Well I best update this!!
The other week I went and got fatherjacks xantia to.
It needs some good fettling to get into a condition I'm happy to sell it on in, one being the mot!
It's currently off at a body shop having the rear spoiler removed filled and holes and boot lid sprayed over. Drivers rear door jamb rot removed, new section welded in and painted, then the rear upper c pillar rot cut or, new metal out in and treated inside and out and painted as well. Then I'll get her back and get a rear abs sensor on her and some exhaust paste on the back box and get the mot done.
She is going to get a good bit of time spent on her one evening cleaning the inside out and a steam clean on the carpets as well, then the rear height setting while she sits on my dads two drive on ramps as she seems a little high there and the rear corrector seems to be sticking but I do have a spare from the v6 if it's needed.
Paul came over and repaired the leaky hydraulic supply pipe by putting a new section in as well while I was off work for a week he popped over for the day.
Also I have a filter kit for her so she will get a very good service as I got a good few litres of halfords oil when it was on offer for £10 a tub so a cheap service all in.
I'll then try and get some waxoyl type stuff and get it sprayed everywhere but also see if I can get a pressure steam clean on the engine bay to get it looking good as well. There is a rubber hose which is about 8" long and goes from a boost pipe to the injection pump and I'm guessing it's the pipe that adjusts the fuelling to the boost level and as it has a crack in it I'll have to replace it as well but I have some fuel hose which should do the job just fine.
This will then become my daily driver for a bit as I'm hoping the c5 will sell soon. I did it's air and fuel filter within a few minutes this afternoon and will do its oil as well this week after work one day when the engine is nice and hot although having an undertray should make that more fun! Not!
If it's not sold it will go up on eBay as I won't be asking the prices that others ask for them for the simple fact it's not perfect body wise but the engine is a very good hdi unit with low miles and well looked after by my dad.
On Friday I picked up a 2.5td vsx estate! And yes it's an xm! It's a 1997 R plate in green.
No leather and no ac and the aux belt tensioner has gone on it!
So it's with anglesey's best citroen man to do that and a few other jobs and then I'll put it in for its mot. It's got a years tax still on it and being a Bosch should be happy with veg and so on as I've seen a few reports of them running fine on it so I'll give it a whirl and maybe setup some kind of heated fuel filter setup though I'm interested to see if the radiator mess fitted to them can be replaced with that from a 2.1 or other vehicle as the 2.5 is charge cooled and the radiators seem to have a habit of dying!
It's got 193k on its clock and the engine sounds good(I've old heard them in vans before!) and just using clutch control it pulls very well indeed, feels like the hdi almost at idle
Having driven the c5 and xantia back to back I noted a few things about their engines;
The xud is
- a much freer revving engine
- 2/3 times as nosey at ticker
- has worse engine braking
- is more reliant on a plug heat to start from cold
The dw8(HDi90) is
- a much slower but torquier engine
- surprisingly quiet at tickover
- engine brakes very well which helps with mpg
- starts on the button with no warming or anything even when left for 3 days!
The c5 is certainly harder than the xantia but the xantia is very soft at the rear and a little bit less so at the front. More of a floating on air ride where as the c5 feels more directly connected to the road. I'm sure removing the front spheres and widening their openings would help with this.
I'll be sad to see the c5 and the xantia go but I promised myself I would make the traders policy work by keeping savable cars on the road for little to no profit and just enjoy being able to drive so many different cars by doing it.
So far I've stuck to it and had a Saab and a skoda I've sold on for what I bought them for(the Saab in parts though!) and despite the work on the xantia costing more than what I bought it for it will probably end up on eBay in a no reserve auction as it's got 183k on the clock and I can't see anyone wanting to buy it for £800 to cover what I've spent on it but may try the veggie oil forum first as they do love these and it's got a good few years left in it when I've finished it in the next week or two.
Pictures of the cars will follow but I tend to post stuff on Flickr incase anyone watches that I'm on there as username Kingpleb so easy to find
I still have a fair old amount of v6 parts left including semi decent exhaust and as I'll need garage space back pretty soon a lot will end up getting weighed in as even my eBay add is just attracting time wasters

Unless someone moving to oz/nz wants to take the bits with them to help some out there live
