Citroen cx gti turbo

Should have added about that me and my financial advisor have come up with a 400 quid fund to fix all the above and anything else, not including any body work it obviously needs, that will have to wait! hopefully most of the electrical problems will be fixable with time rather than money. Oh it needs rear seatbelts too, thankfully it has the fixings so at least it will be an easy job.first think will be to find out what all the relays do near the battery

Made some progress on this, but was held up by a non starting issue that was driving me mad. After checking everything I could think of over and over ( and breaking a few wires on the way) the cx guro Stan ( who knows everything about these cars) asked me to look at the injection computer, oh I said the ones in the glovebox ( there are two in there, a Aei box that runs the ignition and a knock sensor ) I've done that.
But apparently there's another hidden in the dash buy your knee, it took ages to get it out, ended up pulling the mounting screws clean out of the bulkhead as they had rusted solid😡 ...it wasn't plugged in properly.
Started first time. No pictures as I was desperate to get it sorted before it rained again.
Went out for a celebration drive and it lost power, I hadn't plugged the Aei back in properly, least I found that quickly!
It takes about 10 seconds to start now so there is something not quite right and it idles a bit lumpy, but happy for now.
In other news..
Fixed the electric fans by cleaning up the 3 relays that if works from!
Son fitted rear seatbelts and fixed one rear electric windows and fitted a cassette playe.

Lots of love wires kicking around in the centre console!

Cleaned up the wheels, they should have the famous t spoke wheels of course, but they are metric so tyres are 300 each so I'll stick with the gti ones till I win the lottery!

Took it out for a drive this afternoon, still got lumpy idle. Oh and managed to break just the two things...




Top one is the ' de airater' thats attached from the header tank to the heater matrix.. thought I'd just tighten up this leaky jubilee clip, pipe snapped clean off, my temporary fix with gorilla glue was just that.
Bottom is the fan belt, interesting cx's should have two as the belts run the hydrostatic pump, alternator and the water pump.mine obviously had just the one so I'm stuck with a broken car again

Hi yes I've joined up, hopefully I've got a pile of stuff coming my way soon! Yes most cars that come up for sale are already known to the members, including mine!

Got some bits off the cx guro Stan, if you ever want a cx speak with him before doing anything, he really knows the cars inside out and he's a great guy as well.
So thought I'd better get going on my to do list!

Now I've got an original washable filter I fixed up the badly repaired air box that came with the car, bit of black paint hides the poor welds!
Unsurprisingly the car idles better with the go faster filter the car came with in the bin. Still not great though, so will need more time to get it sorted. It's definitely not an vacuum leak so I'm guessing it's a senser or maybe the original coils?

Managed to fix the central locking and the interior lights without breaking anything else, or spending money, which is a bit new to me with this car. Getting on well now with fixing it up, just need to drive it more now I'm trusting it better, hopefully that will improve the ideling too. Next jobs are to think about painting it all, not sure if I want to tackle 2 pack paint at home and to fix the heater motor and the boot lock, the original boot is long gone along with the central locking mechanism for it, I have a standard boot without the gubbins for the central locking.re wire the front fogs and then I'll swop the non standard spheres with the correct turbo ones I got from Stan, pictured above.sounds easy, thanks for reading 😀 I'm still within my budget too😉😎