French Car Forum

in the course of modifying a Sack Truck, yesterday's 'small project', I was wondering whether there 'd be any interest in an 'Off Topic' 'Small Hobbies' post.

What are you up to?

Details of this one: as usual, designed by idiots. Grr !!
Due to the front face of the wheels being approx 12mm forward of the back of the load bed, anything wider...

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I am writing this to you all from my hotel room in Andorra while we wait to go down for dinner. well the car is drinking diesel as if it is going out of fashion most of my speed's have been 100 plus . Dare I say the gear box is running just fine. I am disappointed that we have not seen an old DS yet. There goes the gong for dinner. Let...

Driving to Salford on Wed....anybody need anything shipped back south , the C5 estate will be empty for the return ?

So, straw poll

1/ What car clubs are you in ?
2/ What Car forums are you a member of
3/ What FaceBook groups are you a part of

4/ Which format of Car membership offers the most to your every day driving life
(as in, what choice of the above is most beneficial, such as technical support, parts re-manufacture, events, insurance discounts,...

Can anyone collect some parts from a place in Chatham for me. Just don't have the time to collect from here in West Yorkshire but they are too good to pass up.

Would need them collected this week and then work out how to get them closer.

I saw an interesting youtube yesterday about the poisons emitted by those sweet smelling candles the ladies love about the house, it seems they're more harmful to people indoors than the air pollution created by motor cars outside.

I don't have a link but a 'candles v diesels' search might pop it up.

Just spent the weekend at this event and had a very good time, spotted a few things of interest to me, especially this, anyone know who's it is?it was for sale at £1200, Perfect paint and a generally very tidy example of the TZD.
Isle of Wight classic car show 2017 by Deanxm , on Flickr
Plus some other favourites of mine
Isle of Wight classic...

Trying to use them in earnest is a frustrating process for me (no surprise there, I hear you say! :oops: ).

I can find zero reference to wire colours. I know from solving my Xantia cooling fan issues that wire numbers (printed in dot-matrix micro numerals along the wire length) is the preferred method. As the wires come pre-pigmented, is there...

A different one - in Czechoslovakia

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Radio station operator making his own valves.

Came across this

Some direct links to get extensions for Firefox and Chrome browsers to delete the PB ransom demand and restore the original image:

Firefox extension

Chrome extension

This is a painless exercise, it simply adds an extension to the browser and doesn't alter anything in your account or computer registry. Thanks to rubenandres77...

I was fortunate to drive a tesla for over an hour..it was grey and I went past bobbin's area.

I drove another in the opposite direction

does anyone want to buy my engine hoist by the way ?

Police have found a Peugeot 104 that was stolen 38 years ago (it was four years old when stolen), and will be returning it to the original owners. However, it is not in a great state;

This is what one of Aberdeenshires finest pot holes does to a 2000 mile old uniroyal and an 18 Peugeot alloy. Then to add insult to injury I find that the spare is a full size alloy with a bald tyre and a crack in the rim. It's holding air but was a very slow and worrying 20 miles home. 2 new wheels and tyres needed. A claim to the roads...

Yesterday I took the Xantia to Stamford Car Show, 500 cars covering a time span of 1915'sh to the present.

There were four Citroen, two Tractions, a BX and my Xantia. I know there should have been Mike Cottingham's DS but he wasn't well so only four Citroens!

In May we went on holiday to north Wales and on the Sunday there was a car show at...

Hi everybody,

This is my first post on here, i apologize its a technical question but i joined this forum especially to ask this, because it seems NOBODY ANYWHERE remembers or knows anything about this system. If there is any chance anybody in the world still does, i guess the best place to find them is here?

So because i have an obsession with...

An advert for this keeps popping up on the Birmingham Face book site. Anyone tried one, I note they say it's not been tested on all cars.

Hey guys, some of you do have my phone number. I lost my phone at the weekend, now have a new one. Its a whole world of pain for me to sus out lol. I have the same number, but lost all my contacts. If you have my number and want me to have yours could you please drop me a txt and I can add you again.

Thanks Davie

So, always wondered, why no Citroen Van with hydraulic suspension with all that it could offer in easy loading, loaded ride, French (old) roads ? etc ?

Tempted to run a tank or two of Shell V Power diesel through my recently acquired C5 Mk1 HDI to give the engine a bit of a clean. Is there a risk of a similar effect as with biodiesel scouring s**t out of the fuel tank and blocking the fuel lfilter?

Anyone fancy a rant ?????

In the proposals to ban diesel cars by 2040 or some other year ----- do trucks feature in this ------- bet not.

When you consider the number of trucks on the road, the distances they cover and the cc of their engines - surely when you do the maths you find that they produce more pollution than cars ????

Just on the news for you MK lads.

The Tesla factory........ Channel 159 on Freesat.

Yes my badge slipped ever so slightly yesterday. The son in law and grandson coaxed me off to Santa Pod for MiniFest! I must admit it was an enjoyable day and the weather was lovely. The whole Mini thing with all the tweaks and mods and special paint is alive and kicking both with the original cars and the later BMW ones. There were some really...

Rather than have this momentous occasion lost within the pages of Picture(s) of the Day here's a thread of its own!

Xantia V6 has cogitated, calculated and deliberated, and made reasonable assumptions and the official 500,000th post to the FCF is this wonderfully abstract one liner when viewed with no context, very appropriate for the...

What happened to the days of Classic Car insurance being dirt cheap? Been trying to find insurance for the XM and the Xantia, as in my sig, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry. £375 is the cheapest so far, with Footman James, Barry Grainger is hilarious.

Is this kind of premium standard fare now for two old cars on restricted mileage?

Anyone have any memories of going to the Motor Show at Earl's Court in their youth, or for those whose youth was after 1978 at the NEC in Birmingham :)

I think it was October 1970 when we went to the motor show because the new Range Rover was one of the cars I remember thinking I'd like one of those! Probably not an obvious choice, with much...

hi all...
I was made redundant from my only job last November,

I have spent a lot of time over the last few weeks looking into self employment.. car restoration, dismantling etc..

I have learned a lot, what a minefield and an unfair situation if you try to do it properly compared with others who 'sell from home - wife bought car, cant fit...

Does anyone know whether there is a box/tag available that will allow use across both Spanish (Via-T) and French (TIS-PL, Libert-t) autoroutes?

I can find tags/boxes that will do one or the other, but not both.
Bipdrive suggest their Via-T tag will give access to some French autoroutes , but that is stretching the issue, I think.
German DKV say...

We went to Cosford with the grand children yesterday. The weather wasn't too bad, just one short light shower and there was so much to see. I just clicked away with my phone camera but the one thing that became apparent was the planes are so large its a struggle to get them in the shot.

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Is there anybody near Wellingborough who would be able to do me a favour? There's something on eBay that I'm looking at that's showing as collection only.

Beer tokens provided :)

David.

This is reportedly a good one......it emits (as do all my others) massive interference

How would you install shielding to this.....as I am sick of paying for these

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Has anyone used either of these devices, which would you recommend?

Just came across this by chance on youtube, wondered if anyone else has heard of this guy & really I have to wonder not a how he created such an amazing machine in the desert, but why?

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I would have thought 20 miles in desert would be walkable in 2 or 3 nights, and he obviously had provisions for at least that long as it took him 11...

Random question of the day!

My other half has never really seen a 2CV properly up close (not really surprising having only moved over from the US in 2013), much less ever been in one.

I know full well that it's impossible to convey to him quite what a case of sensory overload is placed upon a passenger in one of these cars in words, much less...

Firstly, not a smoker and never have been. Both parents were heavily though, which was enough to put me off for life - along with having asthma which renders me a useless wheezing, gasping heap if I get even a decent whiff of it.

Today for the third time in as many days, an SUV has pulled up next to me at the lights, passenger window open. I've...

From time to time I have the need to hire a car or a van. Enterprise tend to be the most convenient for me, and I have used them on many occasions.

The last time I hired a Van, things seemed to have changed from previous occasions in relation to the level of excess which is within the standard price quote for the hire, and the selling technique...

It's now 10,000 miles since I had the remap done on my 2.0 90bhp 125,000 mile 2004 Berlingo Multispace diesel.

I downloaded a GPS acceleration timer and gave it a blast on a quiet bit of road on my way home. This is without abusing it, just a fast start.

0-60 as we all know is ultimately pointless, but the way it goes when overtaking is...

Its a sad day but the C5 is going to make way for a new motor.

I have been after an auto car and today purchased a Volvo S80 SE Lux 2.4 D5 2007 in gold of all colours.

The C5 is a great car and has had so much spent on her, tried to get the misses to have her but she says its too big. Pick the car up tomorrow, the D5 engine is a cracker and...

I have just found this while browsing the Web;

Hi All,

Found this link posted on aussiefrogs by DoubleChevron, and thought it deserved a bigger audience:

Nice clip of him showing and talking about his SM...it's quite strange to see a couple of Americans talking lovingly of a Citroen :D

It takes a while to load and plays a minute long advert before getting to the actual story so be...

Impressive work....interesting stuff on the engine and gearbox:

I`ve decieded after 9 years of ownership its not worth fixing my 406.On the other hand its too good to scrap.Late SE,half leather,sat nav etc.Will stick it on ebay for offers or highest bid.
Anyway,i`ve brought a newer car.So,have i stuck with french cars??(Xantia,the 406)or gone different??any guesses lol :-D

Hi everybody.Very long time no see.For those that remember,i had a 1997 Xantia VSX td estate,then in 2006 brought my dads 406 hdi company car. onclick= window.open(this.href);return false;
Well,all these years later,i still have said 406.Now with 213k miles,original dmf and clutch,fuel pumps and injectors.Been pretty much bullit proof,untill last...

Hi Guys I havent been on for a while I have been super busy doing an honours degree in energy engineering anyway the C5 died so I bought a nissan maxima 01 ran ok but was a bit iffy cut out the odd time but now I sorted that the car wont hold idle between 1500 and 3500 any suggestions as to what could be causing this. :hb: :help2:

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My grandparnts are getting a partner tepee disel 16 blue hdi 100 bhp allure 5door etg auto does not come with alloy wheels
My grandad asked why it doesnt come with alloy wheels the sales man said its to do with technical reason s but the manual modles come with alloy s
Is it a con to buy alloy s becase the auto box cost s 500 pounds And for the...

I am warming to a thread with a simple title.

Can anyone entertain us with their own Car Auction tales?

I have had a recent experience of nearly but not quite .

Followed that age-old auction advice of know your limit before you go in and stick to it.

Well, in the rawness of post-sale emotion, I am thinking for the sake of a small additional...

Browsing the Web I found this article, which I thought might be of interest;

Not sure about the paint scheme though!

Well not too French maybe but I recently invested in a Nextbase 312gw because Honest John and quite a few other reviewers mentioned how good it was. Unfortunately it isn't and has got to be returned.😑 It gets rather hot when plugged in and I can't get a satellite lock.

When it wouldn't work properly I looked for some info on t'internet and found...