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In October 2014, La Poste paid homage to Citroen by issuing a series of stamps. These were the models that made it and who would believe it the Xsara is in and the Xantia is out!

So if you come across some nice or awful car related postage stamps from around the world shove a picture up here.

I do think that this illustration of the Traction...

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This is actually not much to do with me, but i had a login for this forum from a long time ago so i posted it. Just relaying the message. Im not a contributing member here but my login still worked so i figured id help with publicizing this to as many people as possible. I hope mods dont mind.

There was a very distinctive car, an olive green...

There's going to be a programme on this tonight on Inside Out-South available in the South of England. It will be on I-player after that. There has been a recreation this time with someone flying between the Isle of Wight and the mainland with one of those Jet suits on, rather than just launching an unmanned rocket.

Gerhard Zucker, was obsessed...

I have just deposited the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association's document The industry fair wear and tear standard in the Pickled Egg Library.

With buying outright becoming an endangered method of acquiring a car, increasingly the assesssment of fair wear and tear when your period of rental comes to an end will be determined by the...

Sad day, the tat yard in the sky is now the new owner. Metal worm got the better of her. Though sad, I thought it would be better to celebrate her life with me. She was going in the bin in 2005. I've kept her going by hook or by crook, many a good bodge. In the end, I knew the fate during the last 6 months she has not seen much maintenance. She...

The forum admins have access to statistics on Google searches involving this site. There is lots of data, some of it useful, and some a little strange...

Here is a little sampler, the following are the most clicked links (to this site) in google searches in the last 30 days, each getting well over 1000 clicks:
Got a depollution system faulty...

Hi all
Been away from the forum for ages - life absolutely just getting in the way of stuff - just a quick note to say hello again now that I've dipped in to start catching up again.
Citroen-wise, while I've been away I've added another Activa (that's now 3 :rofl2: ) and a C5 Mk 1 V6 estate (finally found one - has loads of problems of course) and...

Hey all car got through its MOT just needed a new clip on a cc boot. Still trying to get to the bottom of my intermittent starting issues. :-D

Yes its been Clio day today for me, but where did the name come from and is it any good?

If you are well up on Greek Mythology maybe Clio means something, or if you are familiar with the works of Carlo Franzoni you may well make the connection to his Car of History sculpture in the US Capitol. In general though its a fairly meaningless word which...

Have you got one, did you have one, have you still got the baddie

Here's mine 2019 over 50 years on since I first got it.

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James May's piece on it here is superb.

James May: Why the Corgi James Bond Aston Martin DB5 is the most significant car ever

It may not seem it when compared with the iPad, but by the standards of 1965...

Just got this from AMS Auctions.

I thought it might be amusing to see what ranges you can get on your C5 2.2 range meters. This was mine on my now expired car but I have not got near this yet on the replacement.

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Anybody done any better? :)

What do you know about Norfolk? has generated 94 replies and 5357 views to date starting off with the rather flimsy premis of generating a spot of the Brancaster AA Box!

So What do you know about Wales? kicks off with the same plea. Will it reach the dizzy heights of 94 replies...well depends if it is more interesting than Norfolk :!: :-D Now I...

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...

After reading that you could be fined £200 plus six points for using your phone to pay for goods at a drive through and also using your mobile in general whilst your engine is running, what happens if you drive an EV, never an engine running so can I use my mobile any time I’m stopped in traffic as your engine needs to be running for you to be in...

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My mates 50th on Saturday and his favourite film is 'Back to the Future' so.....
With the BX 3 weeks from death due to rust mites we thought we may do this to surprise him.

The cars never had so much attention, kids and parents alike taking pictures. A good sending off I think.

Hello all,

I'm doing the palace to palace bike ride in October with a team from work in aid of the Prince's Trust.

Should any of you be feeling generous, or kind, please feel free to donate a few pence here. All going to a good cause.

Thanks for reading,

Mike

I am warming to a thread with a simple title.

Can anyone entertain us with their own Car Auction tales?

I have had a recent experience of nearly but not quite .

Followed that age-old auction advice of know your limit before you go in and stick to it.

Well, in the rawness of post-sale emotion, I am thinking for the sake of a small additional...

Barrington Pheloung, the composer, died today, aged 65.

His most famous film work was the theme music for Morse, Lewis and Endeavour . . .

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Got my new laptop and trying to transfer the WOW Snooper program from the old one, got a spare hdd and popped it into one of those external cassettes, connected it to the old laptop switched it on and my robot vacuum cleaner started up. :o

Ain't wi-fi wonderful.

:rofl2: Excuse me but I have to laugh, they MAY have got to the moon using a 1st gen pocket calculator once upon a time, but 50 years later the chips appear to have taken over my car. Or maybe that's the plan. :shock:

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Tried to add a few pics but wasn't jiving, anyhow mid East to Cornwall 323 miles completely relaxed driving , highly recommended ! #needawagontho lol

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Need a source for Valeo alternator parts....namely a CL12...this one. I am struggling to find one that has any sort of list I can select from.

I need a bearing set, slip ring and brushes

I decided the old Dell laptop with Windows 7 wasn't up to scratch for the WOW Snooper updates so I found a new/second hand one with i5 cpu. It's due tomorrow.

Decided to look around for info on how to move WOW from the old Win7 to the new Win10. :shock: what a headache that appears to be.

But I came across this, entertaining and informative in a...

I am quite virginal in this respect as reported in todays POTD but others may over their motoring years have owned/desired a convertible/cabriolet/roadster/décapotable/drop-top/rag-top.

Plenty on offer at the classic sales, always tempting.

So at the risk of a zero participation thread but never afraid to miss, your contributions are invited!...

This caught my attention about India recently. Yes while bits of the auto industry are contracting MG is expanding.

That great old British Chinese Marque MG, who are pushing their well priced vehicles pretty hard in the UK at the moment have announced they are to build their new Electric Car the ZS-EV at Abingdon Longbridge Gujarat India. The...

I've used this a few times and found it very interesting, maybe others will too.

Put your address (or any other) in the search box then hover your pointer over the blue dot on the left and move it back and forth.

If you were a BMC customer in the 1960's you apparently had a bewildering choice of BMC approved Travel Rugs and Seat Covers. No not all tartans were catered for but these were:-

Ancient Cameron of Erracht
Anderson
Black Watch
Buchanan
Davidson of Tulloch
Lindsay
Macbeth
Macgregor
Macqueen
Royal Stewart
Dress Stewart
Wallace...

Just had my renewal offer through from Adrian Flux. Been looking forward to ditching them for the last couple of years as they were charging way over the odds. However as I was always firefighting at renewal time it never got to the front of the queue - though I've made sure to pay attention this year.

1996 Xantia Activa.
7K/year.
Social &...

As per the new item the other day all electric vehicles from 2021 have to emit the sound of a normal combustion engine, so when you buy new new Peugeot e-208, can you chose the engine sound, if so what about......... lMXF_gzSj6A

Given in, tried to start video at 7 sec and end after 10 but couldn't - there's gotta be a way!!

View from our roof terrace, 23:15h CET

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Perfect timing for 'Apollo' anniversary!

Nice headline from the Guardian..... Hard on Mister Softee: London councils ban ice cream vans

and seeing as this is the French Car Forum here is a appropriately glum looking Ice Cream Van for good measure :-D

REgards Neil

Some people believe it was in fact Vladimir Ilyushiin, 5 days before Gagarin's flight is purported to have taken place.

The theory is that the flight had technical issues, and had to be brought down early, and he crash landed in China where he was held for a year as a political prisoner.

The Russians, of course, deny this, and state he was in...

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right spot on the forum to place this question, if not please move the topic to it's appropriate place.
We have an '78 Fiat 242 camper with a UK build Hilton camper set-up. The 242 has been co-produced with Citroën and is basically 95% the same as a C35.
I already placed a picture of it in the awful camper topic a...

Anyone going to Jersey this summer?

Only one of the 19 AA Boxes in the FCF AA Box Challenge remains unclaimed and its at Trinity on Jersey.

In the meantime the challenge has been made into a movie of the 18 boxes so far captured with an original photograph by an FCF member. So we have original pics from Red Dwarfers, Eifion, Richard W, White...

Its Summer! today anyway...

Don't know whether this is the best link, but covers the UK (and a bit of France/Italy) if you want to find out where the classic shows etc are happening. Just put your own County up in the search field and out the events pop!

classicshowsuk.co.uk

So the list for this weekend includes...

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I see the environmentalists have moved on from engine emissions to tyre and brake dust now. Maybe we should ban car ownership altogether. :shock:

Michael Rodd doing his best to demonstrate the latest Mobile Phone Technology......

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Anyone else watching the semi-final? :)

I saw a Peugeot 508 SW commercial for the first time today and I don't get it. The ad seems to have been filmed at dusk on a disused desert airstrip interrupted with images of a small snake and some UFO activity. The car looks great, it's way beyond my budget but the ad is very irritating or is it just me?

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I just came across this and found it quite amusing. If you fancy it have a go and post your scores up here:

I can start with 6/10 in 1 min 38 secs.

Enjoy!! :-D

The rural community around Corwen in Denbighshire North Wales has a New Nissan Leaf called NELI

£50/annum to join the club, £1/hour and 25p/mile for your use of it.

Cheaper than owning a new one yourself sitting doing nothing for the majority of the 24 hours in each day!

Story here

REgards Neil

a name to this tool?
I know what it does and I've used it many times over the years I've owned it (50 years +) but I want to put it on Ebay and I'm buggered if I can think of a proper title for it.

Remember those movies where the hero heroically chewed gum, climbed out of the cockpit mid-air and plugged a hole in the petrol tank.....

This is on a 30+ year old petrol hover mower, one piece plastic tank, capacity next to nothing. Once there was a seal where a metal tube poked through to fit the gravity fed pipe onto, that seal is no more so...

.....Yes Danish Bacon used to advertise itself with its own name dye stamped on its product, eggs used to have a little lion logo on them, and we were encouraged to go to work on an egg . There was even radio active ready brek but whats going on in 2019...........

The Telegraph Newspaper is advertising on my plastic milk bottle!

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Everyone who has ever owned a car must have tried their hand at painting from touch-up, to panels to resprays, dent and scratch removal.

So with a bit of willing participation here's a thread to share your experiences/tips/products/good instructional videos/disasters.

My latest bargain basement purchase has this purely cosmetic problem. It would...

From Auto-torque and The Parts Alliance.

coming home to roost for the German motor industry./

......... or may not be technically 'puncture proof' in the commonly accepted sense, and may have issues in its current form where it can pick up and throw stones the size of pea shingle if you drive through deep shingle, and may have issues where you happily drive with a severely deteriorated tyre without knowing it. Apart from that - not new...