Il start at the start,my love of Citroens but Firstly the Xantia started when i was 7.My father and his friend went to an auction in England in 1997 and bought 3 Xantias.A 1994 Sx green Td...A 1993 Maroon Lx Td and blue one which he sold over there.
I was with them when we went to the docks to pick up the cars and i remember thinking they were the coolest thing id ever seen...especially as 1 was a sinker
My father had planned on keeping the green one and selling the maroon one but the chap that came to buy it wanted the green one and the rest as they say is history.
He sold the maroon car a year later
because he hated the colour 
and bought a 95 Merc C180 from a salvage yard in Birmingham.Since then iv wanted one...the worst thing is i only have a single picture of me standing in front of the Maroon car ..just for nostalgia id like to be able to see them,but id say they are well scrapped by now
..So fast forward till i was 16 and i was working and saving my money for insurance,car,licence etc and then when i was on my break and picked up the local paper to check the Xantias for sale.Everytime i had rang about one they were sold like hot cakes and this ad was little over a few hours old so i rang the chap and viewed the car that evening in my local tesco with my mate.It was amazing
.I didnt drive it ,but boys being boys i bought her there and then.To say my father was unhapphy that id bought a car without telling him would be an understatement
The car was a 1998 1.9 Td with 128,000 on the clock ,timing belt was done 6,000 previously and NCT for the next 2years and tax for 8months.The first owner was a priest
and he owned it until 2004 doing just under 86,000 in her.The chap i bought it off used it as his motorway car for the 2years he had it and clocked up 40,000 in that time but had it serviced in between.
In the time iv had her,shes had a new clutch,new spheres all round twice,had the brakes done,front bushes,steering rack,tyres.
So without further adieu here she is
I absolutely love this car
Its never given me a day of trouble.I had drove my fathers C5 90HDi Lx(which he bought because i made him ),for a week which id planned on keeping as he had bought another C5,the HDi 110bhp sx..which he kept for just under a year before giving in to buy another Merc
it was nothing but trouble,but he never learns 
I like the C5 but it was just a bit to "normal" and slow,i really dont like the 90bhp engines so i went my back to my Xantia.Which after stepping out of the C5 and straight into made it seem like it was a rocket.But i love them too much to just have 1
So as i so often do,roaming the net i found this 2000 HDi with89,000 on the clock,it looked better in the pictures tbh
I only drove this for a couple of months,i didnt really like it that much.
It just didnt feel like a Xantia
Being the 90Bhp,i found it slugish compared to the Xud..so i went back to my turbo diesel(AGAIN) ..And the most recent of my Xantia adventures has been this 1999 Td which had 131,000 on the clock,id previously seen this advertised on a website about a year previous but wasnt going to pay the €2,950 for a car that had no tax and at a dealers yard aswell
..So i picked this up for €950 a year later.
And what a piece of scrap it was too,in the year that the fella i had bought it off had owned it ,he had destroyed it,the spheres had never been changed,the suspension had no travel,the clutch was hard and slipping,the seats were worn away,the plastic on the heater was broken.
My troubles continued with this car so i got rid about 6months after i bought it,enough was enough...So again back to my first Xantia which has wanted for nothing in the time iv had her and am now just approaching the 157,000 mark..
Dave
