Free to a good home

Or any home in fact...

Anyone want a SO Citroen AX11E 1.1 litres of Citroen fun...

MOT till mid-May - will get another with a bit of TLC I'd have thought.
Engine is good, bodywork a bit battered looking, but not rusty at all.

Taxed till end of August - if you give us 40 quid for the whole shooting
match, otherwise I'll cash in the tax.

It's red, and in Raunds (Northants).

A few beers in exchange would be wonderful.

 

<waves>

 

Dave Eades said:

'simes @ wafer dot org dot uk' should elicit some sort of response!
Sorry about that... Sig file is a bit out of touch...

 

<unwaves>
her indoors just pointed out how far away from us Northants is (Doh!)

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Pity it's not a diesel ShiteOldHatchback; I'd have had it otherwise.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Grimly Curmudgeon said:

Well it is a hatchback - and does about 50 to the gallon...

 

Simon Atkinson was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

What's necessary to get it through the MOT? Might well be interested,
I need *something* driveable.

 

I'm currently looking to replace the Primera.... can't think of a more
ideal vehicle for you, even _you_ couldn't break one of those ;-)

Will be cheap, too.

 

Too reliable for you?

This I definitely agree with.

 

I'm bored of it, to be honest. It's a devastatingly quick cross-country
car, but, if anything, it's _too_ competent. I'm driving it like a ****,
and so far have got away with it, but the complete lack of decent
feedback from the chassis is worrying - it'll get me into trouble one
day. Did I mention that I find it boring?

 

SteveH was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Famous last words, as posted to ukrm...

Ah, cheap and nasty, oi loikes that

 

Timo Geusch said:

As I can see at the moment, the main thing would be that the headlights
would need adjusting - one of them is pointing a bit out of line.
Otherwise it's OK.

If you want it come and get it - I can pick you up from the local
station (if that's how you want to get here), and we can look at my Pan
and compare it (mentally) to yours...

 

Simon Atkinson was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Doesn't sound too bad - if that's all that's required, fine, if not,
well, it's not that it's an expensive car...

Sounds good - would you be in Sunday? Oh, and do you still have a
certain Pan rear wheel?

 

Timo Geusch said:

Yes to both... Is the addy you use a real one? If not - email me on
simes at wafer dot org dot uk and we'll sort something out...

 

SteveH said:

That says rather more about you and how observant you are of the feel of
the car and road, than it does about the car TBH.

That was about 2 months ago old chap. At 6:30 in the morning it's been
very pleasant recently.

 

No, it says they've engineered out _all_ the feedback to the extent
that, IMHO, it's actually dangerous. I'd certainly notice (and have) if
the Alfa had a deflating tyre, becuase you get loads of feeback about
what's going on around you.

Not here it isn't. Scraping ice off the car a couple of times last week.

 

Hardly "devastating" though, eh? No necksnapping acceleration,
grey-out brakes, or eye-popping G-force cornering. That would be
devastating, Steve.

Not difficult though, is it? Fuckall goes past the SORenault
cross-country and I'm hardly pushing that to its limits.

Lack of feedback is one thing, lack of sensitivity from the pilot
another. I've driven Primeras and they do handle in an easy, neutral
manner - they are very competent - for a cooking cage. You should
still be able to tell what is going on, though.

You're commuting. Hang on, WTF are you commuting 2.5 hours - you've
moved to Wales, FFS. Anyway, you're driving a car. It isn't
involving unless you're wondering/worrying what is going to drop off
next, what that rattle/buzz/squeak is - unless you're piloting an
RS200 through Clocaenog on the way to the shop, that is.

You're in Wales. It will never happen (except for August 12th, of
course) and that day your battery will be flat. Not that you'll
notice.

 

SteveH said:

Absolute cobblers old chap. They have certainly made a nice stable
platform for the vehicle, but it's not anything magical.

I suspect the reality is (with respect) that you are one of these chaps
who checks the pressures in his bike tyres and nods meaningfully if they
are 0.1 psi down on what they should be while saying 'I knew there was
something not right about the handling as I was backing it into that
last roundabout', but in reality wouldn't notice anything amiss if the
pressures were 20psi out (As they could be if your rely on garage
air-lines).

And because they have antideluvian suspension compared to a SO Primera.
The Japs are bloody good at what they do - they have made a pleasant
family saloon that handles to modern standards. No more.

Air frost. Occurs at anything around (or below) 4C air temp. Soon gone
- nothing to worry about.