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Just appeared on ebay starting at £300.
Ex WHM car with some odd MOT failure items.
Dangerous body work - looks to be smashed tailgate plastic panel.
Defective sidelights - wrong colour.
Surprised that so little goes unrepaired these days.
My MOT man has started to pick up on wrong colour lights.
Anything LED or HID is picked up as displaying a blue element and failed.
Think a new colour filter must have been added to the front lamp alignment test box.
He showed me a small collection of leds and blue headlamp bulbs that had been replaced to get cars passed.

John

Tempting.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-W-Citroe ... 4d0e871298

the tailgate plastic trim is easy to replace. Its simply bolted on.. those of you who may have followed my sd 2.1 topic blog would see its easilly changeable..so disregard the 150 repair..

Headlight washers fail?? If the car is returned to standard headlights then this wont count. They only need to work for mot with zenon headlights so another simple fix car looks a steal with the correct knowledge to repair and the mechanical bits happen to be a non worry..

Go on will treat your self with a guzzler ...

This is a win it on ebay.
Repair it on his drive in less than half an hour.
Then drive it to a pre booked MOT.

John

citroenxm wrote: Go on will treat your self with a guzzler ...

But then aren't. They're very frugal for a three litre V6..

This car has to be snapped up. Could be a very good buy and they are lovely things...

CitroJim wrote:

citroenxm wrote: Go on will treat your self with a guzzler ...

But then aren't. They're very frugal for a three litre V6..

This car has to be snapped up. Could be a very good buy and they are lovely things...

Depends how you compare them jim.. against a prv or tct no they are rather impressive for a V engine but compared to the early 2.1 td that will has then yes they are guzzlers! They wouldnt touch 55mpg..

Driving a 2.1 is slow enough, but having to drive deliberately slow to get that kind of mpg is dire! I'll stick with my diesel V6! 36-37mpg and thats not sparing the ponies!

citroenxm wrote:They wouldnt touch 55mpg..

Ahh now that’s where you are just so wrong Paul.. I've seen 55.1mpg on the trip computer...

So there!

robert_e_smart wrote: I'll stick with my diesel V6! 36-37mpg and thats not sparing the ponies!

So not so different from a petrol V6 on a trip then.. I see about 35mpg on my Somerset and back trip and although I drive with care I'm not slow...

I recall David Hallworth having achieved something close to 50mpg in his S2 24v travelling down to the Northern Rally! Regards, Matthew T.

Keep hands in pockets Eddie - keep hands in pockets!!