No more pugs!

[mjb]

Pretty soon we won't have a Peugeot in the family Dad's driving a Punto, I'm in my Bimmer, and on Saturday we're going to be picking up the wife's HDi90's replacement. A HDi138... Citroën C5. It's going to cost a few hundred to sort the clutch in her hdi, so figure we may as well pay a few quidskis more (assuming we can get a decent price for the pug) for a much younger and better specced car

Great price (seller needs to get an auto quickly for medical reasons), nice leather trim, ML6 gearbox, cruise, parking sensors, com2000 (urgh), 50bhp more, same boot space... Looks bloody nice!

Can't find a handbook online for sh*t though

[steve_earwig]

Is it older then 2007 then?

[V6Exec]

Found an unofficial one

http://c5alive.co.uk/oldstuff/pub/downl ... Manual.pdf

[mjb]

Found an unofficial one

http://c5alive.co.uk/oldstuff/pub/downl ... Manual.pdf

[Doggy]

Sounds good, I hope the new cistern gives you years of trouble free service .......

......if however, things don't go according to plan, baggsie the gear lever knob.

[Welly]

HDi138... Citroën C5

WCPGW?

Actually it's probably similar to owning a 406 I would've thought.

[steve_earwig]

Found an unofficial one

http://c5alive.co.uk/oldstuff/pub/downl ... Manual.pdf

Similarly http://www.corvettesc5.com/

[gumby6371]

Steve,
Is that for intelligent Corvette owners or is it an intelligent manual?
Option 1 is surely an oxymoron!!! (such an appropriate word )

[V6Exec]

Found an unofficial one

http://c5alive.co.uk/oldstuff/pub/downl ... Manual.pdf

Similarly http://www.corvettesc5.com/

Or alternatively http://nds1.nokia.com/phones/files/guid ... _UG_en.pdf

[steve_earwig]

Shame it's not a C4, we could have done explosives jokes instead Btw it's yellowish and squishy...

Thread hijack - I saw this this morning and I thought "but it's an automatic": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-25963780

Turbo runaway from stone cold? Look at the arse end of it though, it's demolished 2 walls and it's still in shape, no Hillman Hunter that.

[Welly]

"I had just left the kitchen after making a sausage sandwich"

I'm glad he told us that, it makes so much more sense now.

"revving uncontrollably"? Turbo Failure? and: "to put it into Park she had to go 'through' Reverse" - Hmmmm

Buildings like that Bungalow have very little strength horizontally that's why the car has so little damage and managed to get right through. The dent on the boot lid was most likely caused by pushing that 'period' AGA out the way, didn't fit in with the theme anyway if you ask me

[steve_earwig]

"I had just left the kitchen after making a sausage sandwich"

I'm glad he told us that, it makes so much more sense now.

I guess he had to say he was in there doing something, rather than "I was lying in bed playing with my sausage when...", he could also have said "I had just finished pissing into that very sink!"

I'm sure park would have sorted it, it's just a shame that pesky reverse gear got in the way Why can't they just say "she panicked and dumped it into reverse"?

Buildings like that Bungalow have very little strength horizontally

That must make them easy to break into...

The dent on the boot lid was most likely caused by pushing that 'period' AGA out the way, didn't fit in with the theme anyway if you ask me Image

I didn't notice that before, if you ask me it doesn't even fit in with itself. Looks like one of the cheap 'n' cheerful wood burners they sell here but with a brown top. And what's with the French flag? Could it be the Cistern took offence to the trickler being made into a tea towel?

[mjb]

Turbo runaway from stone cold?

Mat on the accelerator

and: "to put it into Park she had to go 'through' Reverse" - Hmmmm

Same calibre of person who didn't think to push the big pedal on the floor that makes cars slow down, or turn the key or press the 'stop' button (if keyless), or put it back in neutral, or steer towards something else, or...