French Car Forum

Yes, thats an old film now! T4XI is out now in Europe, will have to get a DVD shortly of it. TAXI3 can be got from Canada with english subtitles, and WH Smith has TAXI 1 and 2 as a box set in the sale at the moment.

Thanks for that citrojim 8) I will have to look into it, and see what they can do !

My name is Pete, I'm 30 years old, getting married to the wonderful Sharon in September (the day before my birthday, so no excuses for forgetting our anniversary :wink:)

I'm a Fire Engineer and I live in sunny Bucks. I worked for 3 and a bit years as a Sewerman and amongst my favourite sayings id: I've been in that sewer!

my hobbies include...

if he wasn't on his hols, he must have left his French curves (not the female type) at home that day! :wink:

I managed to grab 5 mins today & take my first proper look over the c6.

My impressions? mmm.
I've been left with this tinge that it isn't the car I hoped it'd be.
Why? Well it's not wide enough for a start, or long enough, there isn't as much rear leg room as I expected & everything was much smaller than I thought it would be, right down to the...

Or find a Powerflow dealer - my toy has one and it isn't bad at all...nice sound as well and is in stainless steel!

bump. its this weekend!

There was another manual in French floating around on the internet for download last year - looked good but had little more than haynes in it.

You don''t want a Haynes for download do you? - I have a link.

Well I suggest everyone stay away from any cars that share this engine, they are tinny, unrefined and are poo!

The juddering saga continues!

Quick Guys.......

:twisted:

a Triumph!!!! would that be a stag!!!!!

so it is, well spotted batman, wingmirrors & doors give it away

Also the bonnet vents I.D. it as a 206. :wink:

grrrh new beetles

took my little boy to see the latest herbie film and when herbie was racing NASCAR at the end (and winning of course) he sprang an oil leak..... :(

it was cured by taking parts from a modern beetle (that was friendly with herbie :P )

i felt like shouting at the screen .....you cant do that its a golf not a beetle! but i...

It's nice to see forum administrators that actually acknowledge that there is a problem and that they are fixing it, and they HAVE indeed fixed problems, this forums is just as popular as other ones and has hundreds of thousands of users just like other forums. So i'd like to thank alan s and andersdk for being tolerant, fair and thorough admins,...

One other thing i`ve noticed on the down sides.You`d think after all these years,Peugeot/Citroen could make bumper insert strips that did`nt rust from the inside out.I had it on the Xantia,but that was 10 yrs old,this is only 3 yrs old! :(

Well it looks like PSA, or their supplier can't make these strips properly, so that they don't deteriorate....

surely the point of a Q car is that it looks boggo standard but goes like sh1t off a hot polished shovel!

The lotus carlton goes like a rocket and looks like one too!

you need something run of the mill with a stonking big engine. My vote goes to the Cavalier V6, prefferably with some ghetto alloys (steel wheels without wheel trims). It'll look...

What exactly went in the back of a Xantia then?

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It was a motorbike!

excellent .....i want one!.....

didnt the old old shogun entire cab etc unbolt from the chassis and was only held on by about 24 bolts (seem to remember someone telling me thats why they were so popular with ringers)

tricky to buy red without explaining what its for.... if you explain its for a tank you dont plan to run on the roads (until the...

what have they got against Audi A8's ??

(last line of how much it will cost)

If the engine ran 24x7 and i serviced it every 1000hrs then id be servicing it every 41days or 1 1/3months.

That figure made me cough tea everywhere. 1000h? Sorry, not a hope in hell.

If you work out how many hours the engine runs over 5000miles, it's somewhere between 100 and 200. (and if the car is being used in town, hence racking up more...

I have also heard that they have a quota of tickets to meet, so they tend to ignore the 10% leeway if they are running low on tickets sent out or if they plain don't like the look of you. Don't know how true this is, but I wouldn't put it past the police at the moment.

Owen - I have used this little baby in the past to defend myself - an open...

To be fair Jim, Yes, you're right - it IS fast.
This isn't due to the fact nobody is browsing on it though!?

Andrew

Hi Lee,

Your web site looks good and fairly professional but I have to admit that I baulked at your prices.......£20 to install a memory chip that involves about what 10mins work at most seems hell of excesive to me the same goes at £15 for installing a DVD drive, god thats about what I can pay for one.

Compare it with garage labour charges,...

One of these days I won't need my car at lunch and I'll actually cycle to work!

I've been saying that for the past 2 years :oops:

Petrol admittedly, but my Activa is significantly more economical on V-Power than anything else.

If the Shell V-Power diesel has a enhanced cetane value it will help. It used to be said that a high cetane diesel...

Or just create a special feed from the hydraulic pump and feed the jack, engine on, drive on, connect, open valve, move selector to high, and up we go!.... or is that the idea?

I have no idea on the V-power effect.

But I do know that my cat'ed (231Kkm/144Kmiles) BX19TRI is an oil swamp and a smoker. Not unheard of with this engine. Exhaust is sooty like a chimney, but it still passed its MOT 4 months ago. I know the cat is in danger because of the high oil consumption :roll:
My other cat'ed (167Kkm/104Kmiles) BX16RI is...

what can i say ;)

I think mum did a modem reset !

ok ok I will get my coat .... ;)

John

What's the going rate for a healthy BX 16v unit then?

Andrew

I don't know for the whole car but the Mi16 engine, if basically good, could be sold for a lot of money. They are getting very rare now and even engines of dubious provenance go for silly money on the 'bay.

The 205 lads consider this BX too good to break :) so hopefully it'll end up...

The e-mail should come to me and I have never received one from you.
I get very little spam so providing you're not using a heading that sounds spammy my filter wouldn't tip you out.

I have put into place on the forum a lot of checks and balances to make life as hard as possible for spammers so I don't have to spend my every waking hour deleting...

Quide handy - I generally use google for them 8)

Same here, not many people realise you can type calculations or conversions into the Google search bar and it will give you the answer. For example .

i dont think the pairs are cheaper,in there cataloug a pair is priced at £19.50 not each,on ebay AMTEX are selling a pair for £33.50 +£5.50 carridge,i get these even less at trade
regards malcolm

but will this include vegetable oil bought directly from supermarkets or only bio fuel you have made yourself???

edited to add..... sorry over excited there read the other posts and now realise veg oil included :oops:

Thank you, oh mighty one! I can now loggeth in with ye olde username etc.

BTW, I really like muliply :lol: :P

Over the years I've actually forked the thick end of 5 main separate
policies (ouch - I know, I know!)

Of course recently, I've discovered a new trend where a few companies,
including MORE TH>N (who I'm now with) allow me multiple car insurances
with my same proof of no claims. I think they work on the logic that you
can't be driving ALL the...

£75 for a car that only needs the following:

Exhaust needs fitting - if it's a big deal I can fit the one I've got
Rear spheres needed - if it's a good deal I can sell the one's I've got
Front number plate for MOT!!
AND It'll need a battery - these are like gold dust in my barn!

Sounds like a bargain to me compared with £2500
Cheap flight...

I used to use a mix but i`m doing lots of miles at the mo` so it was worth it to convert, i used to run my bx on a mix-a couple of times 20% petrol and 80% svo.

Basically for the small amount of duty home users hand over, it costs HMRC more to administer, so it's cheaper for them to let us just use it.
If memory serves in Germany SVO can be used without having to pay duty.
Also there's the issue of the court cases etc trying to show that the goverment hasn't been living up to it's Kyoto promises.

I thought the PSA group was one of the few car manufactorers making money?

Remember the towball and electrics are extra, although they are still reasonably priced.

HE HE HE april fool
regards malcolm

done something similar myself.
Thinking I was being a clever flash so & so I had a alert sent to my mobile everytime I got a email. & it worked a dream - unit I got my phone bill in - usually £40PM - £225! :shock:
Always read the small print - leason learned

I am pleasantly surprised at how many have signed up :D I'm just about to even though my oldest is still a few years off benefitting.

Whilst I fully agree with this, I cannot see it changing anything in the present climate (no puns intended..). In the eyes of those that seem to have the ear of the legislators, any older vehicle is seen as the...

Interesting....

One of the pics in Ross's link shows a hydropneumatic system! Presumably, they used a diagram from the wrong car...

James

Quite possibly as the site below shows that Citroens are popular in China.

You will also need to replace the airbag ECU & have the system reset by someone with the right software.

Like the BX van, the GS service van was very popular in Ireland but practically unheard of in the UK. They were very popular with vets and most would have had a fairly tough life. There are maybe three or four still knocking around in Ireland - the rust would have got most of them a long time ago

Here's a LHD one for sale - 4 grand: :shock:...

Dont even get me started with the claim I had with Direct Line- 2 non fault bumps in one week meant an insurance wrangle and no car for 6 months - barstoools the lot of them.

is there a breakers specilise on citroen?

I don't know whereabouts you are but A5 Salvage in Leighton Buzzard (near Dunstable, Beds) is a French car specialist.

They have good stocks of accident damaged cars and last time I was there, I saw a good few Xsaras (even a couple of Picassos)

Their stock rotates very rapidly. The olny thing I have...

cheers Ross

Dad normally bikes into London, but when it was really foggy, he took his Picasso.
Following the satnav route, it dutifully took him into the congestion charge area twice (which is fine when he's on the bike, but £100 with the car) to cap things off, he strayed into a bus lane and that was another £50.
All in all, a very expensive week, and a very...