94' Black 2.0i Turbo Prestige Automatic - Classic Challenge
Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 6:18 am
I've decided to throw caution to the wind and enter my Black Automatic 2.0i Prestige in the Citroen Classic Challenge - a 9 day jaunt around France covering about 1500m. I bought this 5 years ago from MXTM and so it's been well cared for and in excellent condition. Aside from 2 years hitting the M40 for a 50 mile round trip daily commute, this will be it's sternest test yet (since I've had her atleast). Biggest worries as the date looms, will it get up down some pretty steep looking climbs with out blowing the head gasket. Second how will we cope with June in the South of France with a broken AirCon and some serious sticks to your skin black leather interior. The big one, where the heck are you supposed to put your cups of café in these things?
To alleviate these middle of the night terrors here's what's on the prep list.
- As said, the A/C has never worked, I have a new condenser, thinking of letting the garage fit it and hoping that's it. Just needs a a shady guy who probably under cover of darkness will deal me some good ol' R12 substitute.
- Sticky Passenger Door Exterior Handle (feels like I might rip the handle off when pulling it)
- Change the Head Gasket?? Is this overblowing it? It's a 133K miles, there's nothing wrong with it that I know, I'm just afraid of this thing dying and being stranded up a mountain in the Alps.
- A really good wash & wax + some seriously good looking Citroen Rally livery that will be going on.
Minor annoyances
- Geriatric Cruise Control, comes in and goes as it feels like it
- Intermittent High Water Temperature warning (accompanied by the chorus of clicky relays under the glove box)
- Passenger door lock has gotten confused again and tells the central locking to unlock itself (I don't understand why they thought having 5 doors unlocked instead of one would be a better idea)
- Air distribution stuck on blowing cold air only into the footwell, I believe this might be the little motor that sits to the side of the centre console (I have a spare but the job sounds awkward)
- Fans stuck on high for about the first 20 minutes after starting up, planning to clean up the connectors on the big lump of what looks like an overclocked Pentium that lives under the glovebox.
- Replace the rotten parcel shelf speakers
- Turns out my embarrassing sounding horn is down to only one of them working (my first reaction to finding this out was, I have two horns?)
Did I miss anything? What would you do if you were about to take your keeper on a week long jaunt to the south of France and wanted to get it back again (not via the back of a lorry) - I've got 4 weeks!
To alleviate these middle of the night terrors here's what's on the prep list.
- As said, the A/C has never worked, I have a new condenser, thinking of letting the garage fit it and hoping that's it. Just needs a a shady guy who probably under cover of darkness will deal me some good ol' R12 substitute.
- Sticky Passenger Door Exterior Handle (feels like I might rip the handle off when pulling it)
- Change the Head Gasket?? Is this overblowing it? It's a 133K miles, there's nothing wrong with it that I know, I'm just afraid of this thing dying and being stranded up a mountain in the Alps.
- A really good wash & wax + some seriously good looking Citroen Rally livery that will be going on.
Minor annoyances
- Geriatric Cruise Control, comes in and goes as it feels like it
- Intermittent High Water Temperature warning (accompanied by the chorus of clicky relays under the glove box)
- Passenger door lock has gotten confused again and tells the central locking to unlock itself (I don't understand why they thought having 5 doors unlocked instead of one would be a better idea)
- Air distribution stuck on blowing cold air only into the footwell, I believe this might be the little motor that sits to the side of the centre console (I have a spare but the job sounds awkward)
- Fans stuck on high for about the first 20 minutes after starting up, planning to clean up the connectors on the big lump of what looks like an overclocked Pentium that lives under the glovebox.
- Replace the rotten parcel shelf speakers
- Turns out my embarrassing sounding horn is down to only one of them working (my first reaction to finding this out was, I have two horns?)
Did I miss anything? What would you do if you were about to take your keeper on a week long jaunt to the south of France and wanted to get it back again (not via the back of a lorry) - I've got 4 weeks!