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124 Buying an XM General Information
I've not yet seen any XM with rust, apart from one which had some minor rust below a rubber almost at
the bottom end of a front door. The build quality of XM's seems to be very good.
The seats are just great. The 2.0i engine is noisy (for a luxury car) and not very refined, the manual
gearbox shifts very smooth (apart from the reverse). 2.0i engine can use a lot of oil.
I've not heard any bad things about the old 3.0 V6 apart from the fact that isn't too refined either. I do not
have experience with the V6 or with the Turbo's. If you drive a lot get a Diesel.
There were quite some stories about broken auto gearboxes on this list, so I would stay away from that.
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Why should one buy a car with all this trouble that can be solved easily?! Buy a '93 XM or younger and
have a fine car. A car is not built to be repaired but to transport people and items from one place to the
other. Of course cars need to be serviced and that is the only thing that newer XMs require.
Anyway, people should decide for themselves what they like and what they want to buy.
I remember that I was happy with my first 1990 XM 2.0i ambiance.
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