C5 driving with zero suspension..

[aerodynamica]

I just spotted a C5 phase 1 traveling around here (Battlefield in South Glasgow) with zero suspension - bouncing on the bump stops. It couldn't be anyone on here.... but the driver was not slowing down or driving carefully or 'limping' home as it were. He was proper ragging it around and believe me it was BOUNCING! Thing is, I saw the same car about a month back in the same state which means he's been driving it like that for weeks (unless it failed twice and I coincidently saw it on both occasions..) and it got me thinking about the strain that must be putting on the front strut upper mounting points I mean surely this is going to make them fail catastrophically!?
Also thinking about the fact that the old proper centralised hydraulic circuit kind of made it very hard to keep driving for weeks after a failure because the brakes and steering would go too and there would be the eternal presence of the big bright STOP light looking at you in the eye.

Maybe if I see him again I should wave him down! Or maybe he bought it like that and the seller said it had sport suspension

[white exec]

Bad Sight of the Week, Graeme. If I see something like that, I clench my teeth!

[elma]

I've given up trying to be helpful with people like that.
I've decided the human race is ignorant and Darwinian evolution no longer applies.
Leave them to it and let them suffer the consequences I say.

[Quackers]

and you know full well when it fails badly they will be telling everyone about how bad the Citroen suspensions are , they are unreliable and to avoid them.

[ekjdm14]

and you know full well when it fails badly they will be telling everyone about how bad the Citroen suspensions are , they are unreliable and to avoid them.

Makes them all the better value for those of us in the know then (and commands some extra respect from those not enlightened, in the form of their thinking you're either rich or a genius to keep it working as it should).

As it's been mentioned, there's a 51 plate around here driving round with a dodgy front height corrector for a few weeks. Only lives down the road from us & can frequently be seen with it's nose pointing at the stars... Actually, that particular one is also driven "spiritedly" too. Further, it's sounded like it has a dead miss and has been running on 3 cylinders for the best part of 3 years I've known about it! How it can have a valid MoT like that I don't know (and it is tested, on the database)...

Some people just cannot be helped...

[Peter.N.]

I must admit to driving an XM with no suspension and a car load of people - not like that one though. I couldn't fix the leak so had no alternative but to drive it, the ride was surprisingly good on the bump stops, in fact probably better than some German cars on their springs!

Peter

[Gibbo2286]

I'm not sure the car you've seen is completely without suspension, in my experience C5s on the bottom setting drag on the ground where there is the tiniest bump and rip chunks off the underside, exhaust e.g.

[rabenson]

Could be a boy racer thinking that its a cheap way to get sports suspension?

[Stickyfinger]

Yes...that is what many think...based on the repeated question "how fast can you drive it with it set on low ?"

[aerodynamica]

No, it's definitely on the stops! wheels tucked right up the arches. When I first spotted it I saw it bouncing and thought it had a failed sphere or two and it reminded me of the BXs I used to spot in the 90s with flat spheres surprisingly often... Shame really as it appears to be an Exclusive with Xenon lights. Probably be in the crusher by the end of the week!

(and commands some extra respect from those not enlightened, in the form of their thinking you're either rich or a genius to keep it working as it should).

Haha this is what I believe all the nice ladies think of me when I'm ragging around an Auld Katy the Xantia