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Could be all kinds of things I'm afraid, best way to tell would be to pop under there with a torch and a can of brake cleaner to see if you can find the source.
If you can identify the general area oil is coming from and post a few pictures someone will be able to give a few pointers.

Hi Addo

Is there any post describing how to replace this O-ring ? can it be bought separately or the whole clipper repairing kit is needed ?

Thanks
Zohar

Get some small coke bottles around any disconnected pipes and tape them on with some ductape. The time is well worth it compared to LHM stains on anything as they never come back out easily...

Are you stripping the lot right back down and re-assembling as it could be worth while as it would mean you can paint up the block and other bits in some HT paint and possibly put some cheap heat webbing on the downpipe and exhaust manifold while your there and keep the engine bay in great nick as i always love spending the time cleaning bits up...

Every car has an economical service life, the Xantia is at the point of no return now. They are cheap bangers to most of us (including myself) that are good every day cars. Only the sickest of freaks would attempt a restoration on one of these.

In answer to your OP, you can prevent rust with waxoyl and schutz but if it is already there these will...

Thank's Richard,

Problem appear solved.

Having traced the wires from the fans back to this fuse box and showing that to the guys at Duff Morgan they decided it should not be there as the pictures in the computer did not match the vin..................! The relay I was ordered was bright yellow and matched none on the vehicle.
However when I...

clean and a squirt of the likes of duck oil/light oil, and not that W stuff as that is NOT a lubri ccccccnt

I'm sure I remember CitroJim saying that the XM with ES9J4 has a 4HP20 with a different final drive ratio to the 4HP20 in a Xantia with the same ES9J4 engine. Not only that but the ECU is programmed differently to accept the different final drive ratio, so the final drive ratio of gearbox and ECU have to match otherwise the ECU throws up a fault...

I think it was about an hour to dismantle and reassemble.. that was the third time of doing it and I knew where all the sneakily hidden screws were..

A Lexia is essential for a C5. and It works VERY well with c5s

Car now sourced. Thanks.

The plastic covers around the engine bay and so forth can be removed without MOT issue as the only advantage to leaving them there is it stops them poking about the engine bay much.

If you replace the pipe from the bulb to the filter and then from the filter to the pump with clear silicone you'll be able to see any bubbles

result! :D

Might not have bluetooth nev. Mine is a 2008 exclusive, and it has a slot for the phone sim card. No pairing with bluetooth. Yours might be a later model though.

Sorry about that its a Xantia 2.0i SX Auto, 1999
allan

Under general information (for my Sister's Xsara):

PAINT TYPE METALLIC PAINTWORK
BODY COLOUR EYL - PAINT - ICELAND GREY

must be vehicle specific as its defo not there for my mk1 berlingo :(

Gibbo's taken the words out of my mouth - best keep it

The best price guide is Ebay, as you watch an auction you can see what price it actually sells for - that's what it worth. Its also generally the cheapest place to buy, especially if you don't mind doing a bit of work. I wouldn't have an auto, largely because of your problem.

Peter We got an auto mainly because of my wife's arthritis (knees), but...

I bought a cheap Dell from ebay, paid about £25.00 for it.

Peter

The most common cause of engine oil use in the petrol 16v engines is hardening of the valve stem seals, causing oil to be consumed b the engine. Quite a large job Iam afraid
With my Xantia I did engine flush each time I changed oil and it helped a lot the condition of seals. The oil consumption was almost nothing considering the age of the car...

When I unlock the doors of the car,
- the mirrors unfold,
- ECU wakes up (interesting technical sounds from some where in engine bay)
- I guess also the air condition flaps arrange their positions,
- Instrument panel wakes up
- if the interior lights were on (in use) they they are also switched on.
During this initialization process it also...

were are you located as a while back this breakers had i think 3 or 4 MK1 C5's

G.M Woodgate & Son
Potteries Further Quarter
High Halden
Ashford
kent
TN26 3HX

Tel: 01233 850303

very nice people/ old fashioned breakers were you are still allowed to walk through the troffs of mud left by there tractors,
and climb all over the cars to remove...

Simple instructions here .

there is a post up in a sticky re these.
If you look at that link posted up theres a block you can get that has many holes for wires or you can get a block like that then have one main wire back to pos terminal.
check the wire out from terminal as gets hard and cracks.
Chop terminal off with pair of side cutters etc and if you have a captive...

The caliper , when replacing, only usually comes with the piston, which you then bolt onto the caliper mount with two 13mm bolts (spanner size) . It is the sliders that these bolts go into that seize, and not the caliper itself.
Usually the only way to repair is to remove these sliders and clean them meticulously, or replace the caliper mount...

I am in Ilkeston which is not a million miles from Loughborough if you get stuck.

Hi Mark,
I hadn't forgotten you were there, just not sure how often or for how long we'll be in Ilkeston.
I'll give you a call nearer the time if we can get over for a while.
Andy
No problem :)

Lucky you!

Is the mileometer working?

update just been out took fuse panel off drivers side pressed all fuses in and wires,,,,guess what all working ok now lol

The deflection in the belt is reasonably normal when revving the engine, it is caused by the different speeds of each pulley fighting against each other at certain revs.
Just about all cars now have spring tensioned adjuster pulleys, where you line up a marker, but the pulley still self adjusts continually. This stops the flapping about you have...

Yes, it was I. £350 worth of billeted aluminium hose tree. :shock:

Possibly a CV joint on the way out ?

:D Lolz that did go through my mind!

Not sure of the actual minimum specs but I run it on an old neglected Pentium M 1.7 with 1GB RAM, under XP SP3. It works. It isn't really resource intensive. I'll probably create a VM for it on my Windows 7 laptop at some point (using virtualbox). I expect that to work just fine too. You shouldn't have to buy something old and clunky if there's a...

Good point about the cable length and of course it originally being LHD! I'm certainly not looking froward to driving that through various Cities! Oh and for the benefit of the archives, its a very easy cable to change. Pops off the gearbox end by hand and then there is one clip behind the engine which it pops out of. Then flick the pedal end of...

You certainly don't have to dig very far to find faulty Toyotas.

Our daughter and son-in-law's Corolla Verso D4D 180 suffered engine failure only a few months after they'd bought it (6 years old). Toyota did provide a new half engine, but the local Toyota dealer seemed to have used it as a training exercise for junior mechanic. Gear change...

Hi Spook

Unusual that it would go into limp without putting the EML on. If you can't see anything obviously wrong, then you need to get it on a Lexia diag computer and see if there are any stored codes, and then have a look at live data for engine speed, rail pressure, manifold pressure etc, to see if you figure out what has gone astray. There's...

This is the 8 valve engine, no DPF.

Peter

The LED on my C5 lights up in certain areas, so the Traffic master system seems to be receiving something :?

Issues behind the Fuse box is NOT uncommon!

Ive had a main feed from the engine bay break up to the fuse box.. That resulted in RHW! Try tracing that from scratch!

Other has been a jumper wire which had corroded away from a previous fix.. Other people have had to do stuff too.

Well Done on the Fix.. I nice result!

Cheers Ricahard.

I have the car for next mon/tue to do rear arm and bottom ball joint, and if things go well, fit Cam belt and water pump too!

Thanks Si, did the balljoints and driveshaft gaitors yesterday, my 5' scaffold pole came in handy!

Chris.

In 100k miles up to current 150k nearly, other than service items my Xantia HDi has only consumed 2 alternators, a crank pulley, a brake pipe, a suspension pipe, and a repaired rear suspension cylinder. Any replacement will have to go a long way to beat that, but decent Xantias are very thin on the ground now...currently 14 on Autotrader, compared...

No problem. :) If you need the Berlingo ones as well just shout, but I would need the RPO, model phase, engine/gearbox details etc as there are too many variants to just guess...

thanks for the info
cheers arch

Is there any way that this can be put in a DS5? Would it be safe. I don't want to cripple the satnav.
It doesn't have a SDHC slot but has a usb port. Or maybe put on a disc as I did with my C5.