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Unfortunately I havent the space to put such a beast.... but I don't mind asking if anyone else is interested.... or even better, I can give interested parties the address and you could 'make first contact' yourselves! :)

If it's a turbodiesel, I'd be very interested. I'll PM you.

Special !

Well it's certainly different !

More than a century, but it's not worth a monkey !

The seller is in London, hence the slang. :lol:

Well this second auction has ended, and the seller received 9 bids. :roll:

The reserve it seems is set at £500, but given the condition of this banana coloured car they should accept that, otherwise it will be listed several more times, in the...

data wires are useally twisted together to stop interference

I have always twisted wires together in an in-car auxilliary harness. The man from Clifford taught me that in 1996. He just took all the cable pairs, shoved them into the end of his new-fangled 6 Volt cordless, and twisted them up. I have copied that every since. EMF reduction, and a...

I THINK IF THEY'VE HAD PROPER SERVICING IN THEIR EARLIER LIFETIME YOU CAN RUN MOST CARS ON A SHOESTRING FOR A GOOD NUMBER OF YEARS.

BUT - There's a point where the mileage will stack up aginst you. Stands to reason ball joints, bushes, gaiters, tyres, clutches AND SPHERES psss their use by date...

Problem with Citroens is the usual muppet...

My 406 HDi has one, most of the HDi's do, but its for EGR use and not directly for preventing an engine runaway.

Does my 1997 1.9TD Xantia have an OBD plug and, if so, where?

I work in an electronics factory and I'm not sure that we could get the bits on an ECU for £20. Having said that, we deal mostly in low volumes and don't have the buying power of a car manufacturer. There are program writing costs too.

Do ECUs really cost £300 anyway? I'm sure I...

There are not that many Activas about, and with idiots like that seller, then the precious few that are about are being wasted.

Apparently the Peugeot family headed by Robert Peugeot are buying a chateau and winery near Bordeaux, just weeks after closing the Coventry plant.

The report I have seen about this has a quote from the unions who say they are not happy about this.

It would seem that they are more concerned about the future of the Chateau Guirard, and have spent...

Just think that there are forklift trucks out there that have been for years running much more high tech advanced CAN - BUS multiplex systems then anything PSA Peugeot Citroen have ever fitted to a car yet & they work just fine day in & day out.

This is a bit off-topic, but still relevant:

You've made the point as to why they are still working...

The wheels do look very 'shunted' forward...interesting!

I reckon you could easily buy and run a CX or DS, or possibly even SM, for the money involved in a new-ish prestige car. The depreciation and servicing money could easily keep a Citroen in tip-top condition and reliable, especially with the amount of time modern cars seem to spend in garages getting gremlins sorted out.

That way the Joneses...

Here's a CX that has had the lights changed, which changes the appearance of the car.

The car looks better with the original lights.

It's a front complete blowout that's the danger.

Yep, been there. Mine was in a T4 VW transporter, and I lunched the thing into the central barrier on the M25. Three tonnes of uncontrollable mush when the N/S front went pop!

The reserve is more than £600 then :lol: From his reaction it looks like much more.

That's just pure quality :D

I think it was meant to have gone into the water vertically,which would explain the cover over the screen- otherwise I'd have thought the screen would have been removed.

Looking on his website he seems to be a pretty experienced stuntman-but it looks like this time it went wrong for him.

Remember Tip Tipping, a very experienced stuntman who did...

Thanks for that wheeler.

Hello I have used something called K - seal and it sealed a badly leaking head gasket on a BX 16V, it was meant to be a temperary thing untill the gasket could be replaced. That was a year ago and no problems. Be worth a try.
Cheers.
Geoff.

The yellow tippex I've seen used on better-than-factory-new restored cars before - when owners assemble their car with all re-conditioned original parts. By original parts you should take it literally : all parts that came off the vehicle are re-conditioned. Only parts that can not be brought back to better-than-new condtion are then sourced as...

Apparently getting out of the car and walking round can be classed as jaywalking though.

Only in America could walking somewhere be unlawful, but slapping a Heath Robinson affair like that in a car be legal!

Gawd-dam! he was moovin' down the street by sorta movin' he feet about. Didn' look like he was burnin' any gas at all! We gotta make that...

I'm a 49yr old mountain llama from Tibet.

May be of help to someone else.

www.roofbox.co.uk are very good for bars and boxes, even do a hire service and if you decide to buy they discount the hire charge.

Along the lines of Clio and Corsa saloons there is a zx saloon in China!!

What a bargain NOT, a car for the price of a house !

The bonfire guy must be really stupid not to notice that the feedback only counts once for each member that leaves feedback. Both IDs are no longer registered with eBay now.

When these listings were found the IDs were still current, so it appears that eBay has (so to speak) attended to them, and has done the right thing, and got rid of the time...

Returning to forum - should I buy a Xantia?

YES !

What I find strange, is that the topic James mentioned is 'Cit Peugeot mist jets.' and contains the words 'mist' and 'jets' many times, yet a search for mist jets doesn't find it.
Not even a search on the whole site (default) can find it. Maybe it is just me, but neither Opera nor Internet Explorer can find it (and I can't see what difference the...

Windows are easy and cheap to get shiny- just dilute some vinegar in water, put it in one of those cheapy hand sprayers, spray it on the glass, wipe it over, and rub it with screwed up newspaper.

They will gleam like they've never done before 8)

Meant to add, scratches down to the primer can be dealt with by using the cheapo smart fix: kids wax...

Thanks how are you finding quizzila :lol:

Factor the road tax into the price you want - make it clear in the advert that there is a minimum you will take for the car - sans tax, and a desired amount where the tax would be included - offer to negotiate the tax on the final price if it does not hit your minimum.

E.g. I just sold my ZX on eBay - I wanted £500 for the car including the road...

It also contains further information, and pictures about the offset big ends that fastandfurryous has mentioned about in his previous post.

Here is some information listed below, from a Delorean specialist in the U.K.

Q: Are they all the same colour?

A: All cars left the factory in unpainted stainless. Some were painted at dealerships, others have been painted due to body damage. The interior came in two colours, grey and black, with the exception of two of the three gold cars...

I'm up for a meet!

The 'specs' enforcement camera's have been in use at roadworks on the North bound side of the M42 after J10 at roadworks for some weeks untill recently. Just to be different...I think they are better than the Gatso type because you don't get the 'slam on the brakes' at the camera scenario and anyway... how do you get drivers to stick to the...

The c5 is multiplexed, like the later 406, current 307 and various other cars.

All of which seem to have major problems with the electronics. To me, that's far too much of a co-incidence.

Personally, I don't think PSA have quite worked out how to make a multiplex system on a car that actually works properly.

Get something with a proper wiring...

Better than traffic lights, do it at the car wash....Their were about 3 cars infront and 2 behind so i thought i'd have a wee play.......HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW....something out of the seven dwarfs me' thinks.

It was brilliant looking at the people in disbelief lol
However they may have thought I converted a normal car to a pimp mobile and...

Checking the bands website, as I have never heard of them.

Have you ?

Yes I thought not. :D

I found only one picture that shows the vehicle, and only in the background.

The band looks very nice, :wink: can't say the same for this vehicle.

That conversion must have taken quite a bit of work, time and money.

Although as to who would...

Update.. The back of the jet (furthest from screen when in place) is held in by an upside down shaped plastic 'tick'.. The short leg restricts it from moving downward. So I cut about a 64th of an inch off of it, and that has allowed the back edge to move downward, thus raising the position that the water from the jet hits my screen.. It works fine...

I still think that the Cit ZX 1.9 diesel pre 1994 facelift was one of the most reliable cars ever built. :D After 14 years, mine is still in better condition and more reliable than some two year old cars on the road when I first started driving... The fact that there doesn't seem to be a comparable replacement for it is a worry though, :? but...

Yes there can be problems but when you consider the amount of transactions everyday its not bad going is it to only have a few reported problems?Shame about thier fees though,must be making millions.

:!: I vote for the BX :!:

I've found the Xantia is better built, with less plastic, and also less noisy. However, it got too heavy! Too heavy for the available engines, any way.

Have droven the BX 16V and the Xantia HDi. Sold both for reliability problems, but the BX 16V provided an incomparably better driving experience.
Aceleration on the...

Although it's possibly a tad too low in the bonnet that 2CV looks like it's been modified to take a GS engine thus requiring the longer nose & wings - if it has it's been converted better than some I've seen...

Andrew

So, if that 2CV does have a GS engine in its modified front end, then I suppose it should be called a 2CV GT. :wink: