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I’m having similar problem.
In short this is what happens: when driving with the same speed up hill for a few seconds the car goes into limp mode. Error on dashboard say ESP/ASR not functioning followed by Antipolitant fault. Switching the engine off for a few seconds fixes the fault temporarily but if I forget myself and drive with constant speed it comes again. Car had done 125k miles. It had new FAP and alloys topped up at 110k miles.
Diagnostic tools I've used returned error code P0380 and P0245 after 30 seconds so I took the car to main Citroen dealer.
They were trying for 2 days to find out what is wrong with the car but 2 days and £190 later they told me that the car has a fault. I had a word with their main mechanic who told me that possible reason for the fault is faulty glow plugs. I was also told by the same person that glow plugs work all the time even during normal operation of the engine. Interesting. So when I was told this will cost further £220 and I was told that there is no guarantee that the problem will get fixed I said good bye to those amateurs.
I can't say citroen cars are bad. The bad here is complete ignorance of citroen technicians in the UK who had to, and I quote: "go on line on forums to search for this fault as my car is very old" (51 plate).
No wonder sales of citroens in the UK are down if this is the kind of help you get after you buy the car. I would expect such ignorance from a back street garage fixing old L reg mondeos but not the main dealer. I am sure this would never happened in France.
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