Well, us who are about to invest in a Lexia would buy one of the newer kits which is just a USB cable to the socket, and the software which runs on a laptop with XP, so the old hardware is no longer an issue Well, the diagnostic side of it. The old hardware in the car might be.TooMany2cvs wrote:[
Yes, and no. It's a general build quality thing. When I was running a very late CX GTi as a daily, in the very late '90s - 70k in three years, taking it to 180k - the problems with it were expensive "hard stuff" mechanical maintenance and repairs. All of those jobs were a PITA to do, and were expensive as a result. When I replaced it with an XM, the problems weren't basic mechanics. They were death-by-a-thousand-papercuts things. Lots of niggly stuff, usually down to cost-cutting, corner-cutting plastic parts a bit too flimsy for the long-term job. They were a PITA to do, and were expensive as a result.jacksun1987 wrote:I think what puts me off is the electrics in the c5.
It's entirely possible for electronics to be reliable. Sure, not in the same league as even a Mk1 C5, but neither the CX nor XM were electrically simple, and - on the whole - those aspects were reliable. It's just the cheese-paring that stops them being reliable. And the sheer impossibility of repairing when parts are unavailable, or even diagnosing and repairing without specialist kit that is itself getting old and flaky. Am I right, Lexia-owners?
It's the poor quality of a lot of the XM and as mentioned, the niggly faults that spoilt it for me. Great when it worked. Same, to an extent with Xantias. I shouldn't have to spend time soldering diodes and cutting wires to make the suspension work correctly on what was then a 10 year old car, or simply have glovebox that refused to stay shut because the plastic it was made out of was too crappy to do the job it was supposed to, or countless other faults, generally caused by poor quality/cost cutting. The Japanese could make an interior and parts which worked and didn't fall apart 20 years ago, as per my Subaru, so why couldn't Citroen? Ever... I recall doing electrics on 2cvs where the cables were clearly too short (rear lights) and chafing on the holes they went through because they were pulled tight.. Shocking really.