HMC architecte britannique

[Split_Pin]

Ooft, beautiful!

[Schaefft]

Epic, and if it did sell for 1500 quid that sounds like a screaming deal at that mileage! Still the old PRV, 12 Valve it seems to be looking at the photos. Love the kind of stuff you bring into the community!

[Datsuncog]

Crumbs, that's nice. Very nice.

Mine was without question the nicest driving experience I've ever had - it was just having to do the footbrake/ parking brake/ clutch jig upon coming to a halt which spoiled things rather (manual turbodiesel).

Slushbox like yours would have made things much less frantic and much more civilised.

You'll have little bother rehoming this when the time comes!

[Stinkwheel]

Is this the one chevronics had for sale as trade sale? Well bought if so 

[HMC]

6 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

Is this the one chevronics had for sale as trade sale? Well bought if so 

Yes thats the one. 

[maxxo]

makes me want another

well bought!

[grogee]

Blimey. Does it, you know, work? 

Automagic as well! Balls of steel. 

We are en route to Tavi right now so I hope I will see it in the flesh. With the hazard warning lights off. 

Also: dibs if the a/c works. 

[HMC]

Side note:

id been investigating the lack of boost on the passat b5. I suspected a holed intercooler as it looked ruined. I gave up and my favoured local garage diagnosed a jammed wastegate actuator and perished vacuum hoses. All sorted and it pulls like a champ now, although not as well as its neighbour …

[HMC]

3 hours ago, grogee said:

Blimey. Does it, you know, work? 

Automagic as well! Balls of steel. 

We are en route to Tavi right now so I hope I will see it in the flesh. With the hazard warning lights off. 

Also: dibs if the a/c works. 

parked by the cornish currently 

[Mrs6C]

XMs are great cars. I am very fond of mine. Well bought! 

[flat4alfa]

On 4/14/2023 at 7:36 PM, HMC said:

Its in black, with ivory leather. Pornographer spec. Its in decent condition and drives well, although a few bushes up front are a little tired as although its slop free, its a bit clunky over pot holes. Generally a nice, slightly sinister looking thing. Its a 3.2 as I didnt particularly fancy taking a chance on a bargain bucket ropey xjr for my money.

XM V6!  This thread gets better and better

Slight thread detour - the ex-HMC Jaguar XJ V8 will be up for sale shortly, if there is interest from thread followers

[flat4alfa]

On 7/18/2023 at 5:33 PM, HMC said:

Think its the PRV-12v v6 in this? IIRC it isnt all that great an engine?

Had one in the Safrane.  It's no Alfa Busso to listen to, and doesn't even nearly rev like one, but it's still a V6.

Both 12v and 24v PRV in these XM sold in UK, up until replacement 24V ES/L  for 1997.

[S2000]

41 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

the ex-HMC Jaguar XJ V8 will be up for sale shortly, if there is interest from thread followers

Yes

[flat4alfa]

I should have said 'PM me' at the end of that, sorry HMC

[HMC]

Picked this up as a px to clear from a local dealer. I have to say ive had my eye out for one for a while.  Its a lesser spotted GRAND scenic. I love the styling on these, especially the glass house, it looks like a cross of espace, avantime and megane which i suppose is what it is.

Its in a sort of purply blue colour, and has somehow avoided being trashed.

Its the 1.5dci 6 speed manual. 

Has a fairly futuristic dash for its 2004 into. 

Its got 7 seats and a confusing array of permutations of those.

Got pretty much FSH, and being a renault of this period has a credit card shaped key to add to the french electrics jeopardy!

[andyberg]

Had a 'normal' scenic of this vintage in the same colour. Bloody lovely car, well until the electric power steering went! A tad thirsty being a 2.0 petrol auto. I expect this is a very nice place to be.

[grogee]

This will be similar electrically to our Espaces I think. Eg key card and LED dash. That looks like a nice one and the 7-seater is useful and desirable. If you could go back in time 6 months I'd have bought it off you. 

I really like the 1.5dci, very frugal. Has its foibles but it's well understood as it's so common. 

I think I speak for all of us when I say we need more of the special stuff, ie the XM.

[beko1987]

It's ages well, quite a pretty car, and in an colour! 

Sounda like the same 6 speed manual box I had in my mk2 ph1 laguna and it was bloody lovely (until the slave cylinder started to go but that's not the box's fault). 6th was nice and long so on a cruise you could do 85 and still get fantastic mpg! 

[Tubbo]

They increased the BHP of this engine from 100 to 106 in 2005 so this will probably have the more powerful engine, great buy, love it 👍

[wuvvum]

I had one of those, bloody competent car when the electrics weren't playing up.  Not quick but a decent cruiser and handled well enough for a people carrier.

[HMC]

Fleet update-

Eagle eyed might have noticed i had both the 406 coupe and the xm for sale to help with space; i had been sizing up an allegro vanden plas (!)

In the end, both gallic v6s didnt seem to tickle anyones fancies on here, and my allegro VDP negotiations broke down over price. 

Hence i decided, for now at least, to keep the 2 french v6 cruisers and enjoy the waft. Also as much as i like allegros, i sort of thought what am i playing at when you can open the front door to this…

 

[HMC]

also could a citroen person please explain-

this should be hydractive 2 and not a sinker- as far as im aware; but it is a sinker. Could it be broken? i dont think so its not leaking anything. Can they be converted? 

[Bear]

5 minutes ago, HMC said:

also could a citroen person please explain-

this should be hydractive 2 and not a sinker- as far as im aware; but it is a sinker. Could it be broken? i dont think so its not leaking anything. Can they be converted? 

It's probably just not working properly but as long as it's working when it moves sinking is part of the appeal...

Non-movers or not I have been thinking very hard about selling the 940 because of that XM... Hard to see the sense in that change though.

 

[alcyonecorporation]

The title of this tome still reads like TOTP for worthy French shite, 11/10, long may it continue 

[brownnova]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Fleet update-

Eagle eyed might have noticed i had both the 406 coupe and the xm for sale to help with space; i had been sizing up an allegro vanden plas (!)

In the end, both gallic v6s didnt seem to tickle anyones fancies on here, and my allegro VDP negotiations broke down over price. 

Hence i decided, for now at least, to keep the 2 french v6 cruisers and enjoy the waft. Also as much as i like allegros, i sort of thought what am i playing at when you can open the front door to this…

 

I did wonder why the ad had suddenly gone!

Not that I kept going back to look at it… 

[wesacosa]

how quick and how far does it sink 

[stuboy]

21 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

how quick and how far does it sink 

anti catalytic theft deterant...

[Rust Collector]

I was gutted to see the advert for the XM went too, I desperately wanted it but just couldn’t figure out where to keep it for a month or so in order that my mrs and family don’t go berserk.

[Mrs6C]

2 hours ago, HMC said:

this should be hydractive 2 and not a sinker- as far as im aware; but it is a sinker.

My 'R plate XM sinks and as far as I know, it's not broken.

Like the DS, it rises up 'comme une vache'... rear first, then front a few moments later...

[djoptix]

On 7/26/2023 at 10:32 PM, wuvvum said:

I had one of those, bloody competent car when the electrics weren't playing up.  Not quick but a decent cruiser and handled well enough for a people carrier.

If you mean SK** MYJ, it's still doing sterling service over here.