Spot the XM!
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:23 pm
Thought it about time that I introduced my other XM;
This was actually my 1st and it seems I aquired it in Feb 01. On the reg doc it is listed as an SI.
When I got it the clutch was slipping and the brake valve was faulty. A local garage did the clutch and fitted a new brake valve, (sourced by me from Pleides,) but on driving it home the regulator sphere was working overtime, which it hadn't been beforehand.
Turns out the new brake valve was faulty. Pleides changed it, no problem, and I actually fitted the replacement. Fired it up and regulator cutting in around every 25/30 secs.
Actually had a good years use out of it, including some nice long runs back and forth to Devon. Slept in it a few times too.
The only thing known to be wrong with it when it was interned where you now see it was very poor looking turret tops. Before all of that stuff got piled up on it I used to regularly start it and run it out of there.
Then there came a time when I was bringing my little Renault back from Cornwall and it was due to go into the garage. Well, the XM obviously got wind of this and the very next time I ran it out it she blew a hydraulic pipe,big time. Just managed to put it away and that's where it has been ever since.
I suspect that it may need more than turret tops now.
Don't worry though, it's on my "to do list"
LG.!
This was actually my 1st and it seems I aquired it in Feb 01. On the reg doc it is listed as an SI.
When I got it the clutch was slipping and the brake valve was faulty. A local garage did the clutch and fitted a new brake valve, (sourced by me from Pleides,) but on driving it home the regulator sphere was working overtime, which it hadn't been beforehand.
Turns out the new brake valve was faulty. Pleides changed it, no problem, and I actually fitted the replacement. Fired it up and regulator cutting in around every 25/30 secs.
Actually had a good years use out of it, including some nice long runs back and forth to Devon. Slept in it a few times too.
The only thing known to be wrong with it when it was interned where you now see it was very poor looking turret tops. Before all of that stuff got piled up on it I used to regularly start it and run it out of there.
Then there came a time when I was bringing my little Renault back from Cornwall and it was due to go into the garage. Well, the XM obviously got wind of this and the very next time I ran it out it she blew a hydraulic pipe,big time. Just managed to put it away and that's where it has been ever since.
I suspect that it may need more than turret tops now.
Don't worry though, it's on my "to do list"
LG.!