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Has anyone had Xenon headlamps that intermittently flicker, flash, blink, wink, and do so independantly of each other such that sometimes we could be mistaken for a vehicle on a 999 call? I admit, the last comment is a slight exageration, but they do exhibit all the symptons, and more and more frequently. For various other reasons the dealer has just replaced the 'BSI' (main brain?) and was hoping it would cure the problem, but it did not. Then, as it generally seems to happen as revs 'drop off', a voltage fluctuation was suspected, but that checked out okay, but the battery was only showing half charged (which is worrying in itself !!!!!) They charged it back up and reckoned that would do the trick, but no. In any case, as the bulbs flicker, flash, blink, and wink, independantly, I would think that rules out the battery, as anything to do with that or voltages would surely effect both headlamps the same. I am now inclined to suspect that actual bulbs, or something direcetly linked to them. Has anyone had a similar problem, and how was it fixed. Our dealer is scratching their head, and getting little help from Citroen UK.....and unless we can find the cause of this I fear we will be without the car for many more weeks whilst it is investigated....thanks in anticipation

Not sure about the codes, but got the gist of it, and doubt our list would be much shorter. If you've still got it and are about, what was the problem with the headlights, which I presume will have been the Xenons? Ours flicker, flash, blink, wink.....they have a mind of their own, at times we do an impression of a police vehicle on emergency call with alterntate flashing!!!!! The dealer recently replaced the 'BSI', (main brain?), thought it would cure the problem amongst others, but if anything it is now worse. Its back into them next week, and the are going to be scratching their heads with the usual lack of support and ideas from Citroen UK, who don't seem to think anyone, customer or dealer, should pick fault with their vehicles!!!! Any suggestions on the lights gratefully accepted!!!

Yup, we had this fault too!!!! Ours was not caused by anything more complicated than the extra child rear view mirror. Leave it down when parked, alarm may go off, put it away when parked, absolutely fine.......if only all C8 faults were that easy to fix!!!!!!!!

Yup, had this fault too, were locked out of the car outside of French supermarket, very apt, almost amusing!!!! Couldn't even get into it the old fashioned way with the key to start with, but finally realsed that the passenger door also had a keyhole, stuck it in, and it opened, nothing else would so we all clambered in through that. When we got back to where we were staying I applied the notion that like a PC, shut it down and restart, and it may be okay, so yes, I too disconneted the battery, and it then started to work again. However, it happened a gain, and it shouldn't, and on that basis, and to try and cure various other faults, the dealer eventually replaced the 'BSI' which I believe is effectively its main brain. Not had time to see if it has done the trick yet as it is an intermittent fault....we can but hope its sorted!!!

We had the same problem at 20,000 miles. Several 'swirl chambers' (??????) were replaced to no avail, until eventually it had a complete new turbo.....another £1000+ warranty claim. The garage were great, but that could not make up for the fact that we were without the car for three weeks over the whole Christmas and New Year period, which as a family of six was as you can imagine rather inconvenient.......just as well we are a three car family, we had to use the other two!!!!!!

Yup, we have had numerous problems with our C8 too. I won't list them all here, but we too have had 1) and 2), re 3) condition of our front seats is abysmal at 25,000 and just 3 years, but was almost as bad after the first year and 8000 miles. If your friend's C8 has had no problems I think they must have been very lucky, as so far as I can see most were built on a Friday, probably in the afternoon!!!!!

Yup, we got drenched driving through France when the car was just a year old. On our return the dealer looked at it, no idea what they did but it was supposed to be okay. Some months later it leaked again, they replaced the 'seals' on all three, (I presume the rubber around the edges). Some months later, we got drenched again. Took it to a different dealer. They ran a hose over it for a whole day, it didn't leak, gave it back to us. To be fair, it would go, weeks, sometimes months between each drenching....seemed to depend on the direction of the wind (I am not joking!!!!). Next time it did it at two years old, we took it back again. They stripped the entire roof lining and eventually found the fault....or at least so we thought, until another year later. What they found a year ago was that what I can only describe as a metallic, almost tin foil like, strip that I believe is glued onto the underside of the sunroof support frame assembly which had a crease, and had clearly been like that from manufacture. It was enough to let the water in, but only if it built up for long enough in just the right place. Then, turn a corner and whoosh!!!! To get the new strip, they apparently had to replace the whole assembly at a cost of around £1000. Even though there was no way of causing such 'damage' ourselves, Citroen UK were reluctunt to pay for it and the dealer had to fight for it, and eventually won....If out of warranty I wonder if a £3 tube of mastic would do the same job?! Now the leak is back, its going in again, and we can only assume that it will be a similar fault on a different sunroof, and as it is technically now out of warranty, I guess there could be some fireworks!!!!!