Xantia Creaking - Help!!!!
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Xantia Creaking - Help!!!!
Hi all,
I need to call upon your expertese once again please!!!
I have a '97 R Xantia SX TD Estate, which recently has started creaking when suspension rises, and also when going over speed bumps etc, so I am presuming that this is the height correctors that are doing this????
If this is the case, could someone post up a piccie of the front & rear ones, so that i can lubricate them please!!!
Thanks once again!
Regards,
Steven
I need to call upon your expertese once again please!!!
I have a '97 R Xantia SX TD Estate, which recently has started creaking when suspension rises, and also when going over speed bumps etc, so I am presuming that this is the height correctors that are doing this????
If this is the case, could someone post up a piccie of the front & rear ones, so that i can lubricate them please!!!
Thanks once again!
Regards,
Steven
'97 Xantia 1.9TD Estate
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sorry all, myabe i should have ellaborated....
the creaking is coming from the front, tried citroebics, but to no avail, i think its the height corrector that needs lubricating, but i dont know what it looks like....
cant anyone post up a pic of the front heigh corrector please.....
thanks
steve
the creaking is coming from the front, tried citroebics, but to no avail, i think its the height corrector that needs lubricating, but i dont know what it looks like....
cant anyone post up a pic of the front heigh corrector please.....
thanks
steve
'97 Xantia 1.9TD Estate
front creaking
Possibly Height corrector but unlikely. Front creaking is invarably tired front struts.
By all means try other remedies likeheight corrector - and some swear by lubricating the struts but this is normally very temporary.
Look also at the strut plates where they meet teh inner wing - these may be about to let go!
PaulB
By all means try other remedies likeheight corrector - and some swear by lubricating the struts but this is normally very temporary.
Look also at the strut plates where they meet teh inner wing - these may be about to let go!
PaulB
Broomie(paulB) Xantia Hdi 90 estate
creaking at the front is usualy the seals in the top of the leg have dried out,as not much LHM gets up there,i have not tried lubing the se seal but people on here recon it works,i dont see any reason why it shouldnt work,also the hight corectors dont usualy make much noise even when they are seized but they should be lubricated regularly
regards malcolm
regards malcolm
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I've tried the sucking oil up through the return pipe trick and my conclusion was that it doesn't work on Xantia struts...(unlike BX struts where it apparently does) I couldn't notice any difference anyway.
LHM is not a very good lubricant either, its too thin to stay where its needed, the best thing is a light grease thats compatible with LHM applied to the shiny shaft of the strut.
Theres been LOTS of discussion about lubricating struts on here in the past, so try a good forum search and you should turn up lots of information.
Regards,
Simon
LHM is not a very good lubricant either, its too thin to stay where its needed, the best thing is a light grease thats compatible with LHM applied to the shiny shaft of the strut.
Theres been LOTS of discussion about lubricating struts on here in the past, so try a good forum search and you should turn up lots of information.
Regards,
Simon
Simon
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Creaking is difficult to pinpoint. Try lubricating the struts. It's a long shot but I had a lot of creaking from a pair of duff droplinks I fitted. If you cannot find out where it is, you'll have to get the car up on ramps - a creak should be traceable by feel as well as sound.
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