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What a fantastic story. I really like Citroën's like this. To me French cars are either quirky, fast or both. I remember having a G reg Citroën XM 2 litre manual with leather interior. I loved how unusual it was. Some of the styling reminded me of a D'Elorean. The car looked like something that belonged in the Jetsons. That single column steering wheel was novel and a great idea. It was an education to drive. The handbrake is a footbrake to the left of the clutch. Stopping at moving away traffic lights left your feet doing something very different. The brakes were electrically power assisted. You had to be sensitive to them. The whole car rose like a hovercraft on a cold start. The suspension was brilliant over speed bumps and the harsh concrete motorway surface of the M42. It wasn't the most reliable car by any stretch of the imagination. However, if I had the chance to drive an XM, CX, BX of that era, I'd jump at the chance. With a sympathetic bank manager, specialist mechanic and garage to put it in, I'd have one.
For a car with this many miles for the very little amount of smoke coming out the back is incredible. My 2009 peugeot 207 diesel belched out smoke. This car should be saved
I worked at Citroën at the time of the Activa and remember a nice story I heard from the after sales department. They had a customer complaining that his car would be slightly tilted on level ground. When he brought it to the workshop, they wouldn’t find anything wrong with the Activa system, but they could confirm that the car was effectively tilted. The cause was only discovered when an expert visited the customer at home. He lived on the top of a hill that was shaped like a cone, and the road to his house went up the hill in a spiral. So when the man drove away in the morning, he would drive the first minute always in a curve to the same direction. The Activa system uses the first minute of a drive to calibrate itself, on the assumption that the vehicle will occasionally lean left and right, and stay level most of the time. You can imagine the rest….
Its pretty impressive how over time (~15 years or so) we now have 1.5/1.6 diesels making over 100hp standard and often exceed the economy of the old 90's 1.9/2.0L motors They dont last as long though, thats for sure She does have a gorgeous power curve 😅
Just come across this ❤ loved these cars. I had 3 in my younger years. The last was on a J plate and the later edition interior on the GT. Rebuilt the head ported and polished, running on twin dellorto 40 carbs.....epicness to hear and drive. Sold it and have regretted it since that day. I periodocaally check and its one of the few lwft on the toad still in the uk according to the DVLA mot checker. Like has been metioned before though, you don't wanna crash in one! 😅😂
Had an x reg 1.1 saxo 5 door poverty with the funky interior and different colour seat belts. I swear it was better than my 1.4i 3 door. Electrohydraulic power steering didn't sap that much power surely?. Although I've just put a new exhaust on my 06 206sw 1.4i and she drives much better than the old exhaust that had more holes than donald trump.
Fantastically detailed video and description of this amazing suspension system, many thanks! As a previous owner of an early Xantia 1,8i 16V (which burnt oil !) my dream car is a Xantia V6 Activa, almost impossible to find these days, even in Europe!
Omg I’m laughing quite hard now that you complain about 29c. That’s a warm spring day in Victoria Australia where I’m from. I run a shop in Melbourne & would be very comfortable doing welding at 29c try doing it at 37c-38c then you’re in real trouble.
Sutch a shame Citroën does not suport their older cars... honestly their accountants are in my opinion not doing a good job. What revenue would company with so mutch classic car caache earn if thy actualy provide suport for their used cars? Missed oportunity in my opinion. Cant they see the old cars are their best marketing tool? And that keeping them on the road is a big part of the new car sales they will be able to make in the future?
@@ricardosilva-xz1yt Maybe they want them off the road; Who would see a classic Citroen and then get a new one? They don’t want their history to show them up.
@@C.I... you are probably right... i always tried my best to make my parents proud... that is like saying they want their parents dead as soon as possible to colect the inheritance...
13:10 to 13:20 You need to set your camera/phone to fixed exposure to alleviate the constant distracting (sorry) light and dark random changing of the video.
McGuinness was a very weak presenter on Top Gear, the only positive about him is the fact he's not annoying like Evans was and a step up, then again an empty cola bottle made a better presenter than Evans so that doesn't say much. Either way I wouldn't take anything McGuinness says to heart.
Great video, so good to see an Activa dance, Great description and explanation, hard to see a better way to fix the worn arm and keep the angle the same
Third option on the retention figures for xantia vids, viewers have nodded off while watching and the vid plays through. Not me, obviously, but maybe someone.
I'm assuming the Brands hatch dissers of the BX were fans of hilarious Northern comic actor and car expert Paddy McGuiness ? I reckon part of the erosion of the control rod was partly down to water collecting in the bush and rotting the metal away, like happens to brake lines under the floorpan where they are clipped in place ? Lots of grease / Wayoyl may help....
Being a lazy git, I'd rub vaseline onto the worn steel shaft, fit the bush around it, seal the "bottom" with silicone & pour in some epoxy resin to fill the slop. Epoxy fill void, vaseline stop epoxy sticking to shaft, sealant stop epoxy running out till its set.. That or i'd slap windscreen adhesive onto both bushing halves, rub vaseline onto shaft what for not sticking & slap the halves onto shaft what for setting. Either or. Both would end up firmer than Jodie Fosters thighs, with minimal effort. Which is the sort of solutions I prefer.
