Hi,
Firstly a little bit of background on the car:
I bought it last year off e-bay as a run around while I was fixing up my other Xantia as my daily hack. I needed something cheap and quickly (That's a dodgy thing to say in polite company) This was by no means an immaculate car, but it started, drove and stopped and everything appeared to work, so a deal was done (a cheap deal I hastened to add) and I drove it home after putting 6 months tax on it. A few weeks later instead of a new V5, a letter from the DVLA arrived saying the vehicle was registered as damaged repaired and needed a VIC, now they cost £45 and are only to confirm the vehicle's identity, though why another vehicle would claim to be a Citroen Xantia is beyond me, I wasn't aware identity theft in the car world was common, although I did see an MR2 pretending it was a Ferrari the other day, so who knows? This annoyed me no end, because I specifically asked the seller if there was anything I needed to know about the vehicle and whether it had been involved in an accident before, they absolutely said no. Still, this is the first time I've knowingly been lied to when buying a vehicle, which isn't too bad, guess my odds had been narrowing. The engine apparently had been serviced regularly, but the oil filter looked like a battlefield relic from the Boer War, he was at a loss to explain that one.
Anyway, it was duly christened the 'Shed' an pressed into daily service, which it has performed very well, however it earned the nicked of Shed for a reason, so the bad points of the car:
1) The middle interior light fell out and was then removed as it annoyed me but swinging and hitting my head whilst listening to ACDC (Please do not interrupt ACDC)
2) The LHM suspension has seen better days and the ride is very 'firm' (it reminds me of a Vauxhall Vectra :-p it also doesn't sink down when left over night like my other one, however it does seem to work otherwise, it also has a slight leak from somewhere, but it's not very bad, I've used a 1 litre bottle in the 5 months I've had it.
3) The cask lights are temperamental, sometimes the one illuminating the rev counter goes out
4) The power steering is sometimes fabulous, sometimes akin to trying to pick up a night storage heater, and sometimes an interesting mixture of the two, but hey, it keeps you on your toes whilst driving.
5) There are numerous scratches etc consistent with the age of the vehicle, also one of the wings is dented (not during my ownership) and the passenger wing mirror lost a battle with a kamikaze driver in a car park (I assume anyway, as it was damaged when I arrived back) the glass is broken.
6) The drivers seat broke somehow (!?!) whilst I was driving, meaning the back of the seat doesn't support the right hand side of your body very well, which is good if you like a laid back approach to cruising, or bad because it makes you look like you are suffering a stroke whilst driving, but you can live with it
7) It'll need a VIC for a V5
8) The speedo now only says 0 or 50MPH when you start driving, this is probably because it has been sat for a couple of weeks, or it might be because it is a Citroen Xantia
9) The Radiator developed a leak, but has been sorted with Radweld.
1) It's annoyingly reliable
2) It returns 45-50 MPG (Sometimes more) without fail
3) The Oil filter could be a valuable relic from the Boer War
4) It has the original tape deck/radio combo for retro mobile discos
5) It's a manual, which means you can feel more in control of when you want to change gear
7) It starts, drives, stops and will probably still be going long after i've shuffle off my mortal coil (annoyingly)
8) Its name makes it sound like a cool character from the X-Men
9) It's just possible that Eva Green might have sat in one just like it, she's half French after all.
The MOT runs out on the 11th of this month (Feb) which isn't long, the tax runs out the end of the month. My plan was to take it for a VIC and then scrap it as you need the V5 to do that, but I though hey, why not try and move it on first, in case anyone out there has a use for it.
So there you go, buy it, drive it, restore it, break it, scrap it, use it in a bank robbery, pretend you're a French Art critic and waft around in it, or leave it here and the enviable will happen at my devious hands (whenever I can find the time)
The price is £25, yes twenty five of your English Pounds, which is based on my getting the VIC done and the money left over from scrapping it, you'll need to come and get it, somehow, don't worry I won't tell your friends, discretion is assured.
No pictures, however google 'P-reg Xantia' then imagine it dark red in colour with the aforementioned idiosyncrasies applied.
Please no excuses like "I'd buy that if only it wasn't a Citroen Xantia in need of a VIC" :-p
Finally, please don't all rush at once!
Firstly a little bit of background on the car:
I bought it last year off e-bay as a run around while I was fixing up my other Xantia as my daily hack. I needed something cheap and quickly (That's a dodgy thing to say in polite company) This was by no means an immaculate car, but it started, drove and stopped and everything appeared to work, so a deal was done (a cheap deal I hastened to add) and I drove it home after putting 6 months tax on it. A few weeks later instead of a new V5, a letter from the DVLA arrived saying the vehicle was registered as damaged repaired and needed a VIC, now they cost £45 and are only to confirm the vehicle's identity, though why another vehicle would claim to be a Citroen Xantia is beyond me, I wasn't aware identity theft in the car world was common, although I did see an MR2 pretending it was a Ferrari the other day, so who knows? This annoyed me no end, because I specifically asked the seller if there was anything I needed to know about the vehicle and whether it had been involved in an accident before, they absolutely said no. Still, this is the first time I've knowingly been lied to when buying a vehicle, which isn't too bad, guess my odds had been narrowing. The engine apparently had been serviced regularly, but the oil filter looked like a battlefield relic from the Boer War, he was at a loss to explain that one.
Anyway, it was duly christened the 'Shed' an pressed into daily service, which it has performed very well, however it earned the nicked of Shed for a reason, so the bad points of the car:
1) The middle interior light fell out and was then removed as it annoyed me but swinging and hitting my head whilst listening to ACDC (Please do not interrupt ACDC)
2) The LHM suspension has seen better days and the ride is very 'firm' (it reminds me of a Vauxhall Vectra :-p it also doesn't sink down when left over night like my other one, however it does seem to work otherwise, it also has a slight leak from somewhere, but it's not very bad, I've used a 1 litre bottle in the 5 months I've had it.
3) The cask lights are temperamental, sometimes the one illuminating the rev counter goes out
4) The power steering is sometimes fabulous, sometimes akin to trying to pick up a night storage heater, and sometimes an interesting mixture of the two, but hey, it keeps you on your toes whilst driving.
5) There are numerous scratches etc consistent with the age of the vehicle, also one of the wings is dented (not during my ownership) and the passenger wing mirror lost a battle with a kamikaze driver in a car park (I assume anyway, as it was damaged when I arrived back) the glass is broken.
6) The drivers seat broke somehow (!?!) whilst I was driving, meaning the back of the seat doesn't support the right hand side of your body very well, which is good if you like a laid back approach to cruising, or bad because it makes you look like you are suffering a stroke whilst driving, but you can live with it
7) It'll need a VIC for a V5
8) The speedo now only says 0 or 50MPH when you start driving, this is probably because it has been sat for a couple of weeks, or it might be because it is a Citroen Xantia
9) The Radiator developed a leak, but has been sorted with Radweld.
1) It's annoyingly reliable
2) It returns 45-50 MPG (Sometimes more) without fail
3) The Oil filter could be a valuable relic from the Boer War
4) It has the original tape deck/radio combo for retro mobile discos
5) It's a manual, which means you can feel more in control of when you want to change gear
7) It starts, drives, stops and will probably still be going long after i've shuffle off my mortal coil (annoyingly)
8) Its name makes it sound like a cool character from the X-Men
9) It's just possible that Eva Green might have sat in one just like it, she's half French after all.
The MOT runs out on the 11th of this month (Feb) which isn't long, the tax runs out the end of the month. My plan was to take it for a VIC and then scrap it as you need the V5 to do that, but I though hey, why not try and move it on first, in case anyone out there has a use for it.
So there you go, buy it, drive it, restore it, break it, scrap it, use it in a bank robbery, pretend you're a French Art critic and waft around in it, or leave it here and the enviable will happen at my devious hands (whenever I can find the time)
The price is £25, yes twenty five of your English Pounds, which is based on my getting the VIC done and the money left over from scrapping it, you'll need to come and get it, somehow, don't worry I won't tell your friends, discretion is assured.
No pictures, however google 'P-reg Xantia' then imagine it dark red in colour with the aforementioned idiosyncrasies applied.
Please no excuses like "I'd buy that if only it wasn't a Citroen Xantia in need of a VIC" :-p
Finally, please don't all rush at once!
