WHY is this Citroen BX 19TRS so special?

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  @rustino666 · 3 years ago

  Love the wobbly headrest.

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  @BanjoLuke1 · 3 years ago

  I do love a mundane BX. &nbsp;I thought this car was the future when I first saw one. &nbsp;I still do, in 2023. &nbsp;<br>The CBX geeky tomfoolery just made me giggle. &nbsp;Like a child.<br>This sort of motor geekery is above rubies. &nbsp;Chapeau!

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  @thomash2806 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve got that gorgeous chunky PSA tweed in my 1983 CX GTi. Love it! Citroën did strange factory things. There has been debate on line when I&apos;ve put photos of my car on. &nbsp;Someone once said that fabric wasn&apos;t offered on the GTi and that it must have a CX diesel&apos;s interior. Except it has GTi seats and head restraints and other GTi interior features. I&apos;ve never found mention of that fabric in Citroën 1983 dealer docs. Another anomaly is my ignition, which is distributorless, leading to a lot of head scratching because officially that system arrived with the 2500 engine in July 83. Mine is a 2400 from March 82 according to the ORGA no. There are mysteries in Citroën world... I sometimes imagine them sitting around a big pile of parts in Aulnay smoking fags and deciding which parts they should use and in what order they should put them together today!

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  @thatcheapguy525 · 3 years ago

  back in the mid 90s I bought a BX for my partner at the time. a very practical car and typical of the real Citroens it was excellent on fuel yet quick for its little engine. I had a GS roughly 15 years earlier and it was quite a nostalgia trip in the BX

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  @XDV595K · 3 years ago

  Glorious. I have a (January 31st) 1992 TGD estate in white - fabulously slow and drives like a dream, does something in the region of 5000 MPG! The love for a BX is a mysterious love, but it&apos;s true love. Thanks for the video, a delight to watch. x

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  @mattw1977 · 3 years ago

  I love the BX. It&apos;s like an octagon on wheels from the side profile. Wish I had one.

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  @-DC- · 3 years ago

  My dad ran BX as taxis in the 80&apos;s 150k in 18 months was pretty much normal was featured in local papers lol, Superb Cars.

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  @hansdjong · 2 weeks ago

  I owned a BX 1.6 TRI (mark 2) from 1988. I loved that car and it got me hooked on Citroën.

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  @pnyholm · 3 years ago

  my dad had a 19 TRZ, almost as good as the GTI

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  @GoldenCroc · 3 years ago

  Man, me knowing very little about BXs, I am loving that seat cloth and interior. Whish you could get something similar in cars of today, just looks so cosy.

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  @DerFinne72 · 3 years ago

  This was not a bad car, very reliable and easy to drive. I bought a Citroen BX after a Peugeot 309, and its gearbox and clutch was not so tricky as on Peugeot 309. Not forgetting of course ride comfort, negatively it had less steering feedback, that&apos;s typical for hydropneumatic suspension.

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  @mrdunns3338 · 3 years ago

  Can&apos;t remember the last time I saw one on the road.<br>I had a D plate 1.9D BX estate (pretty gutless, but bags of room for a growing family) for a few years followed by a J plate 1.7TD estate for around 5 years and that went like stink. <br>The only problems were brake discs and pads, they&apos;d be chewed up every year or so, but back then cost around £50 for all four corners and easy to replace.<br>I know that early 1.9Ds suffered with camshaft problems because the hydraulic pump was belt driven off the end of the cam and if the gas spheres were dodgy, the pump was working overtime and overloading the cam causing it to fail. <br>No problems with the LHM systems on them or the 2 Xantia estates that followed for many years, other than the cheap 50p plastic link to the ride height corrector at the back, and when that went, boy, did we know. The whole back end went to max height and zero suspension compliance, my fillings are still suffering!!<br>The combination of suspension compliance and seat comfort made for thousands of effortless miles and we always used Michelin tyres, as they worked best. <br>Happy days and we were never let down by having the LHM dumped and leaving us without suspension, brakes or steering, but I could fix most things at home, not the case any more. Have been a loyal Skoda customer for many years now and the reliability is as we expect from what has become a very reputable brand. <br>Happy motoring.

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