Xsara Vts Buying Advice

[Clapton_Is_God 21 1 Cars]

Hello All and Happy New Year!

 

I'm hoping to view a year 2000 Xsara VTS at the weekend with a view to doing the conversion on my 205. Obviously I only need certain items but is there anything I need to be looking out for in perticular to ensure I'm getting something worth buying?

 

Any advice in advance would be appreciated as I don't know one end of a Xsara from another.

[rallyeash 155]

Beam, engine, box and rack is where the money mainly lies. However if the beams cambered and the engines a tapper I'd walk away! Even if it's £400

[rallyeash 155]

Also for the price you can pick up a running gti6 engine is it actually buying a complete car. There was a standard RS engine on the gti6 forum from a known member for £200 with a belt change!

There isn't that much to have for your 205 from a Xsara really.

[Clapton_Is_God 21 1 Cars]

Good point and I hadn't given any thought to either the rack or the beam.

 

Thank you.

[dcc 855]

sounds like it will be a phase 2- in which case ecu loom and injectors (and a few sensors) are useless to you.

[Clapton_Is_God 21 1 Cars]

It's got the squarish type headlights so I'm hoping it's an earlier one.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

It is a ph 1 on the squarer lights. I owned a ph 1 Xsara VTS back in 2003 as my everyday road car, it was a cracking bit of kit, as quick as more or less all the other hot hatches of the time, but a real sleeper and hardly anyone knew what it was.

[Anthony 1,003]

As said, 2000 will be last of the Ph1 cars which is the better one for a 205 donor as you can use the ECU, loom etc and the engine has the correct bits on it.

 

2001 onwards is Phase 2.

[Alastairh 47]

Make sure it's an actual gti6 engined VTS aswell.

 

There's quite a few Irish imports that are badged up as vts'a but only have a 1.8 engine. You can normally tell by the wheels if you have no engine bay shots as the Irish imports have almost identical alloys to the phase 2 Saxo vts's.

 

Can you tell I've owned over 25 xsara vts's?

[Anthony 1,003]

Can you tell I've owned sent over 25 xsara vts's to the great scrapyard in the sky after having brutally harvested their organs?

EFA

[welshpug 1,657]

murderers!

[Alastairh 47]

Err yeah. What he said!

 

Gutted though. There's none left now!