Chris, years ago when everything was lower tech., and admittedly there was no camber issues as I recall,a neighbour having constant issues with edge wear on tyres, and failing bearings. The whole set up was gone through as you have. Then the penny dropped, and problem solved. He stopped his parking at home routine. He was doing a hard and full lock turn to into and out of his run-in multi-times each working day!
Interesting, maybe I should move and see if it improves! Although the bx's don't suffer with constantly failing bearings and tyre scrub. I think it's just this car. This car was a Friday afternoon car they spread out over several Friday afternoons!
Seems that way, from all the work you've put in, and a pain in the arse, defined, me thinks. This one can picture the Citroen workforce just shrugging their shoulders, in THAT French way!
@thisiszaphod ha, I can actually picture some blokes shrugging whilst smoking some roll ups! 'tis for the English market, good enough'.. For the 2 days a year it works as it should it's a fantastic car, but I'm really losing the will to live with it frankly..
Quite fancy a c8.. This thing isn't that heavy, and it's shredding it's tyres because the alignment is all to cock. Despite it spending more time on a hunter than on the road! It's the most infuriating car I've ever owned
@@adventuresinrust1644 Wobs did quite a big mileage in his C8 with minimal grief (aside from someone nicking his catalysts) Ours was the same year / engine / Non FAP but only made it to 80K miles before the DMF started to break up then something electrical went weird and kept throwing up numerous fault codes - wasnt the battery, but it was never the same fault code twice. However it was very much like driving a well appointed living room in terms of comfort and also went pretty quick.
@micrashed did they have bsi units? Probably a bit previous for multiplex I'd guess. Very rare to find an auto version, and I'm lazy, I like autos, but yeah, my neighbour had one and a couple of mates down here had a few over the years, nice comfortable cars you can use as a van but still handled surprisingly well for a big old bus
@@adventuresinrust1644 Oh god aye the stuff we had in the back of ours (and you can sleep in them too). Now got an Alhambra - very similar size but I do worry about the DPF on it and being VAG I lie awake at night thinking its going to shit itself in new and expensive ways.
Chris, years ago when everything was lower tech., and admittedly there was no camber issues as I recall,a neighbour having constant issues with edge wear on tyres, and failing bearings. The whole set up was gone through as you have. Then the penny dropped, and problem solved. He stopped his parking at home routine. He was doing a hard and full lock turn to into and out of his run-in multi-times each working day!
Interesting, maybe I should move and see if it improves!
Although the bx's don't suffer with constantly failing bearings and tyre scrub. I think it's just this car. This car was a Friday afternoon car they spread out over several Friday afternoons!
Seems that way, from all the work you've put in, and a pain in the arse, defined, me thinks. This one can picture the Citroen workforce just shrugging their shoulders, in THAT French way!
@thisiszaphod ha, I can actually picture some blokes shrugging whilst smoking some roll ups!
'tis for the English market, good enough'..
For the 2 days a year it works as it should it's a fantastic car, but I'm really losing the will to live with it frankly..
Our C8 was always very heavy on tyres & I always just put that down to its weight
Quite fancy a c8..
This thing isn't that heavy, and it's shredding it's tyres because the alignment is all to cock. Despite it spending more time on a hunter than on the road! It's the most infuriating car I've ever owned
@@adventuresinrust1644 Wobs did quite a big mileage in his C8 with minimal grief (aside from someone nicking his catalysts)
Ours was the same year / engine / Non FAP but only made it to 80K miles before the DMF started to break up then something electrical went weird and kept throwing up numerous fault codes - wasnt the battery, but it was never the same fault code twice.
However it was very much like driving a well appointed living room in terms of comfort and also went pretty quick.
@micrashed did they have bsi units? Probably a bit previous for multiplex I'd guess. Very rare to find an auto version, and I'm lazy, I like autos, but yeah, my neighbour had one and a couple of mates down here had a few over the years, nice comfortable cars you can use as a van but still handled surprisingly well for a big old bus
@@adventuresinrust1644 Oh god aye the stuff we had in the back of ours (and you can sleep in them too).
Now got an Alhambra - very similar size but I do worry about the DPF on it and being VAG I lie awake at night thinking its going to shit itself in new and expensive ways.
@micrashed oh god, vag and dpf.... I feel for you mate!
Hi. The steering rack pinion has started leaking on my C5 X7. I may have parts you're interested in. What's your username on French Car Forum?
I'm haven't been a member of French car forum for years now.
@@adventuresinrust1644Is there a way I can private message you?
@@adventuresinrust1644 do you have social media I can message you on?