Height contoler or Sphere Fault

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Height contoler or Sphere Fault

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Hi All
I am a bit confussed by my Xantia problem, I have recently been putting the Xantia in Low height settings at night to make sure all is ok what i am finding is the car is strugling to raise at the back, The front come up quite quickly but the back would nt come up in the end i moved the leaver to service level and car creaked and judered up, I then set the lever back to normal, Suspension is working ok when driving.
Saturday i worked the car through the height settings and the car would nt come up and the front sphere was clicking maddly, but they dont click when in normal mode.
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Re: Height contoler or Sphere Fault

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Sounds like your height corrector linkages , most likely the rear are sticking, certainly the case for the rear not coming up.
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Re: Height contoler or Sphere Fault

Post by citroenxm »

I second Lighty... I wont be the Spheres OR Height corrector itself, but the Linkage levers that control the height corrector itself.. they are a common siezure item on the xantias at the rear. The fronts dont normally and didnt on XUD cars due to common oil leaks from the engines keeping them lubricated...

Have a look at other "Rear height corretor" posts, a little further down for a breakdown diagram of a rear linkage control unit...
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