French Car Forum

I've been looking after my cars for 45 years, and last week I needed to fit new discs and pads to my Xantia prior to MOT. Having got it jacked up and the wheels off, I felt for the calliper bolts to slip on a 17mm socket, only to find it was held on with TRX star bolts. Since I didn't have the necessary, I had to leave the job and go to the tool...

With my e-mail, I seem to get all kinds of weird & wonderful offers sent to me; from prescription drugs that I don't need a prescription for, to investments that will make me a million by this time tommorrow night, gentlemen proudly displaying their wives & sisters (the term mentally deranged tends to come to mind) in various stages of dress, a...

Thanks to all involved in resurrecting the Forum. It sure is good to have you back. The Citroen community salutes you! I have been logging on a lot to www.gs-gsa.org which is in French but a beautifully laid out site with a large and mouth watering Petites Annonces section where GSs abound for sale. The best of them would cost about £1500 with...

I have a Xantia TDSX 94 with 150k.
Mechanically OK, needs new clutch
After a number of repairs, and time spent, people keep saying to me get rid, get a decent car .
Two problems..
1) I can't afford to.
2) I don't WANT to !
I intend to keep this car until it costs big money in one go ( small batches I can handle ).
Such a thing to me would be a...

Non-belivers say French cars are unreliable and poorly built, but in my experience and from what I've read on the forums this seems not to be the case. Some cars seem to run forever! So, who's got the most well used car?
I'll start - '93 Xantia SX TD - 193,718 Miles.

Just joined the forum, having purchased a 97 R reg Xantia LX TD Temtation . Our other car is a 306 XRTD. Still getting used to the Xantia, it certainly seems bigger than the 306, more comfortable but not as quick as the 306 with the same engine.
My 306 TD seems to be spooling up from about 1800 revs with real urge available. The Xantia by...

Hi
just wondering if someone can answer some questions for me?
i have a 405 gri 1.9 at the moment, but its dying. ive always been a fan of pugs, had numeroud 205's in the past, but dont know much abut cits. i have seen that cits are generally cheaper. how does the xantia compare to the 405 or is it more similar to the 406. i'm basically looking fo...

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I got this email today.........
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist sharing it with everyone........
Jamie
> Subject: Haynes manuals explained.
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> Haynes Manual's Explained
> Haynes: Rotate anticlockwise.
> Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer
> anticlockwise.
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> Haynes: This is a snug fit.
> Translation: Clamp with...

Hi guys !
Decided to register as a member.
Having downloaded the GSF french cars .pdf catalogue - I find it disappointing condensed compared to the online shopping lists available.
Searching through the online shop listings for Citroens, I found a lot of Items not listed in the condensed catalogue.
A simple window text copy of these listings into...

I'm not trying to trigger a riot but I am curious about what if any differences there are between a ZX Cit and a 306 Pug.
The reason I ask is that I have often seen it stated that the ZX is an extremely exciting and reliable car and living as I do in Australia, we were never given a chance to see for ourselves. We do however have a lot of 306s due...

Just noticed when I logged on, we've hit 1000 registered members on this forum. That's not bad when you consider it is almost 2? years to the day since it kicked off in its present format.
So if my calculations are right, that's an average of almost 10 a week registering.
Looks as though the forum is doing something right hey?
Congratulations to...

A pal of mine who wouldn't drive a French car if you paid him recently fitted roof bars from a BX to his VW. What minor modification have you made to your Citroen to make it even better? To get the ball rolling, here is one. I have wound about six turns of clear plastic water pipe around the heater hose on my BX to warm the screenwash and stop the...

As some of you may have read or heard, we are presently in the middle of the biggest drought in history over here. Unfortunately we have had just enough rain over the fast growing period to cause the grass to grow rapidly & then wither & die just as quickly which has presented a new hazard; fuel for fires. As of yesterday, we have been hit with...

Hello for all forum members,first i want to you apollgies for my poor english,thats because i'm not from U.K.
when i'm looking on this beutifull site many of you telling about problems on injuction systems ,dealer or garages who cant solve those problems even that they chargh alot of mony for hours labor and unreqiyment epplaced parts . you...

I recently had a duff thermostat, allowing the coolant to flow into the radiator regardless of the engine temp.
It ocurred to me that the design of a cooling system is fundamentally flawed, and could result in engine damage.
Let me explain my theory..
Imagine a cold winters day, the engine is warming up nicely, the coolant in the radiator is stone...

Just a passing thought, we own a B reg 205D which is possibly on of the first in the country as it is a 1983/84 model. The doors are starting to succome to the tin worm, but other wise the car is OK for 165,000 miles. An exchange transmission unit was replaced when the clutch was. This cured the faulty syncromesh problem. Engine was replaced when...

During the great fault tracing session of the last month, it has been a source of some frustration to find that bits of the cooling system suffer from some rather amusing design faults. Things like putting the thermostat in a potential air lock. Or putting the warning light switches in a potential air lock. Or putting the heater up higher than the...

Fiat couldn't sell their Regata in sweden- it means old bag Vauxhall's Nova doesn't go in Spain Honda's Ballade means trouble to Danes AND I BOUGHT A CITROEN BREAK!

following on from the discussions on the Peugeot forum regarding the economy, or lack of it from the 306dt, I would like to know what is the maximum anyone has achieved from thier own vehicle, either petrol or diesel, and all relevant information regarding the speed and conditions.
My own personal best was 75mpg in a diesel 309 at around 50mph on...

Here's a copy of something posted on one of the lists today.
I'm posting it on here out of general interests sake as I personally found the figures & facts quoted almost beyond belief but according to the original poster, they are genuine & I have no reason to doubt him. I would say judging on the terminology they are Yankee sourced.
I'm sure...

I am fed up with getting mucky when I shoehorn my car into the garage (who do they make garages so small?!!) and then have to climb out of the sunroof to get out of the garage. Okay, I exaggerate, but I have only mm to spare.
After trying el cheapo nasty products, I now always use Autoglym. The ZX has not get been waxed by me since I got it...

Does anybody know if the new Rolls-Royce is fitted with Hydropneumatic suspension? It would appear that Big Money Wasted have got it wrong again. The Mini aside, they just don't seem to understand what a British motor means. Royces are supposed to be elegant.I don't reckon that this one is.

Hello all. Happy New Year!
Some splendid floods encountered on my way to work this morning, plus the usual run of hysterical drivers, swamped engines and generally mad people.
Can anybody shed any light on the question of driving through floods for me? I generally stick it in 2nd and pootle through at a moderate pace and feel smug that I am...

I've recently acquired a year 2000, Xantia 90hdi. Wanted the 110 but none available at my price range. This seems to go very well, much more sprightly than the 1994 td, with the XUD engine. It's better on fuel too, around 50mpg. Question is, what am I missing by not having the 110 hdi? I've never driven one, but understand they have an intercooler...

If this topic offends anyone just say so & I'll zap it, no offence taken, but I do have other interests as well as cars. Probably not the kind of interest that is compatable with driving cars, but as I live on the other side of the World, we often wonder how our lifestyles & interests compare with other countries' habits & cultures.
Until about 25...

Greetings
For the last few days, my '98 Xantia 1.9 TD SX idle speed has been a bit fast at just over 1000 rpm. This is pretty much the speed you'd expect with the air-con on, so I wondered if there was a connection (turning the air-con on doesn't make any difference).
Anyone know how the air-con speed increase is done?. A quick look doesn't show...

Last weekend, a group of French Car Enthusiasts went for a run in Australia.
Everything was going along fine until one of the leading cars spotted a bit of twisty road coming up and yielded to temptation and put the hoof down. Many on the run were Peugeot drivers who had little or no knowledge of the eccentricities of a CX Citroen and one of the...

does anyone know of any forums just for the ax and the gt models?

I seem to remind everyone of Eric Cartman??
Is it the physical appearance or the attitude?
Alan S

What does everyone think about running vegetable oil in you cars?
David M G Jones

Does anyone know of any Vauxhall Cars discussion forums?
Thanks
David M G Jones

Any general advice would be appreciated thanks.
I accepted a can of fuel that a relative had given me. I put it in an almost empty tank. I started the car and it stopped in about 10 seconds. I then investigated and the fuel turned out to be mainly water. I drained the tank by disconnecting the tank to filler rubber hose and siphoned the rest via...

Edited by - mg46783 on 23 Sep 2002 01:35:58

Why hasn't a compression ignition engine been producted to run on petrol..or a fuel that will allow the engine to rev higher and produce top end power as well as high low-end torque?

If you have experienced the dreaded Saxo Airbag warning light flashing away, Answer this question..Have you installed any uprated stereo equipment, that has required a power cable to be run to the boot? If the answer is yes, then I may have the solution to the problem. It is caused by the fields of invisible energy that surround high current(and...

As most BX owners would appreciate the ride is beautiful, but at the cost of image, the BX sit up on it's struts like an off-roader. To give the car a slightly sportier look or to improve fuel economy on long motorway drives, you could try adjusting the nominal ride height position. This is simply a case of creating another ride height gate...

Why, when I try to download the Sphere application table do I get a blank, black screen on Acrobat Reader? The other downloads work OK.

I notice that the replacement bolts from Andy spares lack the spirals around the bolt shanks that the originals had,so are they truley stretch bolts or just copies and should I treat them as one time torque'rs or as in the older HEX types which require a second tightening after some milage.
Thanx in advance for any input

If I went to one of your branches, say Ipswich, do they stock all or most of your catalogue and are the prices the same ?
Thanks

On the old forum, someone gave me the terminal numbers so that I could check my ABS. I have since managed to misplace them & was wondering if the person who gave them to me last time would mind giving them to me again? From memory I think it was David. Thanx in advance.

I've split this thread and moved all the follow-up posts to a new thread Insurance in the Citroen forum.

Sorry forgot to post the link what a plum!!