Basic scanario is that the height corrector "stuck" on the Xantia about a month and a half ago. Was going on holiday in a couple of days so took it to a local Citroen Specialist to be repaired.
Rung me up to advise that it was sticking and that he coule lubricate it and that would resolve it. Fair does, go ahead. He also advised that the dog bone connector was a little loose and that I should get a replacement.
Picked it up and all seemed OK, but then I adjusted the height when changing the spheres that night and it "failed" again.
Went on holiday in the wife's car but rang to advise that the £90 fix had not worked, possibly just the dog bone had dropped off.
Any hoo took it back to him three weeks later for him to fit the new dog bone and the corrector was still sticking,,, and now the metal rod connecting from the anti roll bar to the dog bone, had snapped.
He was willing to fix it, but wanted to charge £200 for replacing with a good second hand height corrector.
Also there now seemed to be an LHM leak from somewhere, that had not happened before, but he said that was the overflow pipe????
Was not willing to pay the £200 as have another car I can use in the short/medium term until I can get the time to fix/replace.
Any hoo, got the car up on ramps today and noticed that the LHM did seem to be leaking from the passenger sides somewhere. (Not the height corrector). In the end just cleaned up the height corrector a lot and sprayed some white grease. Set the suspension to standard and then connected everything back up. 30 mins, all seems ok. Did not even use the replacement height corrector that I had sourced from on here.
Topped up the LHM and took the car for a ride round the block and everything seemed fine.
Gone back to the car tonight and there is now a pool of LHM under the car, seems to be starting to drop from somewhere on the passenger side., and the front suspension had dropped.
Started the car and after a brief wait the front rose as it should, but the STOP light did not extinguish, so has emptied all the LHM that I put in earlier.
I'll see if I can get the car back on the ramps tomorrow afternoon, but just wondered if there were any easy points to check first, or any useful tips /hints in tracing where the leak is starting from.
Sorry for the long ramble, just feel I have been
out of £90 and may have also caused another problem.Cheers
- Dave -
)
