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Larry,

That's brilliant :D

I will be very happy to update my website with your incredibly valuable tips and I'll give full credit to you on there.

I did do the rotor head guide very quickly and yes, I know what a :twisted: getting it all back together is :lol: That's an excellent method you've developed :D

How much does a disintegrating rear arm bearing affect ride quality?
A fair bit if it's well gone! - it can make the ride feel notchy and over damped.

It will not cause it to bounce over bumps like flat spheres can though.

For those who've never been game to pull one apart:

The tongues were 95% detached so when I washed everything with degreaser and a toothbrush they basically fell off.

Anyway - that plastic is not solvent-sensitive, so brushing acetone and squishing it all back together wasn't going to happen. Also I can see it is a type of polymer that...

Interesting. All in all, an eye-opening experience, and thankfully one that worked out cheap. I'll keep a close eye out for further exhaust 'blow-by'.

Seems there's solutions out there to stuck injectors too. I feel a little more at ease knowing that! Maybe that scary yahoo-answers post suggesting the 2.2HDi engines are seriously flawed by design...

Thanks for all the suggestions.

To clarify: it's a 95MY 1.9Sx with a Clarion CDC605 radio/tapedeck/CD with the autochanger is in the O/S/R storage pocket.

It doesn't have a passenger airbag - grab handle cum 'shelf' above the glove compartment.

No problems with the airbag light coming on.

The Clarion is very neatly installed in the fascia...

Its now supported in a couple of tiewraps.

Tiewraps were not good enough... it started leaking 10 minutes after leaving the house monday. I removed the fuse for the hydractive ECU and it does not leak, will try again next weekend, now replacing the hose from the valve with a longer one and adding a hose clamp...

Thanks Adam. Finally got the little bugger out and replaced the bulb. Putting it back in is a different game. No doubt Citroen do a very elaborate and expensive tool to squeeze the locating lugs back in !!! :roll:

The warning light comes on if any of the connections exceed factory specs - that is, resistance in the circuit is higher than expected.

My estate doesn't have the deactivation keyswitch (not legal here) but it does have a brown connector under the front oddments tray. Maybe give that a wiggle, too - if you have it.

Regards, Adam.

Problem sorted.

I had one last go (well 3 or 4 - I hate to admit defeat on IT problems) at buying the TomTom Safety Camera Subscription. Success!

For anyone who's interested. TomTom Support's last suggestion was to clear my Internet cache and delete cookies; one of the first things I tried. The only thing that I did different was to clear my...

Me too!

Thanks for all the suggestions chaps.

Guy

Hi Paul,

Sounds like you have hard/soft switching problems by the symptoms. A Lexia sessionon your HA ECU will be the first thing and go from there.

I'll reply to your PM in a bit, watching the Channel 4 documentary on the sinking of the Titanic at the moment. Very intersting stuff. I will always remember what my youngest daughter said many...

Hi Richard, thanks for advice. Got the Comms unit fixed today and cured horn problem but not the air-bag fault. The suggestion from the tech was that it is a wiring problem in the nearside footwell wiring block. Will check it out. Bill came to £151.80 for Comms Unit plus labour £98 to fit plus £35 diagnostic to try to resolve a locking fault (not...

Had another look at this on Saturday while looking for clues to my hot start problem (gone away!). The short fat rubber hose connecting the inlet manifold extension to the black plastic duct coming from the intercooler may be the culprit - or rather one of the jubilee clips. There was oil on the underneath of the manifold extension casting and on...

Hi Dave,

Is this a VSX with Hydractive suspension or a normal one?

My first thoughts here are slightly iffy height corrector operation and ride height. Both are mighty critical to comfort and ride quality.

On an anti-sink car, the height correctors, unless you do Citarobics on a weekly basis, do not get a good full-travel exercise very often...

Where on the console was the oil temp guage?

It is in the instrument binnacle, just left of the tacho Xac. It occupies that blank circle you can see if you look closely.

I believe all sumps, even tin ones, have the boss for the temperature gauge sender.. It's around the back, I think, on the 1.9.. Don't quote me though as the sender is on the...

I've just done the glowplugs on my ZX and didn't find the access bad. It was tedious because of only being able to make small turns with the spanner, but that was all.

Maybe it was having small hands that helped... although I did break a nail. :wink:

I had exactly this problem on my first Activa Kev. It was the HC cradle, the hydraulic part was fine.

They're fun to change on a cold, wintery day :twisted:

That's commonly enough done here, with many outlets wanting over $20/litre for LHM. Not so potentially dangerous compared to using brake fluid in LHM-specific applications.

So what's this 'sphere tester' then and just how does it work? I'm interesetd because all of my Activa's spheres have the valprex valve fitted and i've wondered just how/when/where to test them. I'm assuming that the test is 'off the car'???k The tester I have is a home made one consisting of a single outlet pump, a pressure regulator, a 100 Bar...

Diagnostics don’t know what’s happening on the high voltage side of the ignition.
One of my old bombs with 6-cylinder engine had 4 open plug leads, and was struggling uphill at speed.
The leads may measure 4K Ohms each.
They go open at the plug end, so ‘re-terminating’ them should help.
An earthed wire made to touch the outside of a spark plug...

Extractor worked fine on heater matrix to extract water, and the caustic soda mix worked fine, nice hottish air coming out of heater now. Door lock problem fixed to a degree, but still a bit funny (probably the wife)

Richard

i think the GODESS owners had not probs with me coming along to drooooool over there wonderfull cars, it was just one person (affor mentioned )to do with running the event in particular that i found way off the mark

regards malcolm

that is an interesting article, at least i know where abouts it is, but if i would go looking for it again i bet i wouldn't find it so easy next time, someone called sod says so. you never know, i reckon the car will be out of use before i die, i'm only 27, but i will make my wife know that it is the desired car to be in the coffin.

(With all due...

I have considered it before for my old e30 bmw, i was planning on ditching the bosch ecu and running it on megasquirt.

It would be easier to remap it yourself if you have the kit, time and patience, but to be able to retune an ecu you do need to know exactly what you are doing or you could balls things up quite well.

It is a throughly...

I fit a Sony mp40 to my 2003 c5 estate i had to buy a facia adaptor and an adaptor to make the steering column stereo controls work.Plugged straight in no messing with wires etc.I also bought a sony mp3 disc changer too,so i now have up to 7 discs full of mp3 music its very rare i get past the first disc.I would never go back to the standard...

I have the same problem as the original poster.

Can I get the solution as well?

I'll dig out the circuits and locations and post them up for you Maaaahtin. That'll help us solve the problem.

What year is your MK1? There are subtle differences by the year on wiring diagrams and locations.

Just like being reunited with a long lost friend :D I never fail to be mildly suprised just how we get attached to these cars...

Hope she looked after the car Spud. Says a lot for the Xantia if she wanted to take it home with her 8)

Thanks for the thoughts guys, but I do know what I'm doing - I've had my own workshop for the past 5 years. I specialise in a different car but do all my own maintenance on the Xantia. I've had the Xantia for 8 years and 180,000 miles, and the brakes first made the noise when I was driving home from the dealer at 21k miles and 6 months old.

To...

There is a return feed of sorts, it's the cameras reading your number plate:wink:

im not sure how it actually works but I would think it would be down to registration so it has to ping to retrieve data and like a computer if you ping then your sending information but on the other side like tomtom and the like it would depend if its registered...

if Triple A supplied BREMBO then they probably got them from GSF in st leonards on sea, so you could almost certainly have got them even cheaper by going direct, if you dont already have it here is there phone No. 01424 855866

Cheers for that, but I'll stick with triple A - closer, friendly and that stuff comes straight off the shelf.

cant say i've heard of that either, the fuel cap has a locking device that doesent let you remove the key unless the cap is locked properly, for that to happen the cap has to be pushed home onto the filler neck properly. try pushing the cap in harder & squarely & see if that makes a difference.

Hi Juraj,

I'm late in on this. The other thing that can fail with heat on the Bosch is the pick-up coil in the distributor. Also, the vacuum advance capsule is known to fail. The diaphragm punctures and air is let in. Very important too to ensure the pipe between the carb and advance capsule is in good nick. They perish badly. This pipe can cause...

Just a quick update: I've redone the heater matrix connector and all is now good again. That was fun in the cold and dark this evening but I managed it without removing the inlet manifiold :D

I have a suspicion about the O rings. The ones that came out were significantly bigger than the new ones I used on replacement.

The thermostat is OK. The...

I work not far from Edgware and if this is the car I recall seeing a few months ago parked up for a while, the rear suspension was up very high as if a height corrector had failed/linkage broken whereas the front was at normal height. From a distance the condition looked OK, if someone does make contact and wants me to take a look send me a pm.

best way would have been to undo the engine mount and lower the engine as far as you can that way you could get at it from inside the wheel arch

I'd be more inclined to believe the AA. From what I've read, seems the turbo is minded for overpressure (which a failed wastegate solenoid causes).

Again, from what I've read on here, the EGR is a waste of space and is better disconnected. I don't recall reading it would cause limp home mode.

I disconnected my EGR valve a couple of years back,...

they are not that bad when you have done a few, i did my first tin can type inner joint on a very early VISA before another local indy citroen repairers, i asked them and they said they had not done any yet,

regards malcolm

Hello Mike, the only way you can test a battery to see if it has sufficient life in it, is to use a discharge tester. This will put a load across the terminals and draw the same current as the cranking amps needed to activate the starter motor with the engine attached.

The unit I use, and have done for the last thirty years, is a Nolton Tester....

i have always thought it to be a giude for the shaft

regards malcolm

Cheers again DickieG :)

Im going to see if i can strike a deal with the local Pug specialists for some cash in hand deal possibly....

Temporarily disconnecting the dial switch on the dash has stopped the noise. Not ideal but much easier than pulling the bumper off and replacing a perfectly good light. Will investigate more when I have time. Cheers for the help

is it reasonable to assume that the second generation had headlight relays fitted as delivered?

HI Addo, whilst the S2 cars seem brighter, the wiring increase makes a good difference still..

Lol I thought all cars have relays as standard, just thin wires running to them?

anyway, I did the conversion, cost me about £10 in parts, and fairly...

Had a brief chat with my nephew last evening and so far, all is looking good on his 205. It's running very sweetly and he's been taking it on ever longer journeys.

Touch-wood, the problem is now resolved...

Paul

I think you mistake the priorities of modern automotive design: on the one hand, cut component and assembly costs to the bone (and beyond), and on the other, increase repair costs.

Dealers make next to nothing on new cars and servicing is highly competitive. So to stay in business manufacturers need to shorten 'economic life' to keep...

If you have access to a lexia machine you can fully depressurise the system with that or there are front & rear depressurising nipples, they are in different locations depending on whether you have hydractive 3 or 3+.

The saxo deffo has an electric pump.

The change of location could be to do with the location of the gauge. In the MK1 it's in the Tacho whereas in the MK2 it's in the dash over nearer the passenger side along with the clock.

Therefore, less wires, cheaper looms :lol:

Although that would only be true in a RHD car :?

Paul, no, I've not seen a windchill problem but if you park up...

if you have the pump off why are you/fitting the AUX drive belt, as the cam belt goes on behind it, and as every one has said dont try losening or removeing the cranck pully bolt with the cam belt of, because if you unintentionaly spin the crack you could bend vavles

regards malcolm

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