BX 19 TXD Estate will be up for grabs end of March

[Junkman]

I thought I let you know now so you have plenty of time to come and have a look and make up your mind/save up your Pennies.

 

- The car is in Stockport.

- It's a 1992 and has traveled 192,000 miles so far.

- There is extensive service history.

- It's genuine shite.

- MoT until November, Tax until May

- New front tyres

- New exhaust back box

- Dunno what else. Please ask.

 

Would like to have in the vicinity of half a kilo, but please feel free to make me an offer and we can haggle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

I was so looking forward to pmsl with your comments...

[dollywobbler]

Seems entirely fair enough to me pricewise. Sorry, that's a really boring comment.

 

If you've not tried a BX before, I'd recommend you do before they stop being cheap. Great support via the BX Club (other forums are available) and they're lovely motors.

 

TXD spec is nice. GTi-style seats for super comfort and the NA diesel will combine 70mph at 45-50mpg all day quite merrily.

[Cavcraft]

Brilliant cars, these things. It's got the proper wheeltrims and it seems to be wearing the correct load cover with the extendable flaps for the estate.

[vulgalour]

There's a chap over on the BX forum after a diesel estate so I've provided him with a link. Seemed rude not to. Sorry, no witty disdainful comments for you.

[Junkman]

There's a chap over on the BX forum after a diesel estate so I've provided him with a link. Seemed rude not to. Sorry, no witty disdainful comments for you.

 

That's still awfully nice of you. Thank you so much!

[M'coli]

If I haven't found myself something else in between now and March, I would love to take this off your hands.

[willswitchengage]

Do you have a more precise availability date?

[Junkman]

Any day on the Easter BHW would be fine.

But I'm flexible. Let me know what you prefer and I'll see what I can do.

[willswitchengage]

I need a bigger car 4 A ROAD TRIP on the 23rd. No worries if not I'm sure something else will turn up.

[messerschmitt owner]

BX - simple, reliable, and wound up in n/a form is a hoot to drive - and you will never get less than 40mpg out of one!

[RichardMoss]

I've had 3 BXs in the past - a 1.6 petrol, 1.9 NA diesel and a 1.7 TD. All were, without exception, brilliant cars

[Spiny Norman]

I was so looking forward to pmsl with your comments...

 

Ummmm...It's a shit colour.....

I really like these old buses, probably my favourite Diseasel ever. I persuaded an old boss to buy one of these years back after he'd been haemorrhaging money on a succession of German 'prestige' cars and he was a bit sceptical at first but the 50+ to the gallon argument swayed him along with the carrying capacity so he took the plunge.

160k miles later he gave it to his brother and bought another one. Bro ran it for another few years and ISTR he took it over the 200k mark before wiping it out on an icy backroad one morning.

 

Brilliant cars, well worth a monkey IMO.

[drum]

Is this a reliable example of the species? I would need it to take my family to the south of France and back in July. If so, and if there's any easy way of overcoming the geographical separation betwixt it and me, I am very interested.

[Junkman]

I'm not clairvoyant, but so far it has racked up 192,000 trouble-free miles. Based on this fact I think it's reasonably safe to say, that the probability of it falling apart within the next 3000 miles is mathematically negligible. However, there is Murphy's Law and it is Autoshite.

[drum]

If i can use a human analogy, death rate is 100% and the older one gets, the probability that it is closer to its expiry date is p(closer to death)=1. Actuarial maths aside but continuing the analogy, I guess what I was asking was - has it started pissing the bed and forgotten its children's name yet?

 

Dundee to Stockport train ticket priced at £56, 6 hours and 3 changes. I could collect at the beginning of April if it hasn't been sold to someone else in the meantime.

[Cavcraft]

Can't you ask Watanbe to deliver it for you?

[theorganist]

 

Isn't that a high risk strategy?!!

[Junkman]

If i can use a human analogy, death rate is 100% and the older one gets, the probability that it is closer to its expiry date is p(closer to death)=1. Actuarial maths aside but continuing the analogy, I guess what I was asking was - has it started pissing the bed and forgotten its children's name yet?

 

Dundee to Stockport train ticket priced at £56, 6 hours and 3 changes. I could collect at the beginning of April if it hasn't been sold to someone else in the meantime.

 

OMG, that is a bit of a stretch.

 

The previous owner is a friend. He had the car for 15 odd years as an only car. There was only one other owner before him.

The car has always been meticulously maintained by Paris Motors in Stockport, I have a huge folder with documents to prove that.

They now went for a Picasso, because all three of their barns are meanwhile teenagers (which makes me feel like being an old sod tbh) and they felt they had outgrown the back seat of the Bixe (do NOT ask me about my opinion of that. I'd fold those three stinkers into the fuggin glovebox if they don't want to walk).

 

I took the BX off him and intended to use it as a winter car, while my P6 is off the salt. I drive it daily since October and it does have a few outbursts of character (hey, it's shite, don't forget), but it drives absolutely flawless. The day I got the car, I had the two front tyres replaced, because the old ones were really shot and had blisters. A month or so later, it passed an MoT without any advisories. The tester was really pissed off about this (gahdammit, kint foind nay thing wrong wiffat roddy hape...). Last weekend, the exhaust back box decided it prefers to stay in Brum and peacefully rests on the M6 there ever since. I already have a new one and it'll be fitted by my local garage this weekend, hence I wrote initially that the car comes with a new one.

 

So.

 

You get a 22-year-old BX with 192000 miles on it, that has been maintained above average all its life.

It drives like a dream and so far never failed to deliver.

It has no electric woes, everything works, except the rear window washer (read on).

There is zero rust underneath.

The interior is surprisingly well preserved. The term 'outstanding' comes to mind considering age and usage.

 

However, there are a few drawbacks.

 

- It's a Citroen.

- The colour is shite, unless you want to use it as a hearse.

- The rear window washer has been amputated ages ago. The wiper works though, so does the demist, minus two wires.

- The nearside is pretty customised, there are dents in every panel (see photos).

- The front bumper is cracked in the centre (see photos).

- The bonnet release pull up front is a cable tie (see photos).

- The wheel covers are mismatched and some are curbed (see photos).

- From cold (as in first time in the morning) it oddly only starts on the second attempt. Rest of the day, it's starting straight away. Interestingly, my LDV Pilot with the very same engine did the same thing.

- It does 'sweat' a bit from the rocker cover gasket, maybe I'll replace it before I hand it over. Depends on the weather in March. There are no other leaks that I know of, I never had to top up any fluids since I have the car. It could do with a quarter litre of engine oil now if one was a lot pickier about these things than I am. But the oil stains you see on my driveway are all still there from the Rover.

- There is a tiny rust spot at the upper edge of the offside rear wing.

- There is a bit of brown bubbling at the leading edge of the offside rear wing, where it meets the door jamb. I would say it's still treatable, but I'm not going to poke around there.

- There is paint reaction on the horizontal areas of the front wings, and the vertical areas of the roof (the sides, above the windows).

 

To use a well worn expression: It would not take much to make this car pristine. Honestly, it wouldn't.

 

OK, and to make you guys roll your eyes a bit more, there is a genuine reason for sale.

I never intended to keep the car. I bought it off my friend purely as a winter hack and I intended to sell it on end of March from the onset.

I simply can't afford to keep three cars on the road and you will understand that my P6 has precedence.

[drum]

Can't you ask Watanbe to deliver it for you?

 

Seems a lot to ask of someone I don't know and the drive home would be a good test for the pending holiday adventure avec la famille.

 

Junkman, thank you very much for the detail. I'm still in. Can I assume 'drives flawlessly' means the clutch biting point is within normal parameters and it doesn't try to head off through the hedge when the brakes are applied. Sorry for the questions but hopefully the need for a virtual test drive is obvious before I commit to such a long distance purchase. I'll check the pictures again for the nearside bodywork defects and come back to you with an offer.

[Junkman]

I can't find anything wrong with the clutch and brakes, neither can my wife, or the MoT tester.

[Junkman]

Deposit taken.

[drum]

I assume my offer of 10 days ago was turned down then.