Hurricane's TZD Hurricane

Hurricane · Post by **Hurricane** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:01 am

Picked this one up last night. Back in a Hurricane again.

136,000 on the clock. There are 2 White stickers, one on each side above the wheels, which look like they will be hard to get off and we don't know how long they have been on. Also a small dent next to the bonnet on the passenger side.

Everything else seems fine, no towbar, no rust that we can see, front fogs work, very clean inside, and good condition on the outside apart from the above.

The last owner was a Woman from Leyland who had owned it 3 years.

Something I never thought I would see again!

More pictures coming soon, thanks, Martyn.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:39 am

Well done, nice looking BX.

I'd use a hairdryer to soften the stickers before trying to remove them, I think.

demag · Post by **demag** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:13 am

You can remove those stickers with a gas cylinder brazing torch. The sort plumbers use to solder pipes. I've removed loads of those sticky L plates that way, it's easy and will not damage the paint. Use the tip of the flame and keep moving it over the entire sticker. You should be able to touch it and it will slowly get warmer and warmer (the sticker not the flame

). Eventually it will start to crinkle slightly as the adhesive melts and will pull straight off. You then clean the glue off with household paint thinners.

Hurricane · Post by **Hurricane** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:32 pm

Sadly haven't got round to taking the stickers off yet.

It'll be done soon I hope.

Heres some pictures from this morning...

And a last one from Liverpool on Sunday.

Lots of stuff to do soon to make it look smarter, questions about the car I'll be happy to answer.

Thanks!

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:12 pm

Looking good! Those stickers are easily dealt with - I removed two last week from the TRD with a hot air gun and surgical spirit - about five minutes.

Hurricane · Post by **Hurricane** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:44 pm

Well getting the stickers off took just a few minutes and was really easy, used the hairdryer and then they just peeled off. Just put a CD player in this afternoon aswell.

Heres a picture from Thursday off it now minus stickers.

Next up some mudflaps. Also were can you get those Turbo D badges from, are they special Citroen ones or can they be found on eBay etc?

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:31 pm

Lovely looking BX. Well done.

the rear wheel looks like it's got some lean... get the rear arm bearing(s) looked at

M · Post by M » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:01 pm

Hurricane wrote: Also were can you get those Turbo D badges from, are they special Citroen ones or can they be found on eBay etc?

Scrappers + Pug 306 + screwdriver (etc) be your friend.

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:55 pm

Looks lovely. Reminds me of my Hurricane before it met a tree......not my fault as a diesel spill didn't let me turn the corner

Mine would of been a *Y* reg as well..........I wonder if that was the one

Hurricane · Post by **Hurricane** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:26 pm

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Philip Chidlow wrote:the rear wheel looks like it's got some lean... get the rear arm bearing(s) looked at

It does actually!

I hadn't noticed that. Will get them looked at soon!

Nice to know about the badges aswell, will see what we can find, next scrapyard visit will probably be in a couple of weeks.

Bandit, when did you get rid of yours?

I'm still amazed with this car overall, seems like it's been well cared for over the years. It's had a Woman owner for the last 2 years according to the documents, theres a 'Diamond Womans Insurance' sticker in the window and it had another Woman owner for a few months before that one, so it probably wont have been ragged etc, I hope!

I'm wondering with those stickers on the car if it was used as a company car or something at one time.

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:59 pm

Umm, well it would of been 97. The only real damage was a broken diff but the insurance company added this/that and the other and so wrote it off.....nice care tho!

frugg · Post by **frugg** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:10 am

Very nice car - love the colour too

Hurricane · Post by **Hurricane** » Tue May 05, 2009 1:31 pm

An update on this, it's been in our garage stored dry for the past month or two whilst some spare cash becomes available to fix the list of small problems that need sorting, which will hopefully be soon then it will be back.

Also I have had no luck finding any of those Turbo D badges, been to a few scrapyards recently and found plenty of 306's but no badges on any of them.

Jayboy · Post by **Jayboy** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:14 pm

Don't the 306 badges read 'DTurbo'? which would be wrong for the BX as I'm 100% sure they just read 'turbo'. Anybody out there with a TXD Turbo can confirm this?

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Tue May 05, 2009 10:24 pm

Mine says TZD Turbo....