NEW Xantia strut tops available

[xantia_v6]

The French Activa club have arranged the manufacture of new front suspension mounts (strut tops) for most variants of Xantia. The price is a very reasonable €210 per PAIR (maybe that is on top of the €80 deposit), but they will only be available in 5 months time with an €80 deposit payable now. See: https://www.activa-club.fr/ActivaShop/en/



Here is the content of their email to members (machine translated from French)

We told you about it 2 months ago: the subject of the suspension domes has progressed well with our supplier... and thanks to your great interest: THANK YOU for all your reservations!

It is now time for us to announce the official opening of the deposit.

This second step is a formal deposit from you of 80€ per pair of domes, which is necessary for us to launch the order with our supplier.
The final price of the domes will be 210€ per pair of domes, plus delivery costs, from which this deposit will obviously be deducted.

The delivery time will be about 5 months from the officialization of the order, which means that the domes will reach us at the beginning of the summer.
We will then come back to you to pay the balance including shipping at that time.

Reservations can be made through our store: http://www.activa-club.fr/ActivaShop/fr/

We thank you again for your interest which we hope will be confirmed through this deposit session.

I intend to buy a pair for my Xantia V6 as cheap insurance.

No sign of XM strut tops, but I imagine that the manufacturing process and tooling are very similar...

I have no affiliation with the organisation selling these parts.

[white exec]

Do we know who is doing the remanufacture, Mike?
Does it include brand new metalwork/casting as well?
Looks good.

[Stickyfinger]

I think an ex OEM firm.
Yes, all new.
Rubber tested to OEM spec

[Rhothgar]

Did this ever come to fruition?

[xantia_v6]

Yes and no...

They made a production run, which took a LOT longer than promised, and dispatched many of them to customers, but there were quality problems that were serious enough that they recalled them and refunded all the money.

[Rhothgar]

Oh dear. Sad to hear. A lot of hopes and dreams dashed.