Citroen Xantia Activa (2000)

[Kidders]

Here is my old car. I sold it back in Feb and the Mondeo replaced it. It had a bit of a chequered past, was once an MOD car, was neglected both bodywork and mechanically. The previous owner had spent a lot of time sorting the suspension out how it should of been, and then i took over with the bodywork, refurbishing the wheels, painting the front and back bumpers and full paintwork correction.

I also tweaked it a bit, adding my own spec turbo, basically a Rover 220 Turbo compressor side matched to the Xantia exhaust, and running around 13psi boost max, standard is 9psi. It went quite well in the end.

Here's the pictures.








Now it seems i may be getting another. The fact i have no space for it, or very little time, is irrelevant.

[BenMk3]

http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...

No.1 in the moose test! Good selling point

Very nice looking car though, my mum used to have a '95 1.8 LX in black about 9-10 years ago. Air suspension never does seem to lose it's novelty!

[W00DY]

Looks very clean. Always wondered what one would be like to drive.

[soad]

Sure made it look factory fresh. Simply gleaming away!

[Mr Dave]

Awesome car. Hard to run?

[anonymous-user]

awesome car!! lets hope there are enough mooses to go around at the next trackday !! ;-)

[Kidders]

Mr Dave said:

Awesome car. Hard to run?

Not anymore! It went in Feb.

Had it around 18 months, no major issues except the exhaust manifold gasket went, which was an engine out job. Nothing is really simple on them, french engineering but when its all in harmony, its a lovely drive, then throw it into a corner and no word of a lie, its 1430kg kerbweight suddenly drops to a ton and goes round like its dancing, at the same time retaining its comfort. Genius.

[Old Gregg]

Fantastic left-field choice of car. Pretty damn rare too, does anyone know roughly how many of these were sold? I've only ever seen a couple.

What kind of power increase did the turbo upgrade bring?

[Kidders]

Old Gregg said:

Fantastic left-field choice of car. Pretty damn rare too, does anyone know roughly how many of these were sold? I've only ever seen a couple.

What kind of power increase did the turbo upgrade bring?

This was was a S2, very few were registered (Citroen never pushed the sales), just over 200 i think. More of the S1 though, about 1500.

I never had it rolling roaded. As standard, they are about 150bhp and 171lb ft, the boost is modulated to keep the torque curve flat and when i fitted a manual boost controller, even setting it to around standard boost it made it much perkier mid range, when the hybrid was fitted, boost between 12-13psi, i would estimate the power to be around 180bhp, the torque getting on for 215lb ft.

[PaulGT3]

I have the Peugeot version of this car, no where near as cool and quirky but it's a great drive and really is stupidly reliable considering the stick I and previous owners have given it.

[Old Gregg]

Kidders said:

This was was a S2, very few were registered (Citroen never pushed the sales), just over 200 i think. More of the S1 though, about 1500.

I never had it rolling roaded. As standard, they are about 150bhp and 171lb ft, the boost is modulated to keep the torque curve flat and when i fitted a manual boost controller, even setting it to around standard boost it made it much perkier mid range, when the hybrid was fitted, boost between 12-13psi, i would estimate the power to be around 180bhp, the torque getting on for 215lb ft.

Interesting. I've never seen a facelift one, only a couple of the pre facelifts in that dark red colour.

I always found the Activa intriguing because my parents had a couple of Xantias from new when i was a growing up, an M-plate 1.9TD and an R-reg 1.8i 16v. I remember sitting in the showroom looking at the Activa booklet.

Cool car, with interesting tech underneath.

[spaceship]

Always liked the Activa and as said, getting rare now.

I had a look on here and Auto-Trader recently and didn't find any.

Looks very smart, definitely get another one. Then post it up on here so we can all see it.

[Kitchski]

A bit of lvoe for old Citroens around at the mo!

Activa's rock! It may look like a Xantia, but that's where the similiarities end.

[Kidders]

Old Gregg said:

Kidders said:

This was was a S2, very few were registered (Citroen never pushed the sales), just over 200 i think. More of the S1 though, about 1500.

I never had it rolling roaded. As standard, they are about 150bhp and 171lb ft, the boost is modulated to keep the torque curve flat and when i fitted a manual boost controller, even setting it to around standard boost it made it much perkier mid range, when the hybrid was fitted, boost between 12-13psi, i would estimate the power to be around 180bhp, the torque getting on for 215lb ft.

Interesting. I've never seen a facelift one, only a couple of the pre facelifts in that dark red colour.

I always found the Activa intriguing because my parents had a couple of Xantias from new when i was a growing up, an M-plate 1.9TD and an R-reg 1.8i 16v. I remember sitting in the showroom looking at the Activa booklet.

Cool car, with interesting tech underneath.

I always liked them when i was a kid, they always looked good compared to the Cavalier and Mondeo at the time, something different. I used to wash one down the road every week when i was 12, bit of pocket money. It was a solid red 1.9TD VSX model, did LOTS of miles too and didnt miss a beat. Then a few years later my Dad had a 1.8 16v LX for a company car, the ride quality was remarkable, it was like it floated. It took me a few years to catch on though, i got my first Xantia in 2007, it was in the 'Activa red' as i call it,a lovely red/orange flip. Here it is.



I dressed it up a bit like an Activa, because i was poor at the time i found out it could run on veg oil, miss that smell! It was a good car, always remember it lifting a back wheel when i was rushing home to pick up my wife who went into labour 3 weeks early.

Edited by Kidders on Monday 1st November 07:24

[Kidders]

Just confirmed that i will be getting another Activa.



Should go nicely with a silver ST220.

[dufusmuppet]

Drove a 3.0v6 one a few years back.....mental

[RobboC]

Once drove one as a hire car from Dumfries to Ashford in Kent in one sitting, was supremely comfortable!

[robsco]

Very clean and shiny. Love a quirky Citroen!

[Waugh-terfall]

Kidders, is this you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-C33SrJi8

Recall reading somewhere about a fairly common fault with the Activa's Hydractive suspension where some sensor or something could fail and leave the car dancing about.

Always wanted to drive one of these

[Kidders]

Waugh-terfall said:

Kidders, is this you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09-C33SrJi8

Recall reading somewhere about a fairly common fault with the Activa's Hydractive suspension where some sensor or something could fail and leave the car dancing about.

Always wanted to drive one of these

The Activa shuffle was caused by wear in the control linkages attached to the lower arms. My old car only had the odd occasion where it would level itself out at traffic lights.