Hi Mike, you are a saint for keeping me up to date on the history of the Activa looks like I'll be able to take the hydraflush back and save the money for fancy tyres when the time comes:-D
My reason for considering fydraflush was that when I took some of the spheres off they were filled with milky/cloudy LHM but in hind sight that might be due to them failing and so never pushing the LHM back into the system so that when the Hydraflush/LHM was changed they still had ancient LHM in them. Anyone agree or disagree?
Jim you are also a saint and once I have done a little more investigation I will probably be sending you a PM with my address and a request for a bush for the rear ram.
Now there is one thing that is troubling me ..... I made a mistake, which might turn out to be a tragic mistake, when changing the spheres I tried to jack the front of the car up from the bottom of the front activa ram and this might be the cause of what appears to be a problem with the side to side leveling, it seems that once the car has settled the o/d/f wheel to wheel arch gap is 4-5 fingers where as the n/s/f is 3 fingers....
I took the Activa for a little drive after some more Citarobics and the noise near the boot seems better, I guess the suspension is getting softer/ better at the back.
Dean , you are a sinner the way you can drive that Activa
The wife is in bed so I'm free but the weather is awful so now instead of playing with the car itself I have a different kind of Citroen work/play to do

I have borrowed my Fathers Lexia

and am going to set it up on my wife's laptop and try and sort out that engine management light on the HDi. Althought it should be great to have the Lexia; sadly I don't have a 30pin connector( or is it 16 pin) so that I can plug it into the Activa

but I guess if I can get it to work with the HDi I'll invest in the connector and get one from ebay for a small fortune.
Most likely if Lexia is slow to install I'll start reading the Activa Buyers Guide again while it installs, the other option is if it installs quickly I'll be able to read the guide after I've used it on the HDi. Oh I see its 10pm already to we'll have to see how it goes. If I make any progress I'm sure I'll post it up here either last thing tonight or after my filling at the dentist tomorrow.
I'm using the Activa almost every day, but I am starting to notice the constant need to fill the tank again, something which the HDi doen't suffer from
I think generally the car needs to settle for a bit and I need to understand the system and lubricate the height correctors and maybe the rams, does anyone recommend a suitable grease for the rams/suspension struts?