French Car Forum

Yesterday I very nearly wound up throwing my laptop through the window when looking at Motorserv's website, looking to see whether they had some bulbs(Ba7s) in stock.

However I abruptly discovered that there appears to be absolutely no possible way to just search for a given part without first having input a registration number or selected a make...

Borrowed from the Birmingham Facebook page.

albeit not quite your standard 205...

Yesterday I went into my local Peugeot dealer to collect some parts I'd ordered for the Mrs C2.
When I was in earlier in the week to order them, I noticed the usual parts guy wasn't there and his name was no longer on the counter. Assumed he was just in leave. When I collected yesterday, he wasn't there either, just the service lady. I'd decided...

Not French but OOOWwwwer !

The new LOTUS

I was looking for something airline history related and stumbled on this site:

www.advertisingarchives.co.uk

You can browse for free, ignore the exhortation to register, you only pay if you want to download images. Put Citroen in the search box and 60+ adverts appear, click magnifying glass for a closer look.

Among them the classic black and...

My hard disk has started making turbo whine noises so I've bought a new Crucial SSD to replace it, if I don't come back soon you'll know it's all gone tits up. :shock:

In my box of disks I've got a set of Learn Spanish/French etc. interactive CDs quite old and there's nothing on the web about them, when I go to the file list and click on set up it loads Quicktime 7 which is no longer about or supported by Apple.

It goes through the motions then arrives at a blank screen, blue background but not a BSD.

This is...

Figured last night id have a nose through what was on ebay, only 1 listed? 1 solitary xantia, there had been a good 20 or so on there every time I previously looked?? Are we really in the minority now??

Just happened on my computer, I clicked on the Emails icon and it popped up two years of old Emails, nearly 400 of them as unread in my inbox. :evil:

I had a look at this site and now keep getting updates, it can be interesting................if you like that sort of thing.

Yes almost my FCF moniker Falcon Heavy blasts off :-D

Regards Neil

Recommendation for the videos of 'HubNut' on Youtube -

Really good videos, many of which are Citroen related.

As you all seem to be an educated lot, I thought I'd ask here. :)
I'm working on alternatives for a 'domestic' style lighting system using 12 or 24 volt DC lighting. Ideally these should NOT be downlighters / spotlights as I want an all-round light. My thoughts turned to LED daytime running lights and ideally with a MR16 or GU5.3 type fitting -...

Would any of you lot be interested in creating and adding to a what have you spotted thread for any kind of car, not just French, as long as it's pre-1994 and spotted and photographed by yourself..

It *is* the OTCL after all :) 1892175505114.jpg

Hope this doesn't break any rules, just thought it might interest some on here.

I know we're not supposed to do politics but this struck me as worth a mention.

Pay rates
The BBC, Laura Kuenssberg £200,000-£249,000 (and whinging about equal pay)
Government, Prime minister, Theresa May. £152,000.

My son who works for a Mazda/Ford dealership took this picture of a brand new Ford just before it was sent to the customer. This customer won't be the only one getting the new Festa as there was a whole batch of these new cars.

The thing that gets me is the laziness of the Ford designers, they just photocopied the design of the new Ford Fiesta...

Picked up in Zel's blog:

Slightly hacked off that the tweaks that are just coming in/just came in to the MOT mean that my dead check engine light is now a fail...So the search for a new ECU continues. Or if it comes down to it, I get more inventive. A single failed transistor is not keeping my car off the road!

There is a fairly major...

Well winters problems, maybe Tesco's can help.

This was on offer so let's give it a try (offer @ £5.00) I have had a small drip drip drip on the AX sunroof (now resealed) so let's see how this helps with the slightly damp seats and resultant misting in the morning sun after a cold night.

Hope this is allowed - as SIMCA was eventually absorbed into PSA.

Our son-in-law is restoring a SIMCA 1100 LX and we said we would ask on here if any of the PSA vehicles had a front disk brake setup which would fit onto the Simca ?

Obviously its a long shot and possibly the answer might throw up a donor which is rare to find anyway - but...

Asked by an old friend if I would mind taking her to Gloucester to get some Christmas gifts, struggled to find a parking space but finally found one, duly bought the pay and display ticket and put it in the windscreen as required, returned fifteen minutes early to collect the car...........horror and dismay there's a penalty notice on the...

Due to an event last night I'm reflecting on my drivng skills, specifically emergency braking.

Old habits die hard and I obviously have not learnt to trust nor fully utilise ABS, let alone this even newer ESP system - which btw seriously impressed me last night!

With hindsight, I should have hit the brake pedal with full force but due to...

now lets hope (or not) depending on your point of view it looks like or similar to the first pic

Contemplating buying a solar panel set up for my house, anyone with direct experience?

Not sure if this is best in this forum or off topic chat - admins feel free to move. I have stuck with Citroen (except company cars and the odd excursion to SAAB) for years, partly because they were 'interesting' and more recently because we live near a very good local dealership, Duxford Motors.

Main dealers No more. They are still authorized...

A Birmingham double decker bus had its roof ripped off, a fire brigade officer said It was a fight between a bus and the bridge, the bridge won :)

But the funniest thing is the advert all along the bus says For headache relief on the move.

Hi Guy's sorry this is not a Citroen question but I want to make an electric motor run for five mins. after the power has been switched off. I think this is poss. if I put a capacitor in the feed line to the motor. What do you guy's think????

Apologies for my absence but I've been quite ill. Christmas passed us by and we eventually opened our prezzies on Wednesday. Felt better yesterday but not quite as good today. Happy New Year to all.

French Car Owners...........got to be nuts, hey Happy New Year anyway !

It's either me or the air is really funny this evening...

I've just been out for a 5 mile run and noticed far more than usual that vehicle exhausts, both petrol and diesel, really smell awful and not only do they smell dreadful but I could taste them too and the taste really was foul... I can still taste them now...

Diesels smelt strongly of...

Season's greetings to all on the FCF!

May Santa bring you all you desire, may today be fantastic and may 2018 be a year of great happiness and joy...

Well I woke up on Christmas to a nice new tool set from the Halford's pro range.

hi all, I don't know much about computers, but have an oldish desktop here.

I would like to occasionally upgrade it cheaply if possible..

I seem to be using most of my RAM a lot of the time.

At the moment I have 6 RAM slots, 4 are similar sized and 2 are larger, the 4 have a 1GB stick in each (2 pairs of 2 different manufactures / DDR2 but...

No, not that list :lol: (well it can be if you want!)

The list of things to do if the weather is kind and you can escape the famliy for a few hours...

307:
Required for MOT:
OSF spring and stut top bearing and drop link
NSR wheel bearing and damper
Possibly required for MOT:
Both front wishbones (which requires dismantling most of the front...

I've had the Citroen workshop stuff on my computer now for several year in a virtual machine set up, trying to get there this morning I get this pop up.
Any suggestions, it might be to do with the huge Windows 10 update I loaded over the weekend.

Borrowed from the BHF forum.......again.

Looking up the history of a car shown on the BHF site I dropped on this:

Something to keep you occupied for a while.

Is anyone able to advise the location of this Railway Tunnel?

Its somewhere on the Fort William to Mallaig Line and I suspect it's likely to be prior to the Glenfinnan Viaduct. I believe the train was travelling West.

I was watching the new Channel 4 series Coastal Railways with Julie Walters (it aired yesterday I think)

....and thought it'd...

Cross posting this on behalf of someone on another forum I use regularly as I figure the more eyes open for this the better. Hopefully the moderating staff won't mind. I know the folks over there would do the same if it was one of our motors that had gone missing.

Quoted text below:

Hello all, not sure if this is the right part of the forum to...

My father has one of these in his loft in mint boxed condition - I will be round at his probably this Sunday (he used to have it fitted to his Austin 1300, then he fitted it to his Mk 1 Metro - it was still working when he took it off and boxed it up).
Will attempt to photograph all the bits and scan you the instruction book.
you need a sensor...

I dont know if this has worked. If it has, could someone look at this and let me know if it would be suitable for the xantia and pug 407? Ive picked this one because it has the laptop too, which is a thing I do not possess.
Thanks guys.

Warning, this video may upset and cause distress...

Sent to me as I have lived near where this incident may have happened...

There is a strong belief it may be staged...

Don't blame me if it really upsets you. It did me :evil:

this is the same-ish as the vauxhall viavaro and renault traffic but does anyone know who made the engines? were they all made by the same make or were they all made indiviually, ie vuaxhall. nissan and and renault?

I been a bit ill recently so watching too much television and I noticed some odd things. Adverts for computer games often say not actual game footage when they show images and this seems odd to me. I also saw an ad for shampoo that said 87% of 111 women agreed this stuff is great or words to that effect. My math says this statistic is...

We are not far from having fibre internet installed in our street, and I needed to check some details on our ISPs web site, somewhere I try not to go as it is an awful site, which seems to have the only purpose of selling phone upgrades. The ISP is a well known global company.

I sat looking at the login screen for a few seconds, and realised that...

Hello!

Been running my Xantia 1.9TD on different ratios of WVO, WHO and diesel. It's been running now for 2 years and within I covered about 40kkm. Only mods that I've done is coolant heat exchanger and heated fuel filter (from a Golf MK1 :-D ). I change my engine oil every 10kkm and so far I didn't notice any polymerization...

In the last few...

Borrowed this from the Birmingham History Forum: