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Take a look here Willie: http://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24786 An entire thread dedicated to the problem. I myself was in your situation a couple of weeks back, its generally parts of the ignition switch burning out, usually there is enough and a stable current to run a relay to divert the power around the switch. Anyway, take a look at the link.

Hi Doc, I would put my money on the spring tensioner arm being siezed in its roller bearings. If you look down at the spring tensioner arm by taking off the front off side wheel and plastic covering you should see a square hole on the arm that should fit a 3/8 square drive ratchet nicely, if you can crank the tensioner arm back and not feel it wanting to pull back again, thats where you're problem lies. It takes a good few hours to changing the arm and roller bearings though as the altenator and hydraulic pump need to come out and the air con condensor needs jarring aside. You will also need a decent set of allen keys to finally unscrew the spring tensioner block :rolleyes:

Hi That is an early Xantia VSX! It is certainly worth keeping on the road, is there a service history? Whats the milage? Where abouts are you located?

Hi Fred Unfortunatly the strut tops are starting to go on a lot of Xantia recently and at the moment (in the UK at least) it appears to be a dealer only part. Sorry I could be of more help.

If you do go down the pump stripping route, heres a guide on repairing the seals but it does guide on removing the armour: Guide bosch pump

Welcome to the forum! I would be likely to suspect the rear height corrector, there is a nylon clip which maybe broken or need a clearout. If you have a search around on the forum there are guides about the plastic clip.

Sorry this is a bit late! One of my relations had a similar problem a couple of months back where the engine kept loosing power for a few seconds at a time, my brother did track it down to a sensor somewhere, I think that was the mass airflow meter.

Don't know how it works but sometimes mine used to do that, in the end I found it worked if I put the key in the other way around?! Beats me.

Do you mean it drops when the engine is still running? The only thing I can think of if it's when the engine is switched off, that you have a cream crackered antisink valve which has a dodgy isolater thingy hence it would sometimes do its stuff and other times not. Do you reckon this could be due to mucky LHM anyone? Just throwing some ideas out!

Welcome to the forum mate! :rolleyes: For nothing! Brilliant find there!! Whats the milage like? The only way I know of to get hold of a radio code is via a main Citroen Dealer. Most members here get their spheres from GSF motor parts. http://www.gsfcarparts.com/

Just browsing Citroen's website and came across this section which houses the history of their cars and their future concept cars. Theres some truely breathtaking innovations. One of the cars is built to run on biodiesel but is also a hybrid and stores the power that the kinetic energy of the car creates when slowing down. Amazing! Take a look at this: http://www.differentiseverything.co.uk/

Just having a nose around my Xantia today and under the passenger's side seat there is an orange wire with the connector in the middle which I presume is something to do with pretensioners. There are two wires underneath the drivers side but they are not connected, one of the connector blocks has a big resistor in it, leaving the other connector not connecting anywhere, as far as I can tell it the one that goes under the carpet that has the resistor. Is this some sort of quick fix for a common problem? Should I be worried?

The easiest way to tell is by decals saying 'Activa' on the rear of the vehicle or on the outside trim on the front doors. EDIT: Unless you're talking about Hydractive suspension, if you have this there will be a button just to the front of the manual height lever on the central console, if you don't have this you have the standard hydropnematic suspension. Hope this helps mate!

Cheers Colin, Got a second wrench around the housing and after a few sharp blows, the sphere came loose. The old spheres were certainly knackered, it feels like a boat floating on water now!

Im right in saying that you have a '95 Xantia? I had a quick look around on the net and came up with this: