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Post by Mixa on Jan 26, 2010 19:56:55 GMT
As people has been posting their own cars to here lately this is my car. The Citroen Xsara VTS from 2004. The car has got some engine upgrades but still inside the Finnish regulations. The stickers has came partly from Citroen but most of them has been made on the same company who does the sticker sets to factory cars during the Neste Oil Rally. On the photo its missing the Xsara WRC wheel arcs what starts from near the doors as them are pain on winter and I removed them after one day the ice had for from there to the doors so it was hard time on opening them. Also its missing the WRC Xsara mirrors because them aint too big and also frozes up pretty badly. So here it is,my Xsara VTS (mild WRC replica) Attachments:
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Post by Hurricane on Jan 27, 2010 0:11:05 GMT
Nice. I'd love to see one with the wheel arches
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Post by Mixa on Jan 27, 2010 10:51:09 GMT
Thanks.. Yeah I have the front ones but as I said but had to take them off due to freezing prob. My car is at the outside all the time as a hall or a tenth aint possible so it collected a good amount of ice in the temperatures like over -10C - -20C what has been here pretty much all the winter. .
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Post by Will on Jan 27, 2010 16:32:56 GMT
Very nice! Sure you don't need spiked tyres Mikko? ;D
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Post by Mixa on Jan 27, 2010 18:09:24 GMT
nah, no I dont . The tarmac tyres are just fine.. . just kidding, those are the winter tyres without the studs. Some people prefers the ones with studs but Ive always been driving at winter conditions with the winter tyre without them and has been really happy for the way of behaving. Ok when I had the 88´BMW 316,sometimes the ones with studs would have been very handy XD
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Post by Will on Jan 27, 2010 20:25:23 GMT
Ever feel like putting tarmac tyres on and going for a drift session? ;D
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Post by Mixa on Jan 28, 2010 11:20:16 GMT
Ok at winter conditions my FWD Xsara behaves like a 4wd car and its the same in gravel but nah... I actually once had the tarmac rally tyres on it just as a test I got from my friend who does the sprints but on the road driving them are far from confy and on the water conditions you truly see how slippy them also becomes. Also as the compound is way too soft it would become quite expensive on time so I think I will stick on road tyres. When the summer comes,I will change again for the summer road tyres and will be happy with them
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Post by Vivski on Jan 28, 2010 12:54:29 GMT
Nice car, Mikko! The Xsara usually looks a bit plain, so it's nice to have some decals on it.
Does it have the flappy paddles or is it a manual?
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Post by Mixa on Jan 28, 2010 13:49:54 GMT
manual gearbox (5 gears+reverse). To inside havent done a thing except added a Citroen Sport logo for there too . Even a racing steering wheel, seats and doing the flappy gearbox would cost a lot of work due to all kind of airbags and also the French cars are a bit tricky with their wirings. Example one of Xsara´s problems is what Ive been reading if a battery will need to be changed or it dies, the speedometer ,revmeter and all that kind of stuff will show all wrong and are totally freaked out. Ive just liked to do it a mild replica and it gives me enough WRC feeling.
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