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Evening all - I have to sort my sons suspension as a Bank Holiday weekend treat - :lol: - I have worked on a Xantia VSX before with a sport setting but this one is a VX without the sport setting - I am also a bit confused about the Hydroactive title - simple question is how many rear spheres does a 1996 1.9TD VX have ? - is it one per wheel and one in the middle ?
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Hi Ross,

A VX? Never heard of one of those before :?

A Hydractive car will have a total count of four spheres at the back, two corners, Hydractive Centre and Anti-Sink. The Hydractive Sphere will be attached to a sphere block with an electrovalve and two thick pipes going to the suspension cylinders.

Non-hydractive cars will reduce this sphere count by one and the dead gve-away alwas is the tiickness of the pipes going to the suspension cylinders. thin on a non-Hydractive and thick on a Hydractive.
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I don't know about the Xantia 'SX' but I wouldn't have thought it would have had anti sink so probably only two spheres at the back - make sure you get the right ones!
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Peter.N. wrote:I don't know about the Xantia 'SX' but I wouldn't have thought it would have had anti sink so probably only two spheres at the back - make sure you get the right ones!
Unless the car sat around for a couple of years prior to registration a 96 Xantia will have anti-sink.
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Right. :oops:
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