) of your XM collection, or perhaps searching for those elusive headlight washer covers? This is the place to do it.
and fit cloth Activa seats - by god they're good - certainly better than the leather Exclusive ones but I can live with them
anyway as you say. I don't find them uncomfortable, just too hot, too cold and damned slidey slippery!
The engine is what makes the car but the gearbox makes damned certain!! I was dreading living with it as I really wanted
it to be a manual, better still an Activa suspensioned manual 24v but I'll never have such a car unless I merged a couple
of mine - something I know others are doing! The chassis and handling of the normal hydractive VSX/Exclusive Xantia do
a good job mind, even without the electrickery of the Activa ARCS. The v6 brakes are truly astounding; I bruised my
forehead on a slightly lowered sunvisor just 'gently dabbing' the brakes the other day after driving an Xm all weekend
beforehand!!
I don't get all paranoid about "." whatevers of a gallon with spreadsheets and matrix mpg tables but go by the rough'n ready,
whatever odd quid a week in the normal rough and tumble driving of local/motorway/weekend driving and because my
Xantia TD estate get's whipped harder to maintain my normal driving there's barely a difference at the pump between them
both - crazy sounding I know, just the diesel is being dragged out of it's normal comfort zone whereas the V6 is oozing
effortlessly at any speed/use and actually the Xm 2.0TCT is thistier too. If anything the 2.5 manual is very much the same
as are the Xm 24v v6 and basic 2.0i!! The thirstiest bast*rd of the whole lot mind is the Activa - when I say it's bad, I'm even
being kind!!
The only whotsit in the ointment with a V6 will be the timing belt change and the silly £ autobox fluid changes. I recall
David Hallworth on this forum had one for sale a while back as well as the one mentioned by Paul and myself here...
All the best, happy hunting,
Andrew
Shame about pourus prblems on S2 cars...
Now I really have blown it... 