Hi all, just a little about myself. Motoring for 35 years with well over million miles under my feet. Owned cars from Minis to Mercedes however I have found French cars to be the most robust particularly since Mercedes was taken over in the 90s and the quality dropped.
Current car is a ‘97 1.9td Xantia. Bought it at 80k miles 4 months ago and done 9k miles since then.
IR Key Tip for faulty IR transmission.
I was puzzled why my IR key along with so many other peoples keys and so:-
Unscrewed the case and withdrew the PCB (Printed Circuit Board). It was apparent that the design was very poor in that the largest chip is mounted near the edge. Over time flexing and dropping the key would break the connection.
To resolve the problem I used electronic solder flux pen (from Maplin) and liberally cover the legs of the chip and then run a soldering iron over the legs so that the existing solder flowed onto the BCP. I found that it was only necessary to heat the legs near the edge of the board. It maybe necessary to do both sides of the chip.
In order to increase the field of the IR beam, I carefully lined the IR-LED housing with a small piece of foil to act as a reflector. (Make sure that the reflector does not touch the PCB.)
The result is one supper IR key.
What I have learned about Xantias.
I bought the car with FSH, however it seems that garages do not service the car as per the Citroen schedule. Particularly greasing, lubrication and suspension seems to be neglected.
Changing front spheres is a dodle.
There is a lot of BS about how complicated Citroens are to work on when the fact is they are just different.
Current problem (since driving through heavy snow
) is the height corrector is intermittently not working. Squirting WD40 around it seems to have freed it up a bit.I have ordered two folding axel stands so that I can have a poke underneath. I recon these are a must for Citroens.
Thanks guys
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