Hi
is there anywhere on-line that has the servicing schedule for the hdi engine ( 2.0L ), or could I just go and buy a Haynes book on say the Peoguet 406 which has the hdi engine in it? I've been not been able to find a Haynes book for a xantia with the hdi engine in it
Any information would be great fully received
cheers
deano
12000 is perfectly adequate for quality oil changes, as the cabbie I was chatting to at xmas with the 220k mile 406 HDi 90 can ably demonstrate. Being identical to mine in all but colour I whiled away the journey by picking his brains (lordy, don't they love to talk!). He'd had no breakdowns and insisted on genuine filters and it's as quiet as my 7k mile HDi (although the interior trim squeaks and rattles a good 'un) and he wasn't the gentlest driver i'd ever met. Unless you do short, cold engine, urban jaunts all the time your quite safe sticking to Citroens recommendation. After all, if Citroen/Pug thought they could shaft your wallet for a 'necessary' extra service every 6k i'm sure they would have done.
I'm not sure if that's the way it works - that they'd have stung you for more frequent servicing if they could justify it. My understanding is that it's basically geared around the company car (fleet) market - the running costs of the leasing company depend on how *few* services they can get away with. Therefore, the car that has the fewest services will get bought more often. But this is all based around a typical 4 year / 85000 mile lease - the servicing has to be the minimum possible to get the car to the end of that lease without breaking, so it can be sold on to a private punter. It doesn't matter (to the leasing company) what state the engine is in at the end of that lease.
I know a while ago that someone noticed that if you bought a renault laguna as a private buyer (I suppose someone must have) it came with 6k oil change intervals. If you bought it on fleet lease, it came with a service book for 10k intervals. Same car. You figure.
My new (ex-contract hire) Xantia HDi is going to get fresh oil every 6k miles, I think; its previous service history seems to have been pretty fitful. Still, it ain't burning oil, so it doesn't look like too much harm has been done, I suspect it spent a lot of its previous life on motorways (ie few cold starts) which is always good for a diesel engine.
Cheers
Pete
Hi
cheers for all the replys I have not worded my origininal post very well, what i'm after is info on major and minor services, what is required, or is every service on a hdi a major one?
Having read threw the post with the debate on service intervals i'll probably go for 8kmiles middle of the road then
TIA
Deano
Why not get the Haynes for the old Xant and stick to their schedule? Although oil in an HDi is expected to last longer, everything else is the same - coolant is still coolant, LHM is LHM, air filter, timing belt etc etc.
Why not get the Haynes for the old Xant and stick to their schedule? Although oil in an HDi is expected to last longer, everything else is the same - coolant is still coolant, LHM is LHM, air filter, timing belt etc etc.
Why not get the Haynes for the old Xant and stick to their schedule? Although oil in an HDi is expected to last longer, everything else is the same - coolant is still coolant, LHM is LHM, air filter, timing belt etc etc.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Forgive me for sounding stupid here, but this is my first citroen and first diesel.[:o)] How relevant is the older Haynes manual for the later cars?
The later Xantias have the HDI engine which is different in some ways to the older TDs and similar in others, the clutch and gearbox are also a little different to what went before.
The suspension, steering, bodywork and most of the electrical bits are pretty much the same, although there are some new bits on the later post facelift Xantias e.g. traffic master, side airbags etc.
If your car has a service history book, the servicing items should be clearly listed somewhere in it. On mine it is on the tear off slip adjacent to the relevant mileage stub. (a bit like a cheque book)
Servicing intervals are extended by the use of semi or fully synthetic oil as it breaks down more slowly then mineral. I remember some (petrol) Peugeots had(have?) 20,000 intervals which seems excessive, but they wouldn't do it if wasn't any good for the car surely.
In response to the above post for Lagunas with different intervals for retail and fleet: This makes sense to me as there are catering for the masses who on a whole as fleet will do (less damaging) motorway miles and as retail more 'combined' driving necessitating more frequent oil changes. Just a thought - it seems sensible really!
I have not worded my origininal post very well, what i'm after is info on major and minor services, what is required, or is every service on a hdi a major one?
I'll follow the schedue for the old xantias.