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I know the Xantia was offered with the XUD9 1.9TD and AL4 autobox but were any other PSA cars offered with the same engine and gearbox?

I'm asking on behalf of a person on Facebook looking to use that particular power train in a conversion project...

Thanks!

I have recently bought the above and was expecting something similar to the previous one for my Xantia. On opening the wrapping, I discovered that the paper quality would shame recycled toilet roll. £20 quid and barely readable type did not impress me at all. :evil: :evil:

Not strictly French car but,
You have a VW and you get the offer of having the engine repaired to delete this emission testing thingy, would you have it done or leave as is, if you have it done would your fuel consumption go up, plus if you were to travel say on a flat bit of motorway even now before the (fix) with cruise control on could you get...

hi all.. this comes up from time to time but I am interested to hear your thoughts..

I may buy a new car on Saturday in Wakefield.. and swap my faithful C5 for it..

The new car isn't taxed.. technically when I have paid and have the log book I should be the new owner, although from DVLA point of view I don't think that happens (and their...

Winter storage

So, battery disconnected
or
Battery off and ECU removed (Stored in house in Antistatic bag and descant)
or
battery on and trickle charge

That's my random question of the evening...

Basically the usual potential future fleet additions/changes ramble was had this evening and of course the fact that a Xantia is now a pretty permanent fixture is a given. No plans of my current one going anywhere soon, but it's always interesting to look towards the longer term plans too.

We do...

Well don't ask me how i got there, I don't know but this post on Retro Rides did bring back some memories for me

Does anyone know what happened to the original Feu Orange air fresheners? You know, the ones on a goldy looking chain that you stick a pin into. I want my car to smell like my Dads Cortina did in 1976. I want an air freshener that is...

goodness knows what those thoughts are at present however, dreadfull

Look what has been listed on a property website!

The BOL base is up for sale.

As the museum is at a seperate site, despite this listing it should not be affected.

This little film from the 1960's got an off topic airing on the Ever sheared off a bleed nipple? thread, but I think it deserves a wider audience than bleed nipple afficionardos alone. :-D

It does a very good job of selling Automatic Transmission. You would have probably thought that by the time 2015 arrived, the clutch pedal would have been...

Well, after 35 years or so of DIY car maintenance, I achieved this milestone today.

Looking back....it was always going to happen....

Sprayed it with a bit of plusgas......didn't wait any length of time, no preheating/freezing or whatever, just put on the snugly fitting 13mm socket, and give it a gentle try with the normal ratchet.

Obviously...

Does anyone have any experience with benchtop ultrasonic cleaners ? I'm after a fairly cheap (sub £100) 3-5 litre cleaner to clean up various carb bits and some other relatively delicate mechanical bits. I know the cheap Chinese 'eBay special' ones can stop working - repairs aren't that expensive - but do they actually work well enough or are they...

My daughters' insurance is up for renewal at the end of the month. Until now they've bern on my multicar policy but now I want to put them on their own..

I need some recommendations as to good firms for them to try.

Robyn is 23, Sian is 20, both been driving since 17 and both have clean licences...

I'm leaving multicar policies as I only have...

My son and family came down to visit us a couple of weeks ago. While here in Surrey, he bought an Audi A5 3l TDI Quattro Sportback.
My offer to drive his 3 series BMW 320D Tourer back to Aberdeen was taken up. A week after they had gone home (last saturday) I set off, alone this time, at 06.21 am. With no adjustable lumbar support, and rather...

We are now back in NZ for the summer, and need to buy a car for Louise. She wants a convertible, and we settled on a Peugeot 308 CC as the most suitable, but now that we are here, there is not a single one for sale in the whole country, let alone the colour/engine/trim specification that we wanted.

So the next on the list in the VW EOS. We need...

Sometime ago I was asked to participate in a project caller Used Car Heroes with Autotrader, It looks like the video is soon to be released, here's a preview:
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Hi Guys, I have a tough issue and its a job to know where to even post the topic!
I have just purchased a talbot camper with the pug 2.5 turbo diesel engine and an auto gearbox,,, yes auto!!! I have never ever seen another
The thing is the gearbox was used in bmw's and rear wheel drive pug 504 cars, but this can is a front wheel drive!! it is a 3...

Hi All,

Needing a bit of advice about some problems with the central heating in our new 1930's bungalow before the winter really sets in... its an old system that has a few problems and needs to be nursed along to next summer on a shoestring.

I think I have a pump problem and posted a long post (yes who would have guessed! :rofl2: ) in one of...

Please read this, it is not a joke.

My brother in law is missing and obviously we need to find him.

He's been gone a couple of days now so we need to widen the search area, if everyone could share this link on other forums, facebook, etc it would be a huge help.

Please check every red Renault Megane you pass, we're looking for FB53 FHC and...

This will be of interest to anyone paying for RFL with DVLA using direct debit, I recently sold a car on which I had been paying for RFL via direct debit, thinking that as long as I had informed DVLA that I was no longer the keeper that would automatically cancel the direct debit, especially as the very next day the car was shown as untaxed, wrong...

Just to let you know this is possibly the last (depending if they do halloween) weekend of GSF's october discounts. You get 35% off everything using voucher code THD35.

Just a heads-up that Michelin are doing their fuel vouchers tyre offer again if anyone is thinking of buying (Michelin) tyres between now and the end of the year.

It's a not particularly stunning offer if you're only buying one tyre, but it's not bad if you're changing all four. I'm not connected to Michelin in any way, I've just made use of the...

Hello.
We are working on a new OBD II tracker/scanner. Our device is almost finished but we still have time to add new functions or change some of the existing ones. I want your advice to make it better if it is interesting for you to participate in the process of creating a new device for your car.
Main functions of the device:
- reads engine...

Well apologies straight away for going off-category already but my crop of first cars doesn't include a single French Car.

It does include 2 with Hydrolastic suspension though! Join in with your own pics, could turn out to be an interesting trip down memory lane. Of course if you look at the crop I have put up, they do date me pretty accurately....

Activa wheel looses esp at 70-ish when overtaking !

Thanks to a truck dropping a pallet into my path when overtaking on a three lane (dual my side) carriageway (no central barriers, truck coming the other way) and some quick movement, only the wheel/tyre suffered, no other damage surprisingly !

F@@k that was close....instant deflation, thank...

Well, I now know what I will (probably) be doing at 21:00 for the next 3 Sundays. Britain's Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF . Just watched the first episode, and the Red Arrows had to do 3 displays in 2 days (flying over Buckingham Palace for The Queen's Official Birthday, a display the same day at Biggin Hill (including a flight with 2 Hurricanes...

Anybody know of good deals about/offers/discount codes ?

Clio at the track, this time with Racechrono, a 10hz GPS receiver and an ELM 327 module :) 240 track miles in a 10 year old Clio and nothing fell off :)

Track tyres:
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Road tyres, and a brief trip onto the gravel at the end:

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I wonder if it is possible to ask new registration members to put their car/region in place during the process of joining the forum ..??

Maybe save a few requests to add it ?

Thought I'd share this with you all. This was filmed around RAF Cosford at the XM rally.

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For the first time in my life I have won a car in a raffle. And it's French!

Planet Oil....BBC4 9pm

Our NEW Book is published today.....its been a 4 year battle !

Well, the e-book version, paper version is at the printers

208 pages
+/- 690 images.
69 technical diagrams including 27 selected re-mastered diagrams at A4 size

Spotted on Facebook...

One that's bound to appeal to Alasdair....

And for these, well, words have deserted me..

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Guys, I am wondering if you guys think it is safe or not driving the car with the drop link totally removed on the passenger side? I don't really want to use the 205 for work tomorrow and have it stinking of fast food. Hopefully the new drop link arrives tomorrow then the problem is solved!

The Citroen dealer in the Shetlands is closing his doors for the final time at the end of next week.

This was posted on Facebook last night...

A return trip on the ferry for one person is working out at £382, or £486 for 2 people.

I'm going to be heading up in a van and am happy to bring anything back for anybody who wants something they've...

Hi guys...

Favour time / deal time

Can anybody move a car from 1 part of Boston to another part (a friends house who has the space) so I can store it there till I get up to trailer it home
or
A free Activa TCT Donor Car to the person who gets it from Boston and trailers it to me in Somerset ? (take the donor Activa home with you)

Cheers

Figure that given I've dodged no less than four crash-for-cash attempts in as many weeks (all avoided due to a combination of cars with bloody powerful brakes and my own hypervigilant driving thanks to my PCV training), it's time to man up and get a dash cam.

This I confess to being an utterly unknown field for me, and after a bit of Googling on...

This it curled up .. its just over 1/2 long body wise.

And on the move ..

Driving me mad. Over the past few weeks we've had to eject one of these weekly from the house. Only ever one but as i'm loathe to crush any of them it's becoming deja-vu time. I even dumped the last one 20yards from the house but am getting paranoid that this IS the...

Okay...sure I can't be the only one who finds himself on occasion wishing to have a van to transport an item from point A to point B and not drive back again. Especially when point A is in rural Aberdeenshire and point B is in Milton Keynes.

About the only mainstream rental company (locals are obviously not much cop for this - even those who...

Yes it relates to one of Luton's finest, but sometime Friday/Saturday my driver's side wing mirror glass was stolen.

Bit of trawling of the internet and I find Europartsdealer with a new replacement item at £7.79 with free 1st Class Delivery from Royal Mail.

Ordered it Late Sunday night, and the little brown cardboard box, with the mirror...

OK....after the change over to an MPH one, its not working at all. I have checked the connections etc, put the KMPH one back...that works

No Speedo, no miles click over....zip all, dead as a Dodo

Stumped.

Hot on the heels of the latest update to the current forum software, I find the branch we are presently running will be going end of life in May.

This means no more patches, no more updates and most importantly, no more security updates..

This means we must update sooner rather than later to version 3.1.x.. I have already discussed this once but...

Does anybody know if/how to reset an Electro Mechanical Miles recorded to Zero ?

I have to change my French KMPH Speedo (at present only the face is changed to fool the MOT man) to a MPH one.
I have sourced the correct V6 type in MPH ( I love you Jim :) ) but I would like to reset that to either zero or to the correct KM/MPH.
I will naturally...

Sorry its taken so long....packages are wrapped addressed and ready for the post office, they will be with you very soon.

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I notice that Stickyfinger has changed his avatar and has swapped from badgers to foxes? Is all well in Somerset?

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Needs asking....really who thinks that club is good/bad/should run Labour Party Leadership elections ?

I have a new prime example of why I do not do clubs

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