Citroen XM Forum

Yep side impact bars seem to have paid off here!

What speed did this happen more or less?

cheers
G

I must have been doing between 45-50mph when the car first started sliding.

OMG ! Robert

I glad you and your passenger got out of that alive, it make's the damage to my XM from four weeks insignificant

Dieselman wrote:Wow, Robert.. .That could have been very nasty and it does make you think about door crash beams....................

jorgy wrote:Yep side impact bars seem to have paid off here!.............................

The additional door side impact beam (Which are actually tubular in shape) was introduced on the S2 (IIRC possibly on some very very late S1.5 according to John/XMExclusive) so as Robert's estate is/was a S1.5 !

I therefore have a question for you Robert ?

As the N/S/F passenger door/sill took most of the impact, if it's not too much trouble could you confirm if in fact your XM had the tubular side impact bar fitted to this particular XM ?

Best Regards Robert, and I'm really glad you both came out of this incident alive !

XMX

XMX wrote:

Dieselman wrote:Wow, Robert.. .That could have been very nasty and it does make you think about door crash beams....................

jorgy wrote:Yep side impact bars seem to have paid off here!.............................

The additional door side impact beam (Which are actually tubular in shape) was introduced on the S2 (IIRC possibly on some very very late S1.5 according to John/XMExclusive) so as Robert's estate is/was a S1.5 !

I therefore have a question for you Robert ?

As the N/S/F passenger door/sill took most of the impact, if it's not too much trouble could you confirm if in fact your XM had the tubular side impact bar fitted to this particular XM ?

I think it didn't hence my comment, but stand to be corrected.

Dieselman wrote:.............................
I think it didn't hence my comment, but stand to be corrected.

Hi Will,
I'm very very sorry, to have included your quote in my /\ post and I can see the error of my deciphering your post
It was Jorgy's post that threw me which in-turn made me include your comment/quote !

But if if you'd been thro' the problem's I've been thro' (Women,car's & house) in the last week, it's a wonder I can even be bothered with switching on the computer or TV

XMX

I therefore have a question for you Robert ?

As the N/S/F passenger door/sill took most of the impact, if it's not too much trouble could you confirm if in fact your XM had the tubular side impact bar fitted to this particular XM ?

I'll pull the door card off and investigate it for you, and perhaps take some more pictures.

When I had the car at full height this morning, I had a look underneath, and the main support member that goes under the floor pans is where the damage stopped.

XMX wrote:

Dieselman wrote:.............................

It was Jorgy's post that threw me which in-turn made me include your comment/quote !

XMX

My L-reg [pr6336, April 1994] has them, both in front and rear doors, hence my comment. Let's see what Robert finds.

G

Very easy to tell with this particular car, the doors have been conveniently removed by the fire service and stacked neatly beside it

Hi Robert.

Sorry to read of this cars demise! It looked so nice when you got it first. I'm glad you both came out alive! It could have been so much worse.

Bob

XMX wrote: [
But if if you'd been thro' the problem's I've been thro' (Women,car's & house) in the last week, it's a wonder I can even be bothered with switching on the computer or TV

XMX

No problem, my post probably wasn't very clear.
Hopefully things should be ok for you now...well, as long as the car's sorted....