Geordieman54

Classic....re-seat fuse after checking, and it works

Cold morning and found heated rear window and door mirrors on 55 reg C3 SE are not working, Press the button it illuminates for 1..2 secs then goes out......Fuse Checked and ok. Any ideas as expecting a few more cold days....

If you air conditioning isn't as cold, most likely that you will require regassing, typically part of an air condtioning check.....what it might drive out is where you are losing gas, and then the bills to replace the parts, may be as little as seals but might go on to pipepwok etc. After 5 years suspect there might be some replacaments apart from the Gas to consider. Hope it helps....nice to get it working for the heatwave in the summer rather than the frosts at the moment. Geordieman

Seems you are not alone with Spring Problems and at relatively low mileages, this is a serious saftey issue just glad my instance was when I got into the car on the drive and it collapsed before I even got the key in the ignition. Don't know if it is diesel related but my vehicle is a 55 Plate 1.4 Sensodrive with 32,000 miles on the clock.....Phew thank god I wasn't moving and its still under warranty! Garage did say "springs break2" yes but not so many at such a low mileage. Update to posting....Collection and replacement of failure done under warranty (I I would have expected anyway) but interesting the list of replacements considering car was stationary and the danger of it affecting the brakes if I have been moving! Both Front Road Springs NSF Strut Top Mounting NSF Brake Flexi Hose NSF CV Boot NSF ABS Sensor Plus all the Brake bleeding etc... Guess Which Side collapsed!