Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 13:49
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - safe driver

I recently bought a 05 Citroen Xsara picasso, after a few weeks I had a punture when i went to release the spare I found it was sezed up ! the tool they give you to undo the clip is hopeless 1. why put such a stupid nut on it. whats wrong with onev the same size as the wheel nuts? 2. how do I get the clip unscrewed? luckly my brother came and used a crow bar to release the spare. now i have the spare in the boot taking up lots of space which defeats the point of having a mpv !

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 13:54
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - skidpan

Daft question but have you tried reading the manual. Loads of useful information in there.

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 13:57
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - gordonbennet

Unfortunately underslung spare wheel holders are going to get all the road muck in the world thrown at them, fairly obvious i would have thought.

We should of course take the spare wheel off every year to check it over for damage and whilst there clean and lubricate the securing mechanism, but few of us do this, people with pick ups and some 4x4's have it worse, invariably there's a steel cable on a roll so you can lower the appreciably heavier spare wheel down, very few bother to lube these up either with similar results.

You should be able to unseize the long bolt and get it greased up and useable again, but it's normal with underslung spare wheels for the bolt to be the same size as the wheelbolts, dunno what happened with yours, maybe someone's bodged it up previously.

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 16:42
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - jc2

You're lucky it was still there-many get stolen.The thieves don't undo the bolt-just use bolt-cutters thro' the frame.

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Wed 30 Sep 2015 18:34
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - galileo

I had these spares on my Peugeot 504 estates, the nut holding the long bolt was inside the car, I used to put the spare in a black bag after topping up the pressure and kept the bolt threads greased. Made it easier and cleaner to deal with it.

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Thu 1 Oct 2015 00:32
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - HandCart

This thread just happened to make me think of the Renault Modus. I don't know if Renault's other MPVs are the same, but the arrangement for getting the spare wheel in and out of the Modus must surely have been some designer's pet project for months...

A diabolically fiendish contrivance, mostly plastic, with a handle, a big cog, a ratchet, a jockey wheel, a spring-loaded spool, a cable, a spring-loaded grabby-jabby metal bit, etc etc.

The instructions are all purely in cartoon strip, with no text except perhaps "Paf!" and possibly "Zut alors!"

If you CAN remember how to do it, and the mechanism is co-operative, it does work surprisingly well, but I always had to re-learn how to do it from scratch each time.

On one occasion I just couldn't get it to work for me, and resorted to using a socket set to dismantle the whole mechanism from the boot floor. I seem to remember that that didnt help a great deal in the end anyway...

No way could I see SWMBO ever managing to do it, unless perhaps trained repeatedly over three days solid.

"Incroyable!"

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Thu 1 Oct 2015 00:43
Citroen Xsara Picasso - spare wheel removal - gordonbennet

Oh great work chaps, you know those plastic bits won't ever go brittle and snap off just when you don't need them to on a freezing cold dark dark night, French plastics are for ever...where's the roll eyes smiley?

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