New member from Cork

[kieran.l]

Hello, I've just entered XM ownership so I said I'd join up!

I grew up with BXs and my family are a bit Citroen mad (mostly me though!) After a few years of non-Citroen ownership (Peugeots, boring) and some modern Citroens (C4s, really like them!), I got the hydropneumatic Citroen bug back in 2012 and so picked up a nice mk1 BX in England, (love it immensly!!), joined the BXClub forum, the CCC and have become Citroen crazy since. Having seen some really nice XMs (...Roger Porter, Robert Smart!...there were other XMs too but don't know who they were..sorry!) at last years All-Ireland Rally I really wanted one but really just dismissed them as out of my affordability league!...

As it turns out, in a recent email from Noel O'Dwyer I saw that there was an XM for sale from Alan Brazil in Dublin and the price was too tempting to pass on...so now I have an XM! The car is K267 DEG (now 93 D 120012), previously owned by Robert (viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1244), a 2.1 TD in Mandarin Red - seems like a very popular XM colour. And what a lovely cruiser it is!
There are a few small little (I hope!) issues but I'll leave them for another thread

Best wishes,
Kieran

PS. I'll post some pics once I've given it a wash and polish!

[Peter.N.]

Hi Kieran

Welcome to the club and XM ownership. The 2.1td's are my sort of car, I have had about 6 estates over about the last 18 years. I now have a 406 estate and a C5 but I also have an XM at present on SORN but am hoping to get it back on the road again.

Peter

[robert_e_smart]

Welcome Kieran,

I'm glad to hear that you are the new custodian of this car.

Will you be bringing it to Clonmel?

Robert

[White Exec]

Looks superb - hope you'll bond with it quickly. We migrated novice BX to XM as well, and have only looked back with fond memories!
Another Kieran/Ciaran . . . best be careful, folks.

[kieran.l]

Thanks for the welcome guys! I've enjoyed some time scanning through the forum already

Peter, I only have ever driven diesels myself and love the torque and pulling power of this engine! Much nicer power delivery than the same bhp engine in the C4, although I know it is a much smaller engine in the C4.

Robert, I'll take good care this car Not sure if I'll bring it to Clonmel... there will most likely be other XMs there but will there be other mk1 BXs?! I might get Dad to bring to XM and I'll go in the BX or something like that.

Chris, I've very fond memories from growing up with BXs, I intend and hope to have my mk1 for a long time to come and it probably takes preference over my other cars... probably shouldn't say that on an XM forum...

I've a few qiestions out of interest now: what are series 1.5, I know they are series 1 but what makes they different from earlier series 1s and from what RP number is series 1.5?
Also, does my car have Hydractive 1 or 2? Around what date (RP number) did Citroen start fitting Hydractive 2 to XMs?

[xmexclusive]

Hi Kieran

There is NO XM series 1.5 but we have grown to like using it to differentiate between the early and the late Mk1 production.

Citroen continuous development added something new for each model year.
As well as this they did a major relaunch in mid 1994 and these are referred to as Series 2 or Y4 XM's.
All XM's before this are Series 1 or Y3's.

At mid life of each of these production Series Citroen did a minor relaunch for that model year with a few more noticable changes.
It is Series 1 cars made after the Series 1 minor relaunch that we refer to as Series 1.5.
Not a term that is used in any Citroen documentation or in general use beyond this site.

John

[XMX]

Hi Kieran and welcome !

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Chris, I've very fond memories from growing up with BXs, I intend and hope to have my mk1 for a long time to come and it probably takes preference over my other cars... probably shouldn't say that on an XM forum...
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Your BX has already been featured here a while back (Via the link to BX forum) in THIS thread when I spotted the Silver low mileage XM which Roger's owns now, but originally was 'Quickly Scooped Away' by Robert to the 'Emerald Isle' !



XMX

[kieran.l]

Cheers for the information John, so would mine be a S1 or S1.5? Also, which version of Hydractive does it have?
XMX, it's a small world!

[russ92xmsed]

Hi Kieran,

Welcome to the forum. Your XM looks great, one of my favourite colours Mandarin. To answer your question about identifying series 1 from a 1.5, it is usually down to the steering wheel. If you have a two spoke, thats a 1.5. Series ones had the famous and much nicer single spoke. .... thats if course if the previous owners haven't swapped steering wheels! I believe K reg onwards to some M reg were all 1.5 cars. Mine is a 1.5 K reg 2.1 and it has hydractive 1 but the updated version, if that makes sense. I believe it is down to the colour of the hydractive ECU plugs which will tell you more.

[kieran.l]

Hello Russ,

Thank you for the welcome and the info Ah so it's a S1.5, as it originally had the 2 spoke wheel but the previous owner did swap it for the nicer single spoke one. I must take a look at the hydractive ECU so.

Cheers,
Kieran