Thread: Restoring Cars

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Citroen & Pergott booth made by Michelin & they don't make good tyres either. My wife's is a C4 2L diesel with the full auto box . It keeps blocking up the Cat converter & have to lock it in 2nd gear & drive it flat out for a few K's to clean out the cat , also fas lots of electrical problems I think it has a Lucas electrical system . Things like head lights go out when driving at night . & wipers that move from rest to vertical over night while car is locked in garage & every thing is switched off. I would aggree my S1 is the pick always gets lots of attention.

disagree, I have michelin's on all my field service vans, all over 100K now, carry over 3t, all VM transits, 1 has 165000kms on original tyres, awesome tyres, hard as the cats preverbally...... good for saving the dollars

Originally Posted by 4x4 MORE

Another Suzuki Lj lover!

I got 3 LJ 81's myself!

Zooks are great cars to get your foot in at restos..The older ones are gettin rare but theres nothing really you cant do yourself.I've done 2 they come up a treat..only trouble once there done you cant part with them..great little 4x4

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Citroen & Pergott booth made by Michelin & they don't make good tyres either. My wife's is a C4 2L diesel with the full auto box . It keeps blocking up the Cat converter & have to lock it in 2nd gear & drive it flat out for a few K's to clean out the cat , also fas lots of electrical problems I think it has a Lucas electrical system . Things like head lights go out when driving at night . & wipers that move from rest to vertical over night while car is locked in garage & every thing is switched off. I would aggree my S1 is the pick always gets lots of attention.

Join aussiefrogs.com and post a message in the Citroen forum. If your lucky a guy named David s will see it and help. The 2 litre diesels are a bloody good motor and don't really have any issues to watch for. The auto used with them is th AM6 Japanese box. It's very good and generally gives no problems. If I had to buy a c4 for the wife, this is the only model I'd look at.

Could be something simple to fix.... Ask!

Seeya
Shane l.

Originally Posted by dawsey

Zooks are great cars to get your foot in at restos..The older ones are gettin rare but theres nothing really you cant do yourself.I've done 2 they come up a treat..only trouble once there done you cant part with them..great little 4x4

Love your enthusiasm, but I reckon I could

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Join aussiefrogs.com and post a message in the Citroen forum. If your lucky a guy named David s will see it and help. The 2 litre diesels are a bloody good motor and don't really have any issues to watch for. The auto used with them is th AM6 Japanese box. It's very good and generally gives no problems. If I had to buy a c4 for the wife, this is the only model I'd look at.

Could be something simple to fix.... Ask!

Seeya
Shane l.

I read some were that the switch in the cat plays up & won't make the vehicle run hot to burn out the carbon in the cat so by locking it in 2nd the exhaust runs hot and cleans it out . Lasts about than it starts hunting again. Now its out of warrinty & I take to a non Citroen garage & fit non genuine parts where available the car is getting better. When I took it in for its last service before it ran out of warrinty the list was around 30 items long, the dealer didn't want to do warrinty work & most of the problems have been fixed by the new garage. But will never buy a Citroen again just like the the VB it was the last Holden product I have bought after always buying GM products as a main vehicle iI think 6 holdens before the VB.Wayne

Hi All,

Enjoying the thread and here's a photo of Molly a 1971 VW Beetle I sold last year.

I did her up for my daughter when she was 16 years as her first car. ......Its been sitting under the carport gathering dust for 9 years ....my daughters 25 now and due to vairous reasons still dosent have her licence.

She still looked reasonable and my advice is if you are going to do something up try to pick up something that's straight and has minimal rust if possible.

I resprayed her ....didn't want to but Mum and daughter did'nt like the original poo brown so changed the colour to Ford Tango.

All up back then including purchase of vehicle I spent 2.7K and sold it for 3.9K .... considering I paid rego and insurance we'd be behind but we never thought of getting rid of her till last year as she sat there for last two years undriven.

The number of times I'd be at a petrol station with Molly and a guy would come up to me and say his wife wants to know if you would sell your beetle ...i'd say sorry I've done it up for my daughter.

Most cars don't make you money .....the only exception could possibly be my 2 door RRC .....have you seen the prices they want for them in UK

Cheers

Baggy

Very nice VW, thanks for sharing Baggy.

People tend to think restoring the LJ is pretty silly, but I have a soft spot for it since it was the car I learnt to drive in and I love their simplistic nature.

I reckon it sounds like an old English is the way to go. I know you said no deep pockets, but what about a Rolls Royce? (Who needs return value...)