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I've been spraying WD40 around it, and I still get sudden dropping of the suspension when the doors open or i switch the ignition on. Where exactly do I need to spray on height corrector to get it working better?

And when we move the lever inside our cars, is it this that moves the metal rod that goes to the height corrector? Thats what i've...

please help
i need to reset valve clearances on a 954cc cit ax,
local car shop not got a haynes book, so i am calling on the wise. whats the inlet and exhaust settings?
and in what order to set them.

many thanks andy

95 xantia 1.9 td
zzr 1100

hi all
hope you chaps can help i have a xantia vsx td ,my problem is i took my beloved for a mot today the nice man could,nt find any problems all good so far, but as he backed my car out of the garage his foot went to the floor and on further inspection found brake fluid leaking out from behind the peddle (it failed) i took it home when i got...

sorry i'm taking over the forum, i notice everything abouy my car, call it paranoia!

So am I right in seeing one these, here's a pic to prove it:

(looking up towards the top left of the car)

So the plug was out ok, and i thought, not plugged IN the centre sphere? that would cause a harsh ride right, so i plugged it back in and went for a spin,...

What can I say, hardcore citroen eccentric car indeed, such a cool oddity of a car though, it had the V6 12v in it, not the fastest, but still very nice. Gas converted too. Couldn't help but be impressed with the subtle switches dotted around the place and the 'luxury' items here and there, and the overall weirdness of it, even compared to my...

Took the lower arm off in 20 minutes and got it refitted in 15 today but had a REAL battle of attrition with the damned bushes for hours and hours and hours trying to get the blasted things off/out of the arm and putting the new one's back on isn't pretty either - Is there a knack to doing these?

And it didn't seem to make any difference or...

Any being planned lately?

I've seen a thread in the French Car Chat, but I guess that forum subject doesn't get as much popularity as this one, hence asking here.

I'd love to meet ppl from this forum, compare cars, swap notes etc, and generally have a good day out. I know organising a meet up can be a lot of hassle. Maybe someone will do it? I'm...

No, not a description of it's personality but rather what lurks under it's back seats :wink:

I noticed a musty smell in the car t'other day after it had been standing for a week and under the carpet below the back seats were two nice puddles in the depressions either side of the hump. The rest of the car is bone dry.

I very much suspect the...

As the Title says I'm now the proud owner of a 1999 Xantia HDI 110BHP :lol:
Great car but a couple of things I hadn’t thought of
:oops:

1. Can the front seats get seat covers as they have airbags ( But the velour is doing the normal bobbling)
2. Can the Airbags in the seats be disconnected and the seats changed without mush hassle
3. Does...

National Tyres are doing an oil change and filter for £15 (+£1 for oil disposal). Only thing is the local depot in Winchester is proposing to do it with the same Duckhams oil as they did my petrol car, I now have an HDi diesel.

Do you really need diesel engine oil for diesel cars?

Hi all Just had a bump with my C5 2.016v Sx petrol and it’s going to be a insurance loss

So
I have been offered a 2001 C5 2.0 HDI 110bhp LX model it has new clutch and timing belt done but no history now for the bad part it has 195000 on the clock & hasn’t got as many toys but they only want £2500 for it
What do you think?

1. I know if looked...

Is there anyway of telling if you need a new cambelt? My car came with no service records so I don't know if it has been done.

Also how much will it cost for me to have someone replace it? :?:

Thanks, James

Today I was cleaning my bonnet catches, so i took the panel to get to the front of the catches, so while i was down there i found a big bird wedged between one of the fans and my intercooler, couldn't find the head.

Maybe you guys should check yours too.

Anyway, after much engine idling, the fans never came on! We're talking more than 20 minutes...

I could not understand why my trusted Xant estate would not level out for the past couple of days. I went underneath to have a look and I found that the height adjuster is busted,
It is not the plastic link but the rod from the anti roll bar to the plastic link.
Can this small component be purchased from a stealer ??

Hi, am getting fed up with my rough ride so am looking at replacing all of my spheres... only problem is I don't know which ones to buy from GSF? It's not ticking very often so wasn't going to bother with accumulator,
1) do i need a centre front?
2) is my car hydractive or non? (2001 Hdi 110 - only the height adjustment lever, no extra buttons),...

So as the title says I’ve decided to wait for a while longer before I get another C5 but in the mean time I’m thinking of going back to a Xantia HDI at least I’ve had enough of them to know what’s what

But my question if anyone can help is have you seen any bargains as the pickings up here are slim and I don’t mind travelling

A couple of questions here. I have some niggling suspension and brake problems on my V6 Xantia which I am slowly getting round to sorting out. I changed the anti sink sphere not too long ago, but just recently I seem to have all the symtoms of air/gas in the braking circuit.

1, Is there any easy way to tell if an anti sink sphere has ruptured or...

Ever since i changed my accumulator sphere, my brakes have been a slow to react.

Story goes like this, i changed the acc.sphere and of course made a bit of a mess due to a badly designed seal, all is ok now, but i lost some fluid, but i put a 1 litre bottle into the LHM tank to top it up. Which I believe was enough to recuperate the loss. I also...

I'm still without electric mirrors or my electric sunroof, and do not have a clue what to do next.

I'll try and make it short, but here is the story.

Came home one night turned engine off took key out of the ignition, and all the electric window buttons were still eluminated, along with stereo, battery light on the dash and electric sunroof and...

How do you go about finding leather interiors for cars in my case a xantia other than looking on ebay and actually ringing round all the breakers? is there any other way?

Some weird sh*t does go on when messing with Cits!!

Does anyone who runs an EARLY 16v 2.0 know if the oil dipstick is the same on ANY other Xantia...?

It was strange how a newly purchased Xantia 16v seemed to have no oil in it so I bought some to top it up; then 5 litres later with not even a smudge on the dipstick I realised something wasn't...

1) I'm going to be moving a load of wine up to Yorkshire from Surrey and want to know the weight capacity of the C5 saloon - there will be about 500kg of wine! Is that too much?

2) when I press auto the aircon light always comes on - is that normal - i.e. why does the aircon come on when it's 10 outside and I want 18? Or does that just indicate...

Just about to replace the o/s differential oil seal on my zx 1.4i so i popped down to GSF and picked up 2 litres of Total BV and an oil seal. Only problem was that the seal was described as most citroen models and was the only one suggested for the whole zx range.
It's GSF part no N31172 if that helps, I know the 1.4i has smaller dia driveshafts...

Hi there on my recently aquired ZX it was its first run out this week to work and back....It seems to drinking Diesel at a fast rate.

Compared to my other ZX-TD it seems to be about 100 miles down on the same amount of fuel put in ?

Could someone of messed with the PUMP or TURBO Unit ? How can i tell ?
The car doesn't smoke when starting and...

Can anti sink be fitted retrospectively to a pre anti sink Xantia?

My car is going in for it's bi-annual LHM change, and at the moment it sinks to the ground in 30 - 60 mins which is a tad quick. I'm going to question this at the garage but I was just curious to see if I could fit the anti sink unit without altering much

cheers :D

Davetd

I was looking today, and noticed that two might not work, so i'd like some advice here please, if you please...

seatbelt light - it's in the user manual, do all xantias comes with this light, mine isn't there or the bulb isn't working?

and

side airbag light - how so i know for sure i have side airbags? the light doesn't come on for this...

Hi all,

I have just taken the Synergie for it's MOT. I was expecting a fail, and had put aside a couple of hundred quid for it just in case. I was made to wait for ages. Now, that makes you squirm a bit, doesn't it? Three cars to go in front of mine. That made it even worse. Much bashing around went on under the first victim. The Tester arose...

Is there anywhere you can actually buy the walnut trim that came in the exlusive models kitted out with leather interiors? I know you can buy walnut trim kits for alot of cars like golf ect.

I know i read recently someone had a problem with one of their Xantia stalks and used WD40 to get it working again.

My wiper stalk does not operate the intermittent wiper or the wiper when you use the washers. It does everything else Ok.

ABS light is on. Tests show it to be 'NSF' sensor. I'm presuming this is the front wheel on the passenger side?

Went to the local scrapyard and obtained a couple of sensors from an R reg Xantia. Got home only to find that the body of the sensor is longer than those fitted. Is there a work around?

I have both the side and main airbag lights on. I have read the posts and have tried unppluging, cleaning and then reassembling but to no avail.

Not keen on cutting the wires and soldering them all so can anyopne help me in identifying which coloured plugs / wires are the key ones? There appears to be a large block which goes no where and at...

I've just done a search on 'C5' and it returned nil results.

I previously searched on 'C5 AND lock' which returned the same result as for 'lock'.

I DON'T have this problem with 'Xantia AND lock' or 'xantia'.

Anyone else tried this? I really want to look at C5 search returns.

Maybe short alphanumerics (C5?) get ignored. This could be a problem...

Does anyone recognize these alloys by any chance? I need a name or manufacturer as I am hoping to locate someone who stocks them.

The people selling the kit on the xsara have no information on the alloys. Didnt have much luck on google either.

Just to say thanks to the forum for providing the information that I needed to program a second plip for my wife's car! I finally found out how to do it without un-programming the first plip - yeah!

When we bought the car it only came with one remote - it's a 1998 R reg Xantia 2.0 SX. I got another plip from Ebay for about £20 but was having...

Came to set off for work this morning, and I find my 1.8 P reg Xantia stalls at idle. It seems to run fine enough with the foot down, but makes no attempt to stop itself from dying near idle. It was always a little slow at startup to idle, occasionally dying once before idling fine on the second attempt, but now it's really had it.

I understand a...

Evening...
I posted this in the Peugeot forum.

Does anyone know which Citroen/Peugeot radiators are compatible with a 1993 405 TD with aircon?

Mine has started to leak, and I don't want to fork out hundreds on a new one as it'll be more than the car is worth.

Thanks,
Robin

I've uploaded loads of photos of my car onto Flickr just now, feel free to refernce to them.

I've done the 'geeky obsessive compulsive' thing of photographing what I feel to be important in ways of reference a Xantia in general... for your information it's a 1998 R 2.1TD exclusive mkII in a metallic dark blue with boring wheels.

TIP: With...

guys who are you with?

I need someone that will do LPG, other than that, 31, Clean licence, 3-4 years NCB..

John

I am on my forth XM 2.1 td manual estate, having found nothing better in the 10 years I have been running them. I am eventually going to have to replace it with something else. I want something which has a large carrying capacity, is comfortable, rides well and is economical. The only car that comes near it for size is the Merc E Class, but I have...

I'm needing to replace the injector leakoff pipes on my 1.9TD Xantia. They have gone very hard, are a little damp and on initial morning startup there is a moments hesitation, suggesting they're causing a little air leak..

What is the best material to use to replace them and where can it be obtained. I cannot recall seeing anything that looked...

Hello all,
Tomorrow i shall be attempting to cure my wonderfull xantia's :lol: hydraulic issues.

Recently the front near side sphere failed causing a lack of suspension travel on that corner. I have since replaced both front spheres and all is well (almost)
When changing the spheres over i lost about 2l of lhm fluid due to it generally going...

Hoes anyone know which (if any) pug/cit the ZX 16v shares it's hoses with? I was thinking maybe 306 S16?
I'm getting bored of waiting for ECP to get some stainless hoses back in stock so am looking at other options.

Cheers

I am looking at changing the stat soon, however the picture in Haynes are for the 2.0 8v engine (great!) so im unsure of a few (a lot) of specific queries.

1)where is the thermostat? - is it on the left hand side of the head, near the blue, brown and green switches, where the top hose leads into the engine

2) I cant see any lower hoses, in the...

Evening all,

Ive been trying to do some work with the downpipe on my 2.0i 8v model, and it occured to me that the rocker cover is damned annoying! Why did citroen make the thing so damn large and useless?

Anyway, it got me thinking as the overall shape is very similar to that of the 1.9i models. I know the pipe work would be different, but has...

I have read that on the xud 9 engines if the coolant isnt changed often the engine can blow its head gasket. Iv ran serveral petrol cars in the past for years and years with only ever topping up the coolant level without any problems at all. So how many miles is often on this car?

iv also read that the xantia has to be serviced at a specialist...

Hello all, and thanks for all the replies I got to my last post.

(xantia 1.9 TDi 1994 soon to be scrapped if it doesn't behave!)

Well the saga continues........

I bought new spheres for the front, and I have read the many post relating to changing them......so I will do them if I decide I'm gonna keep the car.

As for the smoking........well...

My aircon is no longer cold, when you press the button for the aircon i hear the engine change tone.

I had it regassed july last year, surly it should not need regassing again already? I looked at the eye window thing under the bonnet, but i cannot remember if there should be bubbles or no bubbles going past the viewing window, as there is non.

The stop light came on, fluid everywhere, no breakdown cover!! Today I drove all the way up to the car to find that the pump had basically split in two and the three bolts which hold it all together had all snapped. I took it apart and saw that there did not appear to be too much damage, so put it back together again, in the rain, topped up LHM...

Im wanting to upgrade the speakers in my xantia to better quality ones but i dont want to spend alot on them. just a bit better than the crap thats in the car. as far as i can tell my car has 4 speakers in two on the dash and two in the front doors. I take it the dash speakers are tweeters? I know very little about this. What size are these? And...

Hi Guys,
Does anyone know any major problems with putting a 1998 saxo VTS motor into a 1998 zx 1.4i temp? Could be a bit of fun as i've just been offered a 45k engine that ive known for 3 years for £300. Currently thinking the PAS pump location and drive shafts size would prob be the only real issues? Would obviously be upgrading the front brakes...