My 2009 Citroen C4 Grand Picasso finally died this evening. For a few days I've been questioning myself on whether it was down on power. Today three times when stationery I had Oil Pressure warnings. Oil was very low when I checked, and was fine a few weeks ago but I was aware I was using more and more oil recently. Topped up the oil jumped in the car to get milk from the garge down the road and it sounded like a bag of spanners. Jumped back in, went to pull off and it stalled which is odd as it's an automatic and never started again.
Spent too much on it recently, so going to sell as non runner. I am guessing my description is quite vague and could be anything?
C4 GP Finally Died
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GiveMeABreak
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Re: C4 GP Finally Died
Hi Louis
It's not actually an automatic just for reference. It has a manual gearbox and clutch system as in a normal car - but these are simply operated by hydro electric actuators to do the clutch and gearbox changes for you, but there is no torque converter as with a proper auto box. So it will stall like a manual box if there is an issue with the engine - as in suddenly losing power or a mechanical fault.
Locating the source of the oil leak is going to be the first thing to do if you are going to attempt to find out what's wrong with it.
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Zone "A" Timing face
Zone "B" Upper face
Zone "C" Coupling face
Zone "D" Exhaust face
Zone "E" Lower panel
Zone "F" Inlet face
If you can identify the general zone of the oil leak from the areas above, then I might be able to give you some more detail.
It's not actually an automatic just for reference. It has a manual gearbox and clutch system as in a normal car - but these are simply operated by hydro electric actuators to do the clutch and gearbox changes for you, but there is no torque converter as with a proper auto box. So it will stall like a manual box if there is an issue with the engine - as in suddenly losing power or a mechanical fault.
Locating the source of the oil leak is going to be the first thing to do if you are going to attempt to find out what's wrong with it.
Click Image to Zoom
Zone "B" Upper face
Zone "C" Coupling face
Zone "D" Exhaust face
Zone "E" Lower panel
Zone "F" Inlet face
If you can identify the general zone of the oil leak from the areas above, then I might be able to give you some more detail.
Please note, I'm no longer active on the Forum, so won't respond to messages.
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ldare2000
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Re: C4 GP Finally Died
I don't think it's dropping oil, as driveway is clear. My gut feeling is turbo has gone but I was expecting it to go with a loud bang or something?
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Gibbo2286
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Re: C4 GP Finally Died
A blown turbo could answer your low oil pressure problem, debris from the turbo fills the gauze on the oil pick up, if you persist in running it when this has happened you knock out the crankshaft bearings big ends/mains.
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Activa TCT
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Re: C4 GP Finally Died
Add oil to level, if she still runs like junk, bearings are gone. Might take a while for noisy lifters to bleed, but that's that.
No oil pressure or no oil also means no compression and no start.
Turbos do fail like that, check if you have oil dripping from exhaust, else it would be really super smoky. Or remove the pipe from intercooler if it decided to dump it all in there.
No oil pressure or no oil also means no compression and no start.
Turbos do fail like that, check if you have oil dripping from exhaust, else it would be really super smoky. Or remove the pipe from intercooler if it decided to dump it all in there.