Problem for ALL Activa owners

[Stickyfinger]

http://www.actualites.co/58a77feba2305/ ... legal.html

The -- La Prévention Routière -- have made a new safety ruling
Will this come to the UK or will we avoid it by leaving the EU ?

[xantia_v6]

That is only a French advisory organisation, nothing too do with the EU. They don't even have any power to make rules.

[CitroJim]

Oh dear...

For those who cannot read French...

The Citroën Active Roll Control System (SC-CAR) introduced for the first time on the Xantia Activa in 1994 allows unprecedented cornering speeds. The Prévention Routière has just prohibited the use of this device on open road.
Each owner of Xantia Activa will be individually notified of the prohibition on traveling with his vehicle. The government proposes a premium of 260 euros for the withdrawal of the circulation of these vehicles to insolent active safety.

You may joke but always remember the yanks would not have hydraulic Citroens simply because their ride height was adjustable and self-correcting.. For many years that was against Yank regulations...

Their other silly regulation was that all cars must have identical (allegedly poor) headlamp units - hence why Yank-spec DS and SM models looks distinctly off at the front...

[mickeymoon]

This is what Mr. Trump would call FAKE NEWS. Can't find anything about it anywhere else on the web, including on PR's own website.

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[CitroJim]

This is what Mr. Trump would call FAKE NEWS. Can't find anything about it anywhere else on the web, including on PR's own website.

No, no. no. It's genuine all right. I've also seen it reported on Facebook

[white exec]

Presumably there could be an Activa 'Off' switch?
Don't worry, the car is/will probably get itself listed as Classic status, and then be protected by some other French regulation.

[bobins]

Is it the right time now to be buying cheap Activas from France ??

[GiveMeABreak]

I couldn't see anything else either - and no detailed explanation of the issue or anything - how they can just make that statement and leave it there is beyond belief. That wouldn't stand up to scrutiny over here without further detail and is irresponsible to leave that statement as it stands.

Citroen's ARCS was unique in a production car to my knowledge and had no recalls specifically. In fact, there are only 4 recalls for the Xantia listed over here:
The roof opening harness incorrectly routed, causing the motor to overheat, the central locking receiver not insulated from water ingress causing a short circuit, 2 concerning the parking brake not being applied correctly (I had that fix done on mine) and an issue with the camshaft belt prematurely failing before the scheduled 72k mile replacement schedule!

[Stickyfinger]

Also from the site :

http://www.actualites.co/56154/un-chien ... lande.html

[GiveMeABreak]

Well I think that sums it up completely!

[Stickyfinger]

....was on the ACTIVA f-b pages

[ekjdm14]

Woof woof indeed... What a load... If anything the Activa is safer at any GIVEN speed than other cars. Would they also consider banning Toyota TEMS equipped cars... What about the ZX/306 et-al with their passive 4WS? lol

[ekjdm14]

And while we're at it, automatics in general (just in case somebody accidentally hits "go" instead of "stop")

[Hell Razor5543]

I propose a new law, in that any QUANGOs that issue any arbitrary rulings are fined 1,000,000 EUROs for each and every person (not company, person) that would be affected by said ruling. Half of the fine is to be paid to those persons affected, while the remaining half is to be given to charity.