Hello All New Here

[ivan]

Hello and a happy Christmas to you all

 

Well I used to own a Citroen zx 19td leader estate, and sold it to buy a discovery, :angry: mmm wrong move I now know that, I should have kept the Citroen, well I sold the discovery and bought myself a Vauxhall astra 1.4 hatch on a p-reg, I have run that now for the past two years and its done me proud, however I have just bought myself o Honda fourman 450 atv for a bit of Fun, and so I built a trailer for the atv, mmm 1.4 not going to pull the trailer to good is it,

 

So I have just bought myself a Citroen xantia 1.8 hatch mk2 on a r-reg :) (yes back to a Citroen) I just gave £50.00 :P for it, its nice and clean inside and out and wait for it I am told the mileage is correct at 52k the reason it was cheap there was a leak on the hydraulics, :) well it was only £50.00 with m.o.t till July 08, and ii could have scraped it for more, well I sorted out the leak, it was under the main fluid resovor one of the blocks that house three pipes it was just a blown o"ring :) yes lucky me, well not really cause when I took it down the road the ride was as rough as sandpaper, :angry: yep the rear spheres had failed, so what now well I just had to change them so I did along with the front ones as well, well if a jobs worth doing might as well do it right, :P so that’s four new spheres and she now drives like a dream, :) but what I did find when I was checking it over as if for a m.o.t (as I am a tester) was the near side rear brake was binding, :unsure: so off came all four wheels and I striped down the front callipers and removed that calliper carriers into the vice and out with the file to clean em up were the pads run re-built the front brakes fitted front wheels and gave em a spin mmmm nice and sweet, so now on to the rears striped the off side rear brakes and cleaned em all up refitted off side rear wheel and gave it a spin and that was sweet, so now to the problem side near side rear, striped that down and yes you guessed it one of the pistons is seized up and it don’t want to be freed off, so that’s a new calliper for that side (£64.04 +vat ) not to bad I suppose, cause that’s all I could find that would cause me to fail it for m.o.t. So all in all don’t seem a bad deal really, so I treated her to an engine flush and a full service to day, :)

 

Will see how she go's when I fit my tow bracket and hook up my atv and trailer (look on the bright side if she dies I could put her in the trailer and pull her about with the atv, :lol:

 

Well I hope you enjoyed my post and if I can be of any help just give me a shout.

 

regds ivan

[richbaker]

wassup guys!? anotha newbie right chea!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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