French Car Forum

Hello all,
Was talking to Hell Razor at the XM25 and the subject of lower ball joint replacement came up :wink: . He suggested I put this on the Forum :-D .
Story goes I had tried the long bar, but desisted as the torque was doing horrible things to the suspension and nothing was moving :cry: . So I resorted to :shock: spending money :shock:!
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My indicator to turn right, is fine, all four of my hazard lights work great, but when I want to turn left the indcator light flashes on the console and the front indicator bulb dose not work (tried it at night) and checked the bulb.

Before I buy a second hand indicator stalk, is this a quick fix? Tried to search, bit nothing for my indicator...

S2 and late S1 connections behind the Air Bag are a bit tricky to remove if your not sure how..

So I did do this today bevause of this:

Yes, the air bag outer covering is comming away!

So needed to swap for another...

Disconnect battery
Turn wheel 90 deg, and behind top and bottom theres buired in the holes 2 Torx 30 bolts. Undo them with...

A common problem it is, that the coating of the steering wheel of C5 I & II gets sticky and awful:

Please note that there are (at least) three types of steering wheels used in C5 I & II:

4109 EK, 'honest' plastic steering wheel
4109 FN, 'looks-like-fake leather' leather steering wheel, with stitching but no padding
4109 EX, real leather...

for my citroen xantia S2 1998 1.9TD estate I bought what appeared to be a pretty good drivers door with great looking hinges after my original door top hinge failed miserably.

I had it sprayed the right colour from silver to dark blue and with some help managed to get it fitted to the car.

the top hinge lasted exactly four months before it...

My Peugeot 306 hdi 1999 during the winter and cold times the glow plug light used to come on. But since the weather warmed up I've not seen it on for awhile now.

The car starts and drives fine no problems. I was thinking the same why the light stopped coming on maybe the warmer weather.

I worked out today why the glow plug light wasn't coming on...

Hi can anybody please tell me where to find the diagnostic socket on a C5 2009 so I can plug my Lexia 3 into.
Thanks

The Cruise Control fitted to the automatic Xantias and XMs (amongst others) is a vacuum operated system manufactured by Hella. It can be troublesome and the following is a brief faultfinding guide.

The system consists of dashboard switch to turn it on/off, a relay operated by the switch, an ECU, a stalk to engage and control speed and resume, a...

This is a common complaint on '90s Peugeot/Citroën models; The airbag light keeps flashing at me ... Seen it (or similar) on a few other Euro marques as well.

It's registering an intermittent connection through your underseat connector plugs that fire seatbelt pretensioners in the event of an accident.

Many solutions I don't like a whole lot,...

The spring loaded auxillary belt tensioner as used on the later (aircon) 1.9TD and 2.1TD fail due to the needle roller bearings failing and digging into the bearing sleeve, causing it to eventually seize. It gets notchy to begin with.

The tensioner can be replaced in-situ with minimal dismantling but access is poor. Here is how.

The correct GSF...

As always, prior to starting any work that involves getting underneath a Xantia, or any Citroen with hydraulic suspension, make absolutely certain that the car is firmly supported on axle stands or ramps. This is particularly important when working on the suspension system hydraulics, the car can drop very suddenly with fatal results.

This...