French Car Forum

Well vangreen I hope you enjoy yourself, and have a successful event. That certainly will be a lot of 2cv's at one event, so it looks like you will be very busy.
I am looking forward to seeing the pictures of the event on the forum, if you, or another visitor to the show can post the details, for those of us who cannot make it to the event.

It's up against stiff competition from BMW, Mercedes, Audi - well, just about everybody really. Joe Soap isn't going to buy a Cit over one of those brands.
Shame really, it'll make a great buy in five year's time.

I would guess that the aerial is not well optimised for AM reception, being optimal for FM reception. Years back car radios always had a little adjustable trimmer capacitor to tune the aerial for optimal AM reception and this was always a very critical adjustment. I have not listened to an AM broadcast in the car for donkeys now so I don't know if...

Well it look's allwhite to me.

must admit i was slightly confused at how i might have got a ticket in Cmabridge last thursday when the car has been without an engine for over a month, though i'm slightly worried about the picture now! God knows what i'll do, i suspect i better just wait and see!

Red diesel is always overpriced when you buy if from a marina, because if you can afford to run a boat you can afford to be overcharged for your fuel.
Unless you're buying large quantities of the red stuff, you'll not get it cheap, if you knew a farmer you'd have a cheap source of red diesel but you've still got to get it to your boat. I do know...

imo you'll need 6 inches for topsoil as a minimum. If that is on top of rock or concrete, grass will dry out and go brown in a hot summer so 9 inches is better. If, however, you have clay and or soil then 6 inches will be ok. If you have loads of roots spray with a systemic weedkiller (Roundup?) and leave to die for 2 months before doing any...

Myself and another IT manager have set up a tekkie forum primerily for school IT technicians in Norfolk and Suffolk, but i know that there are a number of Tek Heads here so if you would like to join then please do.
The address is
Please note that this is a professional IT forum so no home user problems please

I thought that dash was GS rather than GSA - so I learn something every day.
I'm amused that I can't bit - as I don't have the necessary feedback. Strange to exclude potential purchasers like that but I suppose he knows what he is doing! Bit like advertisinbg your car for sale at the roadside without a price!
I suppose its the usual vendor's...

Well, the legendary state of French roads had a bit to do with it I guess. Certainly if the tale of the 2CV design brief was to be able to carry a basket of eggs across a ploughed field is true!
In the early 50's Citroen had a policy of very free thinking on all matters of car design and allowed their top designers to go off in quite advanced ways...

Had one as a courtesy car recently, quite impressed with it. Didn't have any problem with the gearchange but it may be down to what you are used to.
Personally I hate the notchy gearchange I get on other cars (Fords mainly).
I take it that by new you mean 0 miles new?

Don't you know - a car is only a good car if its new? Its kept the motor trade in business all these years and many people even moved jobs to get a better/newer company car!
We're constant recipients of pity from some people as we drive old Citroens - and they then proceed to explain that they can't afford a good holiday and this and that because...

Its on the cable channels a lot, but I can't tell if they are new ones or repeats!!

The quickest and easiest route is M5, M4 bath then on to salisbury,
You'll be passing about half a mile from my house if you do that route !, i live near the bypass in Warminster

Brilliant idea and a very useful piece of information!
Have now added ICE to my phone book (all three of them!)!
Thanks

What about Andyspares? This forum tracks you, it means once you're logged in you don't have to re-log in every time you come back to the site.
Autotrader gives more search facilities to people who are logged in, so you get a cookie for the same reason.

Yes I watched it, the most irritating owner I thought was the bloke in the black VW Toureg. Even the campaigner who went around sticking fake parking tickets on the urban 4x4's I thought was ok. Its just for some reason the man and his wife in the VW that grated me.... Oh and the bloke with the Hummer, going on about global warming killing animals...

Yes, developed as a joint venture between Ford's money and PSA's skill.
My father drove a 1.6HDi Picasso hire car and he was not at all impressed. He owns a 2.0HDi 90bhp Picasso.

Ha! No way baby, he should carry on and get one. I sold a 2 year old Berlingo HDi and bought a 12 year old BX, so don't go asking me for sensible advice

And thus it begins again! A new bread of super useless thread created to take over the world!
Bet it gets the cut though (as it oughta!)

How did you find the figures out? A topic of this was touched on on another car, nothing to do with ANDYSPARES/GSF or a PSA car - (Ford Orion mk1) and dvla would not release the numbers on how many were left. How did you get the numbers you jammy bugger ?

Luckily, no...I don't get down as far as Aldgate in my work, only as far as Stratford, but I have just got back into my office in Leytonstone and there is a LOT of emergency services traffic going townwards past my window.

i think that it a conspiracy by the insurance companies and police to stop people doing up their cars, they start with the small stuff to test the water!

Italy should be forced to take it, in revenge for the Roman invasion; if not, then France. But if that pretentious fatcat celeb junket is such an allegedly good thing for the taxpayers and wealth generating (believe that, believe anything) etc. then why are Tony Blair and his cronies not insisting on it being held in Congo, Burkina Faso or some...

Oh Dear! That's a Citreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeon then is it?

But just don't drive it with a woolly hat on......
Maybe its ex some French local authority, or company who had it or several custom built to order.
In the mid to late 1980's Redbridge council had a fleet of custom built Austin Maestro pick-ups-it was never an officially available version, but they had loads of them. I doubt a single one exists...

Ha ha, I like the one about the making of the shaking that ass ad.

Welcome - always nice to have new members especially if they are experts and have access to official technical information!
jeremy

My insurance doesn't cover acts of war or riots - I'd say most policies are the same.
You know what insurance companies are like... Any excuse not to cough up.

ROFL

Hmm, judging by the bumper-to-bumper stream of Passat TDIs and BMW 316s I see hogging the outside lane at 70mph every day, you'd think we had them already.

Jut drilled two holes for the strings and tied a heavy nut on the end, it works fine but - - you have to make sure there's room under the nut for it to drop right down.. With a full boot preventing the nuts dropping, I would prob still have string hanging out the back.. lol.
BTW. I changed the thermostat, replaced the temp sensor in the rad,...

If you want to go fast some of the Volvo's may be what you're looking for - 850 TE or something goes up to about 150 with a porsche developed engine.
jeremy

That's an interesting offer, and depending on travel plans I may get back to you.
BTW, I've discovered that putting freshly ground cardamom in my coffee powder improves the flavour immensely - about 5 green cardamom pods to a 250gm pack of coffee, ground up and husks removed. Delicious.

I agree with what Richard has said above apart from one MAJOR point. There is only one true car manufacturer and it's the one with the double chevrons

I'm tempted.
very tempted, shame its a long way away from me.

hello David, search on the Citroen forum, they're always talking about tyres, quite a few recent posts. My Michelin energy tyres are quiet but provide little wet grip.
good tyre hunting

you can either press the reply to topic on the main board or you can put smilies in using HTML i.e = , =
to put in an image put file location without the spaces

lol that can make such a difference though. When I went and test drove my Supra I thought it was ok, not that quick but would do for now. Stopped at the services by Crawley on the M23 for petrol then moved the carpet back which didnt look in the right place. Nearly spun it leaving the services as it suddenly had a lot more power :D

we call them all things prop a couple of lads down the club are into them and a good way to start in model aircraft/boats/hovers/trackers for the kids until they get ready for the big expensive stuff but still fun i would think.

Funny you should post this Chrispy, I drove my son's 405 1.9 TD the other day. It was mine until five months ago and I came to exactly the same conclusions as you. It felt stodgy to me. Intercooler maybe. The Xantia one is massive and right in the cold airflow, much to the distain of the coolant rad! Some say it's not so good as the 405 top loader...

I like it, and James May likes it too. Perhaps its a bit big for me, and the fuel economy from the V6 diesel won't be as good as the 4 cylinder ones so it may not be for me, It looks good in a way that the C5 never did, the C5 has a nice face these days but it looks a bit lardy from certain angles. Time will tell no doubt.
There is truth to what...

Can bus.

That is very interesting, I quite fancy GPS having used it at sea for ten years, can you post any links to the free GPS software?
Stewart

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Nice one!
you cars looks fab amongst the others ( ohhhh, that withe TA is soooo darn cute!)

Part of the performance problem was down to weight. Lotus was brought in to engineer the car and make it handle and they needed to make the chassis stiffer so they added a heavy steel backbone to the car (similar to what the Esprit had) which made the car rather heavy.
Apparently the engine was (distantly ?) related to the 12v V6 that the XM used...

Browsing through the little'un's current issue of Hot Wheels magazine, there's a picture in the manic motors section of a C2 Pluriel flying along suspended from a double chevron'd hot air balloon.
Presumeably its an empty shell but it looks pretty real- go and have a look in Smiths- its the issue with the miniature skateboard freebie on the...

I'm sure the blue ones would look lovely.
Help us out mate, you only need to know the colours, whereas we haven't really got a clue what you're talking about. What car is it, what model and year etc.

Tell me what car/year/engine and i may beable to help.
Andy