My C1 Adventure

[Fuzzyone]

So my C4 was in to have a few bits done to it, in the meantime I was givin a 07 C1 with 900 miles on the clock.

 

I cannot count the amount of times I stalled it getting out of the garage ;) , anyways it was nice around town and very nippy but the moment I hit the motorway the thing sounded like a jet, very uncomfortable wind noise and hopeless at pulling up hills.

 

So I get back home and ask the wife is she wants to go for a drive so we head to the in-laws ( :( ) about 50 miles away.

 

While at said in-laws I decided to chuck a fiver in the tank, now the car felt like a diesel and sounded like a diesel so "I" assumed it was diesel, even after my wife tried convincing me it wasnt.

 

So I put a fiver's worth of diesel in a plod on to in-laws, after a cuppa, we decide to head home except the car won't start, so the first thing I check is the fuel filler and sure enough there's a unleaded sticker :o

 

Call our local citroen garage up to find out it's going to cost £600 to get towed back home and that there not prepared to pay out, so another phone call and they suggest filling the tank all they way up with unleaded, which I did, except the car still would not start.

 

10mins later and citroen arrange for the AA to tow us, AA Man turns up, refuses to tow due to the fact that damage to the car was self inflicted (Or SIF as they like to say) and hence not covered under citroen assist.

 

AA man bugger's off, so we wait for my father-in-law to return from work and tow us to the garage, half-an-hour later I decide to give it one more try, suddenly the engine springs to life smoking and sounding like a tracktor.

 

5 mins later the car is running smooth as a peach, apart from the depollution light which was on all the way home.

 

So the cars back at the garage, no mention of who's paying the bill, and I find out that half the stuff due to be done on my C4 was not done.

 

There you go my little adventure with a C1, Nice car but not for me :D

[wozza]

Guessing you didn't know it was a 3 cylinder engine and most of them sound like that?

 

Had similar feeling with the one I drove why I ended up taking the other car down to wales god knows how it would have coped down there the C4 only just manages a couple of the hills in 1st on the roads I was going on.

[Guest Pulsar]

So you put diesel in a petrol C1......lol did you just guess??????? You must be just plan dumb,i can understand people pulling up to the pump and making a mistake with the fuel,but just guessing......."me not to smart"

 

And why do you f**k tards keep comparing it to a C4??????? IT'S A C1!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not a C4 with a C1 badge on the boot.I've got a Kawasaki 636 in the shed,it's fast as hell on the motorway and up the hills,leaves C4's for dead,maybe i will start posting about how great it is in the C4 forum.......

 

Rant over

[c1dan]

Its easy to do . A few years ago I hired a deisel van and put petrol in it ! It ran really well on petrol but the van hire firm were not too pleased. All that smoke of half burnt deisel coming out your borrowed C1 exhaust will have not done the Catalytic converter any good . Could be an expensive repair!.

[acra]

You know that little green plastic bit just inside the fuel hole? Isn't that supposed to be designed so that the thinner petrol pump nozzle fits into it, whereas the larger diesel doesn't? Can't remember, but I guess it may be the other way round.

[Martin_1973_uk]

It was designed that a 4 Star petrol pump wouldn't fit in an unleaded car. Diesel and unleaded are the same size so it can be done I guess.

Like I said on a previous posting, the biggest advantage a C1 has over a C4 is that its not made by Citroen. Hence its not in the garage like your cars having bits put on that happen to fall off a C4 everytime you go over a bump. Why compare? Why buy a Citroen in the first place, didn't you like the offerings from Toyota or Honda or even look at the JD Power Survey?