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I'm sure you would be fine with boiled tap water, all you need to do is set the calcium salts and remove as much air as possible. Check that the antifreeze is OAT based as Citroen stipulate as you may end up fitting a new heater matrix in the future. Forte do a cooling system additive that is helpful in preventing corrosion and silting, it also claims to lubricate the pump.

I'm here too - just not very often.

Excellent outcome, pleased it all went reasonably well and is a success.

This make things any clearer? (I haven't a clue either) :blink: ICE DND Services InCarExpress Wikipedia CAN-bus

The fluid is LDS and is supposed to be there. The rams are designed to leak as a method of lubrication - most of the hydraulic components are the same. The boot receives the leakage and when flexing with the suspension movements 'pumps' the leakoff fluid back through the return pipes to the reservoir.

Also well worth renewing the timing belt tensioner while you are on with it.

For a lot of electronics applications it is possible to source 'slow-blow' fuses that don't fail with a transient inrush current. Perhaps there is an automotive variant? Perhaps RS on Team Valley have them, if you are over that way (Dukesway Court IIRC), or Aitken Brothers on High Bridge.

In that case I would suspect the bushes as you suggested, or possibly a wheel bearing with too much play in it.

An absolute classic :)

It is a diverter and they are notoriously capricious. Could be muck in the lines though. I had the same problem but blew out the lines/jets with an air line at work. Anywhere with a compressor and air tools may be able to help you out there, otherwise detach the lines from the nipples and blow down them. Might work. Failing that, a new pump is only £12 from the dealers and GSF/Europarts may stock them too. Non-Citroen screenwash is indicated as a reason for problems with the pump and diverter - which is a passive device, direction of flow being primarily decided by the direction of rotation of the pump.

There are no 'shock absorbers' as such - damping is achieved by regulating the passage of LDS in and out of the spheres. It may be, as you suggest, the bushes, it could also be the rear spheres are due for replacement but they do have very long lives compared to the previous Xantia/BX/Xm/CX etc types. Could also be the rams - hopefully not, due to the cost of replacing them. Not as bad as Activa rams but still :) A simple thing to check is the rear suspension arm bearings, a weak point with PSA vehicles. With the car on level ground and suspension on normal, look at the car from behind. If the rear wheels are /---\ then the bearings are shot and need replacing. This condition is usually accompanied by groaning noises from the rear.

I have had my C5 for two years (in a weeks time). It is used every day, mixtures of very long and very short trips, day and night driving. I have auto headlights enabled and the headlights are lit 90% of the time - Other cars I have had without Auto headlights I always drive with the lights on anyway. In the two years, I have had a grand total of three headlight bulbs and then only because I dropped one into the headlight unit and couldn't get it out - it is still there, 18 months on :rolleyes:. They aren't special bulbs but when they blow I was tempted to get the 100W variants. As for the suspension pump being the cause, I am very sceptical about this. I have noticed that while doing Citroebics at traffic lights in the dusk, the lights don't appear to flicker. To confirm this, I went out and sat in the car last night and did a long series of Citroebics, with the lights on of course. They never flickered once. My conclusion is that the suspension pump is therefore NOT the cause of the lights blanking out occasionally - mine do, but not often. I find that it happens most noticably when ascending an up-ramp/sliproad onto an elevated motorway, as the car levels off the lights blink out for an instant. I don't have a theory for that.

Encouraging statistics there Steve :rolleyes:

That came as a surprise Iannez. Your's is my closest dealer too and although it is very rarely I need to visit I have found that I have always been well received, treated with respect and courtesy and the parts supplied have been reasonably priced and I have even been given a discount, which was unexpected, unasked for and a very pleasant surprise. I have in fact just recommended TCC on another forum :(

What were the glowplugs previously fitted? Beru are the recommended plugs but it is useful to know what the dud ones were (to avoid them). This is not an isolated incident, it comes up fairly frequently (not just Citroen of course)

Mine doesn't work either, for some time now. When selected on the stalk, the windscreen washer operates instead (but not the wipers :unsure: ). There is a flapper valve in the pump that supposedly helps direct the flow where it is meant to be going. It has been said that non-Citroen washer fluid degrades the valves and causes just this problem. A new pump is about £12 and a few grazed knuckles. What the washer fluid costs is anybody's guess.

Have you the Xenon headlamps? They have independent leveling motors. Standard headlamps don't as the ride is always level (in theory). It may well be your car is not riding level as it should. I may be wrong on this but believe that C5s have optical height sensors, completely different to the Xantia/BX/CX/GS/DS types. May just need cleaning.

Can you hear the lock engage/disengage when you use the plipper? First step in the diagnostic process. As Jason says, it is fairly likely to be a break in the supply wires.

Fingers crossed for you Stasi, hope you get an acceptable outcome. Do beware of overstepping the mark with any negative accusations until proved as you may find things going badly for you. If they are in a legal battle and can get back at you or refute it they will, don't give them the ammunition. As they say, revenge is a dish best served cold!

I have read that they can be cleaned with carburettor cleaner but they are very delicate, if you touch the sensor wire it's a goner.

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Yahoo Group I had an auto-electrician do mine while he regassed the aircon. Only took him a few minutes.

No help here I'm afraid but it may be worth knowing that Citroen number their cylinders from the flywheel end, not the crank pulley end like most manufacturers.

I have just had this fixed on mine (for the second time) washers burned away from the injector seat. Get it fixed ASAP as the exhaust can burn a 'track' and you will never fix it then. Yours sounds far worse than mine was though - noise barely perceptible with the bonnet open. Only a slight smell of exhaust when idling stopped in traffic for more than a couple of minutes.

I bought a new resistor pack (it isn't really as I have the climate control one). Using it as a guide I found where they had hidden the one in the car - it is to the left of the clutch pedal up where it hinges, behind a piece of cloth trim - I have removed all sorts of bits and have yet to replace them, harder than changing the unit, once located. There are two crosshead screws that are also fortunately small hex-heads (bolts) and I found it reasonably easy to remove and replace the unit with a little awkwardness in getting to the top screw, using a nut driver of around 6mm.