Nothing wrong with the 405, it was a nice car. The hot-rod 405 Mi16 in particular was a blast to drive. I would suspect the big problem with the speedo was the cable routing and not the instrument itself. My parents had a pair of 505s during the '80s and '90s, an automatic for mom and a five-speed for dad. Generally good and reliable cars, but one thing I do recall was how tight Peugeot was with underhood cables and wiring - never a millimeter of extra length. This even extended to the upper radiator hose that was so tight on the '83 that the plastic radiator tank eventually cracked due to the hose being pulled slightly every time the engine torqued over. Neither car had any electrical issues aside from normal wear, but if you did work under the hood you couldn't figure on pushing wiring out of the way, either you found a way to work around it or disconnected it. I realize that extra length on cables, wires and hoses costs money, but these weren't BOL cars and sometimes a little slack is a good thing.
An aunt of mine bought a new Volvo P1800 in '67. She really loved the car, and only got rid of it in the early '80s when she and my uncle leased their home, stored their belongings and spent several years cruising on their sailboat between LA, Hawaii, Australia and the South Pacific. I recall that she wanted to store the car too but it was too costly for what was by then just another used car. Pretty much the only thing that went wrong with that Volvo was the speedo. I'm not sure who made it, but it broke several times under warranty. She simply learned to drive by the tach and had the car serviced at regular intervals, figuring that a non-functional speedo was a small item compared to the general reliability of the rest of the car. Today a bad speedo would probably put a car out of commission due to everything being interconnected and computerized . . .
An aunt of mine bought a new Volvo P1800 in '67. She really loved the car, and only got rid of it in the early '80s when she and my uncle leased their home, stored their belongings and spent several years cruising on their sailboat between LA, Hawaii, Australia and the South Pacific. I recall that she wanted to store the car too but it was too costly for what was by then just another used car. Pretty much the only thing that went wrong with that Volvo was the speedo. I'm not sure who made it, but it broke several times under warranty. She simply learned to drive by the tach and had the car serviced at regular intervals, figuring that a non-functional speedo was a small item compared to the general reliability of the rest of the car. Today a bad speedo would probably put a car out of commission due to everything being interconnected and computerized . . .
