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Quote from: Sir Panda on July 11, 2011, 01:44 pm
£6000 for a cambelt? What car is it? Sorry to hear about that.


Citroen C8. It's a common problem. The Internet's alive with people who've tried to get Citroen to pay for the repairs, as the manuals say the cambelt should need replacing only every 100k miles (ours has done 50k).

Unfortunately, not many have had much success. We phoned our local Citroen garage. The guy said 'I'm a bit busy at the mo. We've had a national recall on the Picasso - 250,000 of them.'

If I ever go near a French car ever again, somebody shoot me.
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 02:05 pm
Citroen C8. It's a common problem. The Internet's alive with people who've tried to get Citroen to pay for the repairs, as the manuals say the cambelt should need replacing only every 100k miles (ours has done 50k).

Unfortunately, not many have had much success. We phoned our local Citroen garage. The guy said 'I'm a bit busy at the mo. We've had a national recall on the Picasso - 250,000 of them.'

If I ever go near a French car ever again, somebody shoot me.

Eeek not nice. My life may be shitty at the moment but so far no huge bills to pay (through running out of money fast Frown )
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Quote from: Hazybear on July 11, 2011, 02:19 pm
Eeek not nice. My life may be shitty at the moment but so far no huge bills to pay (through running out of money fast Frown )

Yeah, this year has been a series of major disasters. One after the other. The oasis in the desert was our holiday in France in three weeks' time... our driving holiday in France. Ahem.
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 02:26 pm
Yeah, this year has been a series of major disasters. One after the other. The oasis in the desert was our holiday in France in three weeks' time... our driving holiday in France. Ahem.

hug Well I hope that you can work something out.
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Quote from: Hazybear on July 11, 2011, 02:32 pm
hug Well I hope that you can work something out.

Thanks. We have my car, although it's considerably smaller. Guess we won't be bringing as much vino back as we'd planned. Either that or we sacrifice a child.
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 03:20 pm
Thanks. We have my car, although it's considerably smaller. Guess we won't be bringing as much vino back as we'd planned. Either that or we sacrifice a child.

Yeah I'd go with leaving a child behind Wink
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Still don't see how a cambelt replacement would cost £6000. I would have guessed £1500 at most.
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 03:20 pm
Thanks. We have my car, although it's considerably smaller. Guess we won't be bringing as much vino back as we'd planned. Either that or we sacrifice a child.
Hey Nigel, Sorry to hear that but have you thought of hiring a small trailer? That could be the answer!
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Quote from: Caz on July 11, 2011, 04:19 pm
Hey Nigel, Sorry to hear that but have you thought of hiring a small trailer? That could be the answer!

Don't you think it might be a bit dangerous to transport a child in a trailer?
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Quote from: Sir Panda on July 11, 2011, 03:50 pm
Still don't see how a cambelt replacement would cost £6000. I would have guessed £1500 at most.

It's a Citroen thing. It's basically a new engine. They can't even take out the old one cleanly - they have to smash it up. French engineering. They should stick to croissants.

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=68332
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Mental note : Do not buy a Citroen. Embarassed
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 05:43 pm
It's a Citroen thing. It's basically a new engine. They can't even take out the old one cleanly - they have to smash it up. French engineering. They should stick to croissants.

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=68332

Eeek really not nice sounding Frown
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Quote from: Grabcopy on July 11, 2011, 05:41 pm
Don't you think it might be a bit dangerous to transport a child in a trailer?
Are you kidding me? Do you mean to say that with the luggage and the booze in a trailer, there'd still be no room in the car for the kid?
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Went and picked up my "new" second hand car tonight, stalled it twice on the way home, very hard to feel the bite point in it, just hope I get used to it fast, I get all panicky when I stall in case I can't get it started again.  I hate driving.  Rolling Eyes
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Quote from: KitKat on July 15, 2011, 07:58 pm
Went and picked up my "new" second hand car tonight, stalled it twice on the way home, very hard to feel the bite point in it, just hope I get used to it fast, I get all panicky when I stall in case I can't get it started again.  I hate driving.  Rolling Eyes
Hey,relax,its a nature taking it,s course ......your a WOMAN. Smile
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