1st Jun 2011, 18:56
I couldn't agree more. After the hundreds of cars I have owned in a lifetime, I am 66 now, this C5 is positively the worst, most unreliable, expensive, if not impossible to repair car I have ever owned. In fact I have never owned any car as bad as this one. Citroen should read all the blogs, be ashamed, and realise why their C6 is such a slow seller.
I am so angry at the letters I read from people in despair at the myriad expensive faults that these appalling unreliable heaps suffer from. I could go into detail about my own personal problems, but it would be thicker than the bible. It's only stubbornness and the belief in myself that I can fix anything mechanical, that makes me stick with it, solving one thing after the other. One day I will drive it, or rather shunt it through a main dealer showroom window, preferably obtaining the maximum adverse publicity for Citroen. They leave car making to people who know how, ie Honda, Toyota..
8th Jun 2011, 05:13
"Worryingly I owned a Ford Anglia, and I have better memories of that."
So did I! Just about the most reliable car I ever had. Early/Mid-60s, (1962 model), took it to Spain one year, Yugoslavia the next (4 people camping, talk about overloading), raced it at Snetterton, drove it flat out everywhere (pre-70 mph limit), and NOTHING would make that car die. Everything easily fixable (I once changed a head gasket by the roadside! That was the most serious thing that went wrong with it.).
Yes, my current C5 (second one I have owned) is infinitely more comfortable, gets better fuel economy, etc etc, and I still do lots of European trips in it, but I will never have the confidence in it that I had in my old Anglia.
29th Jun 2009, 21:03
Hello. I was reading your comments and this text you wrote: "false readings, the speedo does not work and I have had to judge speed by using the rev counter, the window winds up then winds halfway back down again, the front suspension groans and creaks, the Sat Nav screen has inference lines across it during night driving, opening the boot when wet results in large amounts of water being dumped in the boot, etc, etc."
I know myself from dealing with my car. It is a 2003 Citroen C5 HDi and it started behave like that as well, and the small monitor inside it was all the time showing new error comment.
Because I have been maintaining it myself since I bought it, including change oil and filter on the engine, I have not been taking it to a garage for those kind of jobs. And there for the service counter (in the speed meter) was never reset at the service points (I didn't know how to do it at the time), and Citroen has a system which will not tolerate this and finally when you have ignore this long enough, it starts play tricks on you like that for that you will take it to a garage.
If the car has been getting its service, you should try reset the service counter. Hold down the trip button and while you do that, switch on with they starter key till you see the lights on in the dashboard (do not start the engine). Now you should see in the trip meter window that it will count down 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 -3 - 2 -1 - 0 and now you can turn the key back. The service counter has been reset and the car should had quit acting like that. But when I was dealing with this problem in my car, I did this 3 times that action the same day (because it continue show some stupid comments) and since then this has never happen again. Try it! :)