Well I'm pleased to report that after a few more hundred miles on hydraflush, the ride on my bx has become alot smoother. A combination of filtering...
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Wow! :shock: I mean.. what a difference!
'Diesel Fuel Injection' in Dublin sorted the car for me today and pretty cheaply and quickly too. It was a...
I've uploaded a video of my 16v idling. It's doing some clicking which I'm a bit suspicious of. My thought is - oil spray bar across the cams is...
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Ah, I have the opposite problem on my VW van. Occasionally when the oil is hot they will clatter for say 30 seconds, and then settle back down again....
I have a minor problem when starting my BX TD since yesterday. I can enable the accessories and pre-glow the engine without problems but when I turn...
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this is the reinforced 'bladed' key;
actually from a xantia but there the same lock/barrel/key
My French girlfriend (Amelia !) a BX 14, has a ticking noise which I understand is related to the hydraulic pump keeping the pressure up in the main...
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To test the accumulator - get the car to normal height and let it idle for a couple of minutes. Turn off the engine and sit in the boot - the back of...
my BX is running fine, seems like I did everything right in the end as I changed the belts, waterpump, fluids and filters...
I love...
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Any input on how to operate the rear wiper?
It just works that way, I'm afraid! The only way around it is to fit the switch from an estate instead -...
Hi Guy's,
I have just installed new handbrake cables, went relativly well, what i need to do now is tighten them, how do you do this and to what...
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The object is to make sure there is sufficient movement in the mechanism to allow the self adjusters to work. Adjust as set out in Haynes, start the...
I am in New Zealand and my cars cabin fan motor is fried.
I can't find anything to replace it and it is a real pain.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks....
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You've obviously had more luck there than you would've had here. You'd spend many hours if not days trying to find a BX in a scrap yard in this part...
As it's getting a bit cooler I thought it was time to get my heater going. I disconnected it in May because it was leaking.
Upon removing the actual...
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Todd, I do like your photo - has a strangely surreal quality to it (especially after a bit of wine!)
This may seem a strange subject but I am taking my Citroen camper to Italy soon and the last time I went to Portugal the only that let me down was...
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The Roto-diesel has a stop lever as well - my recollection is that it has to be pushed towards the engine block which makes it difficult to connect a...
Hello all. On the 1.9 TD Bosch injection pump there is a electrically operated valve, as opposed to the waxstat operated long lever type, this is on...
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Hello David, thank you very much for the reply, I am not quite as daft as I thought I was. Now I can sort it.
Cheers.
Geoff.
Being as I intend to uprate the original stereo in my BX I will have to fit speakers int rear parcel shelf so I need a Grey one as a spare.This will...
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Hi,
I have a spare black one, it is a bit awkward to post but could be collected.
Hi all,
I am a new member and am pleased to read so many informed posts solving problems I have previously struggled with on my cars. (Hindsight is a...
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I was lucky as the first and only one I ever did went straight on but a well known dodge is to have a couple of longer than standard bolts to hang...
Finally decided to take a look at making the rev counter work in my car. I found the trigger wire... But the problem is at the back of the instrument...
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YES!
Wired everything in, fired the car up, and finally...
I have the standard Blaupunkt 2 speaker head unit and wish to upgrade to the 6 speaker unit.Firstly I do not know the model number and even where to...
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Hi,
Guess you've got my pm monalogue to read on this.
Roy.
Having spent stressful time under the valver again, I've been trouble shooting with the aid of the Doc. to try and rectify the worst PAS issue in the...
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The poor colour, he should just embrace who he really is. There's no shame in it.
Some little scrote decided my BX could do with a little extra decoration last night, in the form of a raw egg :evil: I think it was just one, but...
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Give it a lick of paint renovator (or T-cut) and polish after. Or if you have it, Autoglym bug and tar remover will do it, or TFR and such like. Jet...
Evening all, I need to call on anyone more technically minded than me about my non functioning passenger side electric window problem! The problem is...
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Good god no!
They dont talk jive down there anyway, it's all Ebonics now, and even then localised watered down crap.
Jive talk was brill, all this...
hi not my bx but my rover 218 td.there had been some rattle for short time around timing belt,gone to bolton today car stops at light wont restart...
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hi doc thanks for that had good news alt had seized up but not snapped alt belt so engine fine am relieved.had just took a spare alt out of boot left...
hi my friend has a 51 reg c15 van engine is knackered burning lots of oil capacity is 1868 cc.i never knew they were this size until i told him i had...
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Nah, mate - all N/A diesels tested to the same spec - smoke opacity only - as long as it would pass before it was dropped in, it will still pass...
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