citroen main dealer price gouging

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Andyspares £19+vat

Andyspares from £4 each depending on spec of car...

Not having a main dealer stamp is going to make NO difference on any Xant or ZX now. Hell, I'd rather see decent Citroen specialist or other indie stamps than a clueless dealer any day of the week.

thanks for those, I'll have a look. do you know anyone that swaps ZX front wishbone bushes ? I've no time / place to do it ;-)

a mint 7yo. xantia with a genuine 78K on it ? get a grip, of course it matters.

you and I both know that but the car's up for sale and Joe Public wants to see FCSH, a load of stamps from the same main dealer network in the book and a reassuring sheaf of receipts for works already done.

it's not about making money on the sale, it's about getting a smooth, quick sale.

RT

on second thoughts

• delivery +aggro if the wrong ones arrive on the van

think I'll stick to my local.

RT

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Where are you?

The Citroen Car Club runs a Citroen Specialist garage recommendation scheme for members -

No, it isn't. I'm not suggesting "no service history" - but it REALLY does not matter who's serviced it - it is DEFINITELY not worth the premium for a dealer service.

Sorry, but you will have spent FAR more on one dealer service than it will make difference, pricewise.

It still doesn't matter.

midlands. can travel, can't accomodate ;-)

thanks for the tip.

for a /dealer/ service ? probably not, but it looks nice in the book, a complete set of main dealer stamps looks a whole lot better *to the average joe* than a selection of independent garages of indeterminate pedigree.

bullshit. don't generalise. you've no idea what I paid for the car, the service (stamp + the extras) or what the vehicle is worth. not to mention the fact that there's a whole load of main dealer history I got printed out that I wasn't aware of when I took a punt on the car.

what price can you put on not having to grub about under a car at -2 in the snow, in the street ? been there, done that, risen above it ;-)

yeah, ok. whatever you say. I'll just put to one side everything I've learned over the last 20 years about car, motorbike and van buying/selling

thanks for the

tip

RT

/checks/

£35 to join ? offset that against the cost of labour to get the bush pressed out and any benefit cancels it's self out. if any members can point me towards a recommended garage in the e.mids I'll be very grateful.

RT

Check out if you have a local branch of GSF, they charge the same prices online as in the shop.

My Xantia Activa is just over 8 years old with 63k on the clock, i think it has a FSH from main dealers up until I got it. I would be very lucky to sell it for more than a grand, the most recent service would have cost 250 quid at a Citroen main dealer, my local guy down the road did it for 60 quid inc. parts...

Normal Joe publics don't buy Citroen, they buy Ford of Vauxhaul ;)

Now parent of Andyspares.

excellent. there's one just 3 miles from me.

many thanks

RT

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Remove the arm and burn 'em out.

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They're not "2.0i" - Activas only had the TCT motor in the UK, although LHD markets got v6 Activas, lucky sods. But they'll stay in Autotrader at that price.

No Xant bar a very late HDi estate is worth much over fifteen hundred quid absolute tops. Even an HDi would struggle to beat two grand, and it'd have to be *perfect*.

If it'd been maintained only by Citroen dealers, it wouldn't be. They're all clueless. Especially the Citroen dealer that put normal brake fluid in my mother's Xantia.

oh do f*ck off. have you ever actually done that ?

I gave up grubbing about with 'solutions' like that and bullshit advice from people like you when I was 18

RT

After a bit of a fiddle with autotrader, there are 11 Activas for sale in the .uk just a shame some of them have been on there for nearly 2 months now..... I still don't buy the FSH thing, my first Xantia was an L reg VSX with 67k on it, in Y2k. It was listed in autotrader at 3300 quid, and the book price iirc was 3500. I paid 2600 in cash for it and it had a FSH and had been on sale for some months.....

so what you're saying is that you have absolutely no idea how the used car market operates on a day to day basis ? every car you see advertised at a price *you personally* consider to be overpriced will sit on autotrader until it rots ? no buyers will ever materialise, ever ?

righto. thanks for that. now we're all as clued up as you ;-)

RT

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Let's put it this way...

... it's how my local Citroen specialist does several each and every week...

Get the arm off, put it outside, get the oxy torch on it so it lights, then leave it to burn itself out. Quick wire brush, and good as new.

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Tell you what - you ring 'em in a week or two or three and ask if they're still for sale.

Last Xant I bought was a 16v Dimension for my old man, '96/N, 100k, just had a cambelt and clutch. It's been perfectly reliable since he's had it.

£600 he paid.

Two years ago.

And that's a DAMN sight more "desirable" a car to Joe Public than an Activa

- fun though they may be, they're bloody money pits.

Yup, thats why when you buy an Activa you buy it from trade rather than public, and when the faults show themselves you tell them to fix it "or else"....

At least it worked for me, sorta. :)

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...go round and find he's mysteriously emigrated.