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A French ad for the GTi has cropped up on youtube-worth a watch, and it does somewhat exaggerate the cars abilities!!

How would the real-life economy of this compare with my 1.9D Xantia? Dead against petrol but with the price difference and a lighter smaller car. might be OK

Hi

Some of you may know me, others may not. My name is Simon and I own an Activa and a BX Estate 19RD. I am on the admin team of Activanet (Found Here and a member of Citroenz and The BX Club. I am friends with Kitch, and drove his GT to French Car Show on Sunday.

Here I have a few pictures of my cars

And my BX

Hope you like!

Simon

Except I wasn't involved in the accident :?

A focus a few cars in front of us lost the rear end for some reason on the motorway ( not speeding etc.. ) - went and touched the central barrier, and then careered, seemingly in control towards the hard shoulder.

Except he went over the hard shoulder, and got flipped over by the kerb and rolled a few...

Only got a quick glance but yesterday I spotted what I think was a mauve GS and a cream Ami in convoy driving through Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands...I was travelling in the opposite direction in heavy traffic.... I wonder if anyone on here knows them or even if they come on here themselves??

:-k

:-s

Andrew

As found on the wonderfull Ebay,a nice( :D )yellow ex taxi Xantia

....delivery of my new company Fiesta and its seriously shockingly awful....I cannot believe I have this for the next 3 years...I am in one serious foul mood.

I WANT MY XANTIA BACK

Hi

Just been learning about multiplexing / CAN on a training course.

All I can say is what a wonderful system CAN is.

Once it has been explained to you how it works, How easy it is to test with a multimeter & all the benefits CAN gives you I can honestly say I will never have a non CAN car again.

I thought learning about CAN would be a total...

The day before yesterday (that would be Sunday) as I was traveling down the M4 westbound towards Carmarthen I saw the strangest thing.....A yellow 2CV van painted in the tiger stripes theme. It looked like a huge tiger trying (and I use the word trying looseley :lol: ) to do 60 mph. It was heading eastbound towards Swansea. If this was anyone on...

......Well, I'd still own a Xantia :lol:

On sunday, whilst at work( for the ambulance service) we came across a huge cloud of smoke, across both sides of the dual carriage way. At the centre of this was 3yr old td laguna parked on a slip road with its throttle stuck fully open.
It actually belongs to my mate, who's wife was driving it at the time. She had two dashboard lights come on,...

It seems that more and more of our forums are being taken up with trying to solve complex elec gremlims... :-(

Having read someones comment that they would remove the air con and chuck the lot in the bin -- Could this be done with ECU stuff? remove and dump the lot in the bin? :D

If so... I may get a newer car.. lmho :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)

Take a look at this link below, and read the description. :)

Apparently the cosmetic damage to the paintwork (scratches) does not affect the speed of the car ! :D

So, the damage has not affected the drag coefficient ! LOL

I can't see why they are having problems in the UK, Honda and Nissan manage to run car plants over here that are world class in terms of their efficiency.

A very interesting video and I'm in full support, are YOU?

In regard to this vehicle (Im bored at work and find it fulfilling to read about Citroens on Ebay) would any of you agree that this car is worth £1k and although a car is worth what someone is prepared to pay, generally speaking is this estimate a little bit too much :shock:

Just out of curiousty really?

Channel 252 (Sky) featuring Citroen SM NOW

Well what do you think of this ! :)

They are still selling the 504 in Nigeria, although the shape of the lights does alter the appearance of the front end, and makes it look worse.

Also the estate as we knew it, has a model title like the current range, they have called it the 504 SW

Here's the link to the web site showing the options...

In years gone by, Citroen used to advertise quite strongly that their hydropneumatic suspended cars could suffer a blowout without any loss of control. They produced impressive video footage demonstrating the point on cars like the venerable GS and BX.

Today, however, you never see this referred to, which surprises me. So, would my C5 react...

Spotted on ebay, but it seems to be older than the vendor states

Looks a nice motor, but it looks like a pre face lift.

:D:D:D

This BX below was used as a stunt vehicle for an advertisment for Chrispy crisps at the International Stunt Festival.

Apparently the stunt went wrong, so I hope the stuntman gets better soon.

Wonder why they chose the BX for this stunt ?

Hi all
Sorry if you have already seen this link, but the more interest it gets the better.
In short this site is trying to get people power to drive down the cost of petrol and diesel......and i think it will work!!!!!
so go on...give it a click....Thanks all

www.pipelinecard.org

Any ideas on where the RF reciever is located on a Xantia? After my IR plip finally giving up the ghost I am not going to bother playing around with the Infa Red plip and reciever anymore. I have a cunning plan as baldrick would say, but first I need to find the elusive RF/UF/HF reciever. Many thanks - Anthony.

Hi, my dads got a problem with his cylinder head. The car starts fine, but after about 2mins, the exhaust starts steaming like a kettle. Clean white steam, no trace of oil. A mechanic friend has said the head has probably cracked. :cry:
He only needs the car to last for another 6-8wks until he can get a new one. He's heard of a fluid which can...

Great colour too!

Well they are both air cooled !

:roll: Although it's more practical to have a lift up roof. :)

Also, I wonder why the owner didn't keep it in the Dub :wink: family, and put a Beetle on the roof.

I know I know this should be in the French Chat section, but how many of us go there? I go there maybe 5% of the time.

Anyway, I'm just wondering who we all are? Names, jobs, where we live, hobbies, age, wife/kids etc? Not too personal, just to shed some light on who we all are, maybe add a picture of yourself.

Who's first? :lol:

Also, would it...

Hiya.

Anyone know how those boat shaped fibreglass roof box thingies fit to a ZX roof ?? I could do with one to carry things in when I go on holiday (to Dorset) shortly. :)

I dont fancy tieing it on with string and blue-tac. :oops: Might fall off at 70 mph.. lol :roll: :lol:

Do you think modern, mid > large family cars, look like they have been designed as a Estate first then choped back to form the Hatch/Saloon models?
Take a look around & you'll notice how much better the estates look.
Examples of this are;

Citroen C5, Vauxhall Vectra, Audi A6, Volvo V70

All these look, IMO, like they were 'ment' to be estates....

is this the bargain of the century

i was thinking of offering £290,000, do you think he will accept :?:

Ok here's another on the forever amusing ebay...

So, does it work, or doesn't it? Sounds like a nice car though.

Andrew

HI MEMBERS,
HAS ANY ONE HAD ANY DEALINGS WITH EBAY MEMBER FRENCHBITS69,A CONTACT NUMBER OR ADDRESS WOULD BE HELPFULL.

THANKS REDFRUS

Hi

A team of girls are taking part in the 24hr race this year to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. It's perhaps the greatest racing challenge out there (if not the quickest) and the girls deserve your support!

Go here if you wish to donate.

It's this weekend and I'm sure you' be welcome to go and watch one of the most amazing racing...

Hi all,

I've been absent from the forum for quite a while - it was still Andyspares last time I logged in! I haven't bothered to get my old username back because I've long since dumped the email address it was associated with and it's probably not worth the effort anyway - don't think I ever said anything worthwhile ( with one notable exception -...

Hi,

I can't seem to get the search function to work correctly:
If I for example search for 'xantia hdi' and select 'Search for all terms', I get 113 hits and the 6 threads in 2006 are from Apr 22, 23 and 24.

That can't be right! Only 6 threads containing xantia and hdi in 2006, and all in the last few days?

A search for xantia returns 1661 hits...

Hi All,

Just thinking my car could probably do with a polish and wax soon as the paint work is looking a little tired.

There are also a few light scratches which are down to the undercoat and therefore slightly white on the roof, so ideally I'd like to clear these up a bit.

Was wondering if these colour replacement wax products are any good?...

I just dont know what it could be??

As i`m selling my BX estate on e-bay soon it has mot till nov and 5mths tax,i hav noticed that a lot of cars on e-bay are sold with no tax, so am i in a better postion to sell if i leave it taxed or should i sorn it and just leave the mot on it?
Cheers Ray

sorry guys the post is 18 eurs £12 sorry about that

just bought a hdi tuning box from germany and fitted it the tuning box was 99 eurs in enlish money £70 post is 18 eurs £12 the box and the help from the guy called andre is great very help full the fitting instructionc are in english also come s with a 14 day money back warrnty is you dont like it 2years full warrnty on the tuning box if you email...

What's everybodys thoughts on this?

Hi

Today I travelled up the M1 from junction 15 to 33 & back again to collect something I won off Ebay.

On the northbound trip I spotted TWO, not one but TWO Laguna IIs & 1 early Scenic broken down on the hard shoulder.

On the southbound return trip I spotted one early Megane broken down.

Now what does this tell us about Renault reliability...

Anyone interested in organising meetings this year? We have had a few in the Northern area and I have enjoyed them all :) And met some very nice people in the process...

It's a bit cold at the moment but it will soon be spring, so maybe nows the time to sort things out, lay some plans, fix some dates, before we all get too busy..

I have missed...

Just received this minutes ago:

Subject: M42 Junctions 3 to 7b Speed Cameras
>
> Guys, I have been given some reliable information from a friend in the
> know (road testing cars).
>
> As of the 1st April 2006 the new digital automated tracking system
> between junctions 3 & 7b on the M42 is scheduled to go live.
>
> There are 276 Digital Cameras...

Hi guys been looking for a xsara or c5 estate diesel. Now a towbar firm i know says don't get a c5 everyone who comes in for a towbar moans about faults and problems with the c5 just wondered if anyone here can give me there opinion on the c5 are they trouble would i be better going for the xsara or sticking with a xantia like i have now.
cheers

i must admit, citroen have hit it right on the head with this hydractive suspension business,

how on earth other manufacturer haven't cottoned on to this technique?

I know many are sceptical, but a after reading a few articles and a few hours on a forum, it will be plain clear that it's just basic hydraulic/pneumatics that works well, and above...

Or IF you fancy standing out from the crowd...
Yes, and it is French car related!

Go on, you know you want to!! :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :roll: :lol:

Andrew :wink: