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Stone protection mesh.
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Back in the early 70's, no deadlocks, no built in steering locks, door locks made of putty, quarter lights you could push open as long as you were stronger than a hamster and ignition a 5 year old could hot wire with a paperclip, steering wheel locks were essential in some places. I remember Krookloks, time consuming clumsy things hooked round...

Our French concept cars, the best looking concept cars?
Here's just a few of the concept cars produced

Renault Trezor
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Peugeot Onyx
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Renault Nepta:
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Peugeot Oxia
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Renault Alpine A110-50
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Renault De Zir
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if you can think of anymore, or think other...

Having another look to see if I could find my old Roller, came across this, some really strange stuff if you scroll down.

Hi Guy's
Just reading about the twin motor bmw i8 that has a three cylinder 1500cc engine in the back that has over 200bhp to offer , why has my 1600 cc e-hdi only give me 110 bhp ??? :rofl2:

Jaguar Land Rover bought a large collection from James Hull some time back, and are selling some of it on, with no reserve. Some of the vehicles are interesting;

Perhaps, according to The Independent .

Shares in Renault rose almost 5 per cent on Thursday following reports the French motor company is in talks with Nissan to explore a potential merger.

Well as I was buying an oil filter and some engine flush from Halfords I decided it was about time I bought myself a crawler to make it easier getting about under my car (getting older) so I purchased this set from Halfords plus an extra set of 3 tonne ratchet axles stands. Both for £69, thats with a trade discount of £46 so cant complain....

in the course of uploading a video to myglaren's 'Pickled Egg Jukebox' I got to thinking of one of my favourite places.... Scotland

....so a topic about Favourite places. What's yours?

Picture is Chanonry Point, near Inverness, that beach is quite something! The beach by the Lighthouse a few yards from here is also the best place in the UK to...

Our little unscientific thread Have you spottted an 18 Reg yet? has proved to be fairly prophetic.

SMMT have today released their new car sales for March 2018 and its 15% down on 12 months ago. Diesels down 40%.

The first media coverage I heard was on my radio alarm which Wakes me up to money on Radio 5 Live. Surprisingly I didn't get too...

Marshalls and Duxford Motors have both ceased to be Citroen sales dealers, but both said that they would continue as authorized Citroen service and repair agents. Duxford are, Marshalls are not as of today.

I went into Duxford to try and book an MOT/Service for 2 weeks hence and although they were as ever very helpful they simply can't fit it in...

Hi everyone, not a dig at all, as I’m a new member on here but having previously been a paid up member on RTOC for over 5 years which with the appearance of facefuck took a small dive but still kept it’s head above the water line.
It’s very easy these days to just Google or enquir on Facebook your issues or to gather info on a meet etc.
I’ve...

There have been numerous posts regarding modern headlights, principally that they dazzle oncoming drivers.

The RAC has investigated and the Beeb have reported on it.

Bedazzled .

I haven't experienced any dangerous incidents but do agree that they are very disturbing and uncomfortable.

RESPECT, a true son of France and a credit to his country, family and the human race.
RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame

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Good day gentlemen.

I have decided on Mullion Garages latest offer to save petrol.

I believe they get the gas from all the cesspits : )

Happy Easter Holidays

God Bless Spiff and Alanna

I don't think I'll be working on the front drive today.

The idea is simple. Each person adds a line, and we see what direction this goes in. Here goes;

Once upon a time there was a flying squirrel who...

..before I consign them to room 101!

Here's the registered users playing at this point in time on our very forum

Ahrefs , andy5, Bing , Google , Linkdex , marc61, milleplod, NewcastleFalcon, SEOkicks

Now I landed on Radio 4 this lunchtime, the programme You and Yours to be precise, and Bots came into the discussion. The context was a fashion...

is this one of our lot, if its not it ought to be...... Play 'spot the French car' in the photo, lol.

I can't ask, the guy doesn't accept mails. He's in Reigate.
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Also off topic, I'm trying to give away a 1950's Electric Sewing Machine, Cast Iron construction, contact me if of interest. Working but needs attention.

I took my car into a garage for a new clutch which I supplied, it was an luk clutch kit costing £106 (so not the cheapest) I drove my car there it was driving fine just a little squeak from the thrust bearing. Since the mechanic has changed it there are loads of different errors which I'm trying to sort in another post and it does not start...

Guys

For some time now, I've been accessing the 'net from public locations.
This has meant I couldn't log in because I didn't have my password and didn't want to reset it from such an insecure environment.
Around Christmas, while scouring the classifieds looking for a wheelchair accessible car, my attention was caught by a 2000 reg Xantia 2.0...

Just spent half an hour removing ten inches of snow from the top of my car........again, cleared the pathway up to the house then a whirlwind pinched my hat, took it and dumped it in a foot of snow in a neighbour's garden a hundred yards away. :x

There must be a few of us on here who subscribe to Car Mechanics mag? I was shocked and left speechless a couple of days ago when my 60th anniversary copy landed & the first thing I read is that Ted Connolly has passed away! :(

Ted was a contributor since just before I was born & the mag will never be the same without his column, usually one of...

Has anyone here tried FAPlite -android software? Any recommendations on (preferably slim and cheap) bluetooth dongle that works with it?

...having a browse of eBay, noticed this, wow we all know Lancia's rust, but I've never seen anything like this....

....and secondarily, if less impressively, take a look at the 405 listing

I've saved some of the photos of it as 'inspiration' to stay on top of the maintenance of mine, which due to weather conditions and other factors is...

This just popped up in my mail as an offer from the GMF GSF etc. lot.

Completely off topic, but couldn't resist sharing the home baking experience with you today - doughn't know what happened, but went to check on said loaf in the breadmaker and was quite surprised to see the finished result :shock:

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Put a pair of these together and say no more! :-D
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Having an affliction for noticing numbers, there are days when the OTCL is a bit ...slow. Today so far is one of them.

I did notice at an average of about 20 posts a day the OTCL moved from 61,000 to 62,000 posts.

I would say that there are plenty of standard topics which are pretty easy to contribute too, so I would encourage everyone to lob up...

Having noted Citrojim's thread featuring his Radiogram and various other bits of older Electrical....

I was wondering if he, or anyone else 'in the know' with this sort of thing, could point me in the right direction regarding an old Turntable.

Its been ferreted out of the loft after at least 10years up there, in the course of clearing out. On...

As I was saying in my blog before it got invaded and overrun by off-topic dieselly stuff I'm wanting to get my Ka welding done...

Firstly I need to procure a MIG rig to do the job...

Grateful for recommendations on which one to get... I'm not keen to spend a fortune on an all singing, all dancing one one but would like to get a good, basic,...

On Monday this week I got a leaflet in the post offering me £19 a month for 24 months of unlimited broadband and line rental.

Called in on my old friend on Tuesday, she's been a Post Office broadband customer since she joined the online set five years ago, on her table a letter from the Post Office telling her that her monthly charge is to rise...

I know even experienced Citroen main dealer parts agents have trouble so I don't feel such a numpty having difficulty.

It seems, either by car design or the fact I'm just getting older that my habit of dropping and losing fasteners (along with previous careless maintenance losing/breaking them) the need to source replacements is increasing.

I...

Well thats the Xantia good for another year,
New ABS rings on the front.
New sensor drivers side rear.
New control arm passenger side front.
New track rod ends.
Bit of welding on the drivers side sill at the rear.
Nice new MOT.
:) :) :)

Greenpeace rules the world. German court allows the banning of diesels.

Got myself in a bit of an ebay pickle

Short story: I need to print an ebay returns label from a laptop with no printer access. Is there any way to print to file (I'm sure there is), transport it via USB or SD and then successfully print from that file off another system? It's this latter part I'm most unsure about.

Long Story: In my mind, I...

Has just taken on a Suzuki franchise, I wonder if that means he's going to be less and less interested in the Citroens.

He's been a Citroen dealer for as long as I can remember.

The site is now emblazoned with Suzuki signage.

I am watching the new series of Top Gear, and the new Ford GT has a Citroen trick (of a sort). Put it into Track mode and it drops (rapidly) by a couple of inches. Put it back into Road mode and it jumps back up.

From what I have seen the new Top Gear looks like it will do well. Different to the previous series (it needed to be), and very...

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...

Six Bottles of Wine has just bought me this :!: Case of right place at right time and being cheeky enough to ask.

4-door Clio 1.2, around 38,000 miles surplus to the owner's requirements. Another example of the On my walk method of acquiring vehicles as per Gibbo!

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Well pleased

Regards Neil

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:

One of my neighbours who's a regular rambler suggested I go a different way for a walk round the village, he said he thought there was a Citroen like mine in a field although he wasn't sure.

So I took his advice and followed the footpath signs and sure enough there's an 06 C5 automatic estate in the long grass, a tidy car, silver with the...