Citroen XM V6 extreme cold start and rising up at -31°C

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Dailying XM

5 ай бұрын

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@dvs3308 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful car! And a very good cold start with these low temperatures.

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was really impressed for the battery since it has sat there over a week.

@brunopicaude3092 4 ай бұрын

I got four Citroen XM with different engines. It was such a comfortable car with much place onboard and very secure on the road.

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Here in Finland XMs are still cheap and actually almost all other older Citroens.@@brunopicaude3092

@mundocpc 4 ай бұрын

I was a small kid when the XM was released. Back in those days my uncle was a mechanic working for Citröen and i remember well the first time i saw it. It looked like a spaceship, I was so impressed. Many years later I owned a Xantia myself, I got a lemon and it was a terrible car, but it lasted like 15 years 😢

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

When the XM was launched, I wasn’t born yet. My mom and dad both drove XMs one berline and one break. For long time I didn’t really like break XMs and I thought that break Xantias were better looking, but over the time the design has grown on me. If your Xantia lasted 15 years with you, can it be that bad?

@mundocpc 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm I always liked the XMs more, probably due to that amazing initial impression I had 😄 The Xantia lasted, yep, but because we patched it up like crazy. To be honest, those were my teen years and I also crashed it a couple of times, that did not help. I remember driving it to the scrapyard without working suspension, stuck in the highest position! It was bouncing like a kangaroo 😄

@BluesyBor 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm your reply gave me an idea of how damn old I am. I was like 5 when XM was released, although it didn't really hit the streets in my country back then, it was a rare sight even a few years later. Still, I was kinda targeting one of these in 2011, this or Renault Safrane, they looked like fun cars to have and drive. Didn't happen, got a Lancia instead. XD

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

@@BluesyBor XMs were here ultra-rare also. At the end of the production there were 817 XM registered in Finland. It’s usually a safe bet that when you see an XM nowadays it’s imported from Germany in mid 00s, mine included. When I got my driver’s license, I didn’t even think XM as an option nor any other Citroen. I was really heavy in SAAB 900s as I have always had one since I was 10. I fell in XMs first time when I loaned my brothers ’89 V6 XM and then I knew that I really had to have one. Oh, I quite like older Lancias and I have soft spot for so-called fugly cars like Lancia Thesis and Alfa 166.

@geertvandermeer4938 5 ай бұрын

Love cold starts and older Citroens.

@perolsen3813 5 ай бұрын

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@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Huge thanks to all of you!

@axelvauthier6823 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxmsuper tes vidéos KZfaq

@_sytytystulppa-racing.92 4 ай бұрын

Man, this car is a beauty!

@jmdoutdoors5729 5 ай бұрын

Great car thank you for sharing.

@RetroRoberino 4 ай бұрын

Starts like a dream

@V8AmericanMuscleCar 4 ай бұрын

Cool car man! I really like old Citroëns! ❤

@andrut04 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful car.

@badbusdriver7160 4 ай бұрын

Lovely car!

@bobcomment8589 4 ай бұрын

A very good car

@jeshkam 4 ай бұрын

I love the snow mohawk.

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Now that you said it, it does look like one :D

@colinashby3775 4 ай бұрын

Makes me want one

@lyr6408 4 ай бұрын

Elle démarre plutôt bien,je suis assez surpris, ça peine un peu au début, mais ça va quand même bien, Que mettez vous comme huile moteur par ces basses températures ?? De la 5w40 ? 5w30 ? Ou 0w30? Car avec _31° Il faut de l'huile assez fine pour qu elle puisse être pompée par la pompe a huile En Tous cas,ce que je sais,c est qu il ne faut pas d huile trop visqueuse comme la 15w40 ou 10w40,car elle se figera ,la pompe a huile ne pourra pas la pomper et ne lubrifiera jamais le moteur au démarrage et ça empêche même de démarrer le moteur Si vous Mettez de l'huile fine pour l hiver comme la 5w40, 5w30 ,ou même 0w30 si il fait très froid, votre voiture démarrera encore mieux et surtout le moteur sera mieux protégé au début 🙂👍 Moi j ai une Fiat Doblo 1,3 l multijet de 2007, elle a 300 000 kms et elle fonctionne nickel aussi, malgré que ce soit du Fiat, et que les gens parfois sous estime,ça a l air d'être robuste aussi, j en prend très soin aussi, surtout au niveau du moteur,je vidange tous les 5000 kms , change le filtre a huile en même temps,et je mets la meilleure huile 5w40 que je puisse trouver ( liqui Moly ou Total Quartz)et ça tient bien, ça a l.air d aller et elle est partie pour continuer au déjà de 300 000 kms

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

I was quite surprised at how well it started and how well the battery handled the cold. I like to use Total Quartz 5w-40 and I change oil and filter every 10k km. It might not be the best at -30c, but we rarely have this extreme cold, usually it gets only around -25c. Most of the time I'm also using engine block heater. I agree, at least Fiats utility vehicles are tough vehicles. My brother owns a Peugeot Boxer with 2.8 Iveco diesel and it has been really reliable and starts like nothing at -25c with only glow plugs.I hope that your car serves you well!

@lyr6408 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm Merci de m.avoir écrit , c'est vrai que la 5w40 suffit a _20°, elle ne figera pas,🙂👍👍, les voitures comme la vôtre sont robustes aussi,j ai vu dans la vidéo que la vôtre a plus de 400 000 kms 🙂, bravo qu elle soit arrivé jusque là💪👍👍🙂, Bonne continuation 🙂🙋👍👍

@autogatto70 4 ай бұрын

I don't know why, but I really like watching cold starts, very cold

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

haha, same here!

@arkeys74 5 ай бұрын

LCD display working in sloooow motion because of the cold weather. And yes LHM must be like syrup. Even a moderately cold weather I can feel the steering being heavy in my Xantia for the first short while

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, you are right! I would have wanted to film how the LHM looked, but the bonnet was so heavy at that point that I couldn't.

@axelvauthier6823 4 ай бұрын

Increvable les xm v6

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

The PRV V6 is the most underrated V6

@billybill6604 3 ай бұрын

Great car! Would love to own an XM V6 and park it right next to my Cx! Warm regards from France :)

@dailyingxm 3 ай бұрын

Merci! I'm almost jealous because you have a CX, my absolute dream car would be a red CX GTI turbo 2. But the V6 XM is to me a poor man's SM and CX combined

@billybill6604 3 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm The SM is a dream car of mine too, but can't afford it either. I'm happy with my CX :) I really like your country! Take care of you and of the XM Warm regards

@dailyingxm 2 ай бұрын

@@billybill6604 Same to you, I hope that your CX serves you well! I adore your country and culture too.

@Camarde-vive 4 ай бұрын

Bonjour de France. Superbe Citroën, la version 5 portes de la SM.

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Bonjour! That is exactly why I bought one. I figured that since SMs are out of my price range XM is the closest I can get. XMs design is clearly inspired from the SM and they both are fitted with the V6 and the DIRAVI.

@Camarde-vive 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm La XM a en effet les lignes du chef d’œuvre de Robert Opron. Bien qu’elle partage son châssis avec la Peugeot 605, je la considère comme une vraie Citroën. Le système DIRAVI, la suspension hydropneumatique et le V6 PRV lui confèrent toute son originalité et prestige. Elle est extraordinaire à conduire. Bien à vous

@SterkeYerke5555 5 ай бұрын

There's a Dutch Citroën specialist who tends to use HGB (from Kendall I think) instead of LHM. Supposedly it stays quite a bit thinner in cold weather, even though we don't really need that here. Might help in your case though. I'd also expect the damping on your car to become stiffer than normal due to the LHM becoming very thick, so it can't move as fast through the dampers in the spheres and the hydractive block

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

That is interesting to hear. I haven’t heard from the Kendall before, but as you said they have specially made hydraulic oil (HGB) for the northern environment. They claim that oil will freeze after -62. If that is something that I can get hold of that would be interesting to try. You are right, when temperature drops below -20 damping will be stiffer, but it gets better after few kilometers. It’s also funny that both my BX’s and XM’s speedo cables is making loud noise for first few kilometers :D

@albinklein7680 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxmit is ultra funny that one of the most advanced cars in the 1990s still uses a speedo cable. The cast iron Volvo bricks started with electronic speedos in the late 1970s...

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

@@albinklein7680 It is quite funny, even though they switched to electric speed in 94. Even funnier is that late CX uses electric ride height selector and XM doesn’t . Is that so? I never realized that they had that advantaged speedos. I actually own a 144 as a long-term project.

@ciaranburke3243 4 ай бұрын

I love the xm started so easy reliable old car maybe you will put it indoors in future 👍

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

It is a reliable old car. I actually live in the city, but maybeone I get a place with the garage to store her.

@xm222 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful cold start 👍😊

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, and some people are saying that French cars won’t after -15 😂

@user-ex2qi4ih3w 5 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm для того щоб запустити будь який автомобіль у -31 за ним потрібно слідкувати та любити його

@user-xp2pz4wt8u 4 ай бұрын

...не вундеркинд...

@user-ex2qi4ih3w 4 ай бұрын

@@user-xp2pz4wt8u ????

@user-kr5tw6ld1h 5 ай бұрын

It's v6 engine so it's always starting good.

@marcelcomandat6245 4 ай бұрын

The car was started before the video, you can see that it walked AND protected the snow, it's a facke 😅

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Sure it was, moved it there week before filming this :D

@mainiotaainetta 4 ай бұрын

yes! finnish Xm!👍

@henrik1743 4 ай бұрын

Yeah XM was really not a good winter car... My dad had one when I was little in sweden. Even when we kept it in the garage if we were in a rush it was not making dad happy making it wait to lift up... I sold my xantia activa v6 to a guy in finland by the way, hope it's going well there to someone :D

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

I, on the other hand, think that XMs among other hydraulic Citroens, are one of the winter cars that you can get. There is nothing like a hydropneumatic suspension when it comes to snowy roads. And in my case the Diravi makes it unbelievably joyful to drive in bad conditions. It shouldn't take insufferably long to rise if driven on a daily basis. That reminds me of a DS enthusiast priest who used to say that "when the hydraulics are building the pressure there is a good time to make prayer that the journey will be safe" and even though I'm not religious myself, I think the valuable lesson there is that be calm and don't be in a hurry. I bet that your old Activa is owned by someone at the Citroen club!

@adid.5585 4 ай бұрын

The car that I love, but I will most probably never have. 😢

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

If you want one and have space for it i'd say now might be the time to get one. Some are really expensive, but there are decent examples for relatively cheap.

@albinklein7680 4 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ. I got the sales brochures for the "New XM" in the mail when I was in my 20s. Holy hell am I getting old....

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've also noticed that time flies :D

@sanitarsasha3730 4 ай бұрын

my peugeot 605 has the same 3.0 v6 engine, 10w40 oil, it starts calmly in frosts down to -20, although the odometer has 310,000 km

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

605 is a really underrated car imho. Even though PRVs have their own proplems I believe that 310k is nothing for that engine. Didn't 605 have sort of hydractiveish suspension setup with springs? I would really like to test one some day.

@sanitarsasha3730 3 ай бұрын

605 does not have a conventional MacPherson strut front suspension and a multi-link independent rear suspension, but the comfort of driving a car is at the highest level@@dailyingxm

@static_Tricolor_camry 4 ай бұрын

Should never let your car idle, you're doing more damages to the internals than you think.

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Should I floor it then? Joking aside It can't be driven before hydraulics have built the pressure. You do more harm to your Citroen if you start driving immediately.

@ColdCars16 4 ай бұрын

Hi ! Are you okay if I use a part of your video for my channel? I will mention you in the description, of course!

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Yeah sure

@Mad_Skill_Garage 5 ай бұрын

Seaside sent me aswell! 👍😃

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@seveleleventwelve 4 ай бұрын

Which country is it, my friend?

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

It's Finland

@seveleleventwelve 4 ай бұрын

Nice@@dailyingxm

@I_feel_just_like_a_rockstar 5 ай бұрын

0W-40 ? :) Beautiful car. Greetings from France

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

I’m using Total 5W-40 full-syn. Ahhh, France is such a lovely country. Some day I’ll make a trip there!

@sylvainmichel8659 4 ай бұрын

Vous êtes de quel pays ?

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

@@sylvainmichel8659 I’m from Finland

@fran6389 4 ай бұрын

V6 PRV or ES9 ?

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

PRV 12v

@danielwalker2309 2 ай бұрын

458k km? Impressive.

@dailyingxm 2 ай бұрын

close, it's at 418k km at the moment

@VidiSLTU 4 ай бұрын

This breeze for petrol is nothing. 👍

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

That's true, I think that at least all "modern" fuel injected petrols should start below -30 with no issues.

@Cusers 4 ай бұрын

-30C you need 0w oil what oil do you have ?

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

I’m using 5w-40. It’s -30c is quite extreme around here, usually at this time it’s between -20-25c

@Cusers 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm omg at this temperature your oil is thick like honey I'm from Canada here I live every winter in -40 we used 0w20 or 0w30 here now my oil for my corolla has 0w16 and I don't have any strange noise because the oil is fluid at -30c Nice video i like watch cold start xD

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I know that it's really thick and therefore I usually use a block heater, but I was really too curious to find out how easily it would start. cheers m8!@@Cusers

@user-ex2qi4ih3w 5 ай бұрын

Блін, у мене вже у -2 двері не закриєш, а тут -31 і все зачинилося, вчому проблема?

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

Oh, you mean your doors won’t stay shut? You are right they will froze if water gets to them. I always spray motorbike chain Vaseline to the lock mechanism at the start of the winter and they will work fine.

@user-ex2qi4ih3w 5 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm саме так, передні двері не закриваються доки автомобіль не прогріється і не піде тепло, задні двері працюють у будь який мороз! Я обробляю замки та ущільнювачі дверей силіконовим мастилом але це не дає результату, навіть знімав замок з дверки, чистив, змащував і дсеодно він не працював, до того ж у мене було 2 ХМ і така проблема була в обох автомобілях

@samuelgagnon 5 ай бұрын

Pas mal, non ? C'est français :P

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

It’s really well build and the PRV is real beast!

@user-xp2pz4wt8u 4 ай бұрын

...carte...

@SrLobo90 4 ай бұрын

Is the engine the original?

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Of course I can't tell for certain, but as far as I can tell, it is. Date stampings on the block matches with the production date of the car. And from the sound that it makes when cold, I bet that it still has the early type pistons that are causing the piston slap.

@SrLobo90 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm Incredible, for having so many KM it is very well preserved, and the engine sounds quite good.

@Perkelenaattori 4 ай бұрын

Shame there's no thermometer in your XM since at least the temperature in my C5 used to stop counting at -29 simply because they probably thought nobody would be stupid enough to even drive in temperatures under that.

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

XMs actually have one, but mine has been broken ever since I bought the car. Sometimes it showed -42 at middle of the summer :D

@MrToluen60 5 ай бұрын

Quant on une voiture de ce prix là et qui à 420 000 km, on ne la laisse pas sous la glace !

@I_feel_just_like_a_rockstar 5 ай бұрын

Elle est pas en sucre.

@cedricke 4 ай бұрын

J’allais dire que ça ne coûtait rien comme caisse, mais ça c’était avant…….ils sont fous…..

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

Here in Finland XMs are still cheap and actually almost all other older Citroens.@@cedricke

@cedricke 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm in France they have taken on quite a few values like the entire second-hand market elsewhere….

@Balbrock 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm I tried to sell mine for only €5,500 last summer in France, I never found a buyer, yet it's a rarity, an exclusive all-option metallic gray 2.5td12 from 2000 with only 160,000km. Many complain that they can't find one but when there is one they don't want it either even at a low price...

@standystans2150 4 ай бұрын

If it will be -31 his ears will frozen, looks like its about -1 maybe -3

@dailyingxm 4 ай бұрын

You seem to know lot about cold weathers :D

@standystans2150 4 ай бұрын

@@dailyingxm exactly 😎

@lukaswollkaemmer4347 4 ай бұрын

This is not a Tesla!😁

@thierrymamin8339 4 ай бұрын

Essayez avec une Tesla

@Roger_Ramjet 5 ай бұрын

Seaside garage sent me here. Subscribed👍👍👍

@dailyingxm 5 ай бұрын

I have noticed that in last few days, I have had quite a few new subscribers and I bet that all of them are from Seaside garage. Huge thanks to Seppo and all of you!