Well.. For those people who THINK the XM is unreliable, well Ive just read a shock report in the Telegraph Online..

When your stuck at home, house bound you'll do anything to pass the time, anyway, I have the motoring section of the Telegraph book marked because some rather interesting stories DO turn up, not least this one.

They have got the top 10 LEAST Reliable cars.. the list is shocking.. The MORE Points they have the worse they are..

10. Citroen XM with 438 points
09. Land Rover RANGE Rover. 2002 on with 442 points
08. Porsche 911 2001 to 06 with 442 points
07. Bentley Continental GT 2003 on. with 490 points
06. Audi A6 Allroad 2000 - 2005 with 502 points
05. Mercedez CL 2000 - 2007 with 512 points
04. Mercedez V Class (Van) 1996 - 2004 with 547 points
03 Mercedez SL convertible 2002 with 555 points
02. BMW M5 2004 to 2011 with 717 points

and the shock top spot for least reliable car goes to..

01. Audi RS6 2002 - 2011 with 1,282 points

Sooo whos laughing now! The XM is the most reliable least reliable car!! Funny thing is most of the list is german, which the press would have has the best metal in the world.....

Whos laughing now!

Hi Paul

Factor in the fact that the XM is on average 10 years older than all the worse cars on the list then it is doing very well.
The average age of the rest is about 7 or 8 years old against 18 for the XM's.

John

Hi John,

Precesely - my thoughts exactly, most who own any of the others wouldn't even consider an XM ...

Well that's not bad then. There was I thinking the XM was the least reliable. Good to see it's only just made the top ten

Interesting that the top 8 are all Jerrymobiles and that we're all led to believe they're the most reliable of the lot... Umm, well...

Once I got to understand the XM and was able to maintain it properly mine were utterly reliable. I did one or two trips to the far North of Scotland each year and just got in and drove without any preparation except routine servicing.

The last actual breakdown I had must have been at least 10 years ago and that was only because the o/s drive shaft centre bearing had disintegrated and the shaft slid out of the diff - if I had known at the time I could have slid it back in again and driven home.

The green one that came to a sad end was completely reliable for 70,000 miles after I fitted a head gasket.

I did have a few problems in the early days but they were largely down to my ignorance.

Peter

I've only had two actual breakdowns in mine that stopped me from using it in over four years and over 40,000 miles.

1, Auxillary belt tensioner broke
2, electrical fault caused by FUSES being used in place of SHUNT'S(took a while to sort that one out!)

So I would say that they are a very reliable car (especially for it's age. 1995 reg and 187,236 miles)



P.S.

Thats jinxed it now

No suprise at all I have been saying for years that german cars are utter overated junk!