wheels and beige leather upholstery. During the 1990s, improvements in security in the production flowed. For example, a driver's airbag could be ordered as of autumn 1993.
Peugeot 405 Mi16 ( 1988-1993 )
Facelift
In August 1993 there was a small facelift for the 405, in which the tail lights of the sedan and the dashboard changed and the 1.9 -liter Vollalluminium engines were switched to 2.0 liters ingots. At the end of its construction, the 405 was quite reliable and mature.
In September 1995 the production of the sedan was discontinued, as the successor to the Peugeot 406 was already in the starting blocks. The estate version was break even offered to September 1996.
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The Peugeot 405 is in Germany increasingly rare. Many vehicles migrate because of their durable diesel engine to Eastern Europe. In France, the 405 part because of the very high prevalence remains of the street scene. Chance he is even seen as a police vehicle. In Saarland, the Peugeot 405 was used as a patrol car, both as a sedan as well as a break.
405 Turbo 16
The power peak set in 1992 is the 405 Turbo 16 (405 T16), which was equipped with a 2 -liter 16V turbo engine type XU10J4TE. This has a Garrett charger ( £ 25) with variable geometry. He also has a water-cooled charge air cooler and a sequential Magneti Marelli AP injection. The 2.0 -liter engine delivered 144 kW (196 hp) and briefly even 162 kW (220 hp). This is made possible by the turbo overboost which increases the charging pressure for a short time to 1.3 bar.
In addition to the standard leather - Alcantara upholstery and immobilizer it has a permanent four-wheel drive with hydraulically -sprung rear axle with Torsen differential and a transfer case with visco.
The car had a factory price of 60.000, - DM were built in 1046 piece, but only 99 of which were delivered to Germany. 46 of them got the gendarmerie.
Motorsport
In racing, you put on a 405 Turbo 16 as a coupe. This vehicle possessed four-wheel drive and a mid-engine of 294 kW (400 PS ) carried out. This Peugeot took from 1987 to 1990 at the Paris-Dakar Rally in part, also in 1988 at Pikes Peak with an upgrade to 441 kW ( 600 hp).
After the banning of Group B the mid- 1980s put the Peugeot rally experience in the desert Paris-Dakar Rally and Pikes Peak one. At these events, the models took part in 16 205 Turbo and 405 Turbo 16.
The Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 is based in the racing version of the all-wheel - turbo technology of the 205 Turbo 16 Like him, he had permanent four-wheel drive and the XU8T engine. This engine has been specially developed for racing. He is placed as a mid-engine right in the vehicle and has a displacement of 1775 cc, corresponding to the turbo by a factor of 1.4 to a virtual displacement of 2500 cc. The water-cooled turbocharger manufacturer Garrett, who was then also used in Formula 1 in this size, loads the engine with up to 2.8 bar boost pressure. This engine produces at the Paris Dakar 294 kW ( 400 hp) and 441 on the Pikes Peak kW ( 600 hp). In addition to the engine sits on the left hand switched six-speed gearbox. The wheels are front and rear individually suspended on wishbones up and down. The suspension consists of coil springs and coaxial telescopic shock absorbers. Front and rear ventilated disc brakes are fitted. The weight was in the Pikes Peak version at 800 kg. Thanks to the good power to weight ratio requires the 405 T16 for the acceleration from 0 to 210 km / h for about 8 seconds on asphalt.
The Paris - Dakar rally was won by Peugeot from 1987 to 1990. In the first participation of 405 at the Paris -Dakar Ari Vatanen's car was stolen. He was subsequently disqualified after finding the car because of the late start. In 1988 it was ready, the track record of Walter Röhrl at Pikes Peak should be broken. Ari Vatanen undercutting already in training, the times of the dominant Audi driver in the previous year. On race day Vatanen had already set the record shelved because it was raining heavily in the first kilometers of the mountain, but he should still undercut established by Röhrl in the Audi Sport quattro E2 lap time.
Peugeot 405 Turbo 16
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