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Don't just roll over and take it. There are legal ways to fight. And if you take it to court then at least the safety camera partnership don't get your money.

GSF have opened a new branch in Newcastle, so finally there is a branch that is local to me. I have no idea when they opened it, my finding out was purely by chance.

If GSF was still hosting this forum, no doubt I would have found out more quickly!

I did mention that there wasn't a Newcastle branch on the old forum a time or two...

I've noticed today, especially, that nearly every new or nearly new diesel powered car, especially Chelsea Tractors are smoking quite significantly. An 06 plate Jeep of some description and an 02 plate Merc were smoking like chimneys.

Is this to do with the hot weather? In my days in Cyprus every Diesel powerd truck large and small smoked like...

Not really car related, but it is French!! Channel 5 tonight at 8pm. Shows the construction of the Millau bridge. Its been on before, but worth watching if you haven't seen it.

Does anyone have the pics of the Xantia coupe concept?
I found it on a website some time ago but can't find the site now.

Cheers
R

Had an interesting experience whilst driving this evening.

On my way to a diused factory to do a spot of shooting (archery, with a local club, before anyone gets worried.) was driving along at about 60 when I saw a cyclist or two going the other way being overtaken by two cars.

I slowed down a bit and then realised that car number two (driver...

hi Guys.. can anyone clarify the rules concerning the UK insurance entitlement which allows me to drive another vehicle not owned by me?

I have a Motorbike, and I think its been sold to a guy in Wolverhampton. If he is the new owner, does this mean I am covered to deliver it to him?

By 'new owner' - can this be a paper document saying the bike...

Is on the 22nd and 23rd of July at the Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford. Full details of the two days events can be found on the CPUK website at

The event is over two days with a treasure hunt rally around the cotswolds on the saturday afternoon, camping and the big day on the Sunday.

Other french car clubs with members interesting in...

I have just had a very strange conversation with an insurance company..

My father, who is 82 and has been with this company for over 40 years totally accident free has just received his renewal invitation for the staggering sum of £318 to insure his Peugeot 205 D Junior. I am with the same company and have a virtually identical policy. I paid...

Not a car, I know, but watch this and admire the fun-loving insanity prevelant amongst backwoodsmen in the USA............ :shock:

Obviously too much time on their hands but isn't it great that there are still people around who would even consider doing this sort of thing?!!!

Watch and enjoy.......

Last night on BBC2 & BBC4 there were several programmes with a French theme to them I.E. Excuse My French, French Exchange & on BBC4 Tales From Paris.

Excuse My French featured well known people trying to learn the language. French Exchange featured French people who have decided to relocate to the U.K.

While Tales from Paris featured Kirsty...

I wouldn't mind a diesel XM. Has anyone got any details? MPG etc.

Can't see much on the web these days.

Thanks.

Hi

While my 206 is having a new door fitted I have been given a 1.4 Golf mk 5 to drive around in.

This is the first car ive driven with ESP fitted & I must say im impressed so far with it.

The system worked lovely as I provoked it going round a roundabout, Light flashed, power cut, brakes applied & the car came back on line, all under in half a...

Well apparently this motorhome can go in the water, but if you have $850.000 dollars then you could have more fun with a proper boat, that you tow behind one of these huge RVs.

So, if they can make this float then, what will they think of next for the millionaire with more money than sense. :)

I like this web site I like a lot, Do you know of any good one's then list them here and we will have too.
Thanks

Hi from the colony. Tis a little cool down here currently, middle of winter and all. :lol:
Joined your forum from recomendation form a member of our french car forum down here, Aussiefrogs because I need info about Citroen remote locking.

Cheers for now, hope to participate in plenty of french car banter.

Chris :D

linky...........

I saw a John Deere tractor yesterday, it passed at speed and I didn't get a good look, so I had a look on the web for some pictures.

Have a look at the first picture, do these look familiar to anybody?

Apparently Fifth Gear are testing the C6 tonight July 3rd 2006. :) 8)

I know this is a rather odd question and not so Citroen like as we'd all hope but it is Hydractive based... but what is the possibility of putting hydropneumatic suspension on a rear wheel drive BMW e30 (old 3 series)?

Thanks

Yes, this car was up for sale, and someone did buy it despite what you can see in the picture ! :)

:roll:

Note that it also has a problem with the engine, as apparently the timing belt has snapped !

Looking at the feedback it appears he had been looking for new mirrors, although after the car has been in a ditch you would expect much...

I like the way there are still some fully paid up members of the nutter club out there.
It just goes to show that we can still make some truely awsome motors. If only we got our heads out our arses & stopped thinking it was the 1960's!

Oh I love the amusement ebay provides!

Why on earth would you put a bent bonnet from a failed strut car on a car that's a different colour!! :shock:

Handbrake doesn't seem to work as it's only on a small slope but he's had to leave it in reverse. Oh, love to multicoloured tail lights too!!

Care was taken to finish the chips before framing the...

During an incident I heard about recently a car slamed into a van at high speed (the van was stopped) upon investigation the car was braking for probably 40 ish yards and had reduced part of his tyre down to the steel banding.

Anyone feel like estimating the speed required to do this given that the car impact speed was thought to be between...

Or at least something with the same length :P
Enjoy my new bike :)

Work manager came to me to ask about what I thought about me' Fessa, s**t pretty much sums up what I said to him and I expressed my annoyance how everytime I see the advert for a Citroen Xsara Picasso for under £10k and that nasty Fessa was £11,375 it gives me a deep striking pain in my belly (certainly not from the kebab the previous week).

So...

For those who haven't seen it, here's the link from the official Citroën UK website:

The transformation details and the looks of the robot have improved, though it doesn't show clearly the robot to car transformation (ok, i admit i'm - like any otherkid who grew in the 80's - a Transformers fan, besides being a Citronut :P )

This has got to be worth a look!!

scroll down to V6 its only £889, I think this has to be a bargin.

Regards

Well someone thought this was worth the time and effort, although it makes you wonder why they bothered, a hot rod it is not, and it's powered by a 1300 engine. :)

The Rover P5 coupe looked good, but this roof chop, is a home made mess.

Let's hope the builder/bodger does not attempt to do this to a French car.

Ok this was my first ever 1/4 run from exterior

And the same one inside the car

A quter run where I was asleep with the getaway

And a Friends Citroen ZX diesel sprint runs,All we did was strip the seats out,wind up boost and max fueling,and added a 50 shot of nitrous the day before,it actually went quite well:-

And some...

They seem to have the C1 - a small hatchback, the C2, a small hatchback and the C3, a er small hatchback. And that's without counting the Pluriel which is a wierd sort of ...small hatchback.

Seems a bit of a crowded market segment to me.

Fifth Gear ran tests this week with wrong fuelling. They were bangers, but both cars ran with the wrong fuel (approx 5ltrs on empty tank)for approx 20miles without major problems. The then filled up with the correct fuel(no draining), no filter change, both passed emission tests. :shock:
Obviously no report on long term damage, but not the...

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