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A car collectors policy is best really for those with more than a few cars that change and get bored :)

€400!!!!!!!!!! Stone the crows gents, these useless bits of ex dealer tat are appreciating faster than the cars they were never used on!

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I will be there too.

Thanks all.

Agree with all you say about phones, I use a Nokia 830, here drive + maps downloaded so no data use with traffic off, have used it in UK, Europe, USA and bits of Canada all 'for free' as it were. But my wife not keen, really wants a satnav that does 'one thing well' always in the car, no worries about data or settings etc.

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If they hadn't shut their Slough HQ I'd have been there in my DS but like others I've been at work today.

This has reminded me of an amusing incident back in the 80's. BMW had a state of the art dealer fitted immobilizer system whereby a sensor was concealed somewhere in the vehicle and a magnetic key was passed over the sensor to turn it on or off. This worked remarkably well as there were an unlimited amount of places the sensor could be placed and...

That reminds me, BMW stands for bad mannered ??????

I drove to the South early in the year....only 5x C5's seen on the whole trip. Zero XM, 2x DS, SLO Xantia' and 1x 2Cv

the French have lost their love of Citroen's Liquid Springs for sure as well as being like most others these days, they like NEW cars that are simple and don't fall apart in the first 5 years of their life.

I've just signed up for MS Office 365 home. The £80 per year version gives you up to 5 non-commercial users each with a laptop and mobile device (so 10 copies in all) plus 1 Tb each of onedrive storage. Compared to paid for storage, think of it as 5Tb for £80 a year with 10 free copies of MS Office. It strikes me as good value for our family - 2...

There appears to be little logic in premiums, the cheapest car to insure in my collection (apart from the DS - classic policy) is my Merc which cost £120k new and has a top speed limited @ 186 mph, work that out!

My four everyday cars are insured with Admiral Multicar though as mentioned with every renewal I invariably have to question the quoted...

Have a talk to Russ at onclick= window.open(this.href);return false; he has don't some good stuff for different events in the past

That's good, I just bought TWO head units !, one for the X7 and one for the Xantia, £80 odd for the pair.

Now to find a patch lead for the Xantia and get a check on the X7 and the above patch lead.

How is this for the C5x7, I have according to the lexia, 2x active antenna so I need this type ?

I hear Mrs Slocombe and her cat were caught in it too... :wink:

Damn, we need Malcolm back!

I would have thought Honest John and the Multiplas to have a certain ring*, as well...

* Mainly ringing the AA Recovery service.

2 of those In-Line, with a common crank should do it :)
And fitted into a DS3

Well this is what a Model Car can look like.

1/12th scale, custom decals, interior hand built etc etc.....

Still got my 3/4 drive 36mm socket from my (original) VW Beetle days, you need it for the rear hubs. Can't remember the last time I used it but, rule No 1 NEVER let a tool go, you never know when it may come in. Mind you I think that about most things maybe that's why there's no room in the garage!!!

That said think of how many new parts you now have :)

Yep, assuming they have managed/bothered to fit them correctly though :?

Glad you've got the car back though sticky and it appears to be working ok now?

Absolute farce going changing all that stuff though. Typical of modern mechanics - absolutely no skill/knowledge/ability to actually...

Lovely car, criminal shame the buyer then stripped it and used it as a track car - like there aren't enough A310's being used for that already :roll:

Yea dont install that on a pc you need! Its the one i used.

There was a S1 with the aux on there for a while for something daft like £34. I would get a nice bluetooth one, get the wheel controls working and have a surround with the flap so you don't have to look at it!

A C5 with a Pop-Up Gazebo (with sides) to back up into ?....worked a good few times for me +1, warm as well (just take a radio as the car goes into Sleep mode and really DOES NOT like its battery drained) and really easy to pack up quick.

Thanks Steve! I should have shown you it on Sunday if I'd thought about it as it was hidden behind the tents!

It hasn't got the tool for loosening the end caps, I've done that before with a pair of stilsons though :)

David.

Pity you're not a bit nearer Malcolm as I have a vcds/vagcom which would determine if it really is that at fault or not ie live data amongst other things.

LOL addo....it comes to something when the older cars are more comfortable than the new ones :)......but that's what happens when all the masses want is the remnant of a car that once drove around the N'brg Ring on rubber bands and has Bluetooth Phone Connectivity.

Without knowing the specifics of your situation I would strongly counsel against your proposed path.

I have to deal with realtors and letting agents on a regular basis and the number I hold in any esteem is VERY low. Many aren't up to the job, some are lazy, a few are sharks. Added to that many lenders would place an emotive question mark over...

If you don't have any luck Sticky, I'm travelling to the DS rally at Little Horwood this weekend and am happy to take mine with me if you want :)

David.

I suspect your ground stays pretty warm there without any assistance.
Yes, we get decent storms but nearly always warm ones.

When I'm in cold parts of Australia, I'm usually fortunate enough to have someone warm with me! :D

If I remember, the tt win is the Only thing guy hankers for, no talk of retirement until he has it!

Ah, I see, good tip there Mike cheers. Google is pretty good at listening to the french audio and then also translating it to english in real time. Amazing stuff.

Its well before my time but was the name of the tax changed from 'road tax' or similar to 'vehicle excise duty' as there was some kind of legal challenge (possibly in the 50's/60's ?) to the fact that said tax was not being spent on the roads generally...

FCS has always been the mainstay of hot french hatches really. lots and lots and lots of 17/182's, Saxos, 106's, the usual meganes and suchlike. don't think theres many big french cars there, besides possibly a few 406's. the Xantia will fit right in on low ;)

Remedial building is a growth industry, yes large structures are failing and some get massive repairs (basically being rebuilt one floor at a time). Can you imagine the cost!

Unreinforced concrete (or concrete with failed reinforcement) does not have neat planes of cleavage so there is often more residual strength than imagined. However I can...

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All of the hassle you're going through was widely predicted when our wonderful government closed all the local DVLA offices and made the staff redundant leaving those still doing the job overloaded with work and feeling rather fed up having so brooms inserted into places they weren't designed to go. Unfortunately such a poor experience is now...

I ran my Mondeo 1.8 from 12k to 144k without a belt...

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spoz it had big rust holes under the drivers feet so you could walk it along, bet you got sore feet :yikes: :-D ,

spoz its all that cycling gives you the leg muscles, what speed did you reach :twisted: #-o :-D :lol: :wink: :wink:

Now if your name happens to be James...

Actually, it is even if I've never been known by that name...

Mind you, lovely as that James is, if I had that kind of money to splash out on two wheels I'd be buying a rather nice road bike with it, maybe even a carbon fibre one...

This puppy was a little more fortunate:

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I LOVE THE M6 TOLL BECAUSE THE POOR DON'T USE IT AND I CAN DO 130+ ALONG IT!!

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I wouldn't! On the way back from kent late last year we were passed by a sporty car, we were sat at 70 so he was easily doing over that. 10 minutes later, just before the booths, was a copper having pulled over said car!!

try this guy

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I want to change the filter on the back of my dials to the outline filter that was fitted to the later S2's so only the outline of the icon lights up rather then the actual square lighting up with a square symbol in it. Not brave enough to do it yet though.

In saying that, I've got the spare dials to tear apart so might be worth a go rather then...

you should ask for a % cut Jim :)

Gosh, he's asking a lot of dosh for the job...

Actually, I got the basic germ of the idea from our French friends and just developed and refined it. I can't take any credit for it at all...

Gents, thanks to all the info received.
I'm considering to move to the UK, take our C5 estate with us and then buy a UK licence car from the same type.
I have looked into the market also and the same type car I'm driving presently I can get for a good price in the UK.Afterwards the things I do need to replace from my own car I will do, if needed...

Ay up!!!

I've only owned Citroens.

First off, I borrowed a Xantia from Work many moons ago and my sister named it Fifi the f@@@@ing Frog. I liked the name so it stuck. Every Citroen I've had has been christened Fifi and this one is Fifi VII.

However, we also like making phrases out of number plates (passes the time on long journeys) and ours...

Most likely nuisance tripping.

Yes. Exactly that. Had it in a Ford Orion years ago and bypassed the switch myself.

Where has Ped gone?

After struggling to sixth place in the Grand Prix of Qatar, a downbeat Pedrosa revealed the true extent of his plight.

“Well, it is kind of a long story, trying to be quick, basically in this race I had an arm pump issue, which has been there for a whole year,” he told motogp.com.

“I started to have lots of problems here....