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Picasso restoration.......a tale of idiocy and citroen fun


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was rather cheeky and did a 60 mile round trip to go shopping today.....testing the car officer (what police haha)

it starts and runs far better than ever, incredibly smooth and no more stuttering or hesitation so a big win!

but the even bigger win is the fact i can drive between 59 and 65 in total smoothness, the handling is far better and it actually feels tight!

oh i'm so happy with this car now, i dare say this is the best i can ever remember it being

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But the biggest advantage of being friends with your mechanic and being a good customer is he gives you stuff

yes he gave me a lowering kit, looking at it i don't think it will be too horrifically low either and might help the handling

never ever thought i'd say this but later in the year (round september ish time) i'm going to actually get my car lowered

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Nice mostly simple job completed today, fitting a brand new undertray with much shine!!!

of course i used cable ties instead of the supplied clips as they were shit and didn't hold it on at all

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going to secure it some more with a few more ties tomorrow but so far during an essential journey* of 20 miles worth of dual carriageways it didn't fall off so all is good!

* essential as in i wanted to make sure it wasn't going to fall off!

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Well, feels weird actually saying this but everything works.....it drives as it should and probably the best the car has ever been!

must say i'm quite happy

had fun of sorting out insurance again, got it £400 cheaper with windscreen cover!! and i don't have to pay extra like i did last year to be able to drive other vehicles so i'm rather happy

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Well over a week into the fully repaired front suspension and i must say it's remarkable how much difference it can make!

Did a 250 mile round trip today and it was flawless,

I see my bumper has signs of summer and freedom in the way of dead bugs! need to clean the car too but enjoying it far too much

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A rather ridiculous road trip today to collect something special.......

oh yes! those are the posh sun visors!! maybe not worth a 160 mile round trip but who cars they're lovely

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best get round to fitting them!

Ah yes looks simple just a single screw and a clip which is easy to remove with a flathead screwdriver

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First stage, with a terribly out of focus picture for maximum excitement! thread the cable from the posh visors though the hole in the roof

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next thread the cable across the top of the headliner into the whole where the interior light is, which is also simple to pop down

simply just plug it in to one of the connectors, next to the main light connector.....quite handy and too easy tbh, also note how the cover over the light instantly fell off the moment i touched it in a typical french way

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Simply plug in the visor from the drivers side, of which fitting is exactly the same as the passenger and doesn't it actually look alright! again nothing broke

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Ah yes, doesn't it look very very posh, almost like an exclusive! they only work with the ignition on which is fine and preferrable because french and i don't want a flat battery

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a nice easy job, as i say it seemed to be too easy but i'm not complaining

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In other news i'm very close to hitting the big number! which i promised the car i would get it too

if i wouldn't have taken the picasso when i did, well it would have been scrapped by now or in a really bad way......i know it was about to be scrapped before i stepped in, it's too good to scrap, performed flawlessly on all the trips i've done over the past week

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10 minutes ago, purplebargeken said:

Huge like for the love the Picasso gets.

one of the few loved picassos out there.....and very well deserved

as i always say, give it 2-3 years and they will be pretty rare

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3 minutes ago, paulplom said:

High miler now. You need to scrap it and finance a panda.

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I wouldn't say no to a panda diesel, not a new one with a complicated radio like all cars seem to have

i have quite a thing for high milers, especially diesel swedish ones from the late 90s/early 2000s

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I've also realised i've owned "pablo" for a year today, time has absolutely flown bit

was such a sad looking motor vehicle when i picked it up, bald tyres for added quality** also the dissapointing fact it had retrofitted aero blades, big no no!

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So i didn't start driving it until the 24th may, due to it being a biohazard with mould and old food, spent 2 days giving it the deepest clean i could

then it wouldn't start...because of course it wouldn't

but now it's one happy looking vehicle!

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i've spent about £3,500 on everything, including repairs and upgrades which is a lot of money

no one else was going to save it and i was told if i didn't take the picasso it would be scrapped a day or two later

originally i was only going to use it as a cheap "banger" and do bangernomics, of course i couldn't so had to change all the fluids, then fix everything i could find that was broken then i decided to make it as close to an exclusive as possible

and now it's a really nice example, and i dare say i trust it to take me anywhere in europe

going to need a new starter at some point this year as well as a battery

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well since the replacement shocks, it's completely behaved

i can't get over just how nice the car drives, been doing a fair amount of hooning recently and the handling is superb

which leads me to say, are new cars more efficient? i'm aware the new diesels can apparently get 70+mpg yet they have adblue and dpf's to worry about, this 15 year old picasso apparently averages 52 mpg and unlike a lot of people now.....i actually own it!

anyway enough about that, my plans for the coming months.

eventually get round to installing the parking sensors, almost certainly going to do an interior swap for the velour seats which i feel will be rather posh and i quite like the idea of electric folding mirrors

all being well this car will be owned by me for approx 3 more years, then sold to a fellow shiter due to not wanting to deal with facebook (will be very cheap)

suppose i'd quite like to just make it an ideal spec, which i feel the interior swap will help with.

anyway here's some pictures from the beach yesterday featuring a very clean picasso

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i dare say one of the few good examples of one out there, and i'm glad to have made it that

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35 minutes ago, Belfast Gipsy said:

It's great to see this getting a few bob spent on it just because you love it

Fully agree, love seeing the care and dedication you're putting in to this. Think I might price up doing the suspension on my Zafira as its seen better days......

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as i say the reason behind all of this is because they're already starting to become uncommon on the roads

they're in the "cheap banger" stage, and i doubt they have more than 2 or so years until they start getting really uncommon, especially the diesels as they won't put up with zero maintenance

next job is to tint the rear windows, mainly to keep it cooler (which is why i'm doing a light tint) and i don't want it to look "pimped" out

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3 hours ago, maxxo said:

and i've just realised those are for the front windows, i'm a proper fool

I thought that was odd. It's usually the back windows that get done.

Fuck it, cut them up and do the backs anyway. I reckon there'll be enough tint to do it.

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3 minutes ago, paulplom said:

I thought that was odd. It's usually the back windows that get done.

Fuck it, cut them up and do the backs anyway. I reckon there'll be enough tint to do it.

i reckon i can hack them up a bit so they at least mostly fit anyway

this seems proper autoshite tinting!

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So yesterday me and pablo did probably the most ridiculous road trip of my life

and yes, if you know that rover that is london

Did incredibly well completed the journey without a single issue!

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the collection caper is on the lightbulbfun thread, it was very ridiculous but very enjoyable

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fuel economy was absolutely ruined by london traffic (it's god awful!!)

but 514 miles in about 10 hours or so worth of driving, i was quite tired but very comfortable

however did get some slight lower back ache towards the end

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suppose i need to treat that car, it's getting a super good wash tomorrow

probably pads and discs will be the next job

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Been spending a bit of money treating the picasso to more exciting things!

finally sorting out the rusted plate screws which look awful! of course theres nothing left of the screws so removing them will be very exciting

also got mass smearing on the front screen and a split rear blade.....therefore no hot wiper action, more like disapointing wiper action at the moment so that will be resolved very soon!

feel somewhat disapointed the current blades aren't even a year old and are wrecked already, but they were an emergency purchase as the car had retrofit aero blades when i got it and that massively upset me

will be interesting to see how these bosch blades compare

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i reckon they should be alright, if i can get more than a year out of them i'll be happy

need to do the rear though as it's split and i don't want it to scratch the glass, it was quite useless on my london trip at clearing the water and just made it all worse

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