Faults:

The heater fan stopped working. This could be a bit annoying when it rained, as the windscreen constantly misted over. Finally found out it was a faulty switch, and was replaced. But wasn't cheap!

The gear lever seems to be very sloppy. Although actual gear change is quite crisp, the lever itself seems to move all over the place. Can make getting it into gear a bit hit or miss.

General Comments:

This is a very nice car to drive. I bought it mainly for the economy, but thinking it would be the typical Citroen - noisy, basic, and dated. But this isn't the case at all. It's very comfortable, the interior looks quite modern for a 9 year old car, and it's extremely nippy!

But of course, the best point of having a diesel is the fuel economy. And that's also excellent, it easily manages 65+ mpg. And it's also quite cheap to insure, unlike a lot of other diesels.

I think the Citroen AX is also quite a stylish car. It's styling is very unique, and I think it's much better than the Peugeot 205s of this age. I can see why Citroen carried on making the car for as long as they did.

The only problem I've ever found, is that a lot of Citroen's and Peugeot's are very difficult to fix when things go wrong. Parts are expensive to replace and difficult to get to, and main dealer services are quite expensive.

The car has certainly restored my faith in Citroen, and diesel cars as a whole.

Faults:

New tyres on the front wear badly.

Drive shaft at 35K

New discs and pads at 31K

Donking noise from front wheels, mechanics have had a look, but can't find whats wrong.

Heater fan switch broken, would cost £170 to fix!

General Comments:

A good economical quirky car that can do 55mpg even with my heavy right foot! It quite nippy round town. Loses on the motorway with its 4 gears. Handles well even when loaded.

Faults:

New wheel bearing.

Due to warped brake discs, new brake pads and the discs have been replaced. Citroen parts are not cheap with pads and discs costing £110 including labour, and £58 for the wheel bearing.

General Comments:

Very quick for a little 1.0 car although it has a poor top speed. 4 speed gearbox means that the engines does rev a bit on the motorway.

Petrol lasts forever even if you drive hard.

Faults:

Radio stop working at 13 months old.

Head gasket blew at 62,000 miles.

Clutch arm broke off at 23 months old.

Eats light bulbs including dashboard ones (£50 to replace them at a Citroen garage, hell to do because of the bad design).

Headlight mounts break (two new headlights to get it through one MOT).

Two more clutch repairs.

Gear-box repair.

Lots more stuff too.

Last few months:

4 sets of front brake pads.

3 sets of front discs.

1 set of front calipers.

It got so silly the dealer stop charging at the full rate.

Still vibrated on braking though.

January spending so far about £500.00:

Calipers above.

1 battery.

Two front wish bone bearings (vibration stopped).

4 glow plugs.

One plug stripped the thread in the engine block.

1 engine block repair.

General Comments:

I bought this car because I wanted low fuel consumption. What you save on fuel and insurance is dwarfed by the running costs. The 1360 aluminium diesel engine is well known in the trade as being a duff design. Get rid of it is most expert's advice.