Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[hairnet]

hnnng and leave the all aggro where it is

[richardmorris]

Hmm.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

 

 

Doesn’t say what it is- 2litre ct Turbo?

[Six-cylinder]

Hmm.

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk

 

 

Doesn’t say what it is- 2litre ct Turbo?

 

Just a 135bhp 2.0 16v, I have now driven it over a 100 miles and it is a fine car.

[SiC]

VP safely delivered and now waiting attention.

This is very good news!

[Mrs6C]

Holy fuck, you two play the game well! (as I am assuming Mrs6C had a hand in this!)

I was handed a box of chocolates in this!

[hairnet]

omg bribery

[Six-cylinder]

omg bribery

 

Not by me, but by the seller.

[dean36014]

Twas just a joke as Chris kept joking mrs six cylinder would be upset  . As if that would be the case where cars are involved. Anyway i got coffee and cakes in exchange 

[Six-cylinder]

Twas just a joke as Chris kept joking mrs six cylinder would be upset  . As if that would be the case where cars are involved. Anyway i got coffee and cakes in exchange 

 

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

[Mrs6C]

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

I'm not sure there will be any left to give to the buyer of the 'S' Type...

[beko1987]

Oooh lovely! Xantia replacement?

[Mrs6C]

Oooh lovely! Xantia replacement?

No... Six-cylinder is on his honour to get my Xantia fixed, as as he broke it...

[Zelandeth]

Nice... that's a ten out of ten find if you ask me.

 

Always fancied an XM... that's going to be dangerously close to home if you come to sell it...

 

Nice colour for it too.

[brandersnatch]

First catch of 2019!

Best car I ever owned was an XM Onyx. I bought it at three years old for £3000 and had it for about five years. Came home to Essex from Venice in sixteen hours and fifteen minutes including the Chunnel. Fantastic cars. I’m slightly* envious.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I like the notion when ever you sell a car to a shiter you give chocolates to their partner to numb there pain! 

 

THIS - definitely THIS...…….. (and I'm single!)

Excellent news on the PLAHhhhhh - I didn't know the box could be that bad - a loooong time ago a mate had a similar issue but I informed him it was knackered - Ooops! It went to an Allegro sniffer -so lived on. If he tracks me down I'd hate to think of repaying the cost to him plus interest after all this time!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

First catch of 2019!

 

I like how the waistline sort of harks back to that of the SM:

 

[Mrs6C]

I like how the waistline sort of harks back to that of the SM:

 

Those pictures do show the design influences, don't they? What a shame the XM wasn't made as a two door coupe as well... that could have been stunning.

 

Six-cylinder and I were lucky enough to be able to visit La Conservatoire Citroen in 2010, where this lovely sculpture resides:

 

 

 

[Bfg]

^

"Those pictures do show the design influences, don't they?"

 

 And then your first photo looked just like the black plastic lid of the concrete rubbish-bins outside McDonald's.. 

 

I know ..should have gone to SpecSavers !  

[xtriple]

Always loved XMs but never had one. Nearly bought one from a local 'car supermarket' type place about 20 years ago, was a done deal until I realised just how much I was being stitched up (not aware of just how little a 4 - 5-year-old XM was worth) and they wanted double for it. I was never bothered about the hydraulics on them having had CXs and was quite used to doing the pipes etc on mine and other peoples, now, not so sure as I can't do shit and paying other  other buggers to half-arse stuff goes aginst the grain.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I know ..should have gone to SpecSavers !  

I did, which is why I now wear varifocals.

[Arthur Foxhake]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mopeds-x2-both-for-field-were-running-2-years-ago-honda-love-yamaha-barn-find/333066026002?_trkparms=aid%3D333202%26algo%3DCOMP.CATCARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180608100040%26meid%3Dc311b879f2c14cadbbbcee534e2fe64c%26pid%3D100889%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D123639455329%26itm%3D333066026002&_trksid=p2349624.c100889.m5204

Couple of cheap field bikes.

[Bfg]

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^ wot's tat to do with six-cyl's excellent adventures of chod or the Citroen's design development of the XM ?   Seems it's not only specsavers I need to get to, but I might also fumble around for an  Am_I_going_senile_too_? clinic.  

[Six-cylinder]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mopeds-x2-both-for-field-were-running-2-years-ago-honda-love-yamaha-barn-find/333066026002?_trkparms=aid%3D333202%26algo%3DCOMP.CATCARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180608100040%26meid%3Dc311b879f2c14cadbbbcee534e2fe64c%26pid%3D100889%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D123639455329%26itm%3D333066026002&_trksid=p2349624.c100889.m5204

Couple of cheap field bikes.

 

Thanks now on watch.

 

Edit - bid now placed as I will be out tomorrow afternoon.

[dozeydustman]

I am taking the VP to Bognor tomorrow to have a manual gearbox conversion and check over before it returns to the road. My friend who owns the trailer volunteered that I could park the loaded ensemble on his drive overnight as it is the end of cul-de-sac while mine is reversing from a 50 mph road not to far from a blind crest. 

 

Funny thing since he made the offer he has a viewing on his house this afternoon and made me park the Allegro round the corner until his prospective house buyers have been and gone!

 

Bumhats. This is one of the threads where my notifications have gone weird and missed you were coming my way. I'd have put the kettle on.

[Six-cylinder]

I need some help! yes, yes I know…..

 

No this is specific help I want to get our 1983 Alfa Giulietta booked into our local Alfa specialist to return it to the road, but feel I can’t do that until I have got the car rolling so I can load it on a trailer and give it a clean up.

 

What I need is a young, fit, enthusiastic person to go under the Giulietta and hammer and gouge at the inboard rear brake pads until they let go of the disc so we can roll the car for loading onto a trailer.

 

I would also like to give it a general clean up so it looks like it is worth saving.

 

I think it would be more fun if there was a small gang of us. (Except for the poor unfortunate under the car)

 

Usual kettle on stuff and back to the house if it’s too cold at the field.

 

Possible Dates

 

Saturday 2^nd March

Sunday 3^rd March

Saturday 9^th March

Sunday 17^th March - This is the Date now set

Sunday 24^th March

 

The KEY is the volunteer to lay under the car to tackle the brakes so if you are that person say when you can?

 

I can also get time off work in the week if that works better.

 

Usual location near Buckingham

[Andyrew]

If its a sunday, Count me in!

 

Can bring tools and shedloads

Of cleaning products,

[Six-cylinder]

If its a sunday, Count me in!

 

Can bring tools and shedloads

Of cleaning products,

 

If you are volunteering to free up the rear brakes you can call the shots and name your date?

[wuvvum]

I thought Minis had the Minimatic box?

 

Same thing - Minimatic was just a fancy name for it.

 

I did have a Metro years ago with that 'box and the performance was adequate once it was up and moving, but that was a 1275 and had only done 27K from new.  Plus I paid a fiver for it so my expectations were low.

[Andyrew]

I can do the 3rd or the 17th. If a few others are popping down I'm good with whichever day most can attended.

 

I mean,Who wouldn't want to get their hands on the rear end of a saucy Italian on a Sunday?

[Mrs6C]

I need some help! yes, yes I know…..

 

No this is specific help I want to get Mrs6C's 1983 Alfa Giulietta booked into our local Alfa specialist to return it to the road, but feel I can’t do that until I have got the car rolling so I can load it on a trailer and give it a clean up.

FTFY!