Citroen XM Forum

It can get a bit lonely here, XM-wise, but a good while ago I met up with another 2.5 (a green one), which I discover lives 10km away in Competa, and owned by a retired couple. It gets a fair bit of road use, and makes frequent visits to a small workshop a few km away.

Today, it appeared in my local village car park, outside what was (until a few years ago) a Citroen car workshop, but which now also specialises in rather good bodywork and repainting.
Looking a bit grubby at the moment, she does scrub up ok.
The sun here can take its toll on lacquer - one advantage of flat White.

Right hand drive too....

A '96 VSX in Emerald (I think). SFAIK, they brought it with them from the UK, and re-registered it here.

A week ago, everything here got a 24hr coating of Saharan pink-yellow dust, when strong winds came from due south. For a whole day, the sky went smog-yellow. Still washing it off. Hazards of the Med!

White Exec wrote: The sun here can take its toll on lacquer - one advantage of flat White.

Still thinks that its easier to maintain lacquer than prevent and fight against underbody rust issues

You could be right. Trouble with rust is that it can go about its business unseen, until it's too late. Peeling lacquer is a bit more difficult to ignore.
But you are right, Prem . . . No car ever died from flaky lacquer!