Faults:
This car is only two weeks old, so these are delivery faults:
One door mirror doesn't fold;
The alarm goes off intermittently;
The fuse box cover was missing;
There was duck tape on the inside of the rear sunroof;
The clutch is a little jerky at the top of the pedal travel;
There is twitching noise from the sunroof seal.
General Comments:
This is an excellent car in principle, very comfortable and economical with excellent performance from the engine which has plenty of power for passing.
It looks real good and is practical.
The ride is smooth and the handling reassuring, but the seats are not as comfortable as they could be.
I love the lazy drive and appreciate the cruise control and light steering.
There are lots of goodies on the car, but some of them don't work as they should (is this a fault of the multiplex wiring?).
The price was good, but the car is let down by poor quality control.
The instruments take a while to get used to though - it's as if there are some missing, somehow.
Auto climate control is a treat, needing very little attention.
We shall see if the dealer is a happy in dealing with the faults as they were to sell us the car.
We're averaging 61mpg driving in the Welsh mountains.
10th Dec 2004, 03:16
My wife who is also a driving instructor also has a C3 with the same problems as this.
The Power steering and Speedo can be forced to fail by holding the car on the clutch with the handbrake applied, as a student would do on a slope at a T junction.
The engine mis fires and sounds as though it is hunting for an appropriate idling speed which makes the car stall when pulling away.
My wife's car has gone back under warranty several times and all they do is replace the same speed sensor which doesn't cure the fault, the garage are very condescending to my wife when she queries their engineering expertise. I don't think that they take into account that she spends most of her life in her car and will know it a little more intimately than their mechanic. We are not impressed with the Citroen after sales or their engineering knowledge. I do not believe that they have a genuine mechanic who can fault find without the aid of a diagnostic computer.