Garages who will still touch XMs - North Cheshire / Manchester area
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 1:56 am
All,
Any suggestions as to garages (probably only the specialists now) in North Cheshire or South/SouthWest Manchester who will still touch ES9J4 engined XMs?
My Mk2 V6 24V Exclusive is kinda in need of a timing belt change (only 30k miles since swap but that was 19 years ago which is I think VERY well past age replacement??). I know there's plenty of 'how to' guides out there and I even have the Citroen workshop printout but, 50 years of DIYing notwithstanding, I'm chickening out on this one, for one thing I'm not sure if it had the later belt tensioner fitted at the last belt change (so it doesn't need the electronic tension gauge) or, if not, which bit of the water pump housing needs hacksawing off to enable one to be fitted
Contacted my local (non franchise) Citroen 'specialist' and he won't touch it, my 'franchise' dealer is no longer a Citroen dealer per se, it was bought out by Inchcape, so I bet they won't touch it either - and I'm not sure I'd trust them with it anyway tbh
Also - does anyone know if the ES9J4 is a non-interference engine just in case the unthinkable happens and the damn' belt breaks before I can get it swapped? According to DVLA there's only 17 V6 exclusives left on the road so it'd be a shame to write off another one
Thanks all
Any suggestions as to garages (probably only the specialists now) in North Cheshire or South/SouthWest Manchester who will still touch ES9J4 engined XMs?
My Mk2 V6 24V Exclusive is kinda in need of a timing belt change (only 30k miles since swap but that was 19 years ago which is I think VERY well past age replacement??). I know there's plenty of 'how to' guides out there and I even have the Citroen workshop printout but, 50 years of DIYing notwithstanding, I'm chickening out on this one, for one thing I'm not sure if it had the later belt tensioner fitted at the last belt change (so it doesn't need the electronic tension gauge) or, if not, which bit of the water pump housing needs hacksawing off to enable one to be fitted
Contacted my local (non franchise) Citroen 'specialist' and he won't touch it, my 'franchise' dealer is no longer a Citroen dealer per se, it was bought out by Inchcape, so I bet they won't touch it either - and I'm not sure I'd trust them with it anyway tbh
Also - does anyone know if the ES9J4 is a non-interference engine just in case the unthinkable happens and the damn' belt breaks before I can get it swapped? According to DVLA there's only 17 V6 exclusives left on the road so it'd be a shame to write off another one
Thanks all