C5 Suspension fluid

mooseshaver · Unread post by **mooseshaver** » 25 Mar 2008, 09:27

Hypothetically speaking, if I thught my C5 LDS was low, and I topped it up to where it should be, then discovered I had infact had it on the normal height instead of its lowest height, what would happen?
And if I kept driving around pretending it hadn't happened? Does it have an escape?

juraj · Unread post by **juraj** » 25 Mar 2008, 15:30

can you siphon some out? ... hypothetically ...

mooseshaver · Unread post by **mooseshaver** » 25 Mar 2008, 20:34

I don't really have anything to get it out with. Think I will just leave it.

Unread post by **myglaren** » 25 Mar 2008, 20:47

Can you suck it out with a bike pump?

Turkey baster?

wheeler · Unread post by **wheeler** » 25 Mar 2008, 20:54

a syringe with a piece of washer tube attatched ?

mooseshaver · Unread post by **mooseshaver** » 25 Mar 2008, 22:28

Not got those, but I could buy one from somewhere. Would quite like to know if it is dangerous to run it like this?

XantiaMan · Unread post by **XantiaMan** » 25 Mar 2008, 22:29

Use a trigger off a bottle from the kitchen, just dont let the missus catch you!

MikeT · Unread post by **MikeT** » 25 Mar 2008, 23:12

Do you have to check the level on it's lowest setting with these C5's then? That's bound to catch a few loyal (ex-xantia) owners out and a smattering of incompetent back-alley mechanics ... oh, probably me too

mooseshaver · Unread post by **mooseshaver** » 26 Mar 2008, 09:17

MikeT wrote:Do you have to check the level on it's lowest setting with these C5's then?

Yes on the lowest setting, and no interesting glass thingy to look at, juse a cap that tells you you shouldn't remove it, and then look in the hole like you used to look at radiators

Clogzz · Unread post by **Clogzz** » 26 Mar 2008, 13:07

dangerous to run it like this?

Can’t be dangerous, the worst that can happen is that the excess will overflow at the low setting, which is when the tank is fullest.
Checking the level at the low setting isn’t a bad idea, because when you nearly brim it there, the level is necessarily correct for the higher settings.
There’s no sorcery to LDS and LHM filling; the limits are lack of fluid at the high setting, and overflow at the low setting.

After syphoning the old LHM from the Xantia with a transparent plastic tube, I refill close to the brim at the low setting, and the indicator for the high setting has always fallen into place.
Picture of Xantia tank with overflow pipe on the filler cap:

mooseshaver · Unread post by **mooseshaver** » 26 Mar 2008, 14:49

Thanks Clogzz, will stop worrying now