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Thanks Jim
Allanmc

I have been with this forum a few months now and tbh,i would of been lost without it.the knowledge that exudes from these guys is amazing and i am often dumbstruck at how much they know.Dumb being the operative word for me lol.They are a great bunch of guys.Welcome to French Car Heaven :)

Timmy

The processor can be removed if you take out the instrument cluster.
The instrument cluster comes out very easily. I use two dessert spoon handles. You slide them under the cluster at the two points with the 'dots'. this releases two springs and the cluster lifts out by pulling the bottom out first.

Showing my ignorance again :oops: I should know because I have one of each but the last one I worked on was the 2.0. and I have a very short memory.

Peter

Just had a text from her telling me she's collected the car. All done. Both springs changed for £235 including the VAT. She sounds a happy lassie.

Thanks for the pointers, so it looks like if the Cat goes bang then I can just replace it with a straight pipe?

Its a Feb 99 T plate XUD engined Xantia.

Its OK at the moment but good to know it can be got rid off anyway should the pipe need replaced. Would be good to get back to more BX TZD performance & economy!

Cheers

depends what you're comparing it with, I supose, but the biggest problem is that the (heavy) gearbox is a very tight fit . The drive shafts are not any particular difficulty.

Your Xantia looks like new with your climate. We don't see many Xantias like that in the UK

The picture doesn't really tell the whole story, paint actually started to fade on some spot including the hood.. Getting a fresh paint next month, same colour. :D

Great news :-D That was the Coolant Temperature Sensor - the one that tells the engine...

Changing the front pads should be fairly straightforward. There is a Haynes manual for the C5 that will tell you how to do it. Important thing to remember is that as the handbrake acts on the front wheels, the calipers must be wound back, not just pushed in - and one of them (can't remember which) is LH thread. You can do it with a makeshift tool,...

A lot cheaper than welding in the long term and the ear-ache between now and then!

hi all just bought a 2001 hdi cheap never done a head gasket on a diesel and having problems taking off the manifold at the back stripped everything at the front off but really having problems with this do i go from underneath or from the top where abouts are the bolts to take off manifold and turbo ?? and how long does the job normally take been...

I've seen this once before on an S2 Xantia and was replaced by replacing the instrument pod. Rather a sledgehammer approach.

S2 Xantia instruments are all electronic and connect to the printed circuit board containing their 'works' via spring 'fingers'. These are notorious for making bad connections and affecting how the gauges read.

The good...

Thanks so much - very much appreciated.

Problem remedied with a new lights, indicator, horn stalk so it was a worn internal contact as I suspected.

Fitted without the rigmarole of removing the steering wheel; removing top part of steering column cover / shroud and carefully pulling down left hand side of bottom of cover whilst still attached to base of steering column with fifth screw...

You are welcome MortyDK, we are here to try and help. Glad we were able to provide useful information

Happy motoring (and spannering)!

i don't have the van with me at the moment

For the price they are, it's advisable to fit one. Mine has been in service now for seven years and its done a lot of towing. Wires were just spliced at the rear light units. Don't forget you'll need provision for a flasher warning when your trailer's connected. The Smart relay will give you that.

Pity a certain year or so of 405 owner when they changed to two or three types during that year of production. A failed top / bottom or radiator would mean replacing all three items.

These days they will have been long replaced so not a problem.

That is possibly a question for Mackie or JPAT as converter sectioning/rewelding isn't a million years away from sphere work.

That's exactly what I was thinking :)

thanks chris i will ring you

regards

marco f1

C5s are not bad cars and I would class them as among the most reliable of more modern cars. Providing you get a good one with the right engine. However the faults Paul listed are entirely possible.

Rear passenger door can stick on lock if the child lock is used.. can only be freed by removing rear door card, which you can do with the door...

Mine has had that showing for quite a while due to the airbag fault warning popping up. I fixed that last week and the service light's now off.

My airbag fault was a high resistance in the clockspring wiring in the steering column stalk switch.

That would be it then, I fitted a set of leather seats in it a while back and its showing an air bag...

Any improvement so I could see roads better at night should helps. Haha. Guess I should try with an uprated bulb first and see the difference. And relay modded it if that was'nt enough.

does it mean you have a bulb out just a guess

The bulbs are working perfectly fine...very strange. There is no reoccurrence so far.

Thank you.

Regards,

Thanks All, I'll go with GSF simply because they're near and seem a pretty friendly bunch at my local outlet

just because that is what the codes say it doesn,t mean that is the reason yhe words anti polution fault says alot about it being something else.

I went up to see CitroJim (see post Useful Day Out), and we replaced both of Gracies' reluctor rings. Jim had the right sized breaker bar (massive, to deal with recaltriant hub nuts), and now the ABS is prepared to accept that the speed indicated does make sense. These are the rings I bought;

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James

Hi all,

Thanks for responses. I sussed it today. You were right I had to rotate the armrest around to the 3 oclock position (so armrest was touching back seat).

Then I found a small (5mm) metal lever where the plastic housing for the armrest meets the drivers chair material. I pushed the little 'switch' and pulled the armrest straight out of...

The C8 CD/radio is coded to the vehicle VIN number. Local man in SE Essex charged me £50 for a replacement unit coded to my vehicle. Apparently the Clarion unit has an inherent fault with the cassette deck. There is a plastic cover to a gear train where the fixing lugs break off allowing the cover to lift and the gears to come out of mesh when the...

Having had a good read through I now have a few more questions.
Can you access it by removing the arch liner, or peeling it back?
Do you have to remove/disconnect it to change the glowplug?
You need to loosen the N/S/F bumper mountings then pull back the arch liner, you can change the glow plug without disconnecting it but its much easier if...

EGR valve can cause it too, but they throw up the EML usually.

The OP did say the EML was coming on...

Best bet would be to find a nearby forum member with a Lexia to find out exactly what the EML is complaining about, saving a lot of trial and error and guesswork...

Ah missed that! still more likely to be AFM I reckon though. EGR doesn't...

Tried doing the pedal configuration twice, and the message still appeared... went ahead anyway, looks like it's been cleared a few times in 2012 looking in the history. It said an after sales zone needed to be created, and went through that, was able to go into the configuration after that without the message re-appearing.

Seems like a few faults...

...I am thinking of getting a second car,and not being a major fan of modern cars and being quite fond of Citroëns :).I was seriously looking at getting a XM.
It's odd; the 605 has effectively sated my thirst for an XM but I wouldn't recommend one of them for a tyro either.

Of course the real answer is for insurance companies and the authorities to clamp down hard on the cheats who cost us all 50% higher premiums. Anyone caught without insurance should have their vehicle impounded and sold, no excuses. If it is possible for me to insure my two cars, it is possible for everyone. Anyone found trying to defraud...

which bits did you need im sure i can find some of the vacuum device's that have a small bore vac hose going to them from the induction on the GS/A's,

i might even be able to find the small panel of three lamps if i did in my shed quite deep

The whole lot if you have it Malcolm, that would be brilliant! It's for the Sidewinder, which is now...

Hi Andy, I think the KFX ECU diagrams are sorted. The ones I have, show a similar immobiliser integration to the Xantia, so I may be able to wing it with just the two ECU layouts. Should be a fairly brisk little van when done.

i would have thought there is more electricary involved on an 06 607 than on an 03 C5,
and not just relating to the box but engine also?????

you could also check here to check pug's

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Back to the original problem...

Yes this car has had similar problems before, but it was eventually diagnosed and solved.
There were 2 different sets of symptoms caused by a faulty (worn?) selector switch on the transmission (item 1600 on the wiring diagram). The first symptoms (which coincidentally happened in cold damp weather) were that the...

i had water in my rear footwells i ended up replacing the door membrane on the nsr door still did not cure the problem so i ordered a new exterior weatherstrip from my local dealer we had two good days of downpour no leaks problem solved :-D

marc
2001 c5 2.0hdi sx 110

There's another Xantia on the bay currently (Item 110998252211) which seems to have the same advertising problem... :?

If you fit a pump with a plain solenoid fitted you may have to leave the original solenoid plugged in to avoid eml light being on permanently.

Fit an aftermarket stereo, you can get a good one for £50 and as they now have a rotary volume control you don't really need the remote, you can get an adaptor to use it but that will be about another £40.

Peter

Mik,

It sounds as though your heater is working just fine. Mine will sometimes run for a few minutes after engine switch off producing a little smoke, the heater runs on diesel and is automatic in operation.
There has been a very informative post on this forum about servicing them when they don't work, the usual problem is the small glow plug...

If you bypass the relay it will fire up irrespective of the outside temperature.

Yep, have not done that yet, just wondered what triggers it in normal life.
ie does the temp have to drop below 0 degrees C or something?

- Dave -

got the spear on now so need to get another wheel tryer from somwhere

Clearly the Birdman needs a bird in skimpy attire to boost his web sales. :twisted:

Bick thanks i will have egr valve replaced.

Your help is much appreciated.