Peugeot 308 308, T7

A comfortable, roomy hatch with a big glass roof on many trims and a soft ride. It's no sharper to drive than a Golf and it's considerably cheaper.

Overview

The T7 is the hatchback Peugeot 308, built 2007–2013 and facelifted in 2011. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €1,600–€7,200, and 1 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.6 HDi DV6TED4 is both the cheapest way in, from €2,250, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylehatchbackProduction2007–2013
Platform siblingssold in this body onlyFacelift (LCI)2011
What changed at the 2011 facelift
New nose and lights; Euro 5 diesels; Revised interior trim. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20072010

The 3 variants sold before the 2011 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.6 HDiDV6TED4diesel20072010110 PS240 NmR34€1,600€4,700€2,250Buy w/ conditionsView
1.6 HDiDV6Cdiesel20102010112 PS270 NmR33€2,600€6,600€3,400Buy w/ conditionsView
1.6 THPEP6petrol20072010150 PS240 NmR42€1,900€5,400€2,600CautionView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20112013

The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

2 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
1.6 HDiDV6Cdiesel20112013112 PS270 NmR33€2,850€7,200€3,750Buy w/ conditionsView
1.6 THPEP6petrol20112013150 PS240 NmR42€2,050€5,900€2,850CautionView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant07080910111213
1.6 HDi DV6TED4
1.6 HDi DV6C
1.6 THP EP6

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2011 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€2.5k€3k€3.5kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓1.6 HDi DV6TED4: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €2,2501.6 HDi1.6 HDi DV6C: Buy with conditions, risk 3, good buy €3,4001.6 HDi1.6 THP EP6: Caution, risk 4, good buy €2,6001.6 THP
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. GTi cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€2,2501.6 HDi DV6TED4
Median good buy€2,600across 3 engines
Dearest good buy€3,4001.6 HDi DV6C
Full range€1,600€7,200P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.6 HDi DV6TED4 highlighted as best value

€2k€4k€6kGood buy
1.6 HDi DV6TED4€2,2501.6 THP EP6€2,6001.6 HDi DV6C€3,400

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: GTi cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Best value: 1.6 HDi, and check which version, since the earlier and later engines share a turbo oil feed that punishes skipped oil changes. The 1.6 THP is quick and it's the risk here, with timing chain wear and intake carbon both on its record. Read the service book before you drive the car, because the maintenance decides the turbo on every engine in this range. So work every electrical function, as modules rather than mechanicals generate most of the complaints.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

1.6 HDi DV6TED4 : from €1,600, risk 3

1.6 THP EP6 : from €1,900, risk 4

1.6 HDi DV6C : from €2,600, risk 3

Lowest risk

1.6 HDi DV6TED4 : risk 3, good buy at €2,250

1.6 HDi DV6C : risk 3, good buy at €3,400

1.6 THP EP6 : risk 4, good buy at €2,600