New member from Finland
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:26 pm
Hello! I'm a new member here, I live in Finland and I've been driving many different Citroen's from late 80's (2CV's, AX, BX, Xantia's, C5..). I bought my first Xm 2.0i Berline (Saloon) 1995 (Y4) last year, it has been imported from Holland around 10 years ago by a local Citroen parts seller, and it has been serviced at the time quite totally. It has stainless steel exhaustion pipes and it has been protected against corrotion (importand issue here in north, since during the winter the roads are sprayed with salt liquid to prevent ice on the road). So fortunatelly my Xm is in pretty good condition what comes to rust. Some electrical issues are though, for example the central locking system works depending on humidity, moon phase or something paranormal phenomenon
When I bought this Xm, there was a hydraulic pipe broken from the rear, and we changed most of the pipes at the rear, and disassembled, cleaned and changeg new seals and assembled the height adjustment valve at the rear. A few weeks after this there was a leak in the right hand hydraulic cylinder at the rear, I got a second hand cylinder with new seals and a rubber bag, and we changed these. During the disassembling of the pipe coming to cylinder, we had to use guite much force (this is common issue here in north, the corrotion isn't a nice matter..) so the pipe itself got some injuries. This was a tricky thing, there aren't any new parts to get, so I got some advices from fellow Citroen enthusisast's, and went to a local shop and they made me a new flexible hose with correct connectors.
Xm has been driven totally around 280 000 kilometers now, and I use it daily. We had a decent winter, temperature was from minus 10 to minus 25 degrees C, and all I did I installed the cover on the air intake panel below front bumber and a aluminium sheet under the engine to prevent the cold air to cool the oil pan. This is quite important to prevent the engine ventilation pipes freezing (and when this happens, the engine spills out part of the oil from the oil checking stic tube). I drive around 200 km to my work and back, and there were'nt any problems at all in the winter, in most days (even in coldest days) I had to adjust the heating to around 70 % of maximum, otherwise it would had been too hot in the cabin Xm is a fine car to drive in winter, it drives like a train in snowy roads and the height adjustment is a great feature if there has been snowing a lot. In those days it is fun to watch German cars to stuck in snow, get in Xm, lift the height and just drive easily away
I decided to register in this forum to get information and advices to technical issues.
When I bought this Xm, there was a hydraulic pipe broken from the rear, and we changed most of the pipes at the rear, and disassembled, cleaned and changeg new seals and assembled the height adjustment valve at the rear. A few weeks after this there was a leak in the right hand hydraulic cylinder at the rear, I got a second hand cylinder with new seals and a rubber bag, and we changed these. During the disassembling of the pipe coming to cylinder, we had to use guite much force (this is common issue here in north, the corrotion isn't a nice matter..) so the pipe itself got some injuries. This was a tricky thing, there aren't any new parts to get, so I got some advices from fellow Citroen enthusisast's, and went to a local shop and they made me a new flexible hose with correct connectors.
Xm has been driven totally around 280 000 kilometers now, and I use it daily. We had a decent winter, temperature was from minus 10 to minus 25 degrees C, and all I did I installed the cover on the air intake panel below front bumber and a aluminium sheet under the engine to prevent the cold air to cool the oil pan. This is quite important to prevent the engine ventilation pipes freezing (and when this happens, the engine spills out part of the oil from the oil checking stic tube). I drive around 200 km to my work and back, and there were'nt any problems at all in the winter, in most days (even in coldest days) I had to adjust the heating to around 70 % of maximum, otherwise it would had been too hot in the cabin Xm is a fine car to drive in winter, it drives like a train in snowy roads and the height adjustment is a great feature if there has been snowing a lot. In those days it is fun to watch German cars to stuck in snow, get in Xm, lift the height and just drive easily away
I decided to register in this forum to get information and advices to technical issues.