Xantia 1.9 n/a opinions?

[puddlethumper]

I have a xantia lump in my 305 van and its one of the best I've ever had. I don't know about xantia handling, but in my old bucket A roads are great fun and I can still cruise at 85 on the big ribbon. Probably coz of the 405 gearbox. Ran it to Portugal and back in September and the oil level stayed the same. 56mpg. Happy motorin.

[Lacquer Peel]

If I was being really picky and I had to find a fault with them then it would be that the brakes can feel a bit grabby compared to other cars but it's not really an issue.

 

Tell that to an Ardnamurchan ditch.

[Rocket88]

Kollektion Monday.I are xcite....!

[barrett]

Not sure I even managed to touch the brakes when I did mine.

 

LX is easily the best spec, the tweed is so much nicer than the velour. N/A is fairly miserable for acceleration but will happily sit at 80 all day. Road holding slightly wrse than a BX but ride quality much better. I like them, but they don't like me.

[Lacquer Peel]

They don't like me either.

 

 

[Rocket88]

I shall drive everywhere at 27 mph

[Lacquer Peel]

DEATHTRAPS.

Sorry for being a portent of doom, they're good cars and I'm unlucky. It'll be fine, they aren't cursed at all.

[forddeliveryboy]

If I was being really picky and I had to find a fault with them then it would be that the brakes can feel a bit grabby compared to other cars but it's not really an issue.

To keep the masses happy (as if they hadn't with the BX) the brakes had a great compression spring sandwiched between the pedal and the valve. Trying to modulate them well was near impossible, for me, I'd always pull out the spring and insert summit solid round the rod - transformed.

[Vince70]

Mine was parked up both times when it got hit.. So I can't put any blame on the brake pedal lol.

 

Plus at around the same time my father had a posh 2 litre petrol Xantia in Jewish racing gold with a factory spoiler kit which I bought from work cheap (ex high mileage company car) which he kept for a few years and I think it was close to 200000 miles on the clock and it still drove well and on the original clutch and engine and only ever needed service items while in his ownership,

If it had been clocked back to 20000 miles no one would ever of known as the exterior and interior was still like new without any bolster wear on the seats etc.

 

He sold it to a mate of mine cheap who kept it for another year before it was bought by someone called Joe blogs who decided to use it in a Ram Raid, so that one technically did crash.

 

I think the only things that would look tatty on the Xantias were the the plastic rear hatch crazing on 99% of them and the chrome effect plastic door trim could start looking tatty but I found spraying the plastic trim with WD 40 would keep them looking new if in good condition to start with.

 

A girlfriend of mine though had a very late low mileage Xantia in black with a grey suede look interior which looked the business but it just didn't seem as a well built as the earlier cars.