French Car Forum

The Citroën Car Club National Rally is being held between 11th-13th July on in the grounds of the Wood Green Animal Shelter which is located on the A1198 about one mile south of the A14/Godmanchester , non members are welcome :D camping facilities available.

This weekend the DS/SM Rallly is being held in the small village of Little Horwood (just...

On the advice garnered her he abandoned it and is looking for another SAAB to replace the one she is selling.
He was lasst looking at a perfect 900 turbo, higher spec than Laura's, leather interior, AC, electric seats and all the rest.
There were lotts of pictures, inside, outsede, engine, wheels and so on.
It was high mileage but appeared to have...

Well,after reading the BOL`s,& lack of interest hear,i`ll let the Peugeot change it.Its a good cost from a main dealer.They did my Xantia a few years ago,being the cheapest around then. :)

It seems to me that there are supporters of this spying technology in very high places who don't give a damn about the law or protecting the interest of the general public/broadband consumer. Perhaps someone should spread a rumour that it's all backed by Alky Aida money :roll:

The amount of contaminants spewed into the atmosphere by volcanos grossly outweigh anything homo sapiens is capable of - not to deny that we are making a contribution though.

The thing is, the amount that they spewed out was balanced by the amount scrubbed from the atmosphere through weathering and other carbon cycles etc.

Think of it as...

Maybe the seller is a man of the cloth. :wink:

So the man from Del Monte say yes, but the guy loathing about (sorry I could not resist the pun) with the sandwich board says, the end is......

Down below :wink:

Will the last person that leaves the country turn off the lights !!!

I think Citrojim put it best when he said that these cars often go through phases of expenditure, but once the work is done you end up having a good run of reliability with only standard maintenance costs.

My 405 saloon is a case in point. I bought it (for the second time!) for £50 as the MOT had expired 5 months previously and it had just sat on...

shooooosh....

tell them only lime-green Xantias from 1994 !

Gordon effing Bennett!!

Mind you, I find the Practical Performance Car stickers somewhat ironic...

Reminds me that many years ago I read an auto magazine article about a home-build with a Merlin engine that was known as The Beast . Anyone remember that? It was effectively an open chassis with a couple of seats on top, if I remember correctly.

Yer brand new Sprinter. £35,000 worth of van lol.

Didn't go too well. Think the size got the better of me. So they want me reassessed. It's better than an outright no I guess.

I think the main thing is the anticipation, didn't seem to good at that when I went out in it.

Well I wish that I had been given a Sprinter to use recently instead of...

Just collected the 306 as my son works nights and is in bed. Quite impressed with it. Apart from the glow plug nonsense to start it.
(never had to do that after the first start of the day on the Xantia).

I goes very well. The suspension isn't bad compared to the C5. Goes over speed bumps at 30 almost as though they weren't there.
Accellerates...

I don't know many people who've ever drunk a Darwin stubby.

Twenty-four thousand of these are sold every year. Most of those don't get drunk - they sit on the mantelpiece and they're a talking point about somebody's trip to the Northern Territory.

Who's he trying to kid?

Don't forget we're talking pretty high strength stuff, but apart from...

FCF Test is a copy of the FCF running on my test/development server. It is used to test modifications and try out experimantal things before doing them for real on the proper FCF.

Recently it was used to prove the anti-spam mods on the FCF, dry-run the creation of some planned new forums on the FCF and most recently to test the effects of...

Prime example of an OXYMORON after upgrading (?) to Vista

Why not simply mirror image the shots showing the wheel? I am looking for a left hand drive car (and poss. driver) for a scene in a feature film that takes place in a canadian taxi cab. We would require the car for a day's shooting currently set on Sunday 25th May near Stansted.

Thanks for that phone call Jim :)

I've had a lot of not so great stuff going on back in the real world lately, so I've been neglecting you all, and I'm very sorry, won't do it again :)

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Corny Jim, corny. :D

I know :oops: Sorry, I just could not help myself :lol: :roll:

My insurance company refuse to email cover notes or certificates stating that it wouldn't be a legal document but previous insurers have done so when asked. There are a lot of inconsistencies between companies and their policies, I find.

I tried to tax a new van a few years ago and they wouldn't accept a faxed covernote, had to wait for it to...

The reason you need a working handbrake on a xantia is when you have an LHM leak, or your multi belt snaps, you have very heavy steering, and loss of your brakes in a very short peroid of time, this may be a warning due to the design of xantias, not sure of other citroens, but I believe they all have the handbrake on the front wheels. But wouldn't...

Come on Jim it's someone at work giving you a 'wind-up' :P it's the sort of thing I'd do to someone who loves their car (not guilty on this occaision my Lud).

I think you may well be right Richard :lol: Further research showed it was only my cars in the whole street that were targetted..

Now to find the culprit and deliver justice although it...

The total of spammers trapped has increased quite a lot today.

Tracing their IP addresses shows that many originate in Pakistan of all places but more worringly, two attacks today have originated in the UK :shock:

You doing the lottery this week? What numbers please? 8)

I have just been reading the reviews of the C5 and C6 in a Swedish newspaper - Dagens Nyheter, both did very well.
Citroen isn't particularly well represented there.

I don't suppose they made XUD11 VSX's did they? :lol:

I don't have a problem with everyone using veg, only the people who care not about xantia and are buying them as throw away cars.

You've been here a long time and look after your cars, my grievance is not aimed at you. I really only have a problem with people who take a good xantia, veg it, ruin it and throw it away. It's not fair on the people...

Off with his head!

Not guilty m'lud :shock: I know we're dealing in French matters on this forum but surely threatening the admins with a gullotine is a bit drastic :lol: :lol: I feel an entry in the ban list coming on.... :wink: :lol:

I just had the same problem on XP, apparently its a webserver glitch.

Yes, it is. The webserver serves...

Thank you kindly! :D

I'm on the case mate 8) Now to read the handbook

It's called spin James, of the very worst kind :(

Heck, they ought to be doing all they can to encourage the use of older cars, far so-called greener than a new one. It makes me furious.

They're doing a good brainwashing job on our kids. It took a lot of work to convince my kids that running a middle-aged diesel Xantia is far greener, when...

That is a huge amount of money!!! :shock: My 1st car was a Astra 1.3 in 1992,a Y reg `83.It cost £508 tpft which i thought was a lot.
Anyway,my stereo is all wired up now.Took a 12v fused feed from the 12v battery straight to the stereo,earthed via the machine,no probsat all.What a plesure it is to R2 & FM again.
Out of interest,its stil lmy...

That take's me back. :lol:

Pura is now up to 56p a litre, there is no-where retail where you can buy it for much less than a pound, apart from Lidl. I get mine from Bookers now, it should stay cheap there for a little while longer.

Now I need to determine the make of A/C compressor.

Look at the label wrapped around the body of the compressor Mike.

If it is more or less all yellow with a green area it'll be a Delphi/Harrisow. Otherwise it'll be a Sanden.

Another way of identifying it is a Sanden is by the pully/clutch face having three threaded holes in a triangluar shape...

From another perspective, you could also check out here as this is mainly newish cars.

Go for the alphabetical reference and look particularly at Nissan Navara, Kia Carnival and anything Ford or Holden (Vauxhall in your language) for a few eyebrow raisers.
Most of the posts are from Australia, although the UK, South Africa and of course the US...

I picked up the gaskets and studs this morning, induction and exhaust is all back together again. Damn manifold to exhaust joint was blowing badly and I had to do some serious over-tightening to shut it up. As the exhaust got hot, smoke began billowing out of the bay much to my horror but I soon realised it was the plus-gas saturated downpipe just...

isn't it a sprung plastic switch, a plunger type thing, located where the boot lock hoop comes out of rear valance? I sort of know what I mean,, a very late night :(

If I press mine, the boot light goes off.. from dubious memory.. Models fitted with Hydractive suspension have a switch under there to activate the Hydractive as part of the...

Well that baby is definitely safe in your hands Jim, no doubt about it. :lol:

You've hit the nail on the head when you say that you've tested the strategy by restoring and verifying it works ok. This idea often occurs to ordinary computer users after they have been religiously backing up their work for a period, but then they find themselves in...

Jeremy, that is a hoot :lol: :lol:

Thank you for the kind reviews folks!

We've just had a summer that felt like spring up here in the tropics, yet down south where it's supposed to be milder, they've had a summer like what we usually have with temps up to the 40s.
Be interesting to see what winter brings.
Autumn at present is like your summers I expect with overnight temps around the 16 - 20 mark and hitting 30 in the...

Conventional diesel theory suggests that good mixture homogenisation is only achieved with high levels of swirl, the higher the better and in fact all diesel engines, be they DI or IDI, go all out to get as much swirl as possible :? Or are they just using a bit of bull baffles brains and a set of words that look good. A kind of spin perhaps?

I...