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Hi All,

My family is selling its Citroen Xantia. It will be going in the Trading Post shortly, but I thought I would give you guys a head start. Details as follows:

Citroen Xantia

Model: Xantia VSX (5-spd Manual)

Year: 1995 (Complied)

Mileage: 166,000 Km (Mostly highway travel between Wollongong and Sydney)

Mechanical condition: Excellent condition: just serviced, re-gassed spheres, drives like new. 10 months registration.

Interior & exterior condition: Good exterior condition: recently resprayed boot lid due to factory paint fault*. Interior condition is very good with minimal wear.

Comments: One mature owner since new. The owner has been a Citroen enthusiast for over 25 years and is a member of the Citroen Car Club (NSW) and Citroen Concourse of America. The car has led an easy life with most travel being highway mileage between Sydney and Wollongong. Higher resolution photos are available on request

Price: $12,750 (Negotiable)

* Please note the car has not actually gone to the paintshop yet. We hope to get it there in the next week.

Pictures (and above details) can be found here: http://lwells.techadmins.com/xantia/

The reason for sale is that we just have too many cars. With a recent promotion in the family we recieved a company car so regrettably there is no need for this car anymore.

If you have any questions, just post them or feel free to email me ([email protected]) or call Andrew Wells on 02 42727971 (afterhours).

Cheers,

Lucien.

what do you think about swapping your car for a fairly new hilux workmate ute, everyone needs a ute

I'll check with the old man tomorrow, but I think its highly unlikely as we just have too many cars at the moment (hence the sale).

LW.

ok let me know what he says. thanks

Hi wreckedhead,

Unfortunately he is not interested. As I had suspected its just a question of too many cars at the moment, so replacing one with yet another is not an option. Sorry :)

Lucien.

Last chance to get in before it appears in tomorrow's Sydney Trading Post.... :starwars:

I should also mention that if anyone is seriously interested but can't make it to Wollongong I am sure we can arrange something as the owner quite often travels down to Sydney every second week or so.

Lucien.

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