French Car Forum

Except for the drive over and back :)

Erm, I've registered on Autosh*te. I used to think it was full of loud mouth Corsa owners boasting their fully kitted steed could push out 200bhp. I couldn't have been more wrong, most of the users are normal :-) and there's a very good thread on electric vehicles with arguments both for and agin.

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Examples:
Sz Quick Detailer Wax £3.00 (£7.00 Halfords)
Sz Wash + Wax, 2ltrs £2.50

ect.....

A simple question - what's a Peugeot ZE engine ? PRVs came in ZM, ZN, ZP flavours, but after a brief bit of Googling, I can't find any reference to a ZE engine. There was a ZEJ 'Douvrin' engine back in the 70s fitted to numerous Renault's. The only reason I ask is that there's a ZE engine kit up on the 'Bay and I'm curious....

A popular and free event for every type of car enthusiast, don’t be surprised to see a first generation Honda Insight parked next to a Renault 5 all sandwiched between an old DS and a new DS! Best to get there early as the event starts to wind down from around 10:30ish.
Hot and cold drinks, breakfast baps (£4 at time of print) and full English (£8...

Anyone who says they're a petrolhead who denies they don't want a go on that, IMO is a liar!

It's the coolest vehicle I've ever seen.

Now that I finally have Diagbox set up I was looking through the pretty pictures and came across the 301. Wow what a nice looking car, probably ZX, 309, BX sort of size and yet there are no plans to bring to the UK.

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I have just heard on the BBC lunchtime news (business news) that PSA are in talks to acquire Opal (Vauxhall in the UK). Things could get interesting.

Poo poo

What are these care like anyone got one?

Like the shape of them and in top spec Initiale trim.

What are the specs like, seen a few without xenon lights.

See they have buttons on the dash for soft and fast is this for suspension? is this a troublesome system?

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Hi all,

I am after a bit of shameless publicity (I have cleared it with the admins- thanks CitroJim!) . I had an unbelievable break in my career as a musician last year and am fortunate enough to be the Musical Director for a best of homage to the original show, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. See the Wikipedia link if you can't remember the...

I see Ed China has left Wheeler Dealers. Its a pity its not Mike Brewer leaving it! Mind you I'll never forget Ed diagnosing a badly smoking 205gti as the gearbox linkages. How would a worn linkage create huge clouds of black smoke lol

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Last year PSA published 'real world' fuel consumption for about 30 cars. They have just published the same for about 1000. It is, as you would expect, very different from the standardised test that they have to publish, but having looked at 2 cars I am familiar with it seems to fit with my version of reality (I never expected 70+ from a hulking...

just a mention, delighted to find that my Breakdown provider of the last few years has a deal on at the moment, making an already very reasonable premium even better.

£71 for full cover, including all bells & whistles, for 15months instead of 12mths with Autonational. Strangely no mention of it anywhere in the course of taking it out (a...

Need some veneer to match Xantia wood, about 6 inch by 24 inch

Anybody got a clue where to get some ?

Hi all,

My cousin has asked for some advice. She is a professional dressmaker, and some of her work requires fine detail (and this, obviously, needs good lighting). Currently she has a four foot florescent light in her studio. Unfortunately this has started flickering (which means she cannot work as late into the evenings as she has in the past,...

Evening all, pondering a few things whilst tinkering on the car of late, mostly the extent to which the intake feed pipe expands when the turbo spools up on the xantia td, got me thinking about swapping the rubber pipe with a Silicone one to try and prevent so much expansion, which then got me to thinking about replacing all the intake hoses with...

Your earliest Car Photos......I will kick this off with these two I found today !

. . . or is just one thing on top of another?

This weekend was always earmarked for Paris Retromobile – but by the time I managed to get Friday off, it was too late to get a reasonable priced Eurostar ticket. Second best was the early “Bristol” Classic Show so made arrangements around that: booked the van in for its MoT Friday morning, so drive...

The house I live in has a small garden so currently have an old LDV van which is looking tired parked in the car park next to house which is privately owned by myself and my neighbours.

I am thinking I getting a new 20x8ft storage container possibly in green and placing in the car park in the bottom right corner against the wall. Do you think...

Ikea last year developed a flat pack garden. It is a clever design, and (according to the article) is now open source. All they want is the team to be credited properly.

Haha I am in the process of baking my first loaf. Wifey has gone out for lunch with her sisters so I thought I'd give it a go. The loaf is in the oven and I've just finished cleaning the kitchen! I struggled to mix it in the bowl and added a little extra water then gave it a good old kneeding and let it rest. Actually I needed a rest as well after...

Down in my blog we've touched on the subject of MP3 players... Following on from that...

Recently I've ripped a load of CDs for upload to my (vintage) iPod and ripped them using Windows Media Player as WMAs simply because I needed to run iTunes (ghastly bit of awful software that is :evil:) as it saved a lot of buggeration.

The question I have...

Hello again to you all.

Not car related but we respect the opinions here.

Before the question - imagine you find that Citroen that you really want!!!!! It doesn't make any sense to buy it , its too expensive to repair and you really don't need it as you already have enough cars - but logic doesn't matter, you want it.

For us its like that with...

This is a topic which has come up recently on another forum I'm on, and has given rise to some interesting ideas and discussion, so I'm shamelessly borrowing it and dragging it over here.

Particularly interesting is how different people define what constitutes an interesting car...also how shocked some folks seem to be at how far out of this...

I would like stronger reverse light on both our 2008 Espace and 2006 C5 Break.
Any suggestions?

Ebay search shows this alternative as best match option

Reverse indicators with integrated LED.

And what reverse light led bulbs is best?
Anything stronger then this option

Afak non of our cars got canbus, so no need to pay extra for canbus...

I recently re-furbished and cleaned up my HT leads for the PRV engine project but some are just too long, a couple are mouse chewed, one is chaffed and another is too short and corroded with the top of the old spark plug welded into it, I have 1 1/2 sets but with all the good ones gathered together im coming out short by 2 leads.

The usual...

Following soe well meant, gratefully received & sound advice, I did a little research & found that the brand is the product of a large Chinese manufacturer of starters, alternators & parts for same: mainly, it seems, replacements for Bosch originals.

Interestingly, they only seem to be supplied by ECP/carparts4less.com & - Amazon! (although you...

Am I dreaming or did someone want Bosch pump? There's one for sale on a Facebook Citroen page.

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Does anybody on here know anything about home audio systems ?
One of my rear surround speakers has packed in so I have bought another set off ebay. The impedance of the original speakers is 3 ohms but the new ones I have are 8 ohms. Can these be used straight onto my system ? I have not tried connecting them yet as I don't know if it can damage...

Bonjour everyone. If someone could tell me where do i start digging on my citroen nemo car for the airbag unit as i need to reset it. I have no idea where is the location in this car. Any advice will be more than welcome!.
Sorry if this thread has been made before. Im new in this forum.

Found this very interesting, what an improvement there has been in NCAP ratings and crash safety in the last 20 years! :shock:

Now granted the Rover 100 apparently had a really poor rating even at the time (1 star) but look at a Xantia, which only scores 1.5 stars: :shock:

The 2017 Honda Jazz on the other hand with a 5 star rating...

Hi all,

I dropped by the Haynes International Motor Museum last week, on a trip across the country with some friends.

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Was good to see the Traction Avant, DS and SM on display there, as that's probably the first time I've seen the Traction or SM in the flesh. So I thought I'd post it here, and I was wondering where else in the UK you can...

As per the title, what is it?

As many will know, the weekend of the 15/16th JULY is the date of two big shows for French Car Owners.

Sat.............15th............. French Car Show : Donington Park :
Sat/Sun......15th/16th.....Citroen Car Club Nationals : Abbots Rippon

The Pure Citroen Club will be attending with a stand @ Donington and then many of those members will be...

well, the Sun holidays have been kind to us again, a foreign jaunt is booked for this summer and thoughts turn to cars, French ones of course.....

Should I see something I really fancy, like a nice tidy, sound 405 na D estate; while I'm in France is it reasonably practicable (more to the point, legal ) for me to....

hand over the necessary cash...

I know that confusion is a normal state for me, but at this moment I am more confused than normal. I was in Waitrose today, and I found that they had vegetarian Haggis for sale.

Hang on! I thought that the little sods were, at best, omnivorous, and normally were carnivorous. I mean, the Scots use them to guard the borders from marauding...

2ltr Petrol Auto, 6th months MoT...Zero rust...a few scrapes and a wing is dented. Auto Box reportedly slips into neutral , well it didn't on the drive home :)

It really does drive very well indeed.

Hi ,I am sometimes caught in the rain when my owners let me out. What can they do or fit that will tell them I am on the back door step and that I want to come in. The back door is a full height double glazed unit. ?????? :roll: :roll:

Thought the forum might assist here...from one of my fleet...not French but a common problem sufffered also by a French member of the fleet.

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This is what I know. Especially on 2-door cars, where the front seats are regularly moved backwards and forwards, the wiring and or connectors associated with the pre-tensioners routed under and...

I'm delighted to see that a run of DB4s are to be built in my home town again ten years after the last Aston Martin was built here...

I have a special interest as the Aston Martin works is but a swallow's flight from my house...

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I've just done a new deal with TalkTalk for my broadband, they've sent me a new router.

I've been using a Netgear router for a long time without any problems so do I use the new TT one or stick with the Netgear?

Any comments?

As we seem to be enjoying a ridiculously mild winter (it was 12 degrees a few days ago here) lets spare a thought for our continental (and Canadian ?) comrades who sometimes have to start their cars (and diesel locomotives!) in temperatures as low as -40 degrees....

:-D

I sent an Email to my cousin with some details about our family tree, she's just called me on the phone saying that the message has come with 'hieroglyphics' , I assume she means coding but I wonder if that's likely to be caused at my end or hers, any advice?

My God I what a wonderful car the Citroen C5 Airscape is. It was first shown in 2007 and then the facelifted c5 x7 was introduced. I am sure the c5 airscape would give the like of BMW /Audi/Mercedes a run for their money.
Why ho why did Citroen not carry on with the car and get it on sale. I am sure I would remortgage to get one.

Rant time. Really do reckon that I'm turning into a grumpy old man.

Is it just me, or has almost the entire world lost any trace of an idea of what constitutes acceptable audio quality? Has listening to the entire world through 0.00001 speakers with a frequency response limited to between 18,000-22,000Hz just become so normal that everyone has...

hi all, as some of you know, I am building a budget camper from a generic panel van, in this case a Sevel made Boxer II. Whilst I normally keep things standard, in this van I don't mind making useful additions (the whole van is a modification anyway lol)

I am not that tech savvy, and have never owned a tablet, but I get the impression really they...

Certainly fitted to 205 normally aspirated as well as the Visa. Likely to be present on quite a few 1.9 N/A units too such as 405.

I was just wondering what its real purpose is, I've always assumed its to compensate for the shortish exhaust manifold, although I wonder what effects would be experienced if it was blanked off. :-k

Unsure if it...

As per the title it would appear that, some time over the last couple of days, I have become known for being somewhat of a Vauxhall specialist. First thing was a couple from down the road knocked on our door saying they'd seen me working on cars and could I have a look over their Vectra C for them with a view to replacing the alternator as it was...