Citroen BX 1.9D 'The Estate' - Barn Stored to Bahn Stormer?

[DS3R]

Kitchski said:

In a rather retarded fashion, as now we'll have to climb over it to jump start it!

Classic! Great story OP

[getawayturtle]

My guess is 6 attempts, on the basis that all the prior numbers have been taken.

[threadlock]

My parents had a very similar-looking one of these when I was in my late teens. A quirky car but it never let us down.

I was driving it south on a French péage en route to a skiing holiday when the back left tyre burst in the fast lane. With my 18 year-old inexperience I over corrected the consequential imbalance and threw us into a spin. We slid sideways out of the fast lane, across the slow lane and hard shoulder, wiped the headlights off on the only section of Armco for a mile and were flipped the remaining 270° to end up rolling again in the right direction along the hard shoulder. It was a miracle we didn't hit any of the other cars and lorries on that busy section of motorway at the time.

Despite this I still have fond memories of the car. I'll be watching this thread - please update it, kitch. :-)

[Fastdruid]

Which is crazy as the BX is one of the few cars where a blowout shouldn't make you crash.

As shown here by a GS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Vp-Y6Ue3w

[Kitchski]

PHer	Required attempts
omgus	3
S10GTA	1 (fool)
RSD25	5
youngsod	2
wolfy1988	4
getawayturtle	6

Edited by Kitchski on Tuesday 5th March 23:11

[Kitchski]

wolfy1988 said:

My guess is 4

What so we win if we guess correctly??

You win the clutch friction plate after it's been removed. Can be framed if you like....it'll be pretty shiney

[Kitchski]

MadeinWigan said:

Love the idea of this car.

How easy is it to slot a new engine in? There's only one for sale on ebay and it happens to be very close to me but it has a knackered engine.

Think I know the car you mean. It's pretty easy to do in fairness.....finding a 1.8TD lump would be harder, but the 1.9TD is practically the same engine and slots pretty much straight in too. You've just got a 'moral' dilemma on whether you tell your insurance company about your 2bhp increase

[Benton]

What a cracking car Have enjoyed reading the original thread on this car too, looking forward to the updates!

At least give it a wash and an oil change though

[Kitchski]

Benton said:

What a cracking car Have enjoyed reading the original thread on this car too, looking forward to the updates!

At least give it a wash and an oil change though

Oil change....maybe. Depends on MOT (and when Asda are having a sale on oil!)

Wash? The rain will do that.

[Kitchski]

Put this Saturday morning in your diary folks.....it's go time

I'll make sure I film it! I notice how everybody has guessed the number of attempts needed to get it going, yet no one has actually said it won't start as their option!

[Benton]

Looking forward to this

[Shambler]

Brings back memorys, my father had a k plate tzd turbo estate. Lovely thing to drive I seem to remember at the time it was one of the quickest diesels from 0-60. Great thread.

[S10GTA]

Just getting ready to leave and head to my dads where the estate lurks. Looking forward to this.

[martin mrt]

I'm looking forward to the updates, I really enjoyed the thread first time round

I'm going to guess at 5 attempts and it will go

[Leins]

Surely this car should be known as "The Break"? But then as it seems to always start again, maybe not

[MJK 24]

With a fully charged battery, third attempt!

[LouD86]

Best of luck gents!!

[S10GTA]

Done, dusted and back in fareham by now. Update to follow. One of the guesses was right.

[CDP]

S10GTA said:

Done, dusted and back in fareham by now. Update to follow. One of the guesses was right.

So it started in a maximum of 6 tries.

Excellent. Hope it still goes. If you get chance dump some waxoyl on the underside and we'll see you again in a couple of years

[youngsod]

I'm just chuffed it's come back to life!