Where have all the xantia posts gone?

[Jaf]

There are fewer around here too sadly. Parked behind this one a while ago. There's a green one still around.

[LHMfanatic]

Mine, a 2000, cost a thousand quid from a local Citroen aftermarket garage. It's a turboD sx, with about 160000 miles on it. It's been around the garage for about 15 years, and I bought it because it had a slew of new parts on it, more than a thousand pounds.

However....it's back in the garage because of a diesel leak from the fuel pump, which the garage is going to fix FOC, and a leak from the LHM, which I have a suspicion is from the doseur pump. Also, in one week, the drivers' window has fallen down, and the wipers have stopped working.

What's good about it, is the engine, the ride, and the comfort generally- why does anyone want more? Bad, the foregoing, and there's more to come!

I looked at an Activa, which was all the money, but I think that the Activa was better, even at £6000.....

[ekjdm14]

Well... there's a Xantia 1.9D n/a engine, simple suspension, no airbags. Every single pipe union is open-ended spanner free. The gearbox shifts like new. Over twenty oil & filter changes from new in its genuine 50k miles life and only 38 k six years ago. Six oil changes since then...
The interior is very good. Needs a n/s/r wing repair and paint. The engine last ran the week before the lockdown. Dark metallic green. The engine started 2nd glow-plug cycle last week. After she started, she so very nearly went for scrap...
No corrosion on the front door hinge areas. Anybody fancy taking her on?
IT'S MINE!!!
I still plan to restore her back to new, but I have to make my unit pay and old Citroen Xantia are not the way...
Any interest and I will list it for sale. The 'hen's teeth' front height corrector to anti-roll bar is nearly new. Never been welded. Sat in an Edinburgh showroom as a display exhibit (really) for years. My renal failure and kidney stents saw me use a more practical (?) BMW E36 Touring as my daily driver, also for sale. Anybody wants to save it?
Runs/drives. You can legally tow it despite what the experts say. We towed it eight miles a few weeks ago with the BMW...
Might be gone by end of May. Serious interest and I will sell. I'm doing a Suzuki 4x4 brake pipe job on Thursday. If it makes me cross, she will go for SCRAP. Sorry Green CAR.

How did I miss this post? Definitely don't send it for scrap, that'd be a huge loss. Would take it on myself if we had the space to store until we get around to it. I assume this is a manual car & not the other (we have one of two!) NAD auto? (if it is that though, then domestic harmony be damned I'm buying it!)

There's one other Xantia I know of in our immedate area (South Manchester) & that's been sat a couple of years, owner has our number to call before the scrap man in case he needs rid of it but that's a 2.0SXi petrol with 140+k, previous welding & the lacquer is 95% gone. Ours is the only one I've seen on the road in months. She ain't pretty with severe lacquer fading to the roof/C-pillars, slowly disintegrating tailgate, dented nsf wing, missing wheel trims and N/S rubbing strips but I will (rather sadly) lay claim to it being the cleanest Xantia on South Mc'r roads currently...

[Skull]

MoT tomorrow

Pre-MoT nerves

[NewcastleFalcon]

MoT tomorrow

That looks very presentable Remind me of the official colour Skull

Neil

[Skull]

That looks very presentable Remind me of the official colour Skull

Neil

CITROEN PAINT CODE KRK / 7K / K7KC / KRKC VERT LIBELLULE MET 2CT

plus some rattle canned bits

[Skull]

KRK Vert Libellule literal translation Dragonfly Green Many photos in Rodrigo's album on the car here https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkfotos/a ... 8832748094
Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

All comes flooding back now Thanks Skull Started out with a search for the "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" which was the colloquially-called but mistranslated "Mallard Green".

Kicked off here on the Favourite Colours for Cars thread viewtopic.php?p=770385#p770385

This is my third Xantia in KRK so must be my favourite colour car .... I love the translucent look when they are wet

Neil

[Skull]

FAILED MoT

Motaquip lower ball joints replaced last MoT have only lasted 5,000 miles

Ordered some febi bilstein ones - hopefully last a bit longer

[Stickyfinger]

That is a shockingly low mileage for them to fail at !

[Skull]

Agreed Stickyfinger when you consider that Xantia suspension components should have an easier time than sprung suspension it's bizarre .....

I've emailed the supplier for their opinion on acceptable wear and tear

[Stickyfinger]

Made from purest Chineesium

[Skull]

FAILED MoT

Motaquip lower ball joints replaced last MoT have only lasted 5,000 miles

Made from purest Chineesium

To be fair to them the MoT tester could have been over-zealous with his pry-bar as I couldn't see or feel any movement in the lower ball-joints (5,000 miles) or the drop links (30,000 miles).

I replaced all the parts on Saturday at my wife's insistance that she wouldn't go on our trip to Costa-del-Southend-on-Sea and still I can't see any wear although the drop links had to be butchered to remove them.

The substantial Xantia dust shields were replaced with ones off a Berlingo with some modifications saving £60...

I found original Xantia ones on Ebay but £50 each!

An hour into the return journey and all that work was almost in vain as we were 'almost' rear ended in slowing traffic, M11 Northbound lane 3, I saw the black Mercedes V class bearing down on us in my rear view mirror, they managed to swerve into the faster moving lorry in lane 2 instead of into us - shrapnel bouncing all over my car and my wife waking up after hearing me shout 'HOLD ON' as I tried to steer away to the central reservation ...to immediately ask 'What happened there?'

"I'm still trying to avoid getting rear-ended"

I'm sure I heard her say 'Now you know how I feel' The lorry just carried on seemingly oblivious (reported - although not at fault imo)

We made it safely home after a 6 hour journey that I have done in 4 hours before.

Mot re-test tomorrow where I will hopefully be happy again

[Skull]

Re-test passed @ 164,799 miles just in time for it’s 25th birthday on the 27th

Fresh MoT ?

[admiral51]

Congrats Skull