2002 Xsara VTS

[Ben_w]

Yesterday was a day of mixed fortunes.....

We picked the Xsara up Saturday morning as planned. Slightly later as my mate was a bit late getting the trailer to me but we got to the seller at about 11:30. True to his word, he had the Xsara ready to go and drive able so we drove it out of the little Industrial estate to where we had parked the car (just wasn't room to drive in with a trailer on). Had the car driven onto the trailer, strapped down and ready to go within half an hour.

Drove home and off loaded. Right, let's see what we've got.



Generally, it's not to bad a car. Its been sat since 2012 as far as I can see, having done just 6 more miles than the mileage recorded at the 2012 MOT failure. Body is tatty, mainly peeling lacquer which was very common indeed on this colour. Starts, runs, drives etc so mechanically, it's not.bad.

Nice hole here in the sill and looking bubbly around it!



Got it jacked up for a look underneath. Very surprised to see it appears to have uprated shock all round. Need to figure out what they are....





Exhaust is a full stainless, cat back system. Cat also, I think, appears factory but I need to have it off the car for a better look.





One of my VTS owning chums turned up for the party. 3 Ph2 Xsara VTS in one place!



The bad news is the radiator is in worse condition than the one which has come off mine Shame but I still have one more roll of those particular dice.