onthecut Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 Well, after looking endlessly for a properly good replacement Xantia Exclusive Estate, have accepted at least temporary defeat and settled on a 2005 C5 Exclusive Estate, so this looks like the place to be. 2.0 Manual. relatively low miles (89k). I have been amazed how relatively few C5 seem to have leather seats and am probably not alone in being disappointed that they don't have proper brakes. Don't know what to think yet about electric pumping for the suspension. First impression is that the general handling is nowhere near as tight as the Hydractive Xantia. Looking through the handbook, I can''t work out whether it's as good a system or not. Ride-wise, feels more like a non-Hydractive set up. Lots of fun to come, I guess as I get to have a proper poke around it. Mike. Quote
Johndouglas Posted August 18, 2014 Posted August 18, 2014 Hello & welcome to the forum. I also came from a 2.1 Xantia Estate to a 2005 Exclusive C5. Probably the lack of leather on them is due to the fact that adding leather was a £1000 option. Can you explain your disappointment with the brakes? Quote
onthecut Posted August 18, 2014 Author Posted August 18, 2014 Can you explain your disappointment with the brakes? Never had a day's bother with the hydraulics on the proper Citroen brakes and if you do need to bleed them, nice easy one man job. By contrast, over the years, have had plenty of grief with old fashioned brakes -- weeping cylinders; some are real sods to bleed; subsequent failure of master cylinders after bleeding; duff servos, etc. etc. A real backward step by Citroen, in my opinion --- no doubt driven by the accountants. As a matter of interest, did you wind up doing the head gasket on your Xantia ? I had about three 2.1 XM and it gave out on all of them -- not a fun job. Mike. Quote
Johndouglas Posted August 19, 2014 Posted August 19, 2014 [quote name="onthecut" post="79734" timestamp="1408390666" As a matter of interest, did you wind up doing the head gasket on your Xantia ? Quote No - I ran it from new up to 7 years old and 98000 miles and never a spot of bother with it. Quote
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