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Very early this morning I filled my Saxo up with fuel at our local Tesco just before going to restock my own sources of fuel...

As the filling station was not yet open I used the Pay at Pump facility - as I often do,,,

This is never straightforward as last week when filling Pix I needed to visit three pumps before I found a functional one... The...

Well the last fortnight's quarantine yielded me a list of jobs which I have completed successfully this morning with the service on the C5. I completed a normal oil and filter change on SWMBO's Celerio on Monday which is not fitted with an under engine cover. Sadly the C5 is and that makes the job a whole lot more awkward when you work at home. I...

Can any of you computer gurus help? When I try to opening emails, particularly FCF ones, if I can click on them within a second or so of them arriving on the screen they open OK, more than a couple of seconds and the screen remains blank but the Google Chrome icon starts flashing and if I click on it sometimes the mail will open, sometimes...

Better fuel economy, definately better performance. However you could argue they're less reliable as failures have cropped up with low and high pressure pumps. The engine itself seems to be just as good.

Never break the Chain

Here is a starting point. Take from it what you will and make the next link. Could take us somewhere interesting but does require joining in with.

What better than the back of a Rice Krispies packet, full packet here

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Bon Voyage

REgards Neil

I have reasonable protection. Work has provided me with nitrile gloves, and I have facial protection as well. At least I am able to do something. I have spent too much of my working life unemployed, and I hated it. I am glad to be of use, even if I am only doing a tiny part.

You are aware your mask, unless it is one of the shields, is pretty...

Had to squeeze past this to get into my space just now. Says Bullit on the bootlid.

Coming to the small Forest villages soon
My friend at Clearwell had a notice through her letterbox warning of traffic disruption while they install the underground stuff, it's already in progress in the next village, huge cable drums of red cable.
This company in cahoots with Glos CC.

I have been doing some research and I gather you can make a live windows USB using windows 8 that will run on any computer. I have never used windows 8 I assume it's worse than 7 and better than 10?
It struck me that maybe a live USB would run diagnostic software from a windows install rather than using a virtual machine. Have any of you guys...

I wonder if anybody can help, I'm trying to locate the 'curly wurly hydraulic pipe: Part number is 5270QK, for a mk1 C5 2001.
I've tried the usual avenues... Dealer - eurocarcare - plaides - breakers.
Citroen has confirmed that production of this pipe has been discontinued.
So if anyone can help I'd be very grateful.
Who knows somebody may have...

What are your thoughts ?.

Would any kind person decode my vin number for me please.
I need to know what type auto gearbox i have.
Thanks
VF7**************[VIN obfuscated, can be read by forum staff]
76458990

Watching the Sweeny this evening and a guy was using a telephone box. I had forgotten about the mirror in the box. Anyone know why it was there and maybe why it was low? Ladies?

This thread is for those misquotes and bad grammar that crop up from time to time causing a smile or a smirk to the reader!!

To start off a quote from F1.com website reporting on what the race director said about Friday's weather conditions stopping running:

While frustrating for the teams, drivers and spectators, Race Director Michael Masi...

At the entrance to the village where my business was, Clearwell, I just noticed they've erected a pole with one of those illuminated signs that tells you what speed you're travelling at, you know it flashes up signals 30-31-32 etc.

The village is an endless chicane of parked cars and to go more than thirty is just about impossible except in the...

Due to my extraordinary diet I buy a lot, and I mean a LOT, of double gloucester cheese from Tesco. Up until last week it was supplied in 460g chunks in a plastic resealable bag which was perfect for my use. When SWMBO returned with the shopping this week I was horrified to discover the cheese packaging has been changed to one time only and non...

Ford dealer who seems to have been there forever has, I'm told, gone broke this weekend. :(

This might interest.

walked up my drive this morning..............nah just kidding. :)

Remember this

It came up in one of the threads and I hit the buy button out of curiosity, it arrived this morning and it's happily filming away stuck to my front window for testing.

The delivery tracking is like something from Chairman Mao's Long March.

Went with my eldest daughter to pick up this rather smart Pug 207

This is an idea nicked from another forum I frequent. What's the first thing your planning on doing once the lockdown is finished? I'm thinking about going round the NC500 again. I will probably do it in the unmentionable 4.4 litre German thing, because it is sitting with a full tank of fuel and it will need a good run and clear out before being...

Hi all,

If anyone has (or knows of) anything, in pieces/for resto - i need something to do over winter eves ;)

Motorbike or similar, but could stretch to a car.
I am keeping half an eye on barn finds.. I quite fancy an old bike to plod around here on, 30's to 60's maybe.. I also fancy some green lane -ing on something road legal, ideally a 4...

On the Birmingham History forum a contributor has posted a number of videos that might interest some.
Here's an example:

Andy found this, and if you live in Scotland, a major help towards buying an electric car either new or now Used.

Can't quite decide which thread this belongs on

Scotland’s government will extend the Low Carbon Transport Loan to cover used EVs for the first time, starting on September 28. The extension will now enable an individual or...

On my visit to Cirencester yesterday, the people we were visiting have a blue S suffix MG Midget on their front garden, they bought it, I think, about 18 months ago on a whim.

It's very tidy and a good runner but the idea of the 'wind in the hair' trips novelty has worn off so it might be for sale now so it's not moved for quite a while.

I think...

Got an Email from Hermes yesterday Your parcel was delivered and signed for at 4-49 today, has a tracking number, no parcel and I wasn't expecting one.

Got onto their website, what a bloody nightmare!.

The only help available is a robot set to answer pre-set questions and nowt else.

Digging deep I found a phone number for the help service,...

hi all, after many years with my trusty little oil-free 6L SIP (used for many engine rebuilds and so on) i have upgraded somewhat to a 50L SIP.

Apart from spraying, and using blown-air, what do you use your compressor for? In this time of cordless, what air tools couldn't/wouldn't you do without?

John

In view of the current circumstances I'm sure we are all finding ways to use our time at home. I thought it might be a good idea to have a platform where anyone can post up an idea for passing the time to help others who are suffering from boredom. So to get things going I can say that when I'm not reading or posting on the FCF the things that I...

I got a flyer offering a battery addition to my solar panel set up.

I asked them this:

Can you give me a ball park figure for the cost of installing a battery to my 12 panel solar set up in my 3 bed semi detached house in West Gloucestershire, I don't want a rep to call....yet.

I got no reply, so I posed the same question to nine other...

Following on from Neil's observations in The Chain thread I thought it might be amusing to post up my choice of seven wonders of the modern world so here they are:
1 The Wheel
2 The Reciprocating Engine
3 The aerofoil
4 The silicon transistor
5 The photoelectric cell
6 The Light Emitting Diode
7 The FCF

And yours? :-D

Most petty ailments last only about fourteen days then go away without treatment.

Get a few packs of Smarties, sort out the red ones and yellow ones.

When your patient arrives check him with your stethoscope, prescribe him the yellow ‘pills’ four a day for two weeks.

There are only three outcomes, he can get better, get worse or die.

Two...

Just a heads up if anyone is interested GSF have Total LHM + at £5-6 per litre at the moment not sure how long it will last
HydraFlush 5 litres is £ 82 :(

So, i just bought my Second Citroen C5 x7.
My first was a 2011 2.0 140hp seduction model, manual gearbox sedan.

The second and current is a 2012 2.2 204hp Exclusive automatic with all the bells and whistles, massage, electric hatch, cornering bi-xenon headlamps and on and on.
My Boss commented laughing that all that French electronics is going to...

So...I'm interested in how the Haynes manuals are written. I recently bought a Focus 1.6 diesel as they can be useful and it was cheap. I needed top change the fuel filter and the new one looked different from the old one. The manual shows a different type of filter from mine and doesn't mention that you have to swap over the fuel heater to the...

We recently picked up a dehumidifier and the amount of water it can generate is quite impressive, and it occurs to me that it is basically distilled water that should be ideal for the water part of a coolant mix ?

It's always annoyed me that in most cases your choices are to buy ready mixed coolant, or, gulp, use tap water as part of your...

Are QH parts any good?

Got the email from AMS this morning for one of their auctions, take a look, they're suggesting an opening bid of four grand, 10% buyers premium zero VAT

Evening all, how are you all? Haven’t popped in for a while,been very busy with work. Hope everyone has kept safe from the virus.

Just wondering if anyone else uses the 206info forum & has noticed what I did just. Went to check out any new posts and get a page saying This account has been suspended, contact your hosting provider for more information :?

Presume it's their host has suspended them, not them suspended me lol

:help2: :eye: :eye: :help2:

A thread for anyone to post up what they are looking for and then the rest of us can help in the search. So post up your desires and we'll see what we can find!! :-D

Let's see how this one goes. Curious after photographing this sign, I wondered where NCN route 68 went from and to, or to and from. Discover its the basis of the Pennine Cycleway which goes from Derby to Berwick upon Tweed all 350 odd miles of it. So why not give it a virtual go over a few days with a few quiz questions and photos thrown in along...

Woke up this morning to 5 missed calls from the inlaws, they got in their Motability Prius to go shopping and it sounded like a tractor... Long story short, thieving scum have cut the catalyst off the car overnight!

This is in a quiet village in Cheshire so not exactly South London or the Bronx lol, anyone else experienced this pond lifery going...

After almost 5 year and 80,000 trouble free miles in my 2015 Citroen C4 1.6 Bluehdi 120 I’ve traded it in for a 2020
Peugeot 508.

The C4 was probably the most reliable car I’ve ever owned, had it all over Europe and never had a single issue. Great car and exception for what it was on the motorway.

Before the C4 I had a C5 Mk1 estate and...

but can you name the background music?

This article popped up on MSN, and I had to check it out. I am glad to say the Citroen Xantia Activa has made it into the list (I would have been very surprised if it had not);

Having just joined the Forum and posted in Introduction, I should really familiarise myself with Posting and Acknowledgements etiquette.
So can you please advise what is the difference between the 'heart' symbols, and when to use, as I don't want to inadvertently offend. 😡Any other tips appreciated.
Many thanks
Nad2010

My computer died, so I bought a refurb HP to replace it.

So I've got the new one up and running but I have a lot of stuff on the SSD from the old one, my Microsoft Money e.g.

The new comp is 64 bit, the old one 32 bit, how do I get the stuff from one to the other?

I have a usb adaptor for the SSD but I'm a bit unsure if I can just plug it in to...

Morning all
Just thought this may be interesting to members

Regards
Steve