What did you do with your BX today ?

[white exec]

Discovered my rear tyres are 20 years old.

Check your spare then, it might be the original.

Discovered (last year) that mine was!

[Pcheaven]

Discovered my rear tyres are 20 years old.

Check your spare then, it might be the original.

Top tip
Cheers. Can’t believe I forgot that

If it is then one of the existing front tyres can go on it ( they are approx 4 yes old with plenty of tread)

[Tim Leech]

I washed my 3 and the xantia, plus others at the "barn"

[deltic]

Wished mine happy 30th birthday today!

[frog]

Not quite today but my BX made it to the local cars and coffee last weekend

[white exec]

Wow, gosh

[Pcheaven]

Not quite today but my BX made it to the local cars and coffee last weekend

Great wheels.


Could do with something nicer on my bx

[Dave_16v]

Not quite today but my BX made it to the local cars and coffee last weekend

Car of the day. For some reason, I like that a lot.

[Fumbler]

Re-aligned the wiper yesterday. All is good.

[Jaba]

Started to do the prelims for replacing a front to rear hydraulic pipe from the HC to the priority valve. As its such a fiddly job and I like to put the replacements in all the pipe clips along the route I started wondering why am I actually doing this. I put it on my things to do list in 2016 and could not remember why.
So I had a long search to find the rusty bit and eventually discovered it just forward of the rear wheel. It was surface rust that I had covered up in 2016 with the black stuff. But it was still only surface rust not serious so I decided to inhibit the rust and underseal it again and thereby deferring it again for another 5 years unless I need to take the LH suspension arm off.
Then having taken the middle silencer off for access most of its guts spilled out when I upended it. As the front silencer has rusted away internally too I have ended up replacing the exhaust system instead of a hydraulic pipe.

Going for a long walk tomorrow and a pub lunch to get me away from my needy BX.

[white exec]

Big pipe, little pipe - all in a day's work! Hope the pub lunch goes well.

Surprising how durable the hydraulic lines are, unless they happen to be kept wrapped in muddy dampness (eg in subframe gaps).

I'd entirely forgotten just how basic a diesel exhaust system was on the BX - no front end box at all. Diesel exhausts tend not to rust, and so they can get forgotten about. Do find the 19D exhaust a tad "chuffy" at the back at idle . . . am used to dead silence on the XM.

A turbo quietens exhaust enormously, by smoothing out the shock-waves. Have driven our RAV4 D4D with nothing except 0.5m of downpipe attached: surprisingly quiet, except at full throttle.

Did wonder about fitting a front-end box to the 19D, to quieten things down a bit. Good idea? Any other options?

[deltic]

Not quite today but my BX made it to the local cars and coffee last weekend

And a Lancia Fulvia Zagato on the right!

[white exec]

And on the subject of Zagato, try this for a one-off...
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The wheel trims are the giveaway.

[Jaba]

Yes Lancia made some great cars. I had a Beta for about 3 years, not one of their great ones but an enjoyable car nevertheless.
I could not beat its rust however so sold the 4 year old car for peanuts to a guy who wanted the engine.

[rutter123]

Those trims are very similar to Rover P6 2000