I bought this AX a few months back to commute to work in, a job which it performed admirably. When they were new, these were the most economical car you could buy, and it'll still give a modern piddly common rail DPF'd wonder machine a run for its money in the real-world economy stakes. I took it down to Somerset and back at the end of July - 535 miles round trip, it never missed a beat and averaged 63mpg, and I wasn't taking it particularly easy. Gentle pottering round the Norfolk backroads will get closer to 70mpg.
It's not slow either - 58bhp isn't a huge amount, but it has plenty of torque and not a great deal of weight, so it rattles along OK. It's not going to worry many hot hatches but it keeps up with the traffic just fine.
It's pretty basic - the only "luxury" is a pop-up sunroof. All the electrics do work though, such as they are. The upholstery on the driver's seat has seen better days - not unexpected for a car with 140-odd thousand miles on the clock - but other than that the interior's all there. The bodywork has various scratches but is still quite presentable.
Mechanically it seems fine - it's not the most refined engine in the world, but it always starts and has always got me where I needed to go. I treated it to an oil and filter change about 3,000 miles ago, and have just fitted a new (genuine Citroën) diesel filter in an attempt to cure an occasional slight loss of power - so far it seems to have done the trick.
Unfortunately the tax and MoT have now expired, and although the bodywork is fairly solid, tyres are OK and all the lights, wipers etc. work fine, it's probably going to need things like suspension bushes, tracking (it pulls to the left) and slightly uneven braking seeing to for it to pass. I've gone back to using my Rover 400 as a daily (nippy though the Citroën is, it can't match a tweaked 2-litre turbo diesel for getting past dithering caravans), and I've got too many other cars needing attention to have time to sort the AX. In my opinion it's still far too good to scrap though, so if anyone wants it for £100 they can come and drive it away (if booked in for an MoT at journey's end, of course).
Here's a picture:
It's not slow either - 58bhp isn't a huge amount, but it has plenty of torque and not a great deal of weight, so it rattles along OK. It's not going to worry many hot hatches but it keeps up with the traffic just fine.
It's pretty basic - the only "luxury" is a pop-up sunroof. All the electrics do work though, such as they are. The upholstery on the driver's seat has seen better days - not unexpected for a car with 140-odd thousand miles on the clock - but other than that the interior's all there. The bodywork has various scratches but is still quite presentable.
Mechanically it seems fine - it's not the most refined engine in the world, but it always starts and has always got me where I needed to go. I treated it to an oil and filter change about 3,000 miles ago, and have just fitted a new (genuine Citroën) diesel filter in an attempt to cure an occasional slight loss of power - so far it seems to have done the trick.
Unfortunately the tax and MoT have now expired, and although the bodywork is fairly solid, tyres are OK and all the lights, wipers etc. work fine, it's probably going to need things like suspension bushes, tracking (it pulls to the left) and slightly uneven braking seeing to for it to pass. I've gone back to using my Rover 400 as a daily (nippy though the Citroën is, it can't match a tweaked 2-litre turbo diesel for getting past dithering caravans), and I've got too many other cars needing attention to have time to sort the AX. In my opinion it's still far too good to scrap though, so if anyone wants it for £100 they can come and drive it away (if booked in for an MoT at journey's end, of course).
Here's a picture:
