Johndouglas

No the seats were working fine. It's the Haynes and Citroen handwork causing the confusion.

Having removed every fuse in all three boxes, I found G38 blown. That's the one Haynes and my Citroen handbook says is for the RH electric seat.

Look on ebay. There seems to be a few there.

Congratulations to all three of you then.

Your getting confused between the front and rear pads. It's the front pistons that need to be screwed in - both in different directions. The rear pistons will just push straight back. It's an easy job to just change the pads. The difficulty comes when you want to swop the discs or remove the corossion from the arm joints. The caliper bolts are difficult to remove.

Anybody know which fuse number covers the socket in the load area of the Mk2 estate.

Yes! When you activate the windscreen washer, if the headlights are on the lamp washers come out on stalks, taking the covers with them. HID lights are xenon. Your pictures look as though the car has them because they have bull's eye lights.

I think the car has headlamp washers. The lamps look to be HID. The n/s washer cover has been replaced. They come in grey unfinished plastic which needs colour matching to the car. The quoted mileage is unusually low for its age. Maybe worth checking the MOT mileages on VOSA database.

Always do mine three weeks before the end date. Have the Pug 306 booked for this coming Friday.

Yes - I've got them and I see the guide tubes are different shapes. But I'm in no hurry to do the job. Long time till next MOT

No. - I take all four cars to an MOT centre near to my daughter's at Crawley. They just carry out the test - they don't do repairs but if you book the appointment 28 days in advance and online, you get it for £38. It means a run down the M23 - but at least I arrive with a hot engine and a cleared-out exhaust.

Thanks - That's interesting - but with four cars to look after I've already bought a box of ten bulbs at around £7.50.

It seems to be a favourite fail for some MOT stations which I've used in the past. Happily my present test centre where I take four cars per year, usually put it down as an advisory, "O/s indicator bulb slightly discoloured". Then I change them just prior to the next test. Pity that yellow paint that used to be on sale for UK visitors going to France with yellow headlamps isn't still available.

A few years ago Citroen issued detailed instructions to their dealers on how to go about doing oil changes on 1.6 engines. But then, I've always reckoned it was a lazy way of doing an oil change.

I haven't looked but the guy said the outer cables were cracked and likely to let in moisture. As I understand it, when coming to do the job the cables don't want to come out of the guide tubes, so the advised way is to replace both guides and cables. I've just had the new guide tubes delivered this morning. They don't look much for 20 quid each. So with guides and cables you're looking at £75 for parts. A bit more than the £13 for new cables for the Pug306 last year.

I've done about 6000 miles since it was done. At first I was amazed at how the car leapt forward in first gear. Now I guess I've just got used to it. Any decrease in fuel consumption is only marginal. Keep it below 65 on a motorway and it's good for middle 50's. Towing the caravan hasn't changed much. I find on an incline I can hang on to 6th gear longer, but still giving around 28mpg overall. Happily there have been no faults showing on the display, and no wondering how the level in the Eolys tank is fairing.

Took the C5 for its MOT this morning. That's two cars done - two more to go. The good news is that it passed its first MOT since I had the particle filter removed some 6000 miles ago. Smoke reading was a bit more than it had been previously but it it still satisfied the machine on the third rev. The bad news is that it got an advisory on the brake cables. So some questions: Are the cables handed; are they sold singly or in pairs; Do the guide tubes come with the new cables.

They'll be the company car drivers who have a company credit card in their wallets.

At how many miles was that?

Yes! I can't see any reason for that. As I previously said, I removed my bolts in the car's first year, cleaned up the shanks and coated them with copper grease. Now they are easily removed and from one service to the next, never show any signs of loosening.

I would start looking in the breakers yards. Or you might try some of the online breakers.

I fitted new discs and pads to my C5, a 2005 model last weekend. I was surprised at how little corrosion there was between the calipers and the arms. All they needed was a quick scrape and another coating of copper grease. Having had Xantias and a BX, and trouble with removing the bolts, in the C5's first year, I removed the caliper bolts and coated them with copper grease, consequently now I never have any trouble with them when doing the brakes.

I don't fancy your chances of getting any interest from Citroen UK. They'll tell you it's between you and the dealer. As for cars being sold long after their build date, take a visit to Calais and see the acres of new Citroens and Peugeots standing awaiting shipping orders. There are thousands of them.

I'm not familiar with the C3's underside, so can't really advise, but if Citroen thinks it's a good idea to have a heat shield there, then I should keep it. There are several heatshields on my cars, most of them protecting plastic parts from the hot exhaust. The fuel tank is manufactured from plastic!

From reading other posts, it seems that when a xenon bulb begins to burn orange, the next stage is that the bulb dies completely. Fortunately mine are still OK although I carry a spare bulb to conform with Continental driving rules. I bought the bulb off ebay - a D1S for around 40 quid. C5s prior to 2004 use a different bulb. Opinions differ as to whether you need to take off the bumper. I found on my C5 side light bulbs never lasted long. Although I tried to replace them from the engine bay, I always had to resort to removing the bumper. After the third time I switched to LED bulbs. However, there are some forum members who don't remove the bumper. I don't think xenons need to be reset. Only read the precautions regarding working on a xenon system