Sold Citroen BX TZD Estate for sells!

[Fabergé Greggs]

Did a couple of hundred miles today and used not a drop of oil or water. Scrubbed up the fan connectors so they aren't covered in green fungus. 

 

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and tentatively say I got away with it!

[2Thumbs]

The previous owner runs it with a fuel additive that he mixes with a bit of water- I've never heard of that? He says it runs better on it but I think I'm going to try straight diesel and see how I get on. 

 

Back when I owned a denzel Mondeo, a lot of people swore by putting a bit of red mineral two-stroke in with a tank of diesel once in a while. Freshens up the pump etc and clears the crap as it's something to do with the lack of sulphur in diesel now compared to a decade or two a go.. Might be worth a go in future.

 

Also, My level of want is major. I love a BX, but a wagon is marvellous!

[Fabergé Greggs]

Bums, one of my exhaust hangers appears to have snapped off causing a bit of a wobbly exhaust. 

 

Anyone know of a friendly welder in SE London?

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

Aye well things have been going good with Bexy. 

 

Done a few trips up to see the folks in Scotland and she just eats up the motorway miles doing an easy 50mpg. 

 

The ticky speedo resolved itself for a blissful 5 minutes before failing completely, so a new speedo cable is on the horizon but for now I'm using sat nav. 

 

Still ain't got no trimz... Thinking of powder coating the steels grey instead.

 

This pic was taken the day before I drove back to London, where after a blissful couple of days mountain biking my biking around Dumfries and Galloway my bike was knicked within 2 minutes of arriving back in London. Thieving barstewards. 

 

Oh yeah, and I need a new set of front tyres after discovering I had some toe out. Annoying as it was a really good set of goodyears that are now heavily scrubbed on the inside. 

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

[dome]

Arses on losing the bike. Hope it was insured. How'd you like the trails up our way? We forget how lucky we are with the 7 Stanes.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Arses on losing the bike. Hope it was insured. How'd you like the trails up our way? We forget how lucky we are with the 7 Stanes.

 

Cheers dude- luckily it was insured. I grew in up in  the Borders and worked at Bikesport in Innerleithen as a youngster- the trails around there are some of the best in the land. I particularly like drumlanrig for it's natural rootiness. 

[mat_the_cat]

First checking the fan: pulling of the fan switch connector brought with it these other connectors, what do they do? Shorting out the fan switch connector with the ignition on doesn't bring the fans on, even though I can see 12v on one of the terminals. Fuses 1 is good (fan relay, this should be 10a though has a 30a in there) as is fuse 4 (30a, fan motors).

 

 

Only just seen this, but the largest one with the spring clips looks like the compressor clutch connector for the rarely fitted AC option. But normally the entire loom is different on non-AC cars. The red one I'd have said would be for the coolant level, except it's only in that location on NA cars... Certainly my TD doesn't have it, although it has the AC connector.

[Matt]

mountain biking my biking around Dumfries and Galloway 

 

 

 

I thought the terrain looked familiar, didn't see you and the BX though.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Only just seen this, but the largest one with the spring clips looks like the compressor clutch connector for the rarely fitted AC option. But normally the entire loom is different on non-AC cars. The red one I'd have said would be for the coolant level, except it's only in that location on NA cars... Certainly my TD doesn't have it, although it has the AC connector.

 

Thank you mate, all seems well now. 

 

I thought the terrain looked familiar, didn't see you and the BX though.

 

Can't beat the hills around those parts- the stretch of road between Sanquhar and Elvanfoot is my favourite bit of road ever. I saw form the Scirocco chat you're in Kircudbright- I used to holiday along that stretch of coast at Rockcliffe/Kipford. 

[Fabergé Greggs]

I still can't believe quite how beautiful these are. Every time I see one in the flesh I just swoon wonder if the inexorable march of progress will deliver us anything quite like them again.

 

OH, and is that a DS to the right?

 

[dollywobbler]

I fully approve of your 'plain wheel' plan. They're far too nice to hide behind wheel trims. I'd avoid powder coating though. Good ol' paint is better.

[richardmorris]

The really, really base model French cars just had a sort of black plastic cover in the centre of the hub.

[Inspector Morose]

And different wheels too. I love the look of the front end of the mk1. Maybe one day.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

yeah the really basic Mk1's look flippin ace don't they, specially in bathroom suite blue

[Inspector Morose]

Bol, have you seen them in yellow? Bloody fantastic!

[Fabergé Greggs]

MOT test this week so I'm crossing my fingerzzzz. 

 

I'm out of action with a broken arm so I'm not in any state to be doing any spannering. Consequently the missus is currently driving it to Chevronics.

[Fabergé Greggs]

So anyways, we have a ticket proving another years worth of road worthiness.

 

Failed on a flexi and a strut return pipe, and had advisories for the same items on the other side so just had em all done along with an oil and coolant change and a new fan switch and rad fan.

 

Cost a lump of dosh but I don't have the option of working on it myself at the moment. I guess it just means she's a keeper...

[Fabergé Greggs]

There's a lot of BX chat on here at the moment so I thought I'd do my bit. 

 

Everyone is banging on about how TZD's are quick. Mine isn't. In fact I've been thinking for a while that it doesn't boost although it runs very happily. Now why would that be?

[barrett]

They're not quick as such, but you should definitely hear and feel the turbo kick in. Putting your foot down in fourth should provide a rapid burst of acceleration. If you can hear the turbo then it's working to a fashion, perhaps you've got a loose or blocked intake somewhere?

[dollywobbler]

An air leak is possible, though you'd hear the whoosh. Fuel compensator not compensating? To be honest, I know piss all about turbos. 

 

When was the fuel filter last changed? 

[Fabergé Greggs]

They're not quick as such, but you should definitely hear and feel the turbo kick in. Putting your foot down in fourth should provide a rapid burst of acceleration. If you can hear the turbo then it's working to a fashion, perhaps you've got a loose or blocked intake somewhere?

Can't hear the turbo and there's no acceleration of any kind. 

 

 

When was the fuel filter last changed? 

Ummmm.... pass. 

[dollywobbler]

I'd start there then. Nowt like a clogged filter to starve the engine of fuel and make the horses vanish. Happened on my old Merc 300D when I ran it on veg, and the poor thing only had 88bhp to start with.

[twosmoke300]

Silly question but wasn't the tzd available with or without turbo ?

[dollywobbler]

Silly question but wasn't the tzd available with or without turbo ?

 

Yes, but the 19TZD was non-turbo, while the 17TZD was turbo.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Silly question but wasn't the tzd available with or without turbo ?

hahha that is exactly the kind of thing we may well have been dealing with..

[mat_the_cat]

Silly question but wasn't the tzd available with or without turbo ?

 

Only as a hatchback non-turbo, but a lot of people seem to assume all TZDs are turbos for some reason.

[dollywobbler]

Only as a hatchback non-turbo, but a lot of people seem to assume all TZDs are turbos for some reason.

 

To be fair, I thought a Merc 300TD was a turbo for a fair while. Well, until I was about 13. Teenage priorities. Bloody car reference books.

[the judge]

hahha that is exactly the kind of thing we may well have been dealing with..

I could have a look if in north west?

[Fabergé Greggs]

Very kind of you. I'm south east thigh so we may as well be on another continent