The Electrics, Dashboard and Heater 6 Early car problems
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3/3/99
6 Early car problems
Very early cars had problems. So I guess it depends on what you call "early".
Not many dealers know this. And the dealers who do know where instructed to keep it secret.
Citroen could not use any bad publicity nor did they wanted to alarm their own dealers with a Technical
Bulletin describing the problem. Every distributor had about 10 new engines in stock with a complete
gasket set just incase an early XM would blow up it’s engine. We had three cars, a friend of mine two
and I know of many others, spread all over Europe.
All with the same problem: Due to inproper lubrication of the balance shaft, the bearing (on the non
distribution side) broke in two pieces with various, very interesting results.
First Citroen said it was not possible ! "Don’t you mean CX sir "? "Or BX ?" " But there are no XM’s sold
yet in Belgium (Holland) sir, are you sure it’s an XM ?".....Bla...bla...bla... "I don’t think we can fix it sir...!"
All cars were fixed within 48 hours, at the dealer, by a special team from Paris. We never had such a
good service from Citroen in years...
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