Citroën AX 1.5D - the daily grind (what an engine!)

[M'coli]

Surprisingly spacious, this wee car - I thought I would have to take the mudguards off, but no. The handlebars have been loosened and moved just to give the glass a little more room, but the bike's in!

[rml2345]

Excellent! AXs are for winners and 3 stud ones are better still. Would love to know how yours actually stops though as mine requires a herculean shove to pull up.

[M'coli]

It doesn't take much effort, the 106 had shit 3-stud brakes, Halfords pads and aftermarket discs helped greatly to the point that they don't scare the shit out of me anymore, and these are better still.

[JayW]

Tell me more about this dishwasher tablet lark...

Seconded...

[KruJoe]

Crumble up a powder type tablet, and add it to your expansion tank and run it for a bit (anything from five minutes at full temp, up to five weeks, depending how scared you are of it melting your heater matrix or whatever). Drain and flush. Watch all the crap and shite run out. And flush again, lots. Refill as per HBOL.

[New POD]

3!

 

Unless it's a very late GTi when it's 4

[320touring]

Seconded...

as Joe says its not too complex-I did it on my pug 306-pics of what I did here

 

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/proper-puggit-preperationings/

[andrew e]

I can't quite tell - is it blue or purple? Cos' if it's purple I haz (since 1994 I've had it!) a can of GENUINE TROPICAL VIOLET paint. As long as I've had the limp since crashing said deezel powared coloured AX.

[sloth]

i had a phase 1 106 1.5d, it ate 3 gearboxes in 4 months. the 3 stud shafts snapped twice. it ended up with a 4 stud setup, shafts and a rallye gearbox. after that it fucked the linkages, and then ripped the captives out of the shell for the back beam...... apart from all that it was awesome. 

 

 

is it chip friendly?

[M'coli]

As Rusty Rocket says, the TUD5 is for winners! Having had a TUD4-engined Metro before, I wasn't expecting great things, but PSA made the lemon great with the TUD5, I'm really beginning to love this engine! A smooth lump of torque from FA-revs to the governor - it getws a wee bit smoky at the top end - but, it's just really nice to drive.

 

Shame it has the pompe of no neat chips.

[mouseflakes]

^ Totally agree with that - I loved our old Saxo 1.5D. Great fun to drive.

[Lacquer Peel]

Ideal for sub-10 minute laps of the Nurburgring.

 

Peugeot-Citroën had small diesels mastered by the 90s, XUD and TUD are great engines.

[Lankytim]

I'm sure I've got some steels with new tyres on for one of these somewhere, yours if you want them.

[Guest Hooli]

Crumble up a powder type tablet, and add it to your expansion tank and run it for a bit (anything from five minutes at full temp, up to five weeks, depending how scared you are of it melting your heater matrix or whatever). Drain and flush. Watch all the crap and shite run out. And flush again, lots. Refill as per HBOL.

 

I could see me trying this on the Laguna to cure it's weak heater, but we don't have a dishwasher.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Can't see any possible way you can do it then, soz

[Jim Bell]

Our dishwasher at work is called Mary. Her tablets are HRT.

I crumbled some up and put them in the header tank.

 

Now the car won't stop crying.

 

Etc.

[explosive-cabbage]

 

 

airlock bubbles are what I'm hoping

 

Yes, most likely. There is a small bleed cap on a thin water pipe near the driver's side suspension turret. Fill the tank and run the engine until bubbles stop coming out.