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Yeah, you probably could - £7K was the last low-mileage 2000 plate XM I saw offered. However... there's a finite number. I've owned 7 CXs and 4 XMs previously, as well as BXs (which I also rather like, but tend to need welding now), GS/A, Xantias and a C6. My gaps in HP Citroën are DS and SM. This one has come my way for scrap and tax value pretty much... and I'm going to give it some attention, I think. Stateside Citroëns: The most recent advert for a Federal-spec XM I've seen was not megabucks. It was for a very tidy V6. Put it this way - it was almost worth considering bringing it back here for the money! The CX is a different story, as they were sold semi officially. The worst part of it all was that the HP suspension was essentially outlawed; but getting a 25 year old car in, a car for show use, or a car via Canada (15 year rather than 25 year) may be feasible, and better source material is available if you go LHD anyway. Loads of XMs, and on the continent they have DIRAVI in the high spec and better lights on the S2 models. Also there are models like the XM Multimedia, which are just so 'of the era' it's incredible. aebergon.perso.neuf.fr/Citroen/page_Citroen_XM_Multimedia_98.htm
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This looks and sounds like the one Keith Adams had recently?
Like I said on ARO I have some parts left over from an XM turbo auto including the gearbox which worked perfectly.
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"Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire cat is perhaps the 1.9-litre 205's closest parallel, for like Carroll's fiendish cat, when the Peugeot is gone only the grin remains." -What Car? March 1987
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I have one! Big old white diesel,more eletric faults than the Romania national grid,however it was on route to the scrap yard and I felt sorry for the old girl!. Mine sits in the workshop under a dust sheet which serves as more of a conversation starter than the more exotic stuff in there Save it!
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This looks and sounds like the one Keith Adams had recently? Like I said on ARO I have some parts left over from an XM turbo auto including the gearbox which worked perfectly. It's the very same I'm sticking with it, for now - the paint's the tricky decision for me ultimately. I'll go back and prod ARO, but if you want to PM me with what bits you've got I'd appreciate it. Oddly, the thing I really want to make that psychological "spark" is a parcel shelf of all things - the back half has been ripped out from under the carpet covering and it looks really awful!
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Fix it up, or if you cant/don't want to, then offer it to another RR'er that will.
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Koos
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Jul 10, 2012 23:54:21 GMT
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I'd say fix 'er up. I've always liked Citroens- wish we got 'em here. So if I filled a shipping container full of old Citroens and sent them stateside I could make a lot of/some money? Well, not from me. I should clarify: I wish we'd got 'em here new, so now there'd be cheap beater examples around for cheapskates like me to use as dailies. ;D But, yea, if you shipped some nice ones over you might find customers for 'em. Wheather you'd make much money, though...
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Jul 11, 2012 15:56:37 GMT
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Have you decided to fix her up yet Richard? :-D
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Koos
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Jul 11, 2012 16:00:33 GMT
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If someone wants to step in, I've not bought her yet and I can reattach a couple of bits I took off to check the brake valve, but I'm leaning towards fix - slowly, patiently, and as cheaply as I can do it without cutting corners. It's the paint that is putting me off, a complicated car to paint properly, a damned ugly one if painted badly.
There'll be more this weekend, a proper thread I think. And I did lean the SLK's old wheels against it to see how they'd look, but wrong PCD of course.
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Jul 11, 2012 19:08:52 GMT
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If I had the space I'd be seriously tempted!
Is it diesel?
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Koos
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Jul 11, 2012 21:12:15 GMT
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2.0 Turbo C.T. Petrol with an auto box. Possibly my favourite combination, a notoriously unreliable gearbox paired with a coarse 8V motor I've had two bad experiences previously (But I like a challenge. Usually fail at them, but like them)
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For me it's A a big citroen, B comfy as my nans armchair and C it's a big citroen. Got to be rescued.
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1999 micra. Puch bike and nirve chopper.
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jonw
Part of things
Can open a Mouse with a File
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XM is just plain awsome! The last proper Citroen barge.
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Suzuki SV650R The good Triumph T20 The Bad BMW G650GS The Ugly Matchless G12CSR The Smokey Toyota Hybrid One pint or Two?
Ingredients of this post Spam Drunken Rambling of author Bad spelling Drunken ramblings of inner voices Occasional pointless comments Vile beef trimming they won't even use in stock cubes
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Jul 12, 2012 13:11:24 GMT
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You could always pretend your one of the bad guys in Ronin
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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Jul 22, 2012 21:20:48 GMT
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That looks a pretty sound example and the mileage is low too, so either sell or repair.
The exhaust blow will be the manifold gasket.
XM values are definitely on the way up for reasonable cars. I am biassed as I have two series 1 diesels.
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Jul 23, 2012 18:36:24 GMT
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I've just got back from holiday in France where I saw several of these; I've realised I very much like them. Its lines are so much more interesting than the Xantia that followed, that little kick-up at the rear quarter for example.
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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There are nods to the SM in particular in the design - the low red lights, the kink, the shutline of the nosecone. It is one of my favourite cars, just not my favourite engine dieselman: I know the Turbo's manifold gasket blow (that's what did for my last one); this is lower, though I expect the manifold gasket is ALSO pants. The car's heading very slowly for repair. It has a reader's rides thread but not many updates.
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