Hi Hopeing someone can help Driving along the motorway this morning I got a warning Beep Followed by the on display mesage Antipollution Fault and the little engine & service light came on I pull overe at the next junction. Oil Water fuel all seem ok car is running fine no spluts still plenty of power she isn't running stange at all. But the Manule says (URGENTLY CONSULT A CITROEN DEALER) My thinking is possable Cat fault or lambo sensor or even a bloked filter as althogh car was only service a couple of moths ago I dout they did much more than stamp the book
Thanks
in advance
J.J.
P.S. forgot to say car is 2001 C5 2.0sx
Antipollution Fault C5
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I'd want to know WHY the cat is dead after only four years! Has somebody been feeding it four star? Wrong exhaust? Cracked cat pipe? (My garage welded mine up for twenty quid.) Chronically out of tune for a prolonged period?
Commiserations, anyway. You'd probably struggle to get the cat for less than £300, but that fitting charge certainly seems a bit steep. It's half an hour on the ramps and ten minutes for the tune-up afterwards. Unless I'm missing some important point here?
Commiserations, anyway. You'd probably struggle to get the cat for less than £300, but that fitting charge certainly seems a bit steep. It's half an hour on the ramps and ten minutes for the tune-up afterwards. Unless I'm missing some important point here?
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I'm out of my depth here, but I do wonder why they're changing your sensors at your (considerable) expense, as well as the cat. I mean, logic would seem to suggest that either (i) the sensors are working well and they've correctly detected that the cat is indeed dead, or else (ii) they're faulty and the cat itself is perhaps perfectly healthy. I know that my own garage would have replaced one or the other to see whether it fixed the problem, rather than stiff me for both eventualities right away, just to be on the safe side.
My 1.8 Xant is still on its first cat at 110K, although it did need a spot of welding on the pipe at 80K. My first exhaust system lasted till 90K, which quite impressed me. It does do a lot of its mileage on the motorway, though, and that keeps everything nice and clean.
Best of luck, anyway.
My 1.8 Xant is still on its first cat at 110K, although it did need a spot of welding on the pipe at 80K. My first exhaust system lasted till 90K, which quite impressed me. It does do a lot of its mileage on the motorway, though, and that keeps everything nice and clean.
Best of luck, anyway.
Ask yourself do you really want to empty your bank account/wallet by chucking it at a bunch of citcrims. For £947.31 you could buy a number of older Citroen cars, and each one would, if you were reasonably selective, give you a couple of years motoring. I bought an XM for 250 quids have had it 3 years in Nov, and have done 6,000 miles in it. It cost 60 to change the oil pressure relief valve 20 for the oil change it did while the valve was duff. The dashboard light show is as regular as citwork (variation on clockwork) but just keep on driving and the result is economical motoring - er well would be if it wasn't a V6, but it's fun anyway. If I had to buy a car for work type driving I would run a million miles from citroen they're just to finicky. I don't like standing in front of the car with the bonnet open on the hardshoulder of the M whatever with one eye on the oncoming and the other on some damn relay, sensor, wire or ecu as I do guaranteed everytime. I know the XM is notorious but I still hear all the same stories from C5, abs lights on, spurious messages, warning lights flashing etc etc.. c'est la vie et c'est le citroen malheureusement - merde!
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