Gold 2.0Si

[Eddie nuff]

Good stuff Neil, I like your car...nice and original and straight

It has a patina of age is the best description of it I've heard - thanks to Will.

[normantilbury]

Hi Neil,
It Should't be long now before im up in huddersfield with your wheels.

Norman

[Eddie nuff]

Just give me a shout when you're on your way.

[normantilbury]

Will do

[Eddie nuff]

Daughters Corsa went straight through the MOT and has now gone to a relative so they can learn to drive. After three years with her little Corsa she's happy now with her "grown up car", a Renault Megane, which I'll have to worry about from now on. Just got the XM and Xantia to get through.

Just six weeks before she goes back on the road and I can't wait. Especially when you get a bloody lovely day like today when I should have been playing in a XM and end up giving a Saab and a Focus a real good seeing to.

[citroenxm]

Is the Megane Petrol or Diesel? If its petrol they are actually pretty good engines, its the DCi that needs care. Not sure of they suffer the same with Key Cards like Lagunas.. or do they have a "Normal" key?

[russ92xmsed]

Good point. I thought the cool looking Megane had the keyless entry. Nice cars those, much better than the bland thing they offer at the moment.

[Eddie nuff]

I know of the problems with the dci engines and, as she lives 200 miles away, wasn't prepared to live on a knife edge worrying about when it would throw its dummy out. So she has a 1.4 petrol with just 49k on the clock . . . and loves it to bits. . . . plus it has two brand new keycards and the receipt to prove it.

[citroenxm]

Great Stuff Neil..

dont think its an actual Card issue as probably the car itself and dodgy electrics...

[Eddie nuff]

Just goes to show what a pile of shite week/10 days me and my good lady have had that I'm pleased as punch that the XM failed the MOT . . . on just three pieces of welding. I've been laid up with a virus for the past week or so, it's knocked me for six I can say. Just coming out of it now but still get tired from doing very little.

Feeling a wee bit better on Wednesday morning I decided to have a ride over to Malcolm Lockwoods for some Hydraurinc . . . Hydraur . . . Hydroflush with the intention of doing it when I got back but was so buggered I spent the best part of the afternoon on the settee. Going to do that this morning.

Then yesterday after pottering around early doors, purely on spec, I phoned the MOT place to see if they had a spare slot. After bringing it down home for a wash and to check the obvious bits, get a couple of tyres swapped from buckled wheels to good ones (from Norman ), check the pressures in the other tyres, which were surprisingly good, a quick squirt of fuel and off we trundle.

I had no idea what to expect with it being the first test I'd put this car through. I know the back brakes are getting towards the end of their life and will need new discs and pads but I thought everything else had a fair chance. She failed on three pieces of welding. Two small holes on the outer sill, one on each side, and a fair size piece on the offside inner sill. The guy said it was otherwise solid underneath and must have been treated and garaged in its early life, but if I had any intention of keeping it it would be wise to have the sills cut out and new ones fitted. (CMIIW but new sills aren't available any more?) There were just two advisory's - a product on the headlamp lens reducing output and the dust cover on the osf ball joint is weak. To say it's the first test I've put it through I'm happy with that. The welding is being done next week, back on the road in a fortnight, and X Rally here we come.

There was one comment he made over and over again - the seats! He said they were the comfiest seats he had sat in in a long, long time and, at one point, he and his buddy were sat in the car just getting comfy.