woodenspatulas
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Retro in ways you can't imagine
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Feb 16, 2012 16:54:56 GMT
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The hydro suspension can be at its lowest up to about 5mph. So if you could find a way to fool the input to the suspension control unit to think you were only going 5mph it could be low all day! If i had my pick it would be the 2.2 twin blower hdi. 172bhp and mega mpg. it was one of my faviorte demo cars i had when selling motors! I also had a black hatch and we drove that up southend strip with it on low and crawled along in the traffic and it was getting lots of looks  |
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1999 Vectra Estate + 1995 Saab Engine = Good Times
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woodenspatulas
Part of things
Retro in ways you can't imagine
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Feb 16, 2012 17:01:52 GMT
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my god I've just checked out prices, they start from about 500 quid for a mk1 and i found a nice 84k estate hdi for about 2k!
didnt realise they were so cheap. theres also plenty that have done big miles too.
hmmm, nice black estate, hdi, vtr some rims and some over ride for the suspension = winner
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1999 Vectra Estate + 1995 Saab Engine = Good Times
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nofrills
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my wings are made of Steeeeeeeel!!!
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Feb 16, 2012 17:23:06 GMT
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Last Edit: Feb 16, 2012 17:25:19 GMT by nofrills
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Rich
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Feb 16, 2012 19:45:28 GMT
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(had to tie em down to stop the suspension defaulting to normal position in transit) The suspension stays in whatever mode you put it in when you turn the ignition off. Put it in low and it stays in low. Plus the cars have a shunt fuse that means the cars are dead without the keys in so the suspension couldn't work anyway..  More slammed C5's I say! More! |
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Feb 16, 2012 21:32:50 GMT
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(had to tie em down to stop the suspension defaulting to normal position in transit) The suspension stays in whatever mode you put it in when you turn the ignition off. Put it in low and it stays in low. Plus the cars have a shunt fuse that means the cars are dead without the keys in so the suspension couldn't work anyway.. More slammed C5's I say! More! agreed but we always left the keys in the ignition unless we were on a night out!!! far easier than carrying a carrier bag of keys around!! |
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ianmac
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Feb 18, 2012 12:28:10 GMT
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A neighbour got one new as a company car, took 3 days to come back on a breakdown truck. After 2 VW's it was a shock, at least it was a company car.
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Feb 18, 2012 14:08:20 GMT
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Driving a Citroen - whether trad HP or Hydractive - in low "Workshop" modes is insane. Similarly driving them in the full height mode.
They lower at speed - the C6 would drop when the spoiler raised. The low mode is depressurised and on bump stops.
Don't do it. Put big wheels on, find out if the height controls can be adjusted for a small drop, but driving a depressurised HP Citroen is dangerous in a not-fun way.
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Feb 18, 2012 18:03:44 GMT
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As I understand it, Citroens this age will have a fancy electronically controlled version of the suspension. But, presumably running lower will simply be a case of mounting the height corrector at a different angle?
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" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin' "
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Feb 18, 2012 18:38:29 GMT
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Or resistors in the wiring, I think. ISTR the height correctors on the C6/C5II were on the struts, but could be wrong. It's not like the linkage on the old BXs and the like.
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Rich
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The suspension stays in whatever mode you put it in when you turn the ignition off. Put it in low and it stays in low. Plus the cars have a shunt fuse that means the cars are dead without the keys in so the suspension couldn't work anyway.. More slammed C5's I say! More! agreed but we always left the keys in the ignition unless we were on a night out!!! far easier than carrying a carrier bag of keys around!! Suspension would still stay in low regardless. :s And you would have to have had the ignition on. And even then, still stays in low unless it is raised with the centre console control buttons or the vehicle goes above a certain speed.. We were talking about the height adjusters at the weekend.. Being electronic you could surely make a control box that sits in the car with some variable resisters so you could set the height on the fly? |
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Feb 21, 2012 10:29:12 GMT
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Last Edit: Feb 21, 2012 10:30:30 GMT by Deleted
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Feb 21, 2012 11:30:32 GMT
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Glad the 607 has been mentioned - I give you my fav 607: Always wanted to build a replica but never will lol    |
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Feb 21, 2012 15:06:41 GMT
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qwerty
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Feb 21, 2012 17:24:23 GMT
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We have quite a few C5 HDI's as taxi's around here and if those guys use them they're generally okish. I love the look of them. Did consider one a couple of weeks ago but bought an A4 Avant instead.
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Aug 31, 2013 11:45:11 GMT
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Just found this thread as i was looking for some inspiration for my C5. I bought it about 6 mths ago. Its a 53 plate 2.0 HDi VTR 110 Estate, with 233k on it, i bought it after spotting it on eBay, and making a cheeky £550 offer for it, which was accepted. Since owning it, i've put 5k miles on it, and i love it, it's a very comfortable car, and returns great fuel economy when driven sensibly, i've had over 60mpg from it. I did fit a set of 16" 5 spokes but they looked to small, so i replaced them with a set of 17" multispokes, and these are still fitted. When funds allow i would like a set of 18's or maybe even 19's.  |
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Aug 31, 2013 20:15:47 GMT
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I owned an '03 Hdi 110 estate up until June.
Bought it just over a year ago for £800 with 106k up it, spent a couple of hundred getting it a fresh ticket and then promptly thrashed it for 10 months all over the South West.
Sold it for £600-something with a little bit of the ticket left, 120k up it, and with a whistling turbo. I'm convinced it was probably actually just a loose pipe somewhere but, needing to look a bit smarter for work, meant I just moved it on. I did nothing more than put fresh tyres on each corner in that time.
Great car and I'm loving seeing these big-wheeled slammed ones :-)
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