Re: Written by Citroen ?
Mostly the messages on my old Citroen XM consisted of various hydraulic failure warnings. Mostly after the bit of rotten cheese that they laughably called a 'rear ride-height adjuster' blew (again) and dumped all the hydraulic fluid over the road.
At which point the brakes no longer work (apart from the cable-operated parking brake) and the steering gets very, very very heavy (you try turning a 1.4 tonnes car with quite wide tyres without the hydraulic power steering working). The major design flaw was that three systems (hydropneumatic suspension, power steering and brakes) all shared the same hydraulics. So, if one blew[1], it took the others out.
[1] In the year or so we had that car, it happened three times. Twice in the rear ride-height adjuster and once in the steering..
Biting the hand that feeds IT
