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Citroëns: Unreliable?

  • 22-09-2005 12:48pm
    #1
    ds20prefecture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭


    I think not.

    http://www.kar-naar-dakar.nl/fotos.html

    It all in Dutch, but basically this is an account of a drive to Dakaar from Holland in a 1970s DS Estate and an 80s BX estate. The DS did not suffer a single failure, the BX lost hydraulics in Mauritania. They stuck wooden blocks in the suspension cylinders and drove on.

    Great photos. Great cars.


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  • #2
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I think the big problem with Citroens is ignorant mechanics. Granted there not the easiest cars to work on but any of them I have owned were extreamly comfortable and nice to drive. Do you know of any SM for sale in Ireland at the moment?


  • #3
    ds20prefecture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭ds20prefecture


    junkyard wrote:
    Do you know of any SM for sale in Ireland at the moment?
    I don't, but I'll keep an ear out for one.


  • #4
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Thanks ds.


  • #5
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Some really cool pics there.

    That looks like some adventure. :eek:


  • #6
    Eric318
    Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭Eric318


    In the 30s Francois Lecot was famous was demonstrating the reliability of the Citroen Traction Avant. His famous one year long, 400,000 kms non stop Paris - Monaco - Paris challenge was testimony of the technological achievements of Citroen. The little story has it that shop keepers along his daily route would set their watches when they saw Lecot's car passing in front.

    Here is an interesting link: http://tractionavant1934.site.voila.fr/site_11al_400000_kilometres_1.htm

    The Traction has been taken across Africa and many other continents a large number of times, up to our times. Citroens have been used in a large number of amazing raids.

    Since you talk SM, do you know that a Shortened SM was used in Car Rallies (won in Morocco a couple of times). Awesome machine! It was disguised under a orange DS body in Chamonix in 72. See here:
    http://membres.lycos.fr/citroensmpassion/ch8/course01.htm (sorry all in French)

    And long before this were of course the Croisière jaune and the Croisère Noire...


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  • #7
    dsman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭dsman


    I have Two DS20's for sale in Dublin. I've been in DS's for years and all told the engine is as reliable as they come. Main problems tend to be with rust in rear and on sills and possible hydraulic problems but, unlike many classics, you can get parts for DS's very easily and as a runaround they are an brilliant classic choice. There are a number of good mechanics in Ireland who can keep things going and the actual maintenence is not difficult for a decent amateur. I've had a number of different makes of classic and the citroens are easily the least trouble.


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