New car time again - any ideas ?

Yeah, it was for Steve and his "must be german" company car. Wondered if rather than them supplying a german car, he could choose the allowance instead.

BX's are bloody brilliant cars. I know someone that had a TD Estate, and he once had a loaded pallet on it, and I was absolutley gobsmacked at how cavernous it was inside, mainly due to the uber-low loading floor. Great motors, go on and on, and *very* comfy seats.

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

Yup. I think there were basically two trim levels for the diesels - originally R, TR (got that wrong above), then TG/TZ. Obviously with the TZ being the posher spec, buyers will have tended to get the faster engine at the same time. TZ is a later model though.

Have now remembered how the later ones were labelled : BX17TGD, BX19TGD BXTGD Turbo

(could have looked outside :-) )

In laws used a BX19TGD for towing caravans for several years. But their driving style isn't terribly related to those on this group :-)

cheers, clive

yep they are nice on the handling, it is just a shame when the suspention gets a problem the become very hard to fix and keep playing up.

Ah OK. That does seem more like it.

Not entirely sure - however, I'm going to swallow the tax hit for the company supplied car for the first 2-3 years (until the lease is up) as I don't know how hammered the car will get or how many miles I'm going to be driving yet. Seems like the most sensible way to do things.

That's bollocks. The suspension on a BX is a piece of piss to work on. Only the rear arm bearings are a PITA for the home mechanic, everything else is pipes and pretty cheap componentry.

Richard (I'm a crap mechanic, but I can repipe a CX, and that has DIRAVI).

True, with a company lease, at least it get s fixed/serviced when it is needed all in, and you know what tax roughly it will cost you, where as a bad even newish car can quickly turn into a money pit when you need it running and the mechanic keeps sucking through his teeth.

Well, the calculations for the car and diesel card appear to work out at roughly £1400 / year.

I *could* go through the hassle of paying back private mileage and avoiding the fuel car tax, but it's barely worth the effort. At least if everything goes on the fuel card, you can piss off to the other end of the country without having to think about the cost of getting there, IYSWIM.

I'm with Richard. There's only a finite number of things that can go wrong in the suspension. Some of them are piece of piss to fix, like strut return pipes, some of them are slightly harder, like the rear arm bearings, as RK says. But none of it's really that hard to fix for a pro - find a decent specialist and they will have done so many they could probably do it with they're eyes shut! No reasons why something would 'keep playing up'.