Tomtation

Your both doing it wrong.
You’re supposed to park across about six of the back to back spaces in the most self important cuntish manner possible while sneering at any of the peasants who dare to look at you for doing it. Because your car is bigger and better then any of theirs, and that entitles you to do that!

Went shopping, fits fine!

Well ......

Sounds like some good progress! I do like a straight 6, sounds gorgeous and so smooth 😎

Pulling the winnits out more like....

Fuckin trailer fer sale 

Travel weapon to chod overflow car park.

 

Just look at it. Going to view Saturday 

Fab French content 👌
Just had a good read through, driveway envy 🤩

New members must spend an hour in a dark closet with one of our members.
What will happen? Invacar quiz? carb rebuild in the dark? or something entirely different? wait and see.

Teletext sold us a nudist holiday on fuerteventura once upon a time last millennium. Didn't mention it at all, cheeky beggars.
Last flight in, transfer in the dark.
Reaction from the then missus as she looked out the kitchen window as we got up late the next morning is one I won't ever forget 🤣

Try to come home via le Capè de Agde. The fair wife and I spent 3 days driving down there in our bay window van in the days before the internet...
Only to discover on arrival that it's the fucking naturist capital of France. 

That's more like it. Bodywork is largely good with a few scabs. I will get a quote on how much to get it looking showroom fresh.

Sadly indeed, give me an 80s/90s wedge any day of the week, either are waaaay better than modern SUV blobs.
We had a Pug 3008 SUV as a hire car this summer on hols, I've literally never been so bored in a car. 8spd auto 1.5 diesel, DULL AF. Great torque below 2k rpm, which made for great driveability, but fuck all else. Wasn't even that economical, we did about 1000 miles and it was mid/high 40s mpg (under 50 for sure)

Behold: 

 
 

"Do not open the sunroof" the seller said. In fact, he said it twice. "I wonder why he said that?" I thought to myself as I opened the sunroof. The sunroof appeared to work just fine. It slid open all the way without a hitch. "Amazing!" I thought to myself. "If only it closed as well". Because it did not. Not even a little bit. 

I wasn't too worried. The same thing happened on the W124, and while I maybe shouldn't have tried it out at 4pm on a damp November afternoon, I remembered the peculiar phrase in the W124's handbook. "A hexagon is provided". Behind a flap in the boot, there is a plastic hexagon designed to wind the sunroof closed with the wheelbrace. Of course, the 30 year old plastic shattered the moment this was attempted on the 300D, and sure enough the same thing happened on the 190. 
https://autoshite.com/topic/23177-bloody-big-bad-benz-is-the-bloody-biggest-piece-of-tosh/?do=findComment&comment=992161
So, just like last time, I got to spend half an hour edging the roof closed millimetre by millimetre, which was agonising. When I got it about 50% closed, I decided to see if the motor had enough puff to drag it home. Imagine my delight when the close button inexplicably caused the roof to rocket completely open again. Ah well, I'd say lesson learnt, but the fact I was doing this the second time in my life would suggest that the lesson was not learnt. 
At least it had stopped breaking down every ten minutes!

OK, so a successful swap has occurred. I swapped my C900 16v n/a for a 220,000 mile auto 9-3 B205E. Its quite different! More refined but less fun, I could really chuck the 900 around and it'd grip like shit. This thing though feels much more bloated and unsettled, hopefully that'll improve with the roof being clamped down properly.
Bye bye 900 👋


I've been using the 9-3 over the last week and have made plans. There are a few things I'll want to do before I have confidence to commute in it a few times a week.
Hello 9-3! ( Photos stolen fron Alan, previous custodian)


PCV system - these early turbos have a reputation for oil sludge, I'm mot sure if this one has had the updated PCV system but it is pretty oily back there! I intend to get the £60 kit from NeoBros
Sump - again I'm unsure if this has been dropped to check for sludge and oil pick-up restriction, so I will do that. Again NeoBros do a kit with all the seals and gaskets required - £150 odd with the above kit too
I'm getting a smell of gas/LPG just before it switches over, so will get the LPG system serviced. It also has a wobbly few seconds when the autobox changes up on the rev limit, doesn't do it on pez.
Roof - seems partly disconnected, I plan to try and reassemble it and maybe even get it working. The rear doesn't quite clamp down without a bungee or cable tie and the whole roof rattles! One of the 1st things I'll do is to see if it has hydraulic oil in it still.
EML - plugged my new OBD into it today, cylinder 3+4 lean condition and a DIC related error. The fuel pump is whining and the idle is a little high, so fuel filter to replace and vacuum lines to check. It runs damn well really though and doesn't feel underpowered for the LPT version. Codes cleared and not returned after driving around town 🤞
I'm trying not to listen to the rattle in the chain region 🤣 It could be the tensioner
Autobox fluid, looks a piece of piss to change so why not.
Passenger side gearbox or engine mount - got a knock from standstill or sudden heavy acceleration, is not a nice noise so needs dealing with I think!
That should keep me busy!

Swapped 👍

Exactly what I was going to say, my BX that had been stood for 15 years had an LHM filter full of black wob. A quick clean out with carb cleaner, dry and reservoir refill made a HUGE improvement on the whole system, rose quicker and had a much more healthy accumulator click time - not sure if this applies to XM's though with their hydractive system. Of course my spheres were also fucked, but they are super easy to change too.
I've only ever driven an XM once, a late 2.1 td auto, and the ride was superb - way better than any of my BX's, softer and yet more controlled. So if it's firm still perhaps get the spheres tested if there is anywhere close enough to you to do so, I only know of Pleiades, Westroen and perhaps Chevronics.
Keep the pics coming! Bloody love it.

Id say some use and a dose of Citrobatics should help the ride. Failing that may need a fluid flush and filter clean 

Today's wins 🏆
Wheel balancing x 4 - much better 😎
EML reset has put a stop to the WOT upchange wobbles, excellent.

OK, so a successful swap has occurred. I swapped my C900 16v n/a for a 220,000 mile auto 9-3 B205E. Its quite different! More refined but less fun, I could really chuck the 900 around and it'd grip like shit. This thing though feels much more bloated and unsettled, hopefully that'll improve with the roof being clamped down properly.
Bye bye 900 👋


I've been using the 9-3 over the last week and have made plans. There are a few things I'll want to do before I have confidence to commute in it a few times a week.
Hello 9-3! ( Photos stolen fron Alan, previous custodian)


PCV system - these early turbos have a reputation for oil sludge, I'm mot sure if this one has had the updated PCV system but it is pretty oily back there! I intend to get the £60 kit from NeoBros
Sump - again I'm unsure if this has been dropped to check for sludge and oil pick-up restriction, so I will do that. Again NeoBros do a kit with all the seals and gaskets required - £150 odd with the above kit too
I'm getting a smell of gas/LPG just before it switches over, so will get the LPG system serviced. It also has a wobbly few seconds when the autobox changes up on the rev limit, doesn't do it on pez.
Roof - seems partly disconnected, I plan to try and reassemble it and maybe even get it working. The rear doesn't quite clamp down without a bungee or cable tie and the whole roof rattles! One of the 1st things I'll do is to see if it has hydraulic oil in it still.
EML - plugged my new OBD into it today, cylinder 3+4 lean condition and a DIC related error. The fuel pump is whining and the idle is a little high, so fuel filter to replace and vacuum lines to check. It runs damn well really though and doesn't feel underpowered for the LPT version. Codes cleared and not returned after driving around town 🤞
I'm trying not to listen to the rattle in the chain region 🤣 It could be the tensioner
Autobox fluid, looks a piece of piss to change so why not.
Passenger side gearbox or engine mount - got a knock from standstill or sudden heavy acceleration, is not a nice noise so needs dealing with I think!
That should keep me busy!

Swapped 👍

Pez stop pre-shuffle

OK, so a successful swap has occurred. I swapped my C900 16v n/a for a 220,000 mile auto 9-3 B205E. Its quite different! More refined but less fun, I could really chuck the 900 around and it'd grip like shit. This thing though feels much more bloated and unsettled, hopefully that'll improve with the roof being clamped down properly.
Bye bye 900 👋


I've been using the 9-3 over the last week and have made plans. There are a few things I'll want to do before I have confidence to commute in it a few times a week.
Hello 9-3! ( Photos stolen fron Alan, previous custodian)


PCV system - these early turbos have a reputation for oil sludge, I'm mot sure if this one has had the updated PCV system but it is pretty oily back there! I intend to get the £60 kit from NeoBros
Sump - again I'm unsure if this has been dropped to check for sludge and oil pick-up restriction, so I will do that. Again NeoBros do a kit with all the seals and gaskets required - £150 odd with the above kit too
I'm getting a smell of gas/LPG just before it switches over, so will get the LPG system serviced. It also has a wobbly few seconds when the autobox changes up on the rev limit, doesn't do it on pez.
Roof - seems partly disconnected, I plan to try and reassemble it and maybe even get it working. The rear doesn't quite clamp down without a bungee or cable tie and the whole roof rattles! One of the 1st things I'll do is to see if it has hydraulic oil in it still.
EML - plugged my new OBD into it today, cylinder 3+4 lean condition and a DIC related error. The fuel pump is whining and the idle is a little high, so fuel filter to replace and vacuum lines to check. It runs damn well really though and doesn't feel underpowered for the LPT version. Codes cleared and not returned after driving around town 🤞
I'm trying not to listen to the rattle in the chain region 🤣 It could be the tensioner
Autobox fluid, looks a piece of piss to change so why not.
Passenger side gearbox or engine mount - got a knock from standstill or sudden heavy acceleration, is not a nice noise so needs dealing with I think!
That should keep me busy!