Xantia - delay in 'Stop' light going off.

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Mon 4 Mar 2002 11:23
Xantia - delay in 'Stop' light going off. - Chad.R
One for the Citroen specialists I think.........

My Xantia TD Estate (which some of you already may be familiar with - 1996, 130+K, properly serviced every 6K etc.) has started an annoying habit -

When initially started up in the morning (or after several hours) the STOP warning light which appears in the 'crontrole' panel takes considerably more time to go out than it used to -

I thought that the light was a warning to stop or rather 'stay put' until the hydraulics pressured up. It usually took only about 10 seconds and though I have one of the anti-dive models the car would 'jack' up and settle back down in that time, the light would go out and off you went.

What's been happening recently is that the same process of jacking up and settling down would occur in roughly the same time but the STOP light doesn't go out for at least 20 seconds afterwards and momentarily comes on about 5 seconds after it initially goes out.

This doesn't seem to effect the car once the system has been pressured up and it drives/handles/stops as normal.

Is this normal for age/mileage ? Or is this a sign of impending doom ?

Thanks in advance.

Chad.R
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Mon 4 Mar 2002 12:59
Re: Xantia - delay in 'Stop' light going off. - Darcy Kitchin
Sounds like the accumulator sphere has lost pressure. This is quite normal after some years service. You can get new or repressurised spheres easily from eg Yellow pages
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Mon 4 Mar 2002 13:34
Re: Xantia - delay in 'Stop' light going off. - Ian Cook
Darcy

Have you checked the LHM level recently? What you describe started happening to my Xantia last year. Also the light would flash on, particuarly if going up a steep hill with 4 people in the car. The fluid level was within spec, but on the low side. I topped it up to the highest mark and all was well.

I don't think it had leaked, but had disappeared into the sagging front spheres. I changed them shortly afterwards (on mileage adivce from DW) and it's been fine ever since.

HTH

Ian
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Mon 4 Mar 2002 13:35
Re: Xantia - delay in 'Stop' light going off. - Ian Cook
Sorry, Darcy - the post should have been directed at Chad.

Ian
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