How many people use there bxs every day

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The TZD will be my only car next week as the 14 is being put into hibernation. The insurance is about 20% less on the 14, and I use about 15 litres petrol per 110 miles. Tax is half price. In the TZD I imagine I'll be cutting the fuel consumption by about a third...

I think I'd better do some actual work instead....
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Same here...only it doesn't seem to matter what car I drive or for that matter whether we're in a car at all. :wink:[/quote]

:) :) :lol:

I know the feeling !!!
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I use my bx tzd every day and have just come back from my third round trip from merseyside to london in one month and I have been keeping an eye on what mileage I am getting, from my calculations and using shell diesel I am getting 56.24 miles a gallon.
I can't believe it !!!
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I use my bx everyday. that was until the brakes started to play up. It is in the barn at the moment waiting for me to work out what has gone wrong. When it is working I get amazing mileage out of her. so comfy on the rubbish roads here, always starts first time. knocks spots off my other cars.
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Post by Defender110 »

Well hurry up and get the brakes fixed then :!: :wink:
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I would if I could work out what is causing the brakes to have a two second delay. Busy searching the web for answers as we type
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Post by rodney68 »

i use mine every day for work/shops and with price of petrol now the missus has said its comfy pleasure trips too :D
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I would if I could work out what is causing the brakes to have a two second delay. Busy searching the web for answers as we typ.
Not encountered that phenomenon.
Seeing as the brakes work by depressing a button on the valve block, bolted to the engine side of the bulkhead, opposite the brake pedal,
I would have thought that's the first culprit to look at.
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bxnewby wrote:I would if I could work out what is causing the brakes to have a two second delay. Busy searching the web for answers as we type
Can't see how that can happen as these brakes are not power-assisted but power brakes. Perhaps you have so much air in the brake lines that it's delaying the fluid compressing the calipers? Have you topped the fluid resevoir up to the right level? Is the accumulator sphere flat? :?
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Other things to check - glazed pads, semi-seized calipers sliding pins, and internally collapsing hoses.
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Post by nige »

we use our bx 1.9 Deisel every day, Mrs uses it for work. Also does a number of long weekend trips from home here in Inverness down to family in Bedfordshire and back
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Post by medwaycitroen »

Our poor old BX 1.4 st tropez that we use as a loan car gets used every day, the poor old things now on about 180,000 miles. It has a few battle scars and the rust is slowly eating the sills (which we will replace soon) but that old 1.4 engine keeps on going, those engines are really amazing.
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Daily commuter for the last 2 1/2 years :(

Before I moved it was doing 44 miles a day, for the last year it was more like 22.

I genuinely believe that's one of the reasons it was so reliable, up until the end - cars like to be used.
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Post by Tim Leech »

Er, umm, I did go to tescos in the TZI last week and work to change the door bins, oh and down to chevonics in December. Havent used one every day for 14 years but the nice thing is getting behind the wheel reminds why i love them so much and it feels a "bit of an occassion" which I wouldnt do using it everyday, although in all that time and having owned about 25 of them not one has ever left me stranded.

I looked at the white one when it was all polished up under the sodium lamps in the workshop, with the suspension down and it did looks the mutts nuts! 8)
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they definitely look best when they are on the lowest suspension setting.
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