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  1. from a time when Citroen styling was still sufficiently different to stand out from the crowd. XM and 605 shared a platform. XM is the one people of a certain age will stop and look at. The 605 is a handsome car sure, but doesn't stick out. See also BX and 405.
  2. I reckon that used to have a cap and plunger, but it's fallen off/been removed. That dirty cream disc is the diaphragm, no? I think they're the same construction - the new one has just a peined-over cap with the plunger in it, on top of the diaphragm...
  3. F181DGE, a white TZI (or was it TRi) estate, dubbed The Fridge, for obvious reasons, owned briefly by a mate. Despite being far from concourse, or even previously well maintained, it flew and was very comfy while doing so. Why he sold it on is a mystery to both of us.
  4. The youngsters love a lo-rider. Just don't let them see it lift up before you drive off
  5. Looked at the pipes yourself? Could it be they've received rodent attention? Last time i was stood in a puddle of pez, it was mice/rats that had been putting rubber on the menu
  6. K782TDD A 1.9 TXD, dark blue with a lovely velour trim interior. Smelled gloriously of rubber and adhesive. A company car for me, from new, alas for less than a year iirc, as i moved jobs within the company and 'couldn't take it with me'. Went to a very young colleague who said he wrote it off "at night, avoiding a fox. But its handling was lethal anyway". Yeah, righto. Tbf, it was a Friday car, often leaving me stranded when it refused to pump up. Garage, a main dealer, were perplexed, so it never was conclusively fixed. I was still much aggrieved at giving it up though, and would gladly have another, though a TZD Turbo would be better. Oddly, it seems the V5 last moved in 1999, so perhaps it survived the fox incident, but 7 years is still a woeful short life.
  7. If I'm lucky, that is... Often it's 25% getting it up on ramps/jacked up 25% looking for tools 30% trying to remove/open parts with the incorrect tools 5% drinking tea in the hope that a break will prevent me breaking something 5% breaking parts/tools/bits of me 10% taking it off ramps/jacks
  8. Which bookshop? Asking for a friend... (No, really, asking for a friend)
  9. I am at once relieved and disappointed! Relieved, because i thought you had made a device based on a house alarm that somehow could decode radios, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how you'd done it... And disappointed, because i imagined that you HAD made such a device, created in a sort of Brainiac/Dick Dastardly mash-up universe... Dick Dastardly: "Mutley! You unscrupulous hound, now that i have created the RaceWinningDecode-o-matic, all that you need to do is pull that lever and stereo sounds will be mine, MINE! you hear!" Mutley: "eechk eechk eechk" etc etc
  10. I liked driving mine so much, I got my first speed awareness course for a decade
  11. ...though, listening to it again now, it doesn't sound like him. I don't remember him sounding quite so affectedly posh. Anyhow, my favourite line from him is from Butterflies, describing his status as a dentist, (which I'll probably misquote as) "I fix women's teeth. Make them look beautiful. Puts me on a par with God"
  12. Wasn't it Geoffrey Palmer of Butterflies fame* who voiced the "the Werners, the Schmidts and the Bergers are all driving to Marbella" Audi ad? ...which in turn was the springboard for his legendary* "Slam in the lamb" ad series for the UK's Meat Marketing Board
  13. He may piss off other motorists. Apart from that, especially as regards the law: in my opinion, absolutely sod all will go wrong for Maxxo
  14. And i apologise to your garage for casting aspersions on the work they've done!
  15. Oh FFS. You have my sympathies/congratulations
  16. Looking at the advisories, a cynic* might say they've ahem, 'downgraded' the corrosion issues they don't want to have to resolve, for a pass. Still, a pass is a pass, and an XM back on the road can only be good for it.
  17. The pass has pleased me no end. An affordable* repair would please me even more.
  18. They eloped, but it didn't make it to Gretna Green
  19. They're quite the sod to get aligned - the Bowden cables control the vertical AND horizontal and are tricky to engage again if you've taken off the slam panel. Also the reflectors clip into the housing with ball and socket arrangements that pop off for fun at the limit of their travel. Then there's the beam correctors and their yellowing to keep on top of...
  20. Ps In case I haven't communicated this sufficiently before: impressed and jealous in equal measure with your purchase, progress and ultimately, rescue of this beast. My only gripe with mine is that the four-pedal dance of a manual with that parking brake is a bit frantic for the nature of the rest of the car, and i want to know what an auto 2.1td goes like
  21. Right, here's curiosity getting the better of me. While the headlights on BKJ are quite ok, as long as the plastic beam correctors are clear and the alignment is good, I'm very conscious of the arms race going on with modernz' headlights and that my ageing retinae are often challenged by the wall of LEDs and aesthetically pleasing* fulltime front foglamps that are so popular these days. So I'm curious as to how successful/legal the late Ray Noon's solution was. Tl:dr I'll take the old ones, please! Can you let me know what the postage will be?
  22. So, you were obvs afeared that your reputation for having cojones like spacehoppers was on the slide, hence you took your XM's electrics apart... ...THE DAY BEFORE AN MOT???
  23. What are you using on them? Not that I've done any alloy wheels, but strip discs of the sponge type on an angry grinder are my favourite atm for removing paint etc.
  24. Yep. One for every car. But there's no amount columns in any of them, because i might accidentally select the whole column in Excel and then see the SUM bit at the bottom, and that would ruin my enjoyment* of having a small fleet of shitters. (I sometimes note the cost of parts in a Comments column, but only so i have a record of where i bought them and to see what i can expect to pay if they need replacing again later) I have the spreadsheets as it seems the easiest way of recording dates and mileages of oil and filter changes, tyre replacements etc. and as a record of repairs (or attempted repairs) which I'd likely forget all about otherwise. I'm also crap at keeping and organising paperwork, so this makes for a better service history that i can pass to subsequent owners, either on a memory stick or printed out.
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