After getting new spheres on each corner of my '00 Xantia HDi, the stop light was going out in around 10 secs after a cold start. It is now taking maybe 30 sec or longer.
Any reason for this - I thought maybe accumulator, but when that fails, I read that the light goes out almost instantly ( nothing to pressurise in the sphere ).
I also notice the car occasionally doesn't rise at the back like it should, though that may be just a sticking height adjuster.
Any thoughts? - jez
Stop light takes a long time to go out
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As the accumulator pressure reduces over time, you have to pump more LHM in to make the light go out, which takes longer. Eventually, there is so little pressure in the accumulator that there is nothing to compress and the light goes out almost instantly. Long delay before the light goes out is probably a combination of reduced accumulator pressure and dirty LHM filters reducing the flow rate to the pump. Try cleaning the filters and changing the LHM if it's never been done.