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Vince wrote: Lol....its such a shame you had your share of troubles with her Charles....its still a good car beneath its "needs to be fixed" niggles



Niggles i picked up on: And they are no more than niggles....

1, The temp gauge is dead...though it does not overheat and i heard the fans kicking in so its just the gauge sender i suspect or a connection problem in the dash
2, The indicator warning comes on intermittently when indicating....like a bulb has gone....then it hasnt etc....an earth problem on the rear cluster no doubt
3, The hydractive doesnt work....I tried to manually engage it on the way home but nothing - cause unknown - still drives great
4, The front spheres are a little too soft...They handle the road ok, but on an undulating B road it can feel a little choppy
5, Its hard to see past the duck tape on the side window

I drove that car yesterday and agree with what you have said.

It needs the front jacking points welding properly, but generally the body is sound.
The window should be an easy fix, it's just come dislodged somehow.

I'm a bit perplexed by the hydractive. It appears to be hydraulically locked into soft mode, even with the ECU disconnected, but it is working electrically.
When you tried the Sport mode on your way home did the light illuminate, it did at Cosford.
Those spheres are bouncier than a kids bouncy castle and may be masking the operation of hydractive in hard mode. Either they are comfort spheres, but don't look large enough, or have had the centre dampers drilled...which is my suspicion.

I didn't notice the temperature gauge was dead, it's interesting that it happened at the time of matrix change, I wonder if some wiring got pulled.

It just needs some TLC

I didn't read the book...wasn't sure what secrets might be in it...

Temp guage possibly by the Earth Block plugs just above the heater matrix... I recon.

I hope your not implying my welding a CRAP by your Welding Needs dooing properly!!

TLC is all it needs indeeed, but not a lot..

citroenxm wrote: I hope your not implying my welding a CRAP by your Welding Needs dooing properly!!

No. What I meant is that it needs a decent bit of metal welding in to be strong enough to use as jacking points.

Yes Will the hydractive light comes on, but couldnt feel any difference in the car even when pushing it hard to try to feel it....

My thoughts were something to do with hydraulic pressures in the system with those front spheres on.

Id love the back of mine to be that soft, just on the front it got choppy on a bumpy B road. Like driving a lowrider

I think the same about the spheres. If the front spheres have a larger damper orifice than the 1.25mm of the hydraulic vale block, the fluid will go into the corner spheres and no the centre one.