May 2009
Citroen has issued termination notices to its entire network although it has invited around 160 to stay with the brand.
It confirmed 40 of its dealers will not be asked to stay onboard citing either under performance or location.
The brand will also be losing an unspecified number of authorised repairers.
The brand's 200-strong network received letters on Tuesday (26 May) either inviting them to re-sign for two years or serving two years notice of their termination.
Citroen confirmed that 20 dealer partners had been terminated either because they had failed to sell sufficient stock..
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Hi, my display that shows how many miles still to go on my fuel has reverted to KM. I have not found a way to change this back to Miles. Any idea how this can be done?
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Ghia X with new proper size Varta Battery.
No sign of any problems but came out today to a totally flat battery.
Not even an internal light. Meter on the terminals confirms it is flat.
Lights were not left on. Cause at this point unknown.
Connected up a battery charger and quite a deep humming immediately started.
Seems to be the electric motor under the drivers seat.
Pressing the buttons on the seat stops it.
No sign of the circuit / fuse in the Haynes manual.
Can anyone tell me which fuse I need to pull?
I am going to try unplugging the connector under the seat.
Any suggestions on fixing it.
The joys of having all the bells and whistles :-) Read more
Sunday update.
One of the switches on the side of the seat has been damaged.
I have managed to get the ""switch box" unscrewed using a little ratchet right angled head to get at the screws holding it to back of the side seat shroud.
Fortunately the screws were not very tight.
Unfortunately this expensive looking box ( lots of micro switches in it) does not appear to have a plug for the large number of wires going into it. The bunch of cables appear to be clamped.
I will enquire of the spares dept and get a look at the Ford images but I think I will finish up living without a couple of seat adjustments.
I am now thinking that the switch may have got damaged when the drivers door very recently deadlocked itself and somehow the door was accessed to fix the fault.
At least there are no funny noises and no smell of smoke.
I have just received a penalty notice which apparently happened on the 4th Dec this is the 1 st I have heard of it, can a council issue a penalty charge this long after the offence occured? Thanks Read more
Please confirm the PCn Code is 40.
dvd
I?d appreciate some advice from the more knowledgeable legal types on here.
I am a director of a small company who manufacture specialist kit. We often do demos or installations at locations across the UK and in Europe. As the kit is quite large, we normally have to drive it there as it is a nightmare to fly it.
Recently we have started a project with partners in Munich (thanks to all who suggested routes there btw). This is a long drive, 650 miles or so from Calais, so when I went down there I made sure I was with a colleague who could share the driving.
My worry is this. We?ve recently leased a van as the new kit won?t fit in the back of a car. Despite my strong resistance, we?ve saved about £100 a month by not having aircon. I know that sounds trivial, but when I was in Munich last week it was already 27 degrees, and it?s likely to be 35+ by the time I do the trip in July. Frankly the thought of driving for 10 hours + in that heat scares me.
This time we solved the problem by driving back overnight. On the plus side the heat was no problem, and we hit no traffic and did the trip to Calais in about 10 hours of easy driving. On the minus side, we drove straight through the night after a full days work, following several long days of work, which left me feeling knackered for about a week afterwards, and although it felt okay at the time, I?m worried about corporate manslaughter.
I?ve protested strongly about the lack of aircon, but have been firmly told that it is a ?luxury we can?t afford?. I disagree, I think it?s a (health and) safety issue.
Where do I stand? More importantly, anyone got any ideas of what I can do? Read more
Gordon
Presume it is under 3500kg and does not require a Tachograph.
Have recently looked into this for my employer who has fitted trackers to around 200 vans. Policy changes as a result of KNOWING what the drivers are doing include speed limit enforcement and mandatory driving breaks / maximum hours.
Wise thing to do would be to use the rules for vehicles over 3500kg as a guide and limit driving hours. This will be more expensive.
On a personal note advice to our transport manager has been to ensure he has a record of what he wants to do, and the refusal of the company to do it, then if there is an incident he is in the clear. Suggest you do the same.
UK law has changed recently to make prosecution of companies and managers easier where the company has caused death. Not aware of any prosecutions yet.
I am thinking of bidding on an Audi A3 2.0L FSI sport (Sept 03) in a local house sale. It has done 57,000 miles and has an up to date service history. A sensor has gone on the fan, but there do not seem to be any other problems. What are the pitfalls to look out for? And what would be a reasonable price? Read more
Seems like a vehicle-related feedback question, so a free bump up the list as this was sinking out of sight in Tech Matters. DD
Despite having the handbrake on fully, my new Colt Cabrio rolled back 12 feet; I wasn't parked on a hill either.Anyone having trouble with this? Read more
Just leave it in gear.
The problem is that one day she will turn the key without taking it out of gear, or her foot will slip off the clutch. The car will bump another, or a wall, and it will be *your* fault!
Was going out for the day in the peak district and on my way to the place when my Sat Nav took my down a perfectly normal but typical rural A-road, nothing unusual there.
The road had recently been stone chipped but it had bedded in. Still, took it easy was doing half the limit, 30mph maybe 40mph with nothing around so i wasn't holding anyone up.
All of a sudden i realised i was on a different road. All kinds of horrible thoughts, worry and dissapointment came flooding in. I try to drive safely and to my best abilities and when i realised i just shot a junction at nearly 40mph i was very disappointed, maybe with myself, maybe partly with the stone chipped road.
There were no official road signs indicating a junction, no road markings, presumably covered up by the stone chip (i know they temporarily sign up to say to this effect but with the absence of official junction signs i wasn't to know the road ended), no visual indication the road was changing as there was a small crest and one could just assume the stone chip ended and the road looked like a continuation of the road i was already on. Even the Sat Nav didn't tell me anything not that i rely on that. I reliased at the last second i just shot a junction and quickly glanced left, luckily nothing was coming.
Gutted, and got my thinking that day and now i will learn from my mistakes and the next time i travel on a gravel bed road i will be aware of any other roads
I was traveling on the road marked A when i shot the junction:
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=53.008...9
Has anyone else had these types of freak occurances when driving? Read more
Someone I know slightly, an English rock musician, for a couple of years in the seventies entered a Range Rover, its only modification a high-level exhaust pipe extension running up the rear corner of the car, in the Argungu Rally in Nigeria.
Most of the course was on unmade roads. But in the far North, competitors would sometimes see crowds of spectators in the distance, enthusiastically waving the speeding motors on. In the middle of the crowd, too late to slow down much, drivers would suddenly see that they were about to cross a main road at right angles to the track they were hammering along. The effect was like going over a giant speed bump. After being fired into the air several times like this while leading the rally, my acquaintance retired suddenly with a smashed front axle.
He was very funny about the spectators and their enthusiasm. Also about the three Toyotas that got trapped in a rural village and burst through its brushwood perimeter walls simultaneously in three different places and raced off into the desert in three different directions... No doubt leaving behind clouds of chicken feathers and furious local householders hurling rocks and imprecations.
Can anyone beat this? Had the car inspected by a 'specialist' up in {8< Snip - although you've not named them I'm sure their name would be easy enough to find, hence the removal as part of this forum's 'no naming/shaming' policy}. Told me the car would take 6 weeks to repair and gave me a price. Got it back (well took it back) seven and a half months later, unfinished and with a lot of the work badly done and needing redoing. Had some sbits removed from the car too while it was in there without permission too. Final bill to get it out was over £3,000 more than told too with no updates or warning that it had changed?
Just goes to show you should choose a mechanic carefully! Some cowboys out there. Read more
My daughter was the driver of the front car of a four car concertina shunt about four years ago. Her car was written off and she was offered a hire car as a condition of her insurance policy. She was advised by her solicitor to keep the hire car until the insurance claim was settled but after several months, when the claim had still not been settled, she borrowed some money to buy another car and returned the hire car. The insurance claim was eventually settled but the issue of the cost of the hire car is still ongoing. She has had to provide evidence that she could not afford to replace her car with an equivalent vehicle earlier than she did even though she returned the hire car prior to the insurance settlement. She is currently being told by her solicitor that the bill for the hire car has now reached £14,000.00, a staggering sum for a base model Golf. She is concerned that she might be liable for some or all of that amount which, of course, she would be unable to pay. Has anyone had experience of a similar situation and can anyone offer advice as to what steps we should take to speed up the process as it is causing her great concern and worry. Many thanks. RayJay Read more
One more:
www.12kbw.co.uk/docs/Complete%20Delegate%20Pack%20...f
see the section:
"Keeping up to speed with credit hire Tim Petts 28thFebruary 2007"
page 28 onwards
It sounds harsh but I don't care. I'd only use a Citroen dealer if there was absolutely no other way to get the part I wanted. I've never used dealers much but ones I did have an aloof couldn't care less attitude.
As for Citroen needing a makeover, that would definitely be the end of my on going Citroen ownership. If I want a car that looks like everyone elses and shakes the fillings out of my teeth, I'd buy some one. I've not found Citroens to be unreliable and poorly made - I've broken down once in the last 4 years which I think is reasonable given that the car was made in 1995.
Steve.