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Right. :oops:

Hi Peter

Hope you had a good time in the far North.

Hi All

The air test worked fine but the small rads were not so good as it took eight leakers to find the one good one that I used. At this rate I will soon have a batch of ten for recoring. Anyone recommend firms for recoring? Is it economic anyway?

John

An interest in 2.5 XM's

The engine and gearbox are pretty well the same asuming they are both turbo.

sorry Nigel
i did try sortting the link out but every time i tried TINYURL and then did a preview of what it would do, it kept comming up with an ERROR massage,

if are not a CCC member you will not be able to go on there forum, so you could try if you are not allready registering on the CX CLUB forum, as this has been posted there the title is...

All sorted now thanks chaps. :)

Superloopy1 did you fix the alarm problem? I have the same problem with my Activa. Along with the alarm light flickering I have the added random hazard flash.

CitroJim do you still have the wirring diagram for the alarm? I'm thinking about replaceing the notorious alarm using the same wiring for the ultrasonics & door switches.

Ive used WD40 for locks over the years on many cars with no problems :wink:

More useful info cheers. ^ I reckon i'll get used to brakes no i know where to find em :D

Its actually on the bulkhead side/back of the engine, nearest the drivers side

Well i've just been out under the car to fix that leak and the rubber gasket/grommet/rubber ring is too big. having pulled a hose off to examine the junction and i can see how...

they dont usualy stretch well not by a noticable amount anyhow,
what probably happened was when fitting the outer cable possibly did not seat into the plastic ends completly, so on first time or so of pressing the throtle it pulled both ends home, to vut these inner cables i get it in the jaws of an old pair of side citters just were i needs to be...

Could be a duff needle lift sensor.
Jenny was suffering from that, sometimes when she started she'd sound like a bag of nails, so would have to stop and start again.
Engine light only came on when it was noisy, but Jim's Lexia showed the ECU wasn't able to adjust the timing properly.
Swapped the injector and it's working fine.

Hand brake should sort itself out. It is self adjusting. Operate the foot brake a few times and then the hand brake.

Hi,

Not an uncommon problem.

Following the window reset procedure in the hand book usually corrects it.

I came across it when my battery started to drop volts under load (5yrs old) and this often caused the windows to go down and then have lost their settings and not want to stay closed. Bit embarasing when the high batt load was caused by...

Hi,

Early cars had a 50K recommended mileage for filter replacement.

However, many have done 100k plus without pressure drop warnings coming up. Others have done less, which leads me to believe it is purely pressure drop measurement, at least on the mark 1 cars.

Some owners have also successfully cleaned their own filters using pressure washers...

Check both cooling fans are working. My suspicion is that one has failed, and this is your reason for a temperature rise or relay failure.

If the fan cannot be repaired, fit a new one. A used part will be just as difficult to fit, and have unquantfiable life remaining.

Regards, Adam.

Hi Nick
where in essex are you we are appeox 15 miles west of colchester if you can get it to us we can plug your car in pm me with your details and i will get back to you

cheers
Mick

Strut top bearings?? !!! What on earth are they !! ?? :lol: :D

dnsey, Ive driven the car 50 miles this mornning and no problems at all
yes the stiffness in the steering did dissapear when I turned the steering lock to lock in fact it disapeared completely and hasn't returned at all. seems fine now as if the problem never occurred at all, yet I know it did and as I said before my Dad experienced the same...

great Lexi , like the music too :)

I will do that mod.. only problem, the barrels go back to the oilman.. a breather hole is a mod I will need to ask him about.. it will help any future users of the barrel even if the just pour into a funnel...

so what I need is an oil proof cap that wont come of in transit...

I have one idea.. the plastic...

you need to remove the radio, then you can pop off the black top cover of the controller, and inside disconnect the control cables.

Many thanks to all, delighted to report that my bonnet is now open-able :D

I first removed the bumper, then smashed off the clip that retains the intake horn, and pushed that downward. Alas my hand was too large to enter, so I smashed a piece out of the fibre front panel where the opening to the intake horn sits, ans so was able to insert my...

Thanks for that Jim will leave well alone and just bolt bumper back on and forget i ever saw it :lol: :lol:

Colin

Thanks to one and all for your advice problem has now been fixed :D :D

Found where the wire had broken more by luck than judgement :lol: :lol:
It was in the place you said Mick just as it started to run up from below the rad what a bugger of a place to get to :lol: :lol:

Decided to route a new wire from fusebox to the scuttle as per my...

You may not necessarily see that the wire is broken. I had a similar problem on one of my rear windows which was a fractured wire, but as the outer plastic sheath was still intact it was impossible to tell just by looking.

I found the offending cable by use of a meter then just bridged it using a new length of wire and a couple of scotchlock...

Ok, thanks for confirming my suspicions.

When you go to lock the car, does it lock, or does it immediately self-unlock again?

If not, then the problem is nearly certain to be electrical continuity.

Hi Adam - when I lock the car the door in question doesn't lock or unlock (dpending where we begin from) so I guess this means anelectrical fault?.

So - if anyone has any suggestions...

seems like a nice boy ooooooh la la

isnt it good for chap to

TEA HE

regards malcolm

thats the picy i sent the link to it did work after i sent it but it dont now

regards malcolm

Slightly off topic but I remember watching a game show years ago where a team of 3 or 4 VW enthusiasts removed and reinstalled a VW beetle engine in less than 2 minutes.( drove it in and drove it out afterwards ) They were up against a team of VW technicians. The enthusiasts won I believe. If only..............

Gammy

Sound like a plan, I was thinking along similar lines but wondered about any heat issues.

Vince, do you have the part number and price for the Bendix front pads for a 1999 Xantia V6?

And S2 2.5 Td strut tops are as rare as hens teeth 2nd hand and bloody expensive at dealer!!!

They use a different size strut to the other cars...however, you could swap the strut and tops together from a good donar...

Paul

i have allways done them without heat, just a little PERCY WHAT SIT i think,

and i think now armed with your idea of useing an old shaft it will be even easyer

regards malcolm

..................... but theres a problem!!

Tonight, put the air con compressor on, BUT, the Altinator/ HP Pump bracket WONT fit in place now!!

The Mounts for the Air con pump are SLIGHTLY too high up on the Sump : :x

Paul

Hi Adam, no, para 3 of my initial post.

I've tried again at downloading the original manual pages. Here is the one for acceleration/deceleration (see last posting).

and here is the last part for body movement: (if you can't read the tables, give me a shout and I'll reproduce them with Ability Office as I did previously).

And...

I haven't changed the fuel filter as yet. It's one of the jobs I have been meaning to do. I was going to replace the whole canister, as I have read on here that any contamination can do a lot of damage to the HP pump.

I need to get it done really. I have had the car since it had 90K on the clock, and it's now just hit 100K, so needs to be done...

The motorway running 'cure' to clean the FAP was reccomended by my local independent specialists,as I'm travelling a lot on the motorway,daily in fact I run the C5 up to what I think is 3000 rpm as the rev counter reads about two marks below what is should be still,most mornings its getting a good thrash for about 20 mins or so,before in nice slow...

Hi all,
just to let you know that I have now sorted out some good replacement seats.
Many thanks....Tim

3 types - First 1993/4 NON Air bag veriety!

2nd type, 94 - 97 AIR BAG Veriety, and then 3rd type S2 sort..

ALL are joined plug to plug just under the steering colum, or to the left of it..

S2's ARE completely different to S1's HOWEVER, LATE S1's around the 1997 mark started useing the same plugs in the wheel...

Difference being you ALSO have...

Have been out and purchased a green sensor unit & a blue one just in case !! Will let you know how i get on. Thanks

The S2 hydractive2 makes more sense to me.

The Xm is, afterall, designed with comfort in mind. So why would you want to make it stiffer on rough straight roads :?: However, making it stiffer and tighter aruond the bends is a good thing, especially if your in a spirited mood.

So you can still have the comfy ride on the rough bits, but round the...

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for delay in reply. My X1 is black with tinted windows so a nice spec :D. Unfortunately not on the road and lots of work to do! Its getting done gradually and my original plan was to have it ready for the national this year (30th birthday of GSA) but not looking good at the moment. But its not going to defeat me. I've had the car...

This is a car I may be offered for a song. 2001 hdi 110 bhp estate,
Drives well though!
There are a few issues most of which are common enough. I have been told that driveshaft oil seals are leaking and it is a song and dance to fix?

True? or not! Anything else to look for? Well of course there is :lol:

Easy fix and not expensive either....

having the card go off a minute before you'd finished
We tarted up an old U-Matic and recorded it to play back in the workshop.
For road jobs, we already had the non-interlaced Grundig generator.
We asked the bosses to get a Philips PM5544 generator, but all we ever got were green smiles.
Any complaints about convergence now … straight in the...

Malcolm, Thanks for getting back to me so fast I just wish it had been a better result I will see what I can find on e-bay.

Allan

All very good, sound advice George!

A very warm welcome to the forum :D

Mk1 VSX (and some other) Xantias were all fitted with the Blaupunkt head unit to control the Blaupunkt CD changer, all cars have the wiring to go to the changer adapter lead.

Yes I agree, NOT ALL cars have the wiring ready fitted, I think possibly just VSX S1 cars have it fitted.. as it was an option on the VSX cars ..

With the mention of the...

I would 100% agree. On paper the engines may look the same or maybe better but the MPG will be lower when you drive it just for the fact that you have to thrash it to get anything out of the HDi's. Mines the 90bhp and feels very sluggish as said. My dads C5 is the same and its a hatch where as mines an estate! the electrics and pumps on the...