2000 Citroen Xsara LX from UK and Ireland - Comments

I have had the car for 6 months now, and is has been perfect, and all off a sudden the air bag light has been coming on intermittently, and engine cuts off whilst slowing down, petrol gage not right since I bought it, but I figured out the reading's, IE when starting the car make sure it level, like in UK, there roads have a camber in the road which slightly tilts the car, and depending on the tilt it can show either a low or high reading, but on a flat it shows an accurate reading, plus when filling the pump keeps cutting out, gonna give my warranty company a ring tomorrow and get it in for them to check it out.

Overall before I started to have problems with the car, I was very pleased with it, the car is very nice and comfortable, has a great driving position, handles well, and very nippy.

Citreon Xsara - year 2002. Drives & handles really well and no problems (apart from the airbag light, but eventually that was fixed) until the car was 2 years old. THEN the problems started, all electrical. Car wouldn't start no power at all. In the past six months I have had two new batteries a new fuel pump, the air flow meter checked & numerous tows to the garage. The garage could not find anything wrong, but have admitted there is an electrical fault somewhere. All I can say is thank goodness for the 3 year warranty.

Citroen Xsara 2litre HDI Bad electrical faults Airbag light goes on and off CD player only works when it wants to Central locking locks and unlocks itself this is my brothers car and I would never buy one there is also some wire that causes some of these problems, but it is expensive to replace.

I have a 2002 citroen xsara lx 1.4. since purchasing my car from new I have had an annoying scream from the front discs when braking in reverse, quite embarrassing at times as onlookers turn their heads. my local citroen dealer tells me that this is quite common. the only other thing to watch out for is the drivers seat being cut by the plastic shroud on the side where the elevation lever is situated. it has very sharp serrated edge which cuts into the seat. my local citroen dealer replaced the seat cover and trimmed off the serrated edge under warranty. other than that I have had 31,00o miles happy motoring.