C5 Evils

[DeanPesticcio]

I am the recent owner of a Citroen C5 VTR PLUS NAV HDI (2010) 1.6 diesel estate, manual, 046000 miles.

I have a few questions for C5 owners, having spoken to Citroen garages a few ‘warnings’ have been mentioned during conversation, and some problems I already have, and as this is my first C5 I’d like to get a feel of what I am in for: Has anyone found heavy tyre wear on the inside if the tread at low milage, power steering seals failing at low mileage, sat nav screen switching off mid route, crank shaft oil seals leaking oil over the aux belts, and I have been advised to change the engine oil & filter every 6 months, regardless to mileage as the engine could seize.  Any thoughts ..

 

 

[Parkesie]

Steering rack seals are common to fail some have been traced to a rusty input shaft so greasing that should prevent that problem. This leak often looks like the pipe to rack seals are leaking and they get changed and still the rack leaks so be sure to double check the input shaft seal.

Frequent oil and filter changes is due to what seems to be a high turbo failure rate due to the turbo oil feed filter blocking.

[paul.h]

In the C5 Technical section there is a pinned topic on Common Problems to have a look at. For the 2008 on C5 these are usually marked as C5 (X7) in the title. I can not remember seeing anything on bad tyre wear - if you already have this then maybe something in the suspension is worn or the tracking is out. I think a couple of people have mentioned the sat nav resetting but do not remember if anything has been done to fix it.

[DeanPesticcio]

Thanks for your replies.