Couple Of Questions

[bendik2000]

On my 96 Xantia, the hose from the filling point of the windscreen washer to the actual tank has broken somewhere down the line. If I pry off the little plastic cover on the inner wheel arch, I can feel where it has become disconnected. I tried patching it up wuth duct tape, but it seems the only thing I accomplished was to pull the bottom end of the hose away from the tank. My (first) question is, how can I get better access to this area to repair it? Is it neccessary to remove the actual body panel, or does the whole inner wheel arch come off somehow?

 

My second problem is that there is a lot of things gone haywire in my dash. It started with the speedo getting stuck on 70 (kmh) sometimes, now the indicators frequently make a sound as if someone was holding the lever just between on and off to any side (a rapid series of indiator sounds, without the lights actually blinking). My blower has taken on a life of its own, ignoring my instructions to stay put on any level (but does not seem to be stuck on auto, as it is very sporadic), and I am also missing backlight on my AC/blower controls as well as on my fuel guage. Is there any one connector that could be stuffed that controls all or several of these, or does each area need seperate rewiring?

 

Any help or feedback would be appreciated.

 

One last q, does anyone know of an online UK Citroen wrecker that ships overseas, or a third party parts dealer similarly inclined? Car parts from the wreckers cost $$$ in Norway, and third party spares dealers aren't well stocked with citroen parts.

[skysurfer]

I had the rapid indicator light and ticking on the dashboard but no lights flashing outside.

This only happened when indicating right (on a right hand drive car). If the indicator stalk was just pulled down a bit from its maximum up (right) position then it worked correctly, flashing the outside and dashboard lights at the normal rate.

I now have a carefully chosen elastic band around the indicator stalk pulling down to some point on the underside of the steering column :huh: Don't over do it or it will start to indicate left when it canceld from right :P The elastic band can be compleetly hiden behind the stalk's rubber dust flap and under the steering column covers. that should also keep sunlight off the elastic band which will make it last a lot longer :D

[skysurfer]

I've had problems with the blower stopping eratically. That was just the connector in the underside of the fan moror. after pushing it back on properly many times, I tightened the terminals a bit with pliers and it has been a lot better since then.

There is also a problem with heater motor power from it's fuse. This also makes the rear window heater intermittent on my 1997 1.9TD SX Estate. I think it's fuse 30. According to the Haynes electrical diagram it should be just feeding a relay which operates the rear window de-mister (it is) and also powering a relay for the heater fan (aircon with auto fan control). Unfortunately it isn't like the diagram and it takes its full fan power (just over 16 amps at max speed) through the 16 Amp fuse! This doesn't actually blow the fuse, but the 12V feed to the fuse dies down to about 8V sometimes then sometimes down to nothing :huh: I usually have to turn the engine off/on to get the fan or rear heater working again after they die and be careful about using the high fan speed.

 

I don't have a fix for this :P

 

Although I have released the fuse tray from the underside of the dash, I can't get at the wiring on the back as I can only move the fuse tray about 20mm which isn't enough to see any of the feed wires. I might be able to get somewhere from the front side if I took all of the fuses out but I don't want to do this as I don't know the radio code :D

 

Good luck!