Breaking 16v with leather

Post by **Tim Leech** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:51 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/citroen-bx-16-val ... 7C294%3A50

So he wants £750 for the engine, seats and wheels with no tyres!

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:50 pm

I'm after leather, but it might be more cost effective to buy that GTi and swap it with mine... then re-sell it.

£250 seems a bit steep to me.

What's a leather interior really worth these days?

Post by **Tim Leech** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 3:50 pm

£250 is a heck of alot, normally they fetch half that, but rarity and desirability play a part in that, personally I would much rather have the monza or le mans seats as Matt you may or may not know that the leather ones are the same as TZD turbo or Gti 8v and not in my opinion as good.

Will be inetersted to see if he sells them,

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:11 pm

Don't get me wrong, I love the standard Le Mans 16v interior, and would choose the standard set-up over the leather... if it was 100% mint.

My interior has obviously been attacked by rodents in the past, and it is full of both small and large holes.

Plus I've never had a BX with leather... so it's another thing to cross off the list.

So if anyone has a mint and clean Le Mans interior they want to sell me... For a Phase 1 let me know

Edit: I think that should be Monza!

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:15 pm

Unless i had a car with working aircon & the heated seats function, i'd never touch leather, scalding hot in summer & freezing cold in winter, i cant quite see the attraction

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:27 am

LOL - reminds me of vinyl seats back in the seventies. After a hard day at the beach and with a blisteringly sunburnt back, sitting in a Morris Marina heated to oven temperatures after a day sat in the full Sun was never too comfortable.

Not to mention seeing the inevitable "death-crash" somewhere along the then three-lane Thanet Way. Poor old dad never drove, but I recall him and mum having five minute conversations about whether she should overtake or not.

Nostalgia, eh?

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:45 am

Leather is uber cool, but not for a valver IMO (having owned said combo)

It's like having Sierra Ghia seats in a Cossie! You need the support.

Leather would be good in a posh BX, although there isn't really one. TZ or GT is as close as it gets, and you couldn't ideally use the doorcards in a GT.