Hello

[Zippiekiwi]

I have a Citroen ZX Volcane GTi, which I have been driving for over three years.  Its great and zappy but at 200,000kms it is starting to require lots of maintenance, coming up to a new cambelt, uses oil and is smoking a tiny bit.  I found your site at a time that I am having to consider saying goodbye to this great wee car.  It's the cost of parts and repairs that is getting to me, the replacement front door locks cost me over $300 via France.   I will have to weigh all this up alongside my love of the Citroen's great suspension - perhaps a different Citroen is required!!!

[cams16v]

BX all the way..........

[Mungous]

New valve guides and she'll be good for another 100,000km. Great car.

[Bennny]

 Welcome to ff mate.

[Zippiekiwi]

Thanks for the welcome, what sort of price is a valve guide, if you hadn't adlready figured  it out I am not male nor do I have any idea about fixing cars - nor do I wish to - that is perhaps the reason this car has cost me way to much - mechnics see me coming and kaching kaching - not even remotely fair but true.  My partner has a series 2 landrover skippy replica - why - I have no idea - they are complete opposites - one has suspension and one has none.  So he has no interest in my Citroen. 

[Zippiekiwi]

My first car was a 1961 VW Beetle which I had for thirty years ( handed down from Nana and Dad), got my license in it - gave it away to a wreckers in the end - seven years on the Chatham Island ate away at the floorpan, it was 6 volt and always an exiciting challenge - if at night you needed windscreen wipers and lights and indicator and horn!  Now when I see an old VW there may be a part of mine in it - I did keep the hubcaps....
Then a Honda Civic Shuttle 4wd, great cornering - but had a magic asb light that would go on soon after starting, which after a time prevented warranting as no mechanics could work out why.  I used to pray that the mechanics would only have a short road test as then the light wouldn't go on and I would get wnother wof...  I gave this one away to a sole parent without a car - there was three months left on the WoF.
Then one of my biggest mistakes a short wheel based Suzuki Vitara, this has no handling on corners and was one of the bumpiest rides I had ever had.
So after these I moved to the Citroen which has spoiled me, I do love the cornering - I do not drive automatics as enjoy manuals too much - no I am not a hoon even though my father had nicknamed me Sterling Moss - and he taught me to drive.

[Bennny]

Pretty sure I've seen a landy round upper hutt with the plate skippi,
not your partner by any chance?

[Zippiekiwi]

Nope, not in Upper Hutt, down south in sunny Dunedin where it makes man sense to have a canvas top!

[Bennny]

Don't think this had canvas. I don't know what skippi is
the plate just caught my eye. And it was a very tidy Landy.

[Mungous]

I know a guy in Dunners who can help with the smoking - he's had many a frog (and was a Citroen tech/service manager), and cut his teeth helping me with my Landy! God knows it broke down enough.

He does a few jobs from home to pay his way through uni - PM me for details if you're interested.