Cambelt

[Guest ARMLEYC8]

hi

i have an C8 2.0 hdi exec 04. i've for a year, just done 40000 miles and cambelt went. it was in garage for 5 weeks and cost a bomb !!

anyone had similer problems !!

[Guest Pam C8]

Hi

I bought a 2003 (Mar) C8 second hand in Jan 06. Since then I have had lots of little, annoying issues/problems with the car but nothing too serious. Not until August 11th this year that is !!!

 

That was the day my timing belt went ping ! To cut a very very long story short.... 3 weeks later and my car is still in the garage. As 2 injectors are stuck in the cylindar head it is not possible to fix/repair/rebuild the old engine so I am now facing the prospect of putting in a new exchange engine from Citroen at costs of approximately £7500. I think the current value of the car is about £4500 so I dont think it makes financial sense to throw thousands of pounds at it to get it fixed. I have spoken to various solicitors/consumer advice people and as at todays date, I have no come back on either the garage I bought it from or Citroen! I face paying for all the repairs out of my own pocket or scrapping the car. I owe the garage about £1500 already and that is just for labour costs to take out the engine and determine the damage to date. They will only offer me £1000 (trade in) for the car in its current (broken) state. And to top it all, I still owe £4k on a loan for the car (personal loan not HP)! I just love Citroen at the moment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(

 

The car has circa 57k miles on the clock and is just over 5 yrs old. The maintenance manual states that the timing belt should last until about 75/80k miles and/or 10 years old so I am way short of those.

 

The car is out of warranty and I have a full service history albeit not a Citroen one but fully stamped and up to date.

 

As the garage that I bought the car from has changed hands - I have no come back on them

Citroen will not assist or make any goodwill payment as the car is over (just) 5 years old

Citroen advise that the maintenance manual levels/age for replacing the timing belt is only a guide and not a guarantee so I cant take any course of action in that department!

 

I have been looking for other people who have encountered similar issues as I believe that if we band together as a group, we can illustrate to citroen that we are not isolated cases and hopefully they will sit up and take notice.

[spannermonkey]

Hi, Got my C8 2 months ago (56reg) and took it for a full service at Citroen (£179), I asked about the belt and they said not until 100k....! mines done 85k so that's a job for next years service and a cost of £400 which I'm not looking forward to, but after reading your comments I think I'll bring that forward to next week as I cant do without the car for a day never mind 5 weeks...feel for you guys, thanks for the info! 

[Johndouglas]

 I think I'll bring that forward to next week

A wise decision!   Mine was done at 85000 around this time last year.   OK Citroen saying wait till 100K.   I bet if it went at 95K they wouldn't help you pay for it.