1st Citroen Breakdown in 20 years!!!

[rory_perrett]

Well for the first time in 20 years and over 500,000 miles in Citroens I have had a breakdown - a car one. Sphere seal housing on the nearside suspension ram has cracked and is p***ing out copious quantities of LHM on my Xantia Estate. So I now have no suspension, no steering and no brakes. Just to really annoy, me I have all the facilities where I am working this week including a 2 post car lift, I also have a complete spare axle so I have a replacement part BUT I'm 140 miles from home (and my spare part). Oh well I guess I'll be getting my money's worth out of Mr RAC this year!

[van ordinaire]

Oh, the irony of it. Just have to keep smiling though.

[lexi]

The only reason our Cits don't break down much, is that we are constantly maintaining them to an inch of their lives!
A bit of bad luck that with Zanty.

[Zelandeth]

Only needed to be recovered twice so far *touches wood* once on my Skoda Rapid (snapped gear change linkage) and once in my Estelle 130GL - all of 500 yards from home when an idiot in a gas tanker didn't give way at the crossroads.

Had one other visit from an RAC engineer (after I got a lift home and guided him to the car as the road wasn't in his GPS...), which was a Lada Samara with a stuck carb float. His solution? Whack it with a hammer...problem solved!

I use AutoAid these days as a year's coverage for both me and my partner is about 40 quid, and the RAC wanted well over a ton, and these guys are highly recommended over on the Saab forums I also frequent. Not needed to tesf them yet mind you...long may that continue!

Sounds like a bit of bad luck there, hopefully not too bad to sort.