French Car Forum

It's a small world, Hilary. I live about 5 miles from Tony Weston. My father was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale.

Sorry, totally off topic.

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I am frequently parked outside Halfords, visiting the shop next door.
There is generally one or more Halfords employee in the car park fitting bits and pieces, mostly wipers.

Hi
As a general rule, front wheel drives have a small toe OUT.
There are a few exceptions, but I don't think this is one.
What you're aiming to achieve is wheels absolutely parallel when driving straight, on level ground.
In my experience, with practically all cars since the late '70s, if you set them parallel with the engine running (assuming...

Best of luck with it Kenny, hope all goes well.

Time to go looking for a new box then.... :( Sadly seems to be Synergie (and presumably the Pug and Fiat equivalents only) and there are two types fitted 14x69 and 14x71 (which yours appears to be - what ever that means!!)

My eolys pump has failed, i carry a bottle of eolys fluid in the boot and a small pipete, every refill i squirt a little in the tank. :mrgreen:
The costs involved in getting a new tank with integral pump and a refill ecu are just ridiculous compared to the DIY approach.

I'm in Exeter with a Lexia but no idea on C5s and ride height!

I'm here.... :lol: Inbox is not full, so don't know why you can't send PM.....????

Check the rear tyres for any unusual wear pattern (especially the inside edge) usually described as cupping. If so it is probably a sign that the rear arm bearing are ready for replacement.

i had a qote from main citroen dealer 150 pounds for the fan motors 50 pounds for the fans 5 to 10 pounds for nuts and bolts I then asked could i just put the fan motors on the old fans he said i dont know lol thanks bye lol
cheaper to get some from scrap yard but just need find the right ones

Hand brake on the rear on mk3 c5......I'd guess the fronts just press in :P

Those dealers’ job is to find out when they’re asked to. :evil:
We can explore onclick= window.open(this.href);return false; to find out.
If you post the last 8 digits of your VIN, we can find the details of your car.

I just responded on another forum...

Yes - had I not been aware that you needed to get the wheels moving to make the ABS CU happy I could have ended up replacing everything :lol:

Replaced the LHM today - removing and cleaning the reservoir/ filters in the process. A somewhat cathartic exercise in this weather - will bleed the brakes tomorrow to remove the stale LHM left in the...

My 2010 C5 didn't have the DRL option in the instrument panel menu either. Followed these instructions in Diagbox to enable them and they now show up in the menu and work a treat.

Thanks to bobins for the info.

They are listed as interchangeable at Eurocarparts and other sites when checked with registration

I've worried at times about capacitative loops but that's probably irrelevant on a fairly rugged piece of kit.

I don't even know what that means but I have ran direct earths to injection ecu's with no problems, it can save ECUs when jump leads have been connected the wrong way around or when a live has been shorted on the ECU casing, usually...

also when you have a version c you can find the updates for version 7 of diagbox and go up to 7.44 ( that's the latest I can find) if you need to do newer cars, its well worth the beer tokens

really easy to do basically the same as updating the firmware using scarymistakes interface checker, about 5-10 mins and its done, `

so who had the wheel off last Howard????
Malcolm,

Well it hasn't been removed in my ownership. I remember there was some play when I 1st purchased the car, although it was very similar to that of a previous Xantia and I never realy thouht it was an issue. #-o
Two things to consider:
It wasn't tightened correctly previously.
It has passed three...

depends on its age as the early 1.4

Cheers for the info Malcolm.

I notice the Xantia likes temperatures above 10C.. much better starting, fuel consumption and suspension.
I seem to have a hesitation on starting, more like a burp, below 8 or 9C which has disappeared in the last couple of weeks ( above 10C) The fuel consumption is also heading the right way.. its been 55 over the winter .. last fill nearly 57 .....

Found it ! how could I miss it. difficult to read though..

Ok, here's an update.
I took it back to the garage. They got their charts out and they state that the amount of gas for a Xsara Picasso is 700g, which is what they'd put it.
The pressures looked ok.
In order to rule out the pressure problem, he's reduced the gas so that the system now has 450g in it, and we were going to so how that went and if it...

That fault will be a broken wire behind or feed to the fuse box!! One if the feeds has broke in typical french cable.

had this one an s2 .. no heated rear screen. One of the main feeds from the large fuses in the engine bay had lost connection. A quick connection had It sorted..

Yup!
Seconded!
Low coolant level, all day long...

Well the xm route is no good.

The 2.5 and v6 have the biggest front setup and they use a single pot caliper as well :(

Maybe what I think of doesn't exist in lhm land ;(

And just to add anyone looking for a Lexia should look at JJ Diagnostics what a brilliant service from delivery to sorting a software problem remotely nothing was to much trouble for them,I will be recommending them very highly to anyone who will listen!!!

Do cambelt and water pump at the same time.

Thats the one I'd seen, was suprised I'd not seen them mentioned here unless new product/import. :-S

EVEN WORSE!!

The same bits were available on the 2.5 XM from its start of production! a good few years before the HDi came along.

Try having the speed set at 60-70 Paul and engage resume at about 30-40.... its pretty dam sharp thats for sure as my bosch 2.5 seems to be able to build boost quicker when using cruise to build backup than the...

Have you tried disconnecting the battery, this will sometimes allow you to power them up again (when reconnected)
If not, I took the door panel off a C8 the other day & just powered the motor up with a battery.

Sold the car today to someone who wants to use it as a van and just bought another newer c5 vtr hatchback. Hoping to have better luck with this one...

you could always try contacting

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I've also seen on service Citroen £43. This is why I'm trying to find an alternative to the main dealer.

:-D

i have made it a supper sticky,
but i think that will depend on what grease you choose to apply :shock: :-D :rofl2: :rofl2: :wink:

I believe that you can top this up yourself, but you will also need to connect it to a Lexia afterwards to reset the counter.

Ho Hum , this has come up before ..see post
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u can fiddle around with the relevant fuse to reset the code lock interval

I would do that Addo, love to.
Got only propane and torch with me, no braze, no oxygen, no bits of sleeve and pipe for tail. :-( By the time I walk the many miles here in N Wales, to round up bits, I might as well pay the £38 required for a s/h one I just confirmed as matching part no. Which is what I did. Should be here by Wednesday. :-)
Thanks,...

Thanks for the offer in any case James. I have actually bought another netbook so I can get my Lexia running again.

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Thanks for the replies. This didnt happen in the end due to it going far higher than I wanted to pay, but the plan became simpler when someone said to just take a charged battery, so I had planned to take the battieres from mine and my partners car, and just go easy on all things electrical. Was 112 miles.

But all pointless now! Although I have...

It sounds like there is just too much juice going thru to the earth and feeding back into the sensors.

i think the ones that are needed are SMB or ones suitable for CANBUS vehicles as these have the required bits in them to avoid issues like this.

Cool thanks simon

Perhaps foolishly I updated the firmware for my gearbox ECU after I started having trouble with the gearbox on the slim hope that it might help and all I achieved by doing so was adding the very annoying cold start cat warmup mode - where it holds first gear until 3200 rpm during the first 2 minutes of driving... #-o

I HATE that behaviour (yes...

I think the trick was to use the old nut on the removal socket to stop it slipping off the ball joint as well as using the rachet tie downs to hold the hub.. there was no crack..it just loosened nice and soothly.. I was very surprised ... and relieved.

I've got a problem with radio/ aerial assembly can't quite pin things down, is it a sat nav model? Like to buy, or borrow if poss and you don't want to sell.
Drivers door handle? Keeping/ selling / sold?
Thanks :)

do you know were exactly the pump is leaking ( front, back or middle joint????? ),

i know nout about these pumps but is it possible whoever replaced the seals damaged/cracked the unit ( regulator ) on the rear of the pump,
so it now cant retain the fuel pressure/seals,

if this is damaged here is price and part No. for that

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