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H folks. My name is John and I am a Brit living in Crete, Greece. I have just bought the above and spent a very happy afternoon scrolling through various forum posts on FCF, learning about the cars. The forum seems a very friendly place, I must say.

The car I bought is a 2004 1.8 petrol saloon, and the VIN begins with VF7**************[VIN obfuscated, can be read by forum staff]. The car drives...

Hello.
I have failed to find a Haynes manual for my 2008 C5 exclusive Tourer, it appears they stopped making them just before this year/model appeared.

Can anyone advise of a source for the wiring diagrams so that i can see what feeds what?

Many thanks. :-D

Hello people, I am new to this forum also new to Citroen's in general. I have a 64 Plate C5 Exclusive with the hydractive 3+ suspension. It has been comfortable, but i wanted to add a little more comfort. So I purchased 4X 17 inch Exclusive alloys from a circa 2009 model. It was a straight swap from my OEM 18's to OEM 17's, but after doing this...

Gentlemen, most likely Marc..

Can you get details of the clutch operation on my new C3 C3 Picasso please?

No vin until tomorrow as it's all with the car. Reg is ;

Clutch got lower and lower driving around London tonight. That was fun. Then I couldn't get gears at all. Limped out onto the A4 and managed to gently drive home. Green Flag are...

Hello Lads,

The time has come for me to dig into the headlight issue that I'm facing. This appears to be the following :

I switch on the directional headlights and they seem to function properly.
After 10 minutes, 1 hours, 1 day (differently) an error message pops up:
Headlight adjustment faulty followed by the service light and the headlight...

As some of you may already know, I’ve been getting P0401 insufficient flow and P0299 turbo underboost for a while now. New turbo, new EGR valve, still getting the same faults. I’m having the turbo pressure electrovalve changed tomorrow, but I was wondering if there was anything else I could check, like blockages anywhere ? The EGR passages have...

Hi All,
My Xantia cabin heating has decided to stop playing. won't go above blowing ever so slightly warm air. So far i have checked
Both pipes to the matrix are getting hot.
Bled the system, both bleed valves, thermostat housing and heater pipe.
I can hear the stepper motor when i move the temperature slider.
The directional flaps all work.
The...

Well,
Yesterday I changed all 4 injectors on the Citroen Relay.
The problem is that I can code only 2 of 4 injectors (n°1, n°4 ok n°2 and n°3 with the problem).
I started the van, made the auto correction/adjustement of the injectors, set the pump flow revving 2500rpm/3 min with clutch down.
The van runs great, no smoke or errors but I don't know...

Hi all,

First post, so here goes:

During the bad weather in November, I got caught in a flood and one of the cylinders was hydro locked. Got rescued and the following day I removed the injectors, disabled the fuel pump and turned the engine over. iirc, it was the 2nd cylinder from the left, (as you look at the engine), that was locked and it...

Hi All,

Does anyone know the size of the rubber dirt caps on the track rod ends for my C5 x7 2010 ? I've searched around but found nothing.

Kenny

Hi everyone, last November my 2012 Berlingo van with 102k miles came up with the Eolys warning.
I'd been waiting for that so it was no surprise.
I refilled the tank and then set about resetting the counter with diagbox 7.????
I have to admit I found the process very confusing, I fumbled about and finally got to a point where the warning went out....

First sorry for my bed English . I have C4 gp .It have Ambient lighting but it only works for me when the door is opened, i mean the led bar located on the roof and under the console. The C4 has a yellow light switch but when dark and when ambient light is needed it cannot be adjusted or activated. Is there any setup with diagnostics and can...

This may seem like a duplicate post to my last one, but I’m going to try and word it differently in the hope I’ll get a more simplified answer 😁.

So, when I bought the car it had an EGR fault code P0405, changed the EGR (for a used one) then the fault changed to P0401 insufficient flow. Left it as was until last week when the turbo failed !...

Jan 2005 Dispatch 815D Comm2000 indicator stalk fault

raise indicator stalk to indicate right - normal operation

lower indicator stalk to indicate left - sporadic operation

sometimes it indicates left just fine, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes the relay goes clickityclickityclickity very fast with no lights coming on

if it doesn't work...

Hi All,

As ever a few problems have happened at once and I am solving them as I go.

The Cat needs replacing as welding failing, we have ordered new one for about £50.

The battery has been slowing dieing, was brand new about 8yrs ago, am getting another new one soon.

Unfortunately the starter motor appears to have stopped working now, not...

Hi!
I have a Citroen C5 Hdi 140 Comfort - 2010. I have now tried to activate the auto dipping rear view mirrors in Lexia and managed to get the no to yes in the BSI settings. It still doesn't work. Have any of you managed to program this function in Lexia and get it to work? Is it possible at all?

Hello,

The last week or so I started hearing some humming noise from the engine area. I can hear it from inside the car and a bit when outside where it doesn't seem to be coming from the alternator. The sound appears to change to a higher pitch when I rev the engine, but not by much.

The noise could be heard some time (and not always) after a...

Hello all! I am certainly new here!

I have a 2008 Citroen C4 Grand Picasso with 150k miles on it. Silly me has gone and rounded one of the hex bolts that hold down injector number one from the left!

I wanted to have a go at changing the copper seal but I was too lazy to remove the cowl and ended up rounding the bolt because I didn't get a good...

Hi Guys having a small problem with my 2008 xsara picasso and I think its the ignition circuit which is causing issues on cold starts, basically unburnt fuel and rough idle until the car has ran for 30 seconds or so. It drives perfect after this for rest of the day. After many hours searching various forums I think there should be a postheat cycle...

Hello,
My problem arose recently when I had a battery failure associated with an alternator issue.
I don't know if it is related or just coincidental.
After my alternator problem had been fixed I found that the fuel gauge was not showing any content.
A garage was used and a new sender device was fitted. This did not solve the problem. Subsequent...

Hey there,

Im trying to fix the blower motor on my Xsara II 2001.
When I bought it, the fan was already broken. The previous owner told me it was because there as a leak on the AC lines (Which sounded like BS to me).

Before sending the car to an AC shop, i think its best for me to try to fix it before.

Today i removed the motor and did some...

Nothing riles me more than the thought of being exploited! I refer to my recent problem that arose from some pissant at tyre garage using a rattle gun on my security wheel bolts. When this happened I was naive as to what trouble this can cause having never having had any dealings with the security bolts before.
So when my car wheel had to come...

Hiya, have a question, hopefully you guys can help me. I recently bought a C3 2009 exclusive for my partner. Before we bought it the rear wiper part on the stalk was broken which they replaced with a complete new unit (indicator stalk, wiper stalk and stereo control) however now the rear wiper works, but when you pull on the wiper lever nothing...

lost my temper today with the :redface: tailgate.. 2 armfuls of shopping long walk from store, and thinking already got my key poised between fingers ready push button open, but alas the tailgate refused, so now had to put shopping down and then bags fell over , cabbage did runner down car park and i just tore the blumin door right up as hard i as...

I've started to hear a chugging noise on my Citroen C4 Picasso (diesel, automatic).
It's not all the time, but I can hear it when setting off from some junctions and going up hills.

It's not the standard engine tick over, but more of a deeper struggling, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba
The car also doesn't feel as responsive when I put my foot down as it...

Hi all,

Quick question does anyone know if the headlights off a mk 1 C5 fit the 2007 facelift model? The light look the same but are set up differently. Thanks in advance.

Kearon

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Classic car insurance is it like the loch ness monster ?

So today i thought OK get a quote on the old zx estate as I've been told it will qualify.

Went on the net found a site did all the form filling waited for the quotes to roll in all 105 and NOT one of them beat my company LV insurance...

My DS5 (2012 model) headlights seems to be lacking in brightness. Maybe it's just that the roads are damp and unlit most of the time but It seems that especially on dipped beam that the road is really gloomy and difficult to see clearly.
Do the lights deteriorate over time? I think they are xenon. Can the bulbs be replaced, or even better still...

Can anyone help! Drivers window stopped working, together with driver side fold away mirror.
So, replaced with Peugoet 407 window module. Now everything works! But of course I can't leave 407 module in as it doesn't have the facility to drop with the frameless door!
So, I've fitted a new c6 module, everything works, including mirrors, except pesky...

My friend has 2005 C4. Most cars of this age have only one key. He managed to drop that single key on concrete and damage the immobilizer coil(?). Anyway smithlock came to his house and tried to fix that key. He replaced the chip and programmed that chip to the car. Unfortunately themote no longer works. It worked even after the key was dropped...

Hello everyone, so my citroen c5 x7 diesel 100kw is going crazy and won't start and shows parking brake system faulty but that system works just fine. I figured out in my fuse box that this fuse isn't getting any voltage and fuse is perfectly fine what should i check next to give that fuse voltage or i should replace my fuse box under bonnet right...

Hello everyone!
I have the alarm from my previous car, and I'm planning to install it to my Xantia X2.
I have to find some cables, and I need some help, from someone who has done it before. I need to find:
Door unlock command cable
Door lock command cable
Open door switch cable
Left indicator cable (incar)
Right indicator cable (incar)

If...

Hi,

I have had an issue with the heater blower on my Citroen Xsara 2003 intermittently for the past year. It started off by not working at all, and the solution was to wiggle the key until it kicked in again, this problem looked identical to the video here -

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This happened again and I managed to get it to work by wiggling the key...

Hi, newbie here, so hope posting in correct place.
Noticed our 65 plate (December 2015 build) blind spot monitoring had stopped working and wouldn't let you switch it back on, as it was due to go in for service (Independent Citroen Specialist) thought would leave it for them to have a look at and then I noticed that the o/s indicator repeater was...

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Help needed yet again! My grandaughter's C4 Coupe 1.6i petrol 2007 has develpoped a coolant leak. She & the car are 120 miles away unfortunately. She has sent a couple of photos which I'll try to attach. Any ideas of what is leaking & the likely cure? Trying to diagnose at a distance with limited information (& memory!) is a bit difficult....

Hi guys apologies if this has already been covered but I'm a newbie to this,
I have a 1.6 8v Manual picasso 53 reg, that I'm of the understanding has developed a gearbox fault, Sunday evening whilst driving I changed from 2nd to 3rd gear which unusually crunched quite badly, I then noticed a loud scraping type noise coming from gearbox that is...

Hi guys, going to do my biggest job yet, dreaded clutch!! Now as i understand it, the steps go a bit like this

Wheels off
Drive shafts out
everything on top of the gearbox out (battery box, ECU, air pipes etc)
Starter out
Slave cylinder out
crank sensor out
Prop up engine under sump
Undo gearbox mounts

Gearbox off

replace clutch and pressure...

Took the motors out today, not to bad a job compared to the thermostat. :shock: Both motors and the connectors looked OK with only slight corrosion, the connectors looked good but I WD40'd them to be on the safe side and waxoiled any joins in the casing just to be sure.

Both scuttle drains seemed reasonably clear, a little debris but not enough...

Can anyone tell me what all this means please ?

Hi All,

Has anyone fitted these ball joints to C5 x7, my needs to be replaced for the MOT along with the lower pivot bush.

I have the citroen procedure printed off but no info re alignment. Is that because the joint rotates around the needle bearings when free from the Suspension support.

I hoping to get it done over the weekend.

Any tips and...