Citroën AX

My first car was a citroen ax, I bought it in may 2005 for £225 with 10 months mot and tax and 61k on the clock. I still have it but have stopped using it which I will go into later. It broke down twice, once when the thermostat stuck closed and caused it to overheat, and another time when the headgasket went . It has got 89500 on the clock now and has been brilliant, the stuff i have replaced are brakes head gasket 87k ht leads and plugs thermostat tyres and stuff dash bulbs radiator hoses brake pipes front bumper and wing ( after ...  Read the complete review

I used to have a Citroen AX some years ago now and really loved it, so when my middle child passed her test and we started to look at cars, I looked favourably at the N reg Citroen AX we saw advertised on the Auto Trader website. My daughter preferred the P reg Ford Fiesta which was close in price range, but I managed to dissuade her after she realised that it wouldn't last long with 100,000 miles on the clock whereas the Citroen we looked at had only done 65,000 miles. The car I used to have was a five door Memphis edition (in the nineties) and the car my daughter now drives is a three door Elation edition, so I've had some experience of both. The ...  Read the complete review

Background I was given my AX as my first car. It was a 1991 10e poverty-spec model with a 954cc 45bhp engine married to a four-speed gearbox. It had a chequered past, 54k on the clock, and was a lovely shade of maroon. Equipment: There was very little to it. It had a four speed gearbox, wind-up windows, no rev-counter, no temperature gauge, no power steering, in fact it didn't even have a cigarett lighter socket! The stereo was basic but it worked, although the twin speakers in the back were pretty tinny. Interior: the interior was well thought-out but very basic. The dashboard was boxy, the speedo easy to read as it was the only dial ...  Read the complete review

This is a girly review of my car, if you want to know the technical specs then look them up online! I shall concentrate on sharing my experience of owning and driving this car. I have owned two Citroen AX cars, my first one was the diesel model with the 1.4l engine which was written off when a trailer came free of the van it was being towed by and smashed into little pieces. I then owned a punto for a while which was written off in a crash. I was then in the position of having to replace my car very quickly for very little money before the insurance was sorted out and ended up buying a 1litre AX last Febuary for just £400 and ended up keeping it until ...  Read the complete review

I've now been driving my diesel Citroen AX for two and a half years. Its 11 years old and has over 125,000 on the clock and I wasn't expecting it to last nearly as long as it has. A friend (not a dooyou-er) also had a diesel Citroen AX which she reckoned lasted out wonderfully until about 130,000 miles. To my understanding, its longevity has been the fact that it is a diesel, and so anything I mention about its engine should be related specifically to the diesel variant of this car and not necessarily to the petrol AX. My car suffers from surprisingly few problems for its age and mileage. Every now and again something has gone wrong in the engine, (the ...  Read the complete review