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"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux) 05/12/2015 at 08:22 • Filed to: None

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nice shot from Citroen Club on Facebook

LongbowMkII > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 08:24

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:(

Alfalfa Romeo > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 08:28

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That damn English Ivy gets everywhere.

505Turbeaux > Alfalfa Romeo 05/12/2015 at 08:34

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and of course, these shots are from a DS boneyard in England

CalzoneGolem > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 08:41

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Wait ... that’s not the greenhouse.

505Turbeaux > CalzoneGolem 05/12/2015 at 08:42

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it is now!

OPPOsaurus WRX > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 08:43

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thats cool, saved to my desktop

ttyymmnn > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 08:50

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Nature always wins.

505Turbeaux > ttyymmnn 05/12/2015 at 08:51

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from dirt they come, to dirt they go

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 09:16

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Kill it with fire. That is the only way we can be sure all the spiders are destroyed.

MonkeePuzzle > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 09:32

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and I thought a little moisture in my foglight was bad!

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 17:06

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Are you still interested in its grandchild, the XM? I spotted one in the south of the Netherlands on the German-Dutch border, within a few kilometers of an empty property (with garage) on the pother side of the border my girlfriend recently inherited. We tend to go there sometimes to fix the property, and I might be there this weekend.

Anyway, 1990 (January) XM. 2nd owner, since 1994! €1250. 127k km! Manual transmission. Recent timing belt change. Inspection until next month, might get a new one. Lots of bills/paperwork/booklets, you name it. Downside: it’s got the 4 cylinder engine. Link .

505Turbeaux > duurtlang 05/12/2015 at 17:14

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I am! that seems like an awful lot of car for the money. I was hoping to find a diesel to broaden the appeal over here but this could be a contender. Have you ever driven the 4 cylinder one or a diesel?

duurtlang > 505Turbeaux 05/12/2015 at 17:26

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I haven’t driven one, period! Although the newer generation of that 4 cylinder is in my 406 coupe with the same displacement (2.0L), and I have driven a few BXs (diesel and gasoline, 1.4L and GTI 16V). It’s not the same thing though, and I’m not an expert.

It is a lot of car for the money. It’s a bargain in my opinion, assuming it doesn’t have any unmentioned major flaws. Had this been a 3.0 it would’ve been more expensive, nice XMs are appreciating. This seller is in a very unfortunate area of the Netherlands, like a peninsula. I think he’d have sold the car by now, for that price, had he been a bit more central.

The broken gear knob should be an easy fix, given the XMs on the French-specific junk yard I recently visited. Or Ebay.

Finding a diesel will be hard. The diesels were used as work horses, and will be worn out due to high mileage. In the Netherlands a big/heavy diesel like that is taxed to death (think €1500 a year in ownership tax) meaning you only own(ed) one if you want to drive a lot to compensate the higher tax with the far lower running costs of a diesel. In Germany older diesels aren’t allowed in many cities.