It took a while for it to irritate me enough to rummage about the engine
bay to make some sense of it; admittedely, it wasn't totally horrid but there
was an ever present noise and a judder through the car, notably on sharp
decelleration instances on the overrun. It felt like the exhaust wasn't too
happy actually.
What was a real eye opener was the movement of the engine when gently
rocked by hand. The main top mounting attaching the elaborate swan neck
arm was fine but a much smaller, easily overlooked mounting tucked away
to the back of the engine bay on the far offside (ECU side of the car) had
totally collapsed the central rubber bush.
The fix is actually an easy one - yes, rare I know, whereby the worst part
was actually paying the quite reasonable 30odd quid from Citroen for the
new mounting incorporated into an ally casting. I undid the big easy to
undo bolt single bolt without any need for jacking the engine as this is
really a stabiliser mount and then the three large bolts mounting the
casting to the side of the main inner wing. A genuine 20minute job where
you can probably even wear cream chino's!!
Made a tremendous difference but I fear what availability in another
8 years time will be!?
<part number to follow when I find the receipt>
Andrew
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