French Car Forum

Just to make my day I have received a letter this morning from the DVLA telling me that I should have declared SORN on a car last January. As they allege I did not, I have been fined £107.50!
Great, however they actually refunded the RFL in December when I declared SORN. What a bunch of inefficeint wasters...
I'm now left having to write letters,...

I wonder if they do a BX,or a Dolly etc

0870 numbers are not cheap, and can be a means for a company to earn more money out of you, companies keep you on hold play messages to you, to promote their products while not having enough operators to answer the phone calls from their customers.
Why should you pay extra to speak to your bank, when they are looking after your money, and making a...

Its local and its (fairly) cheap.
I suspect the owner is having the oh bugger its a Citroen and its leaking panics...
I know its a 1400, but it could be my journey into BX-land

Thoughts anyone? (Particulaly Dave, Jon and Vanny)

I almost got blown off the planet about 12 months ago when one parked itself (literally) above my house.
This one is rated as the biggest EVER!! Many times worse than last years effort.
I live just out of the picture at the bottom.....not nice I can tell you as I live so close to the ocean I can almost throw stones into iy.
Alan S

Have you ever wonder what the music is, you are listening to in a television advert
Here's a way to find out more about the music.
If you go to this website you can search, and find out some information.

In the example below I have carried out a Citroen search, which comes up with these results a total of 15 in this case:-

So, for Citroens...

Well here's a car with low mileage, and an elderly owner, and it's on sale in the Manchester area !
Here's the link:-

Well me and the wife have been looking at buying anew house and moving on (deeper in to the Worcestershire country side) when I got this great news from the wife.
Yes it'd true I'M GOING TO BE A DADDY FOR THE FIRST TIME .
So it looks like the Xsara 3 door is on the way out possibly. Been down to the local Citroen dealer who offered me £2800 on my...

As featured on London Tonight, I looked it up to find out more details about it.
Here's the link:-

Maybe Charles will bid on it !

Well here it is, the office that allows you to get out, and about.
You won't feel trapped within the four walls of your office, because you can take it, out for a drive !
Yes, I am serious !
It's based on Mini engineering, with a custom built chassis, and all the controls are hidden away out of sight.
Here's the link :-

It is road legal, and I...

An Activa with a diesel engine !

Pity the car is so far away though, it's in Italy !
Although it's obviously left-hand drive, I would still have it !
Why did Citroen not release the diesel Activa here

Its going to happen, all the Chavs will grow old, then what will they modify?
How about this....

what did that poor Moggie ever do to deserve a Vauxhall engine, from a Corsa van too... well at least its diesel to burn veg oil from Asd'ers.

The Citroen Car Club site has press info and two pics of the new C1. Unsure about the car myself, front a bit too blobby and rear oh so similar to the new Smart Forfour.

The information on this link about speed cameras makes for interesting reading.
The accuracy of mobile speed cameras is checked.

Also here are some other speed camera links :-

In this link the driver should have used a 4 X 4, and not an Astra, as it would have done the job properly ! :-

Apparently this car has, I quote most of the FACALITIES!
I wonder if the seller has all his faculties

The car has a leather interior ! Nice !

Maybe this might be of interest to one of the forum members !

It's still available at the time of this post !

Has this got to be THE most expensive item on Ebay?!?!
If only.......

This is worth a look, I nicked the link from the 'Car Mechanics' forum....

This just came over the news. This one was no big drama but the aftershocks might be another story

Getting a bit rough; we had a small one where I live just prior to the big ones that caused all the problems. It's a bugger when you're sober and the Earth moves under your feet....and you're not even walking.
Alan S

Getting rare now folks, and this one still has some MOT!

as above if onnly people could smell citroen

as above its not me thats selling it but I thought you all might be interested

For those in the west midlands area or close by. Thought you should know that Modern Citroen on the Bristol road South is now know as
Dryden Citroen.
www.drydenrednal@dealer.citroen.co.uk
If you need to contact them. Had a flyer in the post tonight and it looks like they are now a fully paid up memeber of the Citroen network. Usual service...

Just a quick note to say hello, and introduce myself as I'm new to the forum.
So hello, I'm in to french and italian cars as well as motorbikes, and enjoy home maintenance of vehicles.
So have a virtual drink on me and tell me something intersting about yourself.

February 27, 2005
Sunday Times
Europe wants a black-box speed spy in every car
Maurice Chittenden
Black box recorders could be installed in all new cars under a European Union ruling. The aircraft-style equipment would also act as a tracker, using global positioning satellites to record the location and route of a vehicle and to tell how...

My brother in law is after the above about £3000 max.
Many thanks

And you thought I was pulling your legs

The guy who developed the speed camera, believe it or not, actually raced cars, and initialy developed the technology to measure the cars he made, and raced.
Here's a link to find out more about the cars, and their history:-

As for the cameras, and more information on them, here's another link:-
www.gatso.com

Are different. Navigation rally to East Molesley? Tea party at a stately home? No, not a bit of it.
Their attitude is:
OK, let's find a couple of Tractions, a2CV and a DS, an AMI and an SM
and see how many war zones we can do in a week.
THe Tractionnistes have just returned from crossing Africa, A Trans Sahara excursion recently took place and the...

Willie Whitelaw!
Ahh them were the days. Thought this little gem I found in the back of my BLMC 1300 BOL might make people smile - sorry its a big one to those on dial up - but much smaller made it awkward to read.

I'm really interested to find out what people are paying for their Xantia insurance. Mine has just come up for renewal and I'm sick to be paying just short of £400 - half the car's value.
Try and keep replies concise!
So:
male, 29, single, nurse, 1 fault claim 2003(protected), 7yrs NCB, fairly high crime area (Romford-the shame) car as below,...

Haha I came accross this web site containing Observer newspaper colums by a fictitious suicidal columist called Richard Geefe (Actually written by the comedy genius Chris Morris) All of it is funny but the first one on the first page is a must for Citroen nuts.

Insurers call for tougher car rules
Sandra Haurant
Guardian
Wednesday February 23, 2005
Owning an uninsured vehicle a should become a criminal offence, the Association of British Insurers said today.
Currently it is illegal to drive a car without insurance, but the proposed changes would make being the registered owner of a car with no...

I have just spent the best part of 30 minutes trying to apply for a new tax disc via the 'wonderful' new DVLA system of doing it online.
Like the idiot I am I thought oh good that will be easier than queing up at the Post Office........................ Umpteen attempts later constant replies of technical probelms at different stages, not to...

Channel 4 are adopting the Top 100 banner for cars. Sadly, the BX didn't make it but the 2cv, DS and SM are in the list!
Go pick your top 10!

Ian

Her new single called Shiver has a good video, in that it features a Citroen CX, which she drives in a car chase sequence.
If you would like to see it, you can see a clip here on her web site.
Here's the link:-
www.natalie-imbruglia.co.uk

As these are the only things that makes an Xantia Activa, visually different from another Xantia.
On this link:-

Then although the insurance rating is judged on many factors, surely the insurance companies, should take into consideration more about the fact that the Xantia Activa is a very subtle car, and therefore the theft of one is much less...

Well I like Citroens, and all types of music.
So I found that this combines the two !

I think Citroen did a nice job with the bodywork on this model ! LOL

Have you ever seen this type ?
The driver can be male or female yooof, the car could be a performance model like the one I saw this morning, (which the male driver would probably like to think should be called a Scooby Impressya ) or just a run of the mill car that the driver thinks is cool.
They tend to lean to one side, as if to be able to get...

Can anyone recommend a decent boost controller (not a bleed valve) and gauge? I am thinking of fitting these to my Activa for a bit of fun.

Got a bit of a dilemma.... There is a garage near to one of my clinics with a K plate ZX 1.9D Reflex. Not in pristine condition, but not looking half bad with its alloys and gold metalic paint.
Its done a 146K, has a scrape of an MOT (May) and apart from a big hole where the wireless should be seems OK. Some odd dings and scrapes, but no where...

If you have Sky, then this will make you laugh !
Tonight, Monday Feb 21st on Sky 1, there will be a programme about Chavs.
I only have Freeview so will miss this !
Sky's too expensive !
The T.V. licence is expensive enough, add Sky subscription charges, then you have to work more hours, to earn more money to be able to afford it, then you get...

Any one seen this programme. Myth busters. Two guys who do just that. They try to either prove or dis-prove a myth. To day they had an old Cadillac small block V8 and tried to destroy it. They put sugar & moth bals in the tank, a penny in the hugh Holy carb and run the cooling system on Coke all of which didn't bother the engine. They holed the...

Been out and checked the fluid levels yesterday morning on the old Xsara. Every thing great . Thought I'd check the air filter housing as it sometimes gets oil vapour trapped in it's internal filter that leads off the rocker cover. To my horror I on removal of the lid from the housing.... the filter was missing . Now I remember cleaning it last...