Does your car have a soul

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jacksun1987
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Does your car have a soul

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I know this is bad. But i put a 100 pound deposite on a 06 mondeo ghia tdi. The sad if i changed my mind they would give my deposite back. Still waiting for it.
So last week my electric mirror stopped working completley. Then just this weekend. I spent 150 pound on my bx for the suspansion. Got the lhm leak sorted out. New back sphieres. And the hieght needed adgusting The ride felt so differnt.
Then i press my botton for the electric mirror. It was now working.

So basically When i started looking at cars. Things started to go wrong. Then when i get some things sorted out on the car. And part my hart back in the car. It started working againe. Strange

As anything happerned to you like that.
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1992 k reg 1.7 txd hatch in red 179. 000 miles had
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Post by docchevron »

oh yes, all BX's are infact females. With soul, angry temprament and vitriol.

They know if you've been unfaithful with another car, and reward you with a great drive if you stroke them lovingly like a good (or bad!) woman.
Smokes lots, because enough's enough already!

Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
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Its like the other week. The knob for the fan came off. it still worked but i could pull it out. couple of days later was using it. Then it went back in place.


Ohhh ya. When i took my car in i got a shitty ax 1 liter petrol. To drive went like a rocket. Could not belive it. It look like shit. sounded like shit lol. Lernt another lession there. Dont juge a car on its apperance. Or what size engine it is. Wonder what a bx 1.4 be like. or even a ax 1.4. Its made me change my mind about petrols. Get a bx 1.4 as a back up. Cheaper to run.
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1991 h reg 1.7tzd hatch in black 159.000 miles had
1992 k reg 1.7 txd hatch in red 179. 000 miles had
Renaul laguna exspessin 02 plate 1.8 16v 75 k had
cosa 1.2 brezze 150 k had
406 glx 1.9 td 170k s reg white got
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The later 1.4's at least are great. The performance is at least as good as the 19RD I had years ago, but with better handling (lighter front end) and cheaper tax & insurance. There's also less to go wrong and they seem to be cheap as chips both to buy and maintain. They also do 35-40mpg and will even tow a loaded car transporter trailer (albiet slowly up hills).
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Post by kiwi »

docchevron wrote:oh yes, all BX's are infact females. With soul, angry temprament and vitriol.

They know if you've been unfaithful with another car, and reward you with a great drive if you stroke them lovingly like a good (or bad!) woman.
When they dont start I call my BX a bitch so completly the opposite to when the wife starts :lol:
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Post by saintjamesy89 »

My BX has a soul, and it hates me... It shredded it's alternator belt to day on the way to mums, we played the 'drive-home-with-no-lights-on-and-just-enough-electricity-to-give-a-spark-below-2500-rpm' and then I thought it must be illegal to drive around in the dark with no lights or indicators, and I have to drive past a police station to get home... It also screams at me, I think the cambelt bearings need changing.

Fortunaltey the HP pump belt is fine.

Anyone got a spare alternator belt for a 1989 BX14 that could be collected tommorow? I live in yeovil, somerset. I'm supposed to be going back to uni sunday night...
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Sorry, just had to change my belt myself, although if there's a motor factor in Yeovil that's any good they should be able to supply you one for a few quid!

If there's a bearing going anywhere on the cambelt route, get that changed now! If that breaks it'll be expensive - I've known a BX14 bend almost every valve in the head at tickover and a 1.4 ZX write it's engine off when the belt failed on start up :shock: !
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Post by saintjamesy89 »

There are a few, problem is that nothing to do with cars opens on a bloody sunday around here.

And i've had to swap my insurance back to my astra after only a few weeks of citroen-ness, so will be able toplay with my new carb, alternator and will get a cambelt kit too now you've told me that :shock: , thanks citsncycles!
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jacksun1987 wrote:Its like the other week. The knob for the fan came off. it still worked but i could pull it out. couple of days later was using it. Then it went back in place.
Mine's like that too - but I don't fiddle about with it so much these days :wink:
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Post by R9UKE »

I have to say, the BX really does have the character of a grumpy menopausal woman.

Or perhaps that's just the 19 TXD? :)
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/\ nope, it's all of them!
Smokes lots, because enough's enough already!

Far too many BX's, a bus, an ambulance a few trucks, not enough time and never enough cash...
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Think mine is posessed! Went out to a autojumble at Garstang yesterday 100 yards down the road the drivers window shot up and down on it's own and then the digital clock display re-materialised as if by magic. Plus the original Blaupunkt Atlanta radio cassette only receives French radio stations via long wave! Now started calling it Damien! :evil:
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"BX..... go home..."
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Had some eBay purchases to pick up at the weekend - a 260 mile round trip organised with not quite enough time so I had to make up some time on the journey. So the M40, M6, and M1 had to be taken at 75+ for me to get to places on time - which I did ok.

The BX performed faultlessly - until the last half mile when a gearshift link fell off and left me in second - so what was that little hissy all about :-)
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