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Thanks will check them out

front seats haven't been moved, the drivers seat has a multi cd under it, wonder if its vibrated or something, is the connector under the drivers seat?

Finally sorted the tyre sensor problem, it turns out that the problem wasn't with the sensor, I had 2 new front tyres put on and one of them was leaking air from the seal, a tip a friend gave me was to blow the tyres up 10lb above the recommended and then let the air down back to where it should be - this worked and its been fine for 3 weeks. Now another dam sensor has tripped since its got cold and its the airbag sensor - intermittent as it only triggers when cold - Think what annoys me is that the readout does not tell you where the problems is ie; which airbag or which tyre. I was on the verge of getting rid of the car but it drives really well, if anything major goes wrong it will have to go.

As I understand it the option to turn off the sensors is for the Mk 2. I looked into this for my mark 1 and it could not be done. There was a time when the sensors were as little as £25 for OEM when they were £125 from Citroen, look on eBay or via the specialist tyre sensor on line shops.. I had two fitted. For fuel consumption reasons (we discussed on here a while back) it was found to be advantageous to run the tyres up to 10% over the recommended pressure or to run with the heavy load/high speed settings. Get a digital tyre pressure gauge on eBay. Find a good indy to do the job. A Citroen franchise won't be interested in you bypassing their £125 earner. Thanks for that, saved me the trouble of going to Citroen, just bought a digital gauge from ebay and will do the 10% or heavy load and match the tyre pressures, if it comes on then will just put up with it, hopefully will sort it out, lovely car just so annoying these stupid little things, funny had a citroen picasso for years and no trouble at all, had this one a few weeks and one thing after another, having said that there is 5k difference in price paid!!!

Thanks for that, my home tyre pressure pump may not be accurate to 4lb so it may be slightly out so will double check that at the tyre place when next in, may be an option to get them switched when i next need tyres to standard fittings then if getting them disabled isn't too expensive? Paid less than 1k for the car and she drives lovely plus i can get all my fishing gear in and pull the caravan (its an estate) so would be silly to lay out loads of money - doubt it would fail its MOT with just the service light on though, not like the other fault i had with the engine management light on (now fixed)

I have an intermittent tyre deflation warning Have checked the tyres but all are correct, have recently had 2 new front tyres but as the warning just says tyre(s) deflated it doesn't indicate which one. The warning bleeps once and comes on then after half to one mile goes off and stays off for a good while then does the same again. The code reader i have does not show any faults on it. I understand that the sensors are quite expensive then the car has to go to the dealers to be input on to the system (only from reading on the net) and as the car is quite old 2004 diesel mk1 its hardly worth it - just annoying!! if its just a sensor- sensors is there anyway of turning them off? Have in my previous postings about other faults been able to resolve them from advise on hear which i thank you guys for.

OK finally sorted it, decided to have a look at the EGR valve and leaned on the engine, then noticed the rubber tube to the egr had a small crack in about 1/4 inch in, the crack was right the way through so cut a small chunk off and sorted.

Check wires to the fuel cap and all seems ok, saw some DPF fluid in Halfords while picking up some oil and thought maybe would put some in, won't harm. Driven 400 miles yesterday and today, stop start then belting down the motorway, no light on so far, may be a coincidence will see.

Yes checked that it has 2 magnets one at each side, checked them if they worked as magnets too

Gave the fuel cap a good clean and the kneck but didn't make any difference, contacted the previous owner and he now says that he had a mate do all the servicing and only the MOT's were done at garages, think he is getting sick of me asking questions now so better not trouble him any more, it was a very cheap car so can't push him.

Thanks John, further email he will charge me another £100 for removing the filter, but then he tells me although he is advertising he is in my area he actually isn't but uses an "agent" to program so in other words its a franchise and to get the filter removed i have to take the car 200 miles - am not fit enough to crawl under the car so have dismissed this idea. I will just go with my original idea and try one thing at a time, seems a lot just to turn the light off.

Have just had an email from a man that does remapping and he sent me this email, does the price sound right? Hi we can dpf and egr delete this also a light tune price would be £250 You would have to cut dpf fillter out I hope he means he will cut the dpf filter out not me!

Time to take the bulb out!!! ;) That had crossed my mind, bet i would have to strip the front of the car to get at the bulb!!! -

If you're considering a remap, Carlisle can't be to far from you. I know nothing about this guy, other than he's Polish.....http://www.chip-it-performance.co.uk/?page=about_us It was a Polish guy who removed my particle filter and did my remap. It's made the engine more lively and improved the torque for when I tow my caravan. Hi John have just rung the man up and he has looked on his diagnostics software and it doesn't cover Citroens - shame he is quite near

Here is an interesting find!! - did an MOT history check, not sure why but just did. No Failure but 2009 Advisory EML light on 2010 Advisory EML light on 2011 (no advisory) 2012 EML light on 2012 EML light on 2013 No advisory the car has done 40,000 miles since the 1st Advisory now at 130,000 - so am thinking when the car was taken to the garage it was cleared then came back on, the previous owner has had loads done but never cured. Have i got a cat in hells chance of finding the problem - doubt it! Should i be worried? Will i end up with a remap just to clear the light? Plus now the warning lights come into MOT will it fail next time?