Rear Spheres

[rickardo]

hi all was just wondering how easy a job it is to change rear spheres on 03 c5 estate the car has done 130000 miles and have noticed it getting abit hard and can feel it skip alittle if it hits a bump on a corner.

[coastline taxis]

Firstly if you are in anyway unsure get the dealer to do it. Because if you get it wrong you could end up DEAD and thats no joke. Theres a few people been hurt when there not to sure. anyway

1 raise the car of the ground so that the wheels are of the ground

2 puy hydraulics onto full setting

3 make sure wheels are still off the ground and slacken each sphere a quarter turn

4 plug the car in and tell it to deprsurise the hydraulic system

5 swap the spheres over make sure old seals come out and put new seals into the rams and not on the spheres cover each seal with lds fluid befor inserting

6 replenish the lds resorvoir

7 start car up and wait till it liifts ups then play with the hydraulics up and down a few times checking for any leaks

8 put onto lowest setting and recheck lds fluid

 

IF YOUR NOT SURE GET SOMEONE TO DO IT

[rickardo]

Firstly if you are in anyway unsure get the dealer to do it. Because if you get it wrong you could end up DEAD and thats no joke. Theres a few people been hurt when there not to sure. anyway

1 raise the car of the ground so that the wheels are of the ground

2 puy hydraulics onto full setting

3 make sure wheels are still off the ground and slacken each sphere a quarter turn

4 plug the car in and tell it to deprsurise the hydraulic system

5 swap the spheres over make sure old seals come out and put new seals into the rams and not on the spheres cover each seal with lds fluid befor inserting

6 replenish the lds resorvoir

7 start car up and wait till it liifts ups then play with the hydraulics up and down a few times checking for any leaks

8 put onto lowest setting and recheck lds fluid

 

IF YOUR NOT SURE GET SOMEONE TO DO IT

[rickardo]

Firstly if you are in anyway unsure get the dealer to do it. Because if you get it wrong you could end up DEAD and thats no joke. Theres a few people been hurt when there not to sure. anyway

1 raise the car of the ground so that the wheels are of the ground

2 puy hydraulics onto full setting

3 make sure wheels are still off the ground and slacken each sphere a quarter turn

4 plug the car in and tell it to deprsurise the hydraulic system

5 swap the spheres over make sure old seals come out and put new seals into the rams and not on the spheres cover each seal with lds fluid befor inserting

6 replenish the lds resorvoir

7 start car up and wait till it liifts ups then play with the hydraulics up and down a few times checking for any leaks

8 put onto lowest setting and recheck lds fluid

 

IF YOUR NOT SURE GET SOMEONE TO DO IT

 

thanks for the reply i will get a friend to this job as he has the machine for pluging in to the car

thanks rickardo.

[paul.h]

There is some info in the earlier October 2009 post 'C5 suspension fluid leak by Brian W' on changing the spheres and it quotes a dealer cost of £175 to cure a leak just in front of a sphere but does not say if a sphere is to be or has been replaced since there is so far no final feedback.

[Guest Brian W]

There is some info in the earlier October 2009 post 'C5 suspension fluid leak by Brian W' on changing the spheres and it quotes a dealer cost of £175 to cure a leak just in front of a sphere but does not say if a sphere is to be or has been replaced since there is so far no final feedback.

Hi

Sorry, I haven't been on the forum for a while.

This may be too late to help you, but for further info to all - I took it to the local Citroen dealer and they charged me £177 (inc vat) to supply and fit a new sphere.

They loaned me a car whilst mine was being repaired.

They also performed checks on all kinds of other things on the car and pronounced them all fine.

All in all, I am very very pleased with what they did, and I had only used them as a last resort, due to horror stories I'd heard about going to the dealer, but nobody else would touch the spheres, so I had no choice.

I can't recommend the dealer enough, and I would suppose that the price would be a standard price nationwide.