French Car Forum

Hi got a replacement on flea bay one of those sold many places type.

What i found when had a look the wires are too short!!! about 50mm odd the one that goes to column and ones to fuse board about 20mm
So be warned i did get onto them and they gave me a refund straight away probably knew about it?

Thinking maybe splice it into old plugs with...

Just got the AA renewal quote for the DS5 2.0 l auto.
£346, or £321 without the AA accident cover/Assistance??? No legal cover or anything.

Last years C5 was over £100 cheaper and both cars are in the same insurance band.
So far, I have a quote of £287 for a similar policy.
My AA roadside cover is also due. £49 last year for me in any car,...

For anyone living in France and possibly other European countries. Broke down on Saturday 40 miles away from my house, called the breakdown, they took the car to the closest garage and put me and my son in a taxi home. Great I thought. Contacted the breakdown again to get my car home (originally I was told that they couldn't bring my car home...

People with their body clocks disrupted :(

Why do we still mess with the clocks in spring and autumn?

I see Morocco has dumped the change this year.

A friend of mine sent me a link today...

Initiative Q is an attempt by ex-PayPal guys to create a new payment system instead of credit cards that were designed in the 1950s. The system uses its own currency, the Q, and to get people to start using the system once it's ready they are allocating Qs for free to people that sign up now (the amount...

Hello,
Just foun this all-in-one computer that looks very interesting and it can be used to read a plethora of sensors. Not sure If I'm allowed to post the links, so just google for UTCOMP PRO
I'm curious if someone fitted one of these on a xantia, because I'm thinking about doing it :)
Basically it can display readings from all sensors, and also...

I'm currently talking to an Ebay seller about a couple of bits for my C5, he is listed as citropro and is located near Bristol Airport, says they are Citroen specialists for over twenty years and have many parts available, the car he listed for which I've enquired about parts is a 2006 C5 Exclusive. Listing has ended now but this is it.

Two interesting spots today

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The Morris Traveller looked like a brand new car! Very nice. The Renault Megane Coupe Cabriolet performed its roof closing trick very neat......but I wonder how waterproof it is. It was a grey colour, I reckon with a bit more adventurous set of colours, maybe a bit of two-tone it would look so much...

OMG, remember all the stick the Allegro got for its square Steering Wheel, back in the day when I were a boy....

I happened to glance inside a 2014 Fiat 500L earlier today, to see if any of the style of the original had been carried over (seemingly not).

Imagine my surprise though to find that the Allegro was ahead of its time and the Square...

Pondering possible future daily transport for me as the fleet evolves. Not thinking imminent!

Currently digitising some of my old car magazines, and today came across the Autocar issue with their first full test of the 406 Coupe.

Remembered at that point that I did - and still do - think it's one of the nicest looking cars ever made. I'd really...

Jersey's finest, the AA Box at the junction of Rue de la Presbytere and Rue des Picots, at Trinity

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Waiting to be claimed with and original picture with car/bike/dog in the F C F AA Box Challenge

Join in if you can

Regards Neil

I know I know, we don't do politics :) but if anyone wants a more in depth look than the newspaper headlines are giving I was surprised to find it in the autumn edition of Weatherspoon's News given away in their restaurants and pubs.

The CEO Tim Weatherspoon is an ardent 'leaver' but his magazine has more info in one place about what's going on,...

Live stream on youtube from Swanage Steam Gala, if anyone may be interested :)
Sadly, it doesn't appear to include audio :(

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Popped the C5 in for its test this morning, straight through, no advisories. :-D

First one today - French, being a Clio. Wonder how long I will have to go before seeing an EV....?

Browsing the web looking a new models displayed at the Paris Motorshow 2018 I found this and I like it, it looks retro

But even this looks great and you can buy one now!!

Sorry to say Cirtoen cars this year look a bit ...........ordinary!!

Need help from a modder as my son cannot play online has been that way for nearly 3 months, from what i have read it seems his character has been paused or online access has been muted by a modder when he was last online. He recalls attaching a sticky bomb to another players car who had rpg'd my sons car twice within the game, he is more than sure...

This passed me by, just noticed today. The 90 kph limit on two lane (i.e. undivided by barrier) roads in France turned to 80 kph from 1 July in a bid to reduce road deaths. Thought it might be useful to others here who like me might have missed the news, but maybe I'm the only one who didn't notice.

Thinking aloud: if you have a very final drive...

Just noticed my old XM (2.0 CT auto) M250 EAC has just been sold on Ebay.

I owned this car from Jan 97 to March 2013, it one of the first batch of the series 2 cars and was still a demo car when I bought it!

Has it been bought by anyone on here?

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Regards Neil

For the first time in many many years, I no longer have any French cars. Mrs. Michel is currently driving a VW Polo, and I'm now driving a Skoda Octavia Elegance TDi, and very nice it is too. I think my time with Citroens is done as the older ones aren't reliable enough to use as daily drivers, and parts can be tricky to find, and I don't like any...

As the title says EVERYONE GO BUY A DASHCAM. Yes I am shouting and i'll shout it from the rooftops :-D

I was involved in an accident that wasn't my fault. It happened on a dual carriageway roundabout. I was told that its very hard to prove who's at fault in lane changing and roundabout accidents. Luckily my wife bought me a dashcam from Aldi's...

I saw a feature today about the Boeing 747, the first one rolled out on 30 September 1968. You don't see many now but they still look magnificent, there is something 'right' about the shape even after all these years. It must be 6 or 8 years since I last flew in one but it still beat the later 777s for feelgood factor. To my eye the Airbus 380 is...

Anyone have any particularly good experiences with Domestic Energy Suppliers?

We saw our prospective new house for the first time today and I wanted to get a 'Head Start' on the removal of a Pre-Payment Key Meter which presumably the previous tenant favoured. I view them as immoral and inconvenient.

Our current supplier EDF Energy proved very...

With the Pickled Egg jukebox having a life of its own, heres a thread that can be a receptacle for that other great bastion of entertainment....the Quiz.

Ported this over as a Starter, and here's a bonus new one to try

25 once popular cars now almost extinct in the UK 7mins to get as many as you can from the pictures.

Interactive Quizzes...

Saw these two miscreants jumping off our local pier today.

One way to beat the traffic!

hi every body
i want Brine injector fluid formula
Can anyone help me ?

It will invalidate your insurance too as it is considered a modification.
Plenty of 225/55 to choose from. Been using Landsail for the last two years. Always under £70 each fitted and good EU ratings for noise and wet grip (<70dB, B)

I don't know why but this looks strangely familiar somehow

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:rofl2: PAh! So what if you (French, PSA) began three years ago and have produced public road-ready demonstrators, our Maybot was perfectly clear when she said the UK will become Global Leaders in Autonomous Vehicles and other stuffs.

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I just gotta get me one of these...

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Well the PM will make this announcement today at the Zero Emission Vehicles Summit in Birmingham.

Speaking at the event in Birmingham, Theresa May will refer to her ‘ambitious mission’ for the UK to become world leader in low emission technology as part of a drive to keep the country green. The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, Business...

I notice there's what looks like a superb example of an XM online and am aware that there's at least a couple (probably more) here who regard them highly.

Have a look if you've not noticed it already and its not yours!

eBay Item # 123357366015

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If you like that sort of thing its interesting watching TESLA. While the company and its CEO Elon Musk polarise opinion, they have undoubtedly shaken up the automotive industry. The traditional auto makers have eventually been dragged along to invest and join the competition, and new ventures particularly in China are investing and competing too....

I have recently installed a new email server that handles my personal email accounts, as well as a couple of other domains (including this forum), and have been watching the logs quite carefully for the past week while checking and tweaking settings.

Our bank has a security check on our debit cards, such that if you use the card for any on-line...

My Panasonic Toughbook (new acquisition, second hand) pops up a message Apache HTTP server has stopped working, Windows can look for a solution or words to that effect.

I cant find anything 'Apache' actually on the computer by searching, any ideas?

As some of you will know, my inability to Solder is quite remarkable and somewhat frustrating, given that once again one of my rather nasty speaker connections has failed.

I tend to shy away from being a bad Workman and blaming my tools, but maybe that really is the trouble here.

Perhaps my little 30W Soldering Iron often isn't getting hot...

....I noticed the TV ad' for a leased Range Rover for £355 pcm.

That's odd, I thought, at the rate these things depreciate, that can't begin to cover the depreciation.

....so I went onto the website as if interested in having one, and was amazed to find in the second page, having selected my Range Rover Evoque to 'Customize Lease'

Would you...

Jim spotted this when out and about

Apparently out of 30,000 original AA Village Signs, only 65 exist in situ.

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From 1906 to approximately 1932,The Automobile Association erected nearly 30000 signs in villages and towns across Great Britain. Most were removed during the war when a Nazi invasion seemed highly...

Hi all, I'm a new member so be gentle with me! :-D
Could anyone identify the vehicle seen in France from the attached photo?
It's beaten me. :?
Regards to all
Doug
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I’m hoping to tap into the collective knowledge of the best - (maybe I mean cheapest) - way of getting a young person onto the car insurance ladder.

Last October, on his 17th birthday, my grandson took out a provisional licence. Shortly afterwards, I went off to Spain for the winter, leaving Sam to have some driving lessons with a local driving...

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To keep our golden retriever happy, we received a pack of these from Amazon this morning.
Whoever wrote the Instructions must have had a sense of humour...

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You can have hours of fun playing with your pet and their dog's balls.
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Do not leave the dog's balls unattended...
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If your dog's balls become...

Could the recent VW Diesel Emissions scandal re-ignite the Petrol v Diesel debate - what do you think?

1) As a Diesel owner, would you be more likely to consider reverting back to a petrol?
2) Does the extra MPG / KMH you may get justify many of the maintenance costs of the DPF system and all the related issues and problems of those components?...

I have just found this on the Internet. It is basically cars that remained in production for a very long time. There are a few French cars that have been in production for a long time;

Chatting with a couple of the guys in Intros I was telling them about where I've lived for the past 13 years.

It's a very small town called Huescar in the province of Granada in Southern Spain.

And this is what the area around me looks like! These were taken this afternoon......temps of about 36C

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It is becoming more common now days to enter you registration number into a Car park ticket machine before it spits out a ticket to stop you giving it to someone else, but does this information also get passed to the authorities as evidence that you vehicle is on the road, so they can check MOT, insurance & tax records? #-o

So what's with all this CO2 malarky then?

Can't believe the country is being held to ransom by CO2 factories all deciding they are going to undertake maintenance at the same time! Well done the management on that score :roll: :roll: :roll:

So out shopping yesterday and no fizzy water, no lemonade, no flipping meat (and who would of thought they...

A friend in the trade posted this, thought you guys may appreciate them!

I think they are Ace! Especially the cactus and 1007!