Guest tias Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Hello, I have a problem whith my car. It is a C5 2,0 Hdi -05. I received verry many fault messages during a trip whith my car. I had been driven for a hour or so when it started to beep and message after message appered on the display. It was enginge system fault, crousecontrol failure, brake failure, powersteering failure among others. Before my car produced all the messages I lost the function of the rear scren wiper. The messages didn´t appere directly after the wiper died, it was not until the next day when I had driven for about 1 houre so I do not know if it has anything to do whith the other problem. When all the messages appered I stoped the car and tried to start again but then the battery was dead. When I got help whith jumper cabels it started again but all the messages appered again. I drove home and thougt at first it was the battery but when i had it recharged and checked it was ok. It seams like there is somthing that drains the battery while I drive. When I checked the charging voltage in the car it was about 14V but I cheked it at a moment when the car didn´t produce all the messages. I have left the car to my citroen workshop and thay have had it there for 1 day now whitout finding the fault. Has anyone else had a simular problem whith there car? /Tias Quote
paul.h Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 What is the battery voltage without the engine running (should be 12.5 to 12.7 volts) ? C5s are known for odd problems when the battery is in need of replacement. Quote
Guest tias Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 What is the battery voltage without the engine running (should be 12.5 to 12.7 volts) ? C5s are known for odd problems when the battery is in need of replacement. The battery voltage without the engine running is 12.5 V . The battery is only 1 year old. I have replaced the battery terminals but it did not help. Quote
paul.h Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Another possibility could be a bad earth somewhere such as the battery to body, at the rear of the car, at the side of the front left door pillars. Also do you have a towbar, have you replaced a rear bulb recently, is there a broken wire in the wires at the rear hatch/door hinge area, does the suspension keep going up/down a lot when the car is not in use ? Just thinking of problems that have been reported here before - a good search may bring up something. Other people will hopefully add a bit more help. Quote
coastline taxis Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Check the wires to the alternator. Seen a few rot when the ***oops*** tray has been left off and all the road dirt gets up there Quote
Guest tias Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Check the wires to the alternator. Seen a few rot when the ***oops*** tray has been left off and all the road dirt gets up there I will defenetly do that. I saw that there was a pile of snow on the plastic cover underneeth the engine at the same side as the alternator so that it is defenetly a posible reason. It was a verry snowy day the problem started and i had been driving behind some trucks in drifting snow. It was very much of the drifting snow so it is also posible that the snow has penetrated somting it should not have. Quote
fatgut Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Another possibility could be a bad earth somewhere such as the battery to body, at the rear of the car, at the side of the front left door pillars. Also do you have a towbar, have you replaced a rear bulb recently, is there a broken wire in the wires at the rear hatch/door hinge area, does the suspension keep going up/down a lot when the car is not in use ? Just thinking of problems that have been reported here before - a good search may bring up something. Other people will hopefully add a bit more help.Our rear wiper suddenly stopped working just before Xmas, so I looked in that black rubber boot that 'protects' (not) the incredibly thin wires that go from the body into the estate tailgate. I found 2 broken wires (including insulation, so obvious) in there this time. Last time it was just one, and that repair seems fine still. There was a thicker green/yellow one that when repaired made the wiper work again.The other wire when repaired made the interior boot light work again, and stopped the car doing a weird self- locking thing whenever the tailgate was open for a few seconds.(A new trick it had done for about the last 4 months). This is a very vunerable area, so I wonder if some broken wires are a part of the problem? I tried to cut a corner and do it quickly by just twisting the ends of the wires together, but had to do it properly in the end and add in a little extra cable into each, as there is no slack, so it gets too tight when the tailgate is opened, and would eventually have failed I reckon. The black plastic cover is held on with plastic star bit screws, it's all flimsy junk, so go carefully, half of mine are broken now. Quote
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