BX 1.6 Petrol, eBay

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:58 am

I WILL BE BIDDING ON THIS:

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Very local to me (like about one mile) and home of my football team.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Citroen-BX-1600CC ... dZViewItem

mnde · Post by **mnde** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:05 am

Ahhh, dontcha just love the colour. Looks a good bet if you can get it going mate!

Mark.

peterbot · Post by **peterbot** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:36 pm

Well worth it cavmad. The Bx 1600 petrol engine is such an easy lump to work on, even you could do it

If it's got the red pinstripe interior,even better

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:27 pm

is such an easy lump to work on, even you could do it :

You`ve heard of my reputation then

My biggest concern at the moment is getting it back if it won`t run-i.e how am I going to raise the suspension?
Mind you that`s assuming I actually win the listing in the first place! Owner`s got back to me and said viewing is no problem, hoping to go tomorrow morning all being well on the way back from Crewe.

Ian_Fearn · Post by **Ian_Fearn** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:40 pm

How far has it got to go?

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:45 pm

About one mile Ian, so not too far.

Ian_Fearn · Post by **Ian_Fearn** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:14 am

Put it on a towing bar and drive VERY slowly.

I've driven my old BX over 10 miles with no suspension, power steering and about 2 miles from home just the handbrake!

Stewart (oily!) · Post by **Stewart (oily!)** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:24 am

pop it in second gear and tow gently for a short distance, if theres a pump and LHM it will get up, it may even start!
Stewart

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:25 am

Thanks chaps. One potential problem is that the road back is littered with speed humps.
Then again I`ve not heard back from them ref. viewing time yet anyhow and it`s a ten day listing

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:20 am

Still no reply from vendor regarding time to view and car has now had a bid.....from someone in Lisboa, Portugal.
Love to see them tow that home from Chester

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:46 pm

Just back from viewing it and here`s the basic run down of what I found:

oil looked o.k but water (in rad) was a bit milky: had this before (but the other way round) ina Pug 405 and it was condensation due to short journeys.

some rust on n/s/f inner wing under the bitumen(?) close to the battery department.

unable to inspect nearside of car as parked against hedge.

from what I could see of fuel tank it didn`t look like it had sucked in.

owner says it used to run along fine and only had problems at junctions/pulling away from stop when it `felt like a fuel problem`. It then got him home and never started again despite a handful of attempts though he may have flooded it at the time.

electric windows and sunroof, red pinstripe interior-driver`s seat looked mint, rest buried under all the junk in the car.

exhaust is touching floor and will (in my opinion) rip off just getting it out of his drive.

evidence of an oil leak.

bodywork pretty good but a few knocks/scrapes.

I`ll be having a bid on it at some point but won`t be going mad as it`s quite a bit of work even just getting it back. Lack of MOT etc doesn`t help either, could be a bottomless pit to lob money into

Vanny · Post by **Vanny** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:31 am

Myself and Si would be likely candidates for having a damn good go at getting it started if not home! Have played footy in Vicars Cross, though quite some time ago and seem to remember it being on a bitof a hill!

That said im sure BX Rescue can get it started, and im sure it wont take long to put my finger on the problem (

)!

So when we goin?

PS im buying an AX at the weekend!

ken newbold · Post by **ken newbold** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:42 pm

6 hours to go. £1.20 cheap skate.

If you get it for under a fiver I'm coming too.

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:52 pm

My reputation precedes me again! However I doubt if it will stay that cheap.....though it`ll be bloody funny if it does!

ken newbold · Post by **ken newbold** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:17 pm

The vicar will be cross now

congrats, must be the cheapest BX on ebay ever.