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The crankshaft pully in my Xantia gave me plenty of warning noises (loud clacking when idle), never heard any shredding noises though.

It is that loud that one can hear the tickings inside the car, when I touch it with my finger I can feel the the ticking. I compare it with the FPR of my Ford Focus, the Fords one is very quite and I can't feel its tickings when I touch it

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Zohar

cheers spider, had not even looked at the td rads,was curious to know the flow rate of the thin veined type. Like would it be ok for the earlier diesel engine.

Thought I'd publish the conclusion to this Mercedes trouble. I told him that I thought the HP pump leak was the likely cause of all symptoms, from stalling to the eventual non-starting due to low fuel rail pressure as a result of the leak. He bought a seal kit, cleaned up the internals of the HP pump (finding a clog of fibres in one cylinder's...

Is jenny actually an undercover MOT man? :shock:

Funny avatar.

I had exactly the same problem as this on a 2.0 HDi Fiat Scudo in the past, turned out to be the temperature sensor playing up, so I would try that, they aren't too expensive.

Sorry to hear about your mum...

Thanks for your kind words, things are going in the right direction. It seems problems always come at the same time.

Regards.

Thanks for your help,will give it a try and see what happens.

If you ram the cable guides full of red rubber grease it wont attack the outer plastic. Or maybe silicone grease.

How hard would it be to colour code the bottom of my c5?

turn it on its roof :shock: :twisted: :roll: :wink:

(ie;heat cycling).

we dont get this in the UK it must just be an AUS phenomenon :wink:

regards malcolm

Thanks for the reply I'm in manchester myself but thanks for the generous offer. I haven't had them read by lexia but its a common problem that I have only heard come to the same outcome of changing the actuator (which can only be done by citroen as its a coded part ). Apparently they all come up with the same code of actuator faliure which is not...

Sorry, know nothing about modern petrol engines but if it works on the same principle as diesel injection sounds like a drop in fuel pressure.

Peter

just another question when i turn on the Air Con the belt flaps even more, the aircon works perfectly but thought i had better mention it.

You see Addo, we get the stuff you guys don't like!

Now that's an EXPORT!

Also, another little thing that catches me out now and again. If my car gets hot and bothered from a motorway drive or a spirited drive, drive round slowly for a bit to cool it down before I park it up for the night.

The next day I go and start my car... Nothing.

Ild hold the key round in the start position for 20seconds+ then it would...

Hi malcolm,

well it says its the right manual and there are no others re 2.0 hdi mk2 relay.

its just a citroen thing me thinks as my 06 reg but 05 build was just before the mk3 came out.

think i should write my own manual lol

Of course its not a guarantee of a good car, but just to show it has had oil changes at the right times is a big bonus. Obviously there is no assurance of the garage carrying out the work which has been paid for but you would hope it had been. Something like a cambelt change I would not trust in the history and so always get it done to be sure....

Ohh, I like the FTO even though people call them an FT-Slow :twisted:

The baby V6 makes a lovely sound 8-)

This is a three Weetabix job :wink:

Judiciously soak the ends of the in in Plus Gas (not WD40 - it's rubbish for this work) and then use a properly sized pin punch and a good sized engineers hammer. A toffee hammer won't do. You need a big 'un.

The using good blows the pin will come out. The secret is in using a correctly sized pin punch...

But will she know that?

Hi wenglish thanks for the tip and sorry it took so long to reply.
I will have a go at it and see if I can get it goi g again.

Thanks again Gaz

Thanks Chris, the fans spin freely so will check elsewhere.

I'll have a look under the seats for that white connection.

Steve.

Pretty sure you will need to change the lights for LHD ones - they're simple old school incandescent jobbies - and not all that great at that as they use H4 bulbs, so the dip goes off when you go to main :roll:

How things have changed, before the modern diesel era I used to run quite a few cars fitted with Perkins 4/108 engines, you had to change the oil every 2,000 miles or when you unscrewed the drain plug nothing happened, I used to put a pint of diesel in the oil and run the engine to get it thin enough to come out!

Peter

Thanks guys, will have a dearch of the normal pllaces and see who has what etc. We don't have a local branch of either gsf or ecp down here, nearest is plymouth, a good hours drive from here,

It seems as much like all things, some peeps have good experience of cheaper parts and some bad of expensive ones, its not a job I really fancy having to...

ok so if i hit it so it might free itself? what would be best way to access it? thanks for replies sean

I have reverse thrust!

thanks for the advice, i been advised by a garage that the ECU is faulty and needs a new one, big money, but it seems to me that the ecu is doing its job and entering its backup mode overriding a faulty sensor

Hi Allan I have a series 2 xantia hdi 90 bhp I have a similar problem car only has to sit for only two days on the drive and it is completely flat bought a new battery thinking it was a tired one and hey same problem so what you saying is in your post that when you take out fuse no 25 the problem is gone you have no issues I'm no expert can...

except xm 2.1s...which once warm always start again without heat!!!

Thy are the same, Pleiades also have them .

Cracked it.

have you been out on the open road yet? another thing that springs to mind, how old is the satnav disc?

ok so far:

Citroen

AX
2CV
CX

Peugeot

309
405

Renault

25
Clio
9&11
18
Laguna
14x2
4
6
12

all above are haynes

autobooks:

renault 16
15
17

anyone interested in any of them? was going to list them on ebay at 99p + postage

edit:

got an autodata car repair manual for a citroen GS

Thanks guy for the replies, I'm going to buy a 2nd set of steel rims to swap with the originals.
One set fitted with all weather tyres and the other with summer tyres.

Kenny

For anybody wanting a Citroen undertray i can recommend this eBay seller. I purchased an undertray for my C5 after having a similar experience as the above post, (wheel arch liner ripped out at speed).

It's a pedal Cach not a peddle :)
and not a paddle either :-) there are times when the single brain cell just gets it wrong :-)

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Nice One, Glad to hear it! :wink:

Three Xantia's like three amigos. :wink:

Kenny

Thanks for the handy tips, Mandrake! Though now I'm loath to take down the damn thing again, it will have to wait. Anyway, before I refitted the exhaust and everything else that's in the way, I checked leakage with a clear hose to the valve's return line. Not a single drop in soft or hard (engine running, fuse F34 removed) mode. I wish I had done...

Thanks all. Just ordered one.

Thanks guys I will check the above, it wasnt an intermittant problem, it never happened before, as I say, its typical of a fuse blowing, does anyone know which fuse or relay is for that pos 2 on the ignition switch (if there is one?).

The igintion switch/barrel looks a bit of a PITA to get out, I did get it most of the way out yesterday, there...

Thanks all, it was the broken wire scenario. A bitch to fix (Unless you have three hands and fingers like pipe cleaners). Did it though. Thanks for the advice.....Now I just have to find the radio code!

Thanks Steve, I told the owner that, he only wishes he had done it before now :lol:

Thanks Mike and Robert, ill give that a try. :)

Thanks for the replies chaps! will just have to keep an eye on it for now, it just seemed strange that leak disappeared just as quick as it appeared, dont think i had disturbed anything coz i,d only got as far as taking front wheel off when i noticed leak!!!
Regards
Steve (aka carpysmith)