Happiness is a C5!!

[centurus2400]

I know I've had some expensive problems on my C5 tourer over the last 12 months, steering rack, leaking front strut, and borked EGR valve.
However, last week I had the misfortune to be taken on a 100 mile + trip in a colleagues car, a fairly recent Mondeo estate.
While it might have been more sprightly than my C5, being manual rather than auto, I was distinctly unimpressed with the amount of road noise, the hard suspension, and the not so comfortable seats.

Never was I more pleased than to get back into my own car at the end of the day and travel home in comfort and near silence.
I won't be trading it in for a Ford any time soon

[GiveMeABreak]

Yes, I think sometimes it's only when you drive other cars for some time that you do appreciate getting back in your C5. Just driving around for a few days in a conventionally sprung DS3, C4 Picasso or Cactus and the like as courtesy cars from my dealer when having work done highlights how much I enjoy getting my C5 back, despite its odd quirks.

[Peter.N.]

I remember after having driven my first CX trying out a Volvo 240, apart from the comfortable seats the noise and vibration levels were like a '50s car, I later drove another and it was just the same so I drove hydropnumatic Citroens for about the next 25 years.

Peter

[Quackers]

I hate being a passengers in spring cars, i feel everything and its not nice. Think i am extra sensitive to it as i've only ever had hydro Citroens my entire driving life (1 BX, 5 Xantia's and 2 C5's)

[GiveMeABreak]

^^ Ditto^^ Except for company cars of course!

[EDC5]

I know I've had some expensive problems on my C5 tourer over the last 12 months, steering rack, leaking front strut, and borked EGR valve.
However, last week I had the misfortune to be taken on a 100 mile + trip in a colleagues car, a fairly recent Mondeo estate.
While it might have been more sprightly than my C5, being manual rather than auto, I was distinctly unimpressed with the amount of road noise, the hard suspension, and the not so comfortable seats.

Never was I more pleased than to get back into my own car at the end of the day and travel home in comfort and near silence.
I won't be trading it in for a Ford any time soon

That's bad luck having 3 things go in the space of a year. I've just changed a front strut myself and whilst I was under the car inspected the steering rack. It all looked shiny and silver so hopefully it won't leak!

Most other cars are lacking in the comfort side of things I think... as James May says: engineering for the Nürburgring ruins cars! At least with the C5 you get comfort most of the time and level cornering for fast bends when needed.

[falling-out-with-my-car]

I would like to add that having bought a mk 2 C5 my initial worries about more computerisation have been abandoned completely 47. 9 mpg on a run is a little lower than my old Xantia but as for comfort I think it beats the Xantia sx hands down. The 1998 235k Xantia would have emptied my pockets and my saving account by now this year but the C5 has been wonderful for reiability it has passed another mot in July with flying colours and no advisories at all. It cost me no more than having the rear calipers cleaned of corrosion, a new set of tyres and a couple of oil changes and diesel and oil filters. I am well pleased and my move to an auto x7 hopefully will be as pleasurable. 10 months on I still have 5mm left on my front tyres after 8k the rear are wearing a little faster than the Xantia tyres did but the outside edge of the front C5 tyres are like new I think this car corners better at high speed. Just a shame I will have to sell her when the right auto comes along. £160 road tax to,thats only ten pound dearer than a 2cv.