Re: Another XM in Australia
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:39 pm
Thanks for "finally" joining Another XM in Australia. With so little that happens here, you addition keeps the members happy. I haven't been able to write as much as I would have liked to, but with this lockdown I haven't been able to access my spare. As I can't ask for help with knowledge I'm forced into silence. And I am enjoying reading this as it happens, its much more satisfying than reading old post and I have learned far more than reading older post I have chosen to read.
Things I want to learn I haven't had much finding because the user manual had got water logged prior to my purchase and therefore, the pages can't be separated.
I feel somewhat impolite to hijack this with a question, but it won't take longer to answer and it keeps this moving along and the happy owners of our rare beauties together during this craziest time of lockdown.
My question, and who knows, I might ask more. The previous owner, although born Australian, would love to have lived his life in France. So he changed all the warnings into French. I don't have a phone, so I don't have internet access on the road to translate it back to English. I was sitting in it whilst parked in the driveway. I had changed the battery because unfortunately the powerful Ferrari Battery had died due to an after market door lock system that ticked constantly and forever drained the battery. I put the new battery in it. Opened the door, sat in the luxurious drivers seat. Yes I can see you visualising but you have gone to the wrong door, I sit on the right. I insert the key, always horrified as what to do if ever I lose it. I push my secret code which I don't know how to change over from the previous owners because I don't have a users manual. I start it. Up comes two warnings in French. "Shit, 2 warnings, I never get two warnings. What could they mean? What has happened since I started it the other day. I turn it off, as one would with two warnings written in a foreign language. I go inside. I find a pen and paper. I return to the car and started it again. The two warnings appear again. I write it down fast, I have two warnings so I write it down fast. I turn it off. I go into my home, sit at this computer and find Translate. I type the first warning. DOOR OPEN. Well obviously my door was open, I knew that. Type in the second. BONNET OPEN. Well obviously my bonnet was open, I knew that. I knew at that moment I have to know how to do it. Shit, I can't even find the fuse box. And when reading that the Executive has front and rear heated seats I went in search for the switches. I know we didn't get DIRAVI steering, but did the French decide to cut costs because only a few Australians' like to live in the snow, am I right Another XM in Australia? But did they also cut cost by not giving us heated seats, and yet, they gave us snow mode? Maybe I am missing something. "We have given him a sunroof, no need for heated seats."
I am getting paid very well in this lockdown. People ask me what i am going to do with all the money when things return to normal. I have things I need to spend money on, but nothing is as important than the XM and I have to do everything possible to have it in perfect condition mechanically. The body and interior are very good. So I am taking it to a Citroen mechanic and have everything done so I know that if I get a warning, it will either be DOOR OPEN BONNET OPEN. But I would prefer to know how to change into English, so the warnings, if they do present themselves on my 300 kilometre journey to the mechanic, I will know what the XM is telling me.
Things I want to learn I haven't had much finding because the user manual had got water logged prior to my purchase and therefore, the pages can't be separated.
I feel somewhat impolite to hijack this with a question, but it won't take longer to answer and it keeps this moving along and the happy owners of our rare beauties together during this craziest time of lockdown.
My question, and who knows, I might ask more. The previous owner, although born Australian, would love to have lived his life in France. So he changed all the warnings into French. I don't have a phone, so I don't have internet access on the road to translate it back to English. I was sitting in it whilst parked in the driveway. I had changed the battery because unfortunately the powerful Ferrari Battery had died due to an after market door lock system that ticked constantly and forever drained the battery. I put the new battery in it. Opened the door, sat in the luxurious drivers seat. Yes I can see you visualising but you have gone to the wrong door, I sit on the right. I insert the key, always horrified as what to do if ever I lose it. I push my secret code which I don't know how to change over from the previous owners because I don't have a users manual. I start it. Up comes two warnings in French. "Shit, 2 warnings, I never get two warnings. What could they mean? What has happened since I started it the other day. I turn it off, as one would with two warnings written in a foreign language. I go inside. I find a pen and paper. I return to the car and started it again. The two warnings appear again. I write it down fast, I have two warnings so I write it down fast. I turn it off. I go into my home, sit at this computer and find Translate. I type the first warning. DOOR OPEN. Well obviously my door was open, I knew that. Type in the second. BONNET OPEN. Well obviously my bonnet was open, I knew that. I knew at that moment I have to know how to do it. Shit, I can't even find the fuse box. And when reading that the Executive has front and rear heated seats I went in search for the switches. I know we didn't get DIRAVI steering, but did the French decide to cut costs because only a few Australians' like to live in the snow, am I right Another XM in Australia? But did they also cut cost by not giving us heated seats, and yet, they gave us snow mode? Maybe I am missing something. "We have given him a sunroof, no need for heated seats."
I am getting paid very well in this lockdown. People ask me what i am going to do with all the money when things return to normal. I have things I need to spend money on, but nothing is as important than the XM and I have to do everything possible to have it in perfect condition mechanically. The body and interior are very good. So I am taking it to a Citroen mechanic and have everything done so I know that if I get a warning, it will either be DOOR OPEN BONNET OPEN. But I would prefer to know how to change into English, so the warnings, if they do present themselves on my 300 kilometre journey to the mechanic, I will know what the XM is telling me.