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Anybody got any good news or horror stories about these diesel version.

My Mrs needs a new motor and we're thinking of one of these.Got about 5K to spend so any other suggestions for a small diesel welcome
 
I had the 1.6tdi for about 3 years.
Honestly had no problems with it at all. Very reliable, comfy, and very cheap to run. Would get 65mpg on a run, 55mpg around town.
Try to go for the Exclusive version with all the gadgets.
Servicing is also cheap.
Alround good little car.
 
cheers mate. I must admit it looks a decent little motor and the fuel stats are pretty good.
 
gemarriott said:
Anybody got any good news or horror stories about these diesel version.

My Mrs needs a new motor and we're thinking of one of these.Got about 5K to spend so any other suggestions for a small diesel welcome
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I had one until Jul 10. It cost me a fortune to run it when I had a problem with the diesel injectors. I had to replace all the front suspension as the springs collapsed and I changed the discs and bads too (all done a 65,000 miles). Up to that point, it was a great little car but I would never buy another one as their build quality is not that good.
 
badmanners said:
I had one until Jul 10. It cost me a fortune to run it when I had a problem with the diesel injectors. I had to replace all the front suspension as the springs collapsed and I changed the discs and bads too (all done a 65,000 miles). Up to that point, it was a great little car but I would never buy another one as their build quality is not that good.
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If you have had to do all that at 65k then it sounds like your actual car has had a hell of a hard life. I have had a lot of cars that have done well over 100k and have never had to rebuild the front suspension. The odd shocker, yes but not the coil springs.

Gem, have a look on here for info from actual owners.

Citroen users forum

Scroll down to the C3 section.
 
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i currently drive the 1.4 tdi..good lil motor, but i too had to replace the front springs late last year as one had completely snapped, and the other was on it's way. thats at 56k miles on an 03 plate. ,and also had to have the brakes completely replaced, athough that's probably down to my own nievity and the garage getting one over!! Good lil cars all round really, as with any motor...bits go wrong!! deceptively large amount of space for a small car!!
 
Thanks folks, I've followed the links,looked at all the reports and she has road test booked this evening. On balance it seems ideal for her 14 mile daily commute in city traffic and twice monthly 80 mile round trip to her mums.
 
grumpyoldb said:
If you have had to do all that at 65k then it sounds like your actual car has had a hell of a hard life. I have had a lot of cars that have done well over 100k and have never had to rebuild the front suspension. The odd shocker, yes but not the coil springs.

Gem, have a look on here for info from actual owners.

Citroen users forum

Scroll down to the C3 section.
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I didn't drive it that hard but I did a long commute at weekends. C3 suspensions are notorious weak as the coil springs are not made properly (according to Honest John in the Daily Telegraph). A friend in the next village had a C3 and her coil springs collapsed at 43,000 miles. So yes the coil springs are area of weakness.
 
Well she has taken the plunge. Having read upon the spring issue there is plenty of evidence of it being a bad batch but even so citroen seeem to be changing them without much argument free and she liked the car socme next week she'llpickit up.

Settled on a 1.6 diesel sx.
 
No doubt our Kevin/Dale could give some sage advice on this purchase. :PDT_Xtremez_14:
 
grumpyoldb said:
No doubt our Kevin/Dale could give some sage advice on this purchase. :PDT_Xtremez_14:
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I've been waiting for him to pop his ginger nut above the parapet with tales of his Saxo.

I will own up here. Mines motor is a Citroen C3. 'Er indoors prefers smaller cars and I rarely drive these days so we went for the VTR 1.6 turbo diesel. It gets 50+ mpg malnly town driving (60+ on motorways) and is almost as fast as the Opel Kadett GTE I had in Germany.

It's great for embarrassing tossbags in much larger cars.
 
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