If You Buy A Yellow Car Expect To Get A Lemon!

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....a quote from my daughter!!

The story so far .... Nov 2006 splash out and buy a yellow C1 Rhythm, rationale being :- affordable, cheap to run, good car for daughter to learn to drive in ( in 2 years, when she is old enough ) and buying new should give me a few years trouble free motoring ..... guess which of those I got wrong?

 

all went well for first few months, then had 3 visits to dealers to get flashing airbag warning light fixed ( faulty ecu's)

 

Then I started having trouble starting the car (sometimes ) the car would start, run for a few seconds then cut out. this could happen 20 - 30 times then it would start, sometimes it would start first time, there appeared to be no rhyme or reason to the problem.

 

rang dealers who took it in and to cut a very very long story short since end of june they have had the car for a total of 60+ days. ( It was parked at home for 3 weeks when i was away on hols) I had to take it back on return from hols because the problem was still there ... it has now been there since the last week of august. they have tried various ecu's, immobiliser, instrument cluster, checked the wiring etc etc etc . They have had a list of things to try from citroen (none involving 2 sticks of dynamite and a match !!!) but are now at a loss where to go next.

has anyone had a similar problem ???

I must stress that the dealer has been great ... I have driven almost the whole range now as courtesy cars ( god knows what the neighbours think). I am going to talk to the dealer tomorrow as I feel I have been patient enough and now need some action from citroen .... I will keep you informed !!

 

OH .... and hello everyone .... this is my first post !!

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....a quote from my daughter!!

The story so far .... Nov 2006 splash out and buy a yellow C1 Rhythm, rationale being :- affordable, cheap to run, good car for daughter to learn to drive in ( in 2 years, when she is old enough ) and buying new should give me a few years trouble free motoring ..... guess which of those I got wrong?

 

all went well for first few months, then had 3 visits to dealers to get flashing airbag warning light fixed ( faulty ecu's)

 

Then I started having trouble starting the car (sometimes ) the car would start, run for a few seconds then cut out. this could happen 20 - 30 times then it would start, sometimes it would start first time, there appeared to be no rhyme or reason to the problem.

 

rang dealers who took it in and to cut a very very long story short since end of june they have had the car for a total of 60+ days. ( It was parked at home for 3 weeks when i was away on hols) I had to take it back on return from hols because the problem was still there ... it has now been there since the last week of august. they have tried various ecu's, immobiliser, instrument cluster, checked the wiring etc etc etc . They have had a list of things to try from citroen (none involving 2 sticks of dynamite and a match !!!) but are now at a loss where to go next.

has anyone had a similar problem ???

I must stress that the dealer has been great ... I have driven almost the whole range now as courtesy cars ( god knows what the neighbours think). I am going to talk to the dealer tomorrow as I feel I have been patient enough and now need some action from citroen .... I will keep you informed !!

 

OH .... and hello everyone .... this is my first post !!

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....a quote from my daughter!!

The story so far .... Nov 2006 splash out and buy a yellow C1 Rhythm, rationale being :- affordable, cheap to run, good car for daughter to learn to drive in ( in 2 years, when she is old enough ) and buying new should give me a few years trouble free motoring ..... guess which of those I got wrong?

 

all went well for first few months, then had 3 visits to dealers to get flashing airbag warning light fixed ( faulty ecu's)

 

Then I started having trouble starting the car (sometimes ) the car would start, run for a few seconds then cut out. this could happen 20 - 30 times then it would start, sometimes it would start first time, there appeared to be no rhyme or reason to the problem.

 

rang dealers who took it in and to cut a very very long story short since end of june they have had the car for a total of 60+ days. ( It was parked at home for 3 weeks when i was away on hols) I had to take it back on return from hols because the problem was still there ... it has now been there since the last week of august. they have tried various ecu's, immobiliser, instrument cluster, checked the wiring etc etc etc . They have had a list of things to try from citroen (none involving 2 sticks of dynamite and a match !!!) but are now at a loss where to go next.

has anyone had a similar problem ???

I must stress that the dealer has been great ... I have driven almost the whole range now as courtesy cars ( god knows what the neighbours think). I am going to talk to the dealer tomorrow as I feel I have been patient enough and now need some action from citroen .... I will keep you informed !!

 

OH .... and hello everyone .... this is my first post !!

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In reply to your problem with non starts, I am a Toyota technician but own a C1, I recently had a similar problem with my car where it would occasionally turn over ok but not fire. As I was about to go to Italy in it I took it to our local Citroen dealer to have it checked out prior to going there I carried out a check to see if any fault codes were in the system and found an immobliser code present. After checking in our Toyota manual Ifound that the cause may be due to a poor connection to the immobliser. I told the dealer when the car went in for them to check it but they said there was no problem found and that there were no codes in the system.As I didnt erase the codes prior to them looking at the car I was a little concerened that their diagnostic checking tool didnt find a code. Fortunately I could check the system at work even though the diagnostic tool recognises the car as a Toyota Aygo, the system is the same as the management system is Toyota. The fault was a poor connection at the immobliser ecu (plug not cliped securely)

I would suggest that you ask your dealer to check for codes and /or poor connections around the ecu.

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....a quote from my daughter!!

The story so far .... Nov 2006 splash out and buy a yellow C1 Rhythm, rationale being :- affordable, cheap to run, good car for daughter to learn to drive in ( in 2 years, when she is old enough ) and buying new should give me a few years trouble free motoring ..... guess which of those I got wrong?

 

all went well for first few months, then had 3 visits to dealers to get flashing airbag warning light fixed ( faulty ecu's)

 

Then I started having trouble starting the car (sometimes ) the car would start, run for a few seconds then cut out. this could happen 20 - 30 times then it would start, sometimes it would start first time, there appeared to be no rhyme or reason to the problem.

 

rang dealers who took it in and to cut a very very long story short since end of june they have had the car for a total of 60+ days. ( It was parked at home for 3 weeks when i was away on hols) I had to take it back on return from hols because the problem was still there ... it has now been there since the last week of august. they have tried various ecu's, immobiliser, instrument cluster, checked the wiring etc etc etc . They have had a list of things to try from citroen (none involving 2 sticks of dynamite and a match !!!) but are now at a loss where to go next.

has anyone had a similar problem ???

I must stress that the dealer has been great ... I have driven almost the whole range now as courtesy cars ( god knows what the neighbours think). I am going to talk to the dealer tomorrow as I feel I have been patient enough and now need some action from citroen .... I will keep you informed !!

 

OH .... and hello everyone .... this is my first post !!

 

 

I have a diagnostic tool were you from?