trail_rat – Member
There does seem to be a special kind of person who gets unreliable French cars
What does this mean…?
In our case we just buy the cars and drive them. I look after my cars, they get serviced when they should be and any work that needs doing, gets done.
Our Citroen in the year we’ve had it has been back to the dealer 3 or 4 times…
It had to have a new fuel tank level sender unit because it was telling us there was fuel in it when there wasn’t. The first time this occurred was about 30 mins after leaving the dealer when we picked it up. This set the tone.
The dealer being crap at resolving it didn’t help.
We then had an exhaust bracket rusted through, which I should have noticed when I gave it a look over. Fixed that myself…
Then the passenger door lock failed meaning every time you shut the passenger door it locked every other door.
Now the power sockets front and rear have failed. It’s not the fuse…although that’s another hilarity. The fuse box looks like someone just threw a bundle of wires in and quickly shut the hatch…
The 308 we had never ran right. My Wife bought it at 14 months old. It idled badly and would almost stall when cold. The dealer reckoned it was all ‘within parameters’…even though it would kangaroo down the road.
Then about a year later the cat collapsed leaving my Wife stuck on a busy dual carriageway with no hard shoulder. She lost faith in it at that point….
Oh, and both are/were 1.6 petrols and get through stupid amounts of oil….the light comes on in the Picasso about every 700 miles.
It’s actually really frustrating because the C3 Picasso is ideal for our needs, it’s versatile and comfortable. We’ve just gone off it because it seems like we’re just waiting for the next obscure fault to pop up….