I originally found the car in Somerton some 5+ years ago as a "get back into spannering" car for a very good friend, it provided light work without stress and was also ideal being small and able to carry push bikes (worth about 15x that of the cars purchase price !) as well as any short shopping trips required......The Saxo served well, did its job without complaint.
Some time in its life it has mounted a rock or something as the rear right sill had a slight "push" under it, this slightly distorted it at the very rear resulting in the very lower edge of the wing splitting the seal-sealer.....thus letting water enter the rear part of the sill. The result was first noticed and I recived a ___" Alasdair, there are a couple of small bubbles down here, ?? can you sand them off and repaint ?".....well YES I said, so investigated with a thin screw driver, OUCH !............that never ends well.
The result was that Sally the SAXO was going to be binned and replaced by some modern crap ! (:) )....which happened rather quickly, the offer of Scrap it or you can take it back was accepted !
Little white Citroens are like Boomerangs !
On receiving the Saxo I cut away the rotten metal, which as always gets bigger that first thought !....bugger !....but at least it became obvious why there was a problem in this area and it was not "general rot".
BUT....there is always a bleeding BUT !....whilst under the car I investigated another small patch !....awww BUGGER it !
So, I cut away and cut away..................
Source for the metal I used....the remains of a XM's rear wing !.....so I have a XmAxo ?
Still looks like Sally is well and truly on the road to resurrection, nice work Alasdair!1
