What does everbody use their BX's for?

Anything about BXs
Post Reply
User avatar
saintjamesy89
1K Away
Posts: 1994
Joined: Tue May 04, 2010 8:01 pm
Location: Somerset
My Cars: 1985 Citroen BX19 GT
198x Citroen BX16 TRS auto
1988 Volvo 740 2.0 GL Hearse
1991 Saab 900 16v convertible
2007 Lexus RX 400h SE
x 123

What does everbody use their BX's for?

Post by saintjamesy89 »

As in the title, would be interesting to know which are daily driver types, which are Sundays and shows only types and then the other type, the moneypits! :D

Pics also wlecome, preferred in fact.
I'm not a Saint, or a James, but a Tom Saint-James!

Mes voitures:
1985 Citroen BX19 GT
1988 Volvo 740 2.0 GL Hearse
2006 Lexus RX 400h SE hybrid
User avatar
JayW
1K Away
Posts: 1590
Joined: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:40 pm
Location: Now listen here you mullet...
x 13

Post by JayW »

One is currently used as a peperweight (the TGD) and the other (the 16V) is currently errr, used as a paperweight...

But with another poised to enter the fold i shall be once again smoking around in a BX as a daily hack!
I have zero patience for your tedium.
Dollywobbler
Over 2k
Posts: 3940
Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:25 pm
Location: Wales
Contact:

Post by Dollywobbler »

I don't drive daily anymore, as I work from home, but the BX is a car I'll use to drive pretty much anywhere, more so as I get on top of the lengthy To Do list...

Here it is on van duty collecting bits from Mr Roverman.
Image

My last BX was very much the daily motor, though it did share that title with up to five other vehicles at various times...

I think hydraulic Citroens benefit from use, and they're joyous to drive. I've never been the 'polish for best' type. Far too much like hard word!
User avatar
MULLEY
Over 2k
Posts: 8406
Joined: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:10 pm
Location: Derbyshire
My Cars: 1999 Xsara LX 2.0HDI (90) Hatch - Fern
2002 C5 2.0 HDI (110) Estate - Jasmine - SORN
2011 Mini Cooper D Clubman - SOLD
2016 Mercedes A180D Sport - Auto refinement
1992 TZD Turbo - Bluebell - SORN
1992 TZD Turbo Estate - SORN
1991 Gti 16V - Blaze - crash damaged, will get repaired - SORN
1990 Gti 8Valve SOLD - looks like it's been scrapped
2002 Mini Cooper S - SOLD - i miss this car
1992 TXD - Scrapped in March 2014
1988 CX 25 GTI Turbo2 - SORN
1996 - AX Memphis 1.5D - Dream - SORN
x 8

Post by MULLEY »

TXD is daily, 7 days a week usually.

TZD is growing green & sat on the drive looking sorry.
2002 C5 2.0 HDI Estate - Jasmine - Now SORN
2011 Mini Cooper D Clubman - SOLD
2016 Mercedes A180D Sport - Auto refinement
1992 TZD Turbo - Bluebell - My daily
1991 Gti 16V - Blaze - crash damaged, will get repaired.
1990 Gti 8Valve SOLD - looks like it's been scrapped
2002 Mini Cooper S - SOLD - i miss this car
1992 TXD - Scrapped in March 2014
1988 CX 25 GTI Turbo2 - SORN
1996 - AX Memphis 1.5D - Dream - SORN

I'm not just a username, i'm also called Matthew.
User avatar
Wooscary
BXpert
Posts: 684
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:48 am
Location: Hulme, Manchester

Post by Wooscary »

Every day, only car, mainly used for moving girlfriend's and brother's band stuff around, which means the load space takes a beating.

It gets used for a few longer distance trips (Berlin, Spain, Scotland, and Berlin again this summer), but generally city driving.
User avatar
BX Meteor
BXpert
Posts: 985
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:04 pm

Post by BX Meteor »

I used to use my BX daily until I bought a Honda Accord in 2006. Until 2006 a BX was the only car for me. Had BX's since 1988, worked in Holland and Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich) and took the BX with me.

I wouldn't use one daily anymore .... btw I've already had that argument on this forum and don't want it again thanks. :wink:
Kitch
Over 2k
Posts: 6417
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:36 pm
Location: Fareham, Hants
My Cars: Too many to list
x 88
Contact:

Post by Kitch »

Heres mine next to it's modern equivilent:

Image

Mine's not a tart, although I am more bothered about trying to keep it tidy than most of my cars, where I generally don't care. But as with those, mechanical stuff is more important to me. I plan to restore this BX one day and the bit I'm more excited by is shot-blasting all the various brackets and components and getting them all powdercoated rather than the bodywork. I only tend to polish it when it's got something on, like that feature or sometimes for a show. Most of the time it's faded, pink, dirty and with a bit of trim hanging off. But it can spruce up quite nicely when needed I'm not into all this originality stuff though - I keep the car as I like it.

Service-wise it tends to have a year in, then a year out. Last year it was my daily and it performed brilliantly but being that I only do 6 miles a day, the economy was pretty poor because it never got a chance to warm up properly. But it often drove around with an engine in the boot staining the carpet, or a tool chest, or a welder, or a set of wheels in. Or even my kids!
I do start worrying after a while about someone hitting it and not being able to find the bits to repair it though, which will limit the amount of daily service it gets pressed into. And then there's the fact that ideally I'll keep it for the long-term, and any daily salt-covered road use I put it through today, I'll pay for in the future with 0.6mm wire and some inert gas. It's a shame, as it's a car designed for all weathers and all jobs. It's not supposed to be a garage queen - as Dollywobbler said, they don't tend to like that anyway. But purely for the purposes of preservation, I will have reign it in a bit from now on.

I think a BX can still make a good daily, but I also think it's better to be a ratty one that you don't care about cosmetically or emotionally, which is becoming a problem as they've just got past that point where they're all doing well to still be here. If I had a Xantia for instance, I'd drive it like a stole it and enjoy not caring.
One third of a three-spoke BX columnist team for the Citroenian magazine.

CCC BX registrar: The national BX register - click to submit a car!

1983(A) 16TRS (Rouge Valleunga)
1990(H) 16Valve (Rouge Furio)
User avatar
citsncycles
Over 2k
Posts: 3224
Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:14 pm
Location: Dursley, Gloucestershire

Post by citsncycles »

The last BX I had was daily commuter and general transport, until the commute and local work was taken on by a motorbike. The duties it performed included bicycle transport, tow vehicle, taxi and rubbish transporter.

Once the GS was back on the road last year, I stopped using the BX as the GS got used for anything the motorbike couldn't do (transport welding gear, bicycles, towing etc) so rather than have it suffering from being sat, I sold it so that someone else could enjoy it, and I could use the cash for other things!

I do believe that any car, once roadworthy, needs regular exercise to keep in good condition.
Mike Sims
BX 19RD Estate Mk1 - Timex!
BX 4X4 Estate - Oh god, I've done it again!
BX 17RD MK1 - it called to me!
BX14 TGE, - SOLD
XM Turbo SD,GS Club Estate,Visa 17D Leader,HY Pickup,Dyane Nomad,Dyane 6,2CV AZL,Falcon S,Trabant P50,3x Land Rovers (88" series 1,109" series 2a FFR,series 2a Marshall ambulance),DKW F7, Lambretta LD150 x 1.5,Mobylette SP93,Ural Cossack,Ural M63,CZ 250 Sport,Honda Varadero 125,lots of bicycles & tricycles including (but not only) Sunbeams,Higgins & Bates!
User avatar
mat_fenwick
Moderator
Posts: 7326
Joined: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:08 pm
Location: North Wales
x 19

Post by mat_fenwick »

I was going to write something here, and then I realised Kitch has summed it up very nicely. Daily driver, 50 miles a day for the last 5 years with the occasional couple of months off (like at the moment). But no plans to retire it to weekend use for the foreseeable future, I have another car for spares plus a collection of new parts to (hopefully) keep it on the road.
Image

1993 1.9 TZD Turbo Estate
1996 3.9 V8 Discovery
1993 VW LT35 campervan
1985 Hyundai Stellar V8
2016 Hyundai iLoad
User avatar
Philip Chidlow
Over 2k
Posts: 11594
Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:08 pm
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
x 25

Post by Philip Chidlow »

My BXs have always been - with the exception of the 16v Ph2 and the ultra low miles 16TGS I had - daily drivers. The 19TGD 'Red Baron' is now exception... and it's all the better for it I think.
• 1992 Citroen BX TZD Turbo Hurricane
• 2006 Xsara Picasso 1.6 16v
kiwi
Over 2k
Posts: 2380
Joined: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:20 am
Location: Nouvelle Zealande
x 4

Post by kiwi »

For me the BX is the prefered drive! ^^bx>

The two petrol ones get little use since the TXD arrived but then when we had just the petrols the TZS was still the number 1 car. In a way it still is just not as much as the diesel TXD.

When you got two runs to work a day or as the case is now taking little one to school as well. The TXD makes economical sense.
Costs of the obligatory twice per year mechanical test and the guvermint charges to use the roads one the BXs (19TRS) has been sat in the garden for the last 3 months since its legality to use ran out. Meanwhile the TZS sits at the back of the garage but does come out on either wet days where the TXD might be left all day in the rain or on the extremely rare this year hot days that aircon may be required :lol:

So in summery yes daily use, occassional use and just sits around doing nothing anymore. Either way I will prefer to drive the BX over the mitsi anyday.
1991 BX19 TZS 04/01/91 (Deceased)
1990 BX19 TRS 27/10/89 (Reborn)
1992 BX19 TXD (Ex UK - K 744 SDF) 15/06/92
1990 BX19 TZS Auto 06/11/1989
1992 BX TZD Turbo Estate (Ex UK) 1/07/91
User avatar
Tim Leech
Over 2k
Posts: 15565
Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:12 am
Location: Derbyshire
My Cars: Various
x 141

Post by Tim Leech »

Erm, I dont use my BX's much, although the 19TZD has done more miles in the past 6 months than the rest of them put together. Mainly down to it being diesel and not in such a condition as I wont use it in all weathers, although I keep it clean and leather it off before it gets put away in the garage......

In the nice weather I rotate the useage of the cars, mainly for trips out, car shows and visiting friends but having a new Golf company car which is fully expensed I dont use one of my own cars unless its Citroen related or to visit another "car guy".

At one time my 16TZS was my daily driver, but cost a small fortune and did suffer with the hot starting issues so I sold it for a modern Citroen and regretted it ever since.

Some people have only one car so its there "daily", eventually as the cars get older, scarcer and more valuable that will diminsh in a effort to preserve the small numbers left.
Lots of Motors, mostly semi broken....
User avatar
Tim Leech
Over 2k
Posts: 15565
Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:12 am
Location: Derbyshire
My Cars: Various
x 141

Post by Tim Leech »

mat_fenwick wrote:I have another car for spares plus a collection of new parts to (hopefully) keep it on the road.

Mat, that estate you got from Bob isnt for breaking is it? looks FAR too good for that.
Lots of Motors, mostly semi broken....
User avatar
mat_fenwick
Moderator
Posts: 7326
Joined: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:08 pm
Location: North Wales
x 19

Post by mat_fenwick »

What I mean is that with a spare BX, if I need a part desperately I can just swap it from the one that's not in use, and then replace it at leisure. I.e. rather than waiting for a part to be ordered in if it's not quickly available.

But if I had to chose just one to keep on the road, it would be the red one simply because of the time I've owned it and the miles I've driven.
Image

1993 1.9 TZD Turbo Estate
1996 3.9 V8 Discovery
1993 VW LT35 campervan
1985 Hyundai Stellar V8
2016 Hyundai iLoad
User avatar
Paul296
Over 2k
Posts: 3483
Joined: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:39 pm
Location: Newark Nottinghamshire
My Cars: Citroen BX 17 TZD Hurricane
Citroen BX 17 TGD

Post by Paul296 »

Driving, mending, polishing, stareing at, worrying about a funny clonking noise that wasn't there yesterday, buying stuff of ebay for, meeting nice people I wouldn't ordinarily meet, boring people, puzzling people, more polishing, spending money I havn't got on, wasting my time on internet forums, more polishing, day dreaming about, listening to radio 4 in - oh and more polishing . . . but mostly driving.

At 184,000 miles the Hurricane is coming off the road (and having a new door at the moment as some scumbags broke into it) while the TGD is taking up the slack as my daily drive. When that gets too nice/rare/long in the tooth to use daily, I'll have to buy ANOTHER one!

^^bx> ^^ ^^
Post Reply