French Car Forum

I washed the Xantia about 2 years / 40k miles ago. I think the Picasso has been washed once in the 25k miles we've had it. Mind you, it looks like the council have been shovelling salt into the door jambs on the Xantia, so perhaps I ought to rinse it off.... :?

I did T-Cut a pink (it was supposed to be red!) BX TD once, then polished it. It...

I don't think the Citroen C8 or Peugeot 806 has the same carrying capacity as the Grand Espace, but I would also look at the Galaxy/Sharan. Zafiras etc are a bit small I think.

When I eventually get around to buying one of these (or it may yet be a proper panel van - have to see what I need) year 1999-2001 would be about what I'm looking at....

LMAO !! our it manager wasn't impressed.

:lol:

I think a large sat dish can extend range into kilometers, from meters :D

Good call Colin!! Yep, sunroof blind is open though the MOT place I
use is a tad dingy on light...

I wondered about the old if it's fitted it has to be working chestnut!
Guess I could say I prefer the rheostat turned right down as my
eyes are very sensitive! :lol: :roll:

It's one of those jobs I've put off for ages and had conveniently...

Waverider

Fast enough for you?
The trouble with scramjets though is that they don't work at low speeds, and need to be got airborne and upto sub-sonic speed by something else, but impressive anyway.

I too find the VW's of late ratther shocking.

I have to drive them every now and again for work instead of using my own xantia, usually a Jetta or Passat with a 110 or 130 tdi unit, and think they feel far too hard, even compared to Rachels SSS i just think they should go round corners and handle better than they do.

The always seem to have a...

Richard wrote
As long as there's a bicycle nearby he'll be able to out-run a Dersh

only if the bicycle is welded to the dershies front bumper,

when we first put my daughters re/built dersh on the road with GAS FLOWED head's, it was just in time for the Austrian world meeting,

on her return she said were dershies usualy change down to go up...

which is held on by four small bolts which are easy to remove. ]

My diesel Saxo is one of them - the DW8 is another and Yes! it's a doddle to remove.

Im also a big believer in birds of a feather flock together so experience has taught me the best way to often find good staff is to get referrals through a known group of good people

Absolutely Vince :D The old adge in business says: It's not what you know but who you know..

And that's so true..

Customers are like women really. Can't live...

Ive just realised ive got somehting else on that weekend. :(

Ill try get out of it as i was really wanting to go to this. I will be at the national and CXM this year though 8-)

Thanks to Toby for showing me the way, I managed to find some Citroen literature on the subject. They call it an Altimeter Corrector . It is also used to calculate EGR control which is interesting as this obviously affects AFR as well (presuming the EGR is working).

It would be interesting to experiment with different corrector inputs to see how...

absolutely crazy :roll: women do say and do some stupid bloody things :lol:

Nice group Gammy.... :)

We are sharing the event with another car club i think? Though cant remember what the other cars are now?

I was slightly dissapointed when i went to the motor museum last time, they seemed to have thinned out their exhibits quite a bit. Although when i was driving out i saw a lot of them in a compound outside! Seemed a little odd as there were...

Ha ha, I actually thought about selling it for the Avantime, but I really love this Mégane... especially since it had £3,000 of options added when new. And i'd say I'd have to sacrifice quite a few of the luxuries I have become accustomed to if I were to get the R25 - I'm not brave enough!

It's the 2.0 VVT engine - which emits 191 g/km of CO2, so...

Couldn't say vince but it is 14mm x 5m.

Sorry DickieG, typo ( However now corrected whoever ).

I was only given two keys (one with remote) whereas Lexia told me three keys were programmed so even if the reported malfunction of my key is a phantom fault (because both keys work ok), I thought it wise to delete the key I don't have.

AFAIK, each step must be successful or the Lexia will...

madness :D

i played the first half with no sound, it is a bit surreal, turning the sound on didn't change that feeling :lol:

I've got one, which I use with the BX. You have the bars you can use the box. Trouble is, I'm in Chelmsford. Essex. :?

TG used to use big Citroen estates (CX, XM) as camera cars so they've always had a soft spot for them.

The one that surprised me was no 17, Wells-Next-The-Sea, I go there regularly through work, talk about a sleepy hollow.

Surprising yes, a high percentage of tourists there who may be targeted.

Not surprised by No 1, and at least 5-6 areas east of London.

Apparently Leonardo da Vinci came up with the idea in 1490.

And DAF put it into production shortly afterward :lol:

Seriously, CVT is very, very good indeed. People used to enjoy a joke on the DAF elastic bands but the system was very fundamentally sound and more efficient than a conventional autobox...

Behavour initially appeared a bit...

Thats right, 'sinkers' are without anti sink. However they should really keep their height for getting on for a day without sinking down to low.

Well, we don't use Perspex so no, it isn't.

I'll see if I can locate a sample and try it, we also have some Solvent #5 so I'll try that too.

It is kept in polythene containers so may not be harmful to other plastics although it does dissolve latex gloves rather well :shock:

Just installed google chrome and everything seems to be ok so fingers crossed :lol:

Thanks for the feedback :D

Colin

amen to that.

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having lived in belgium with a uk english sat nav (voice) was quite funny listening to the female voice trying to pronouce the dutch/french street names.

We use a few MOT stations, i often use the main ford dealer. They pointed out my headlight before and failed the car, then adjusted the beams and passed it, all in the 1 hour test time without charging for the adjustment. Seems odd to have to fail it but i dont think any adjustments can be done during a test.

I also use a citroen specialist, who...

Not getting a lot of interest in this - although some CCC members have expressed an interest. Let me know your thoughts as I am going anyway, I think. It's likely to be straddling the weekend 2/3 or possibly the 9/10th October. I need to establish when the autojumble's on but having looked into it, it's mainly a Renault affair so might actually be...

Nice one Steve :D :D
The last one on the list sounds a bit familiar :D

well I ca only repeat what I typed above a few hours ago, again more concern for my saftey than concern for whom sent the malicious postcards. my home has been logged as an at risk address now in case of vege oil theft/fuel theft, so quite a good outcome really.

maybe it would be a good idea for veggie filterers to declare their goings on to the...

More likely due to corrosion in the head, or radiator weepage.

People seem to top up the radiator with plain water too often! That, and too low a water level, do far more damage - and faster - than oil neglect.

I think that pin 4 is deliberately not connected as it iand pin 5 are ground pins on the car, and a ground-loop could damage the lexia if both were connected.

The internal pin number with a question mark above is actually O/C in my cable, but I am fairly sure it connects to (at least) the A/C ECU.

Thanks for that Mike, and everyone else for the...

Day 12

Moving on today out of Poland we had a bad start. Polish drivers are totally crazy- if there is an inch gap between two cars they want to be in it with the most dangerous overtaking manoeuvres.

We had gone about 20 minutes out of Warsaw when Penny's temperature went sky high and she seriously overheated.

We pulled over onto the services...

Nice :shock: Good proper racing there.

Exactly where I had my moment, that little hump coming out of the chicane can really kick the car off balance.

The main problem is not the tread, but the sidewalls. Under hard cornering, the tyre tucks under the alloy. When my road tyres get down to the markers (Michelin PE2), I burn them off at the track. It's the side walls and shoulders that dissappear very quickly, and that's with a relatively low profile tyre with strengthened sidewalls. I also pop in...

When you look at concept cars nowadays, it looks quite different from those concept cars from the 80s, 90s.
That car looks like it comes from the 90s then?

It looks cool, i like the glass roof which extends to the windscreen, plenty of sun

And a DS keeps appearing in Caprica (a battlestar Galactica prequel), not to mention Buffy the Vampire Slayer........

Yes I liked the railway walks interesting programme, and lovely presenter. 8-)

Prior to the Countryfile programme time change, when it was on in the mornings, she went to a river where the locals, and others travel to do wild river swimming.

Well there was a small gentle current to be aware off, and the presenters had to be careful not to get...

It looks like UPS have the exploding seatbelt/airbag market stitched up.

Royal Mail are no go, Fedex won't do them, Pack&Send neither.

Don't you love how a global marketplace means more competition and better prices for the consumer? :roll:

It's like buses they all come at once, or the stories about this type of incident, makes you wonder how many times this sort of thing happens.

Oddly i saw this only yesterday, i was on the M60 in Manchester & on the opposite carrige way was a blue ford puma (i think) which was parked across the central lane facing the hard shoulder with an artic...

Pimped out safrane :?

Exactly... Although it's only half done. Looks like 16 year old yob got his hands on Granda's Safrane then caught red handed ha ha

Ah, one of those X-Anterrs!

Yer, the special west-Country edition :D

I's got one of they; an X-Anterr Actveeeeer

Exactly. Ever since computerised databases were introduced, we rarely see such joined-up thinking Malcolm, despite the fact this is how they were sold to us. Seems it's easier for the underwriter to contact the broker who then sent a recorded delivery letter threatening me with blacklisting.

Hi all

After a couple of evenings facking around with this car ive sorted it out, leaking injectors!! it is now running like a dream and can be given back to its owner and taken off my drive :lol:

Thanks Vince too for all your help, much appreciated mate

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