Passenger activated brakes on Citroens?

YE GODS, The power these Mods wield. 😉
Jim.

Lincoln .7

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Deftly done squire!

What mistake? Looks fine to me.

Moggy

re Passenger activated brakes on Citreons?

My respect for the marque, or at the very least for that particular model, is now profound.

So much so that you can’t amend the glaring spelling mistake in the thread title!:D

Moggy. I think she has her eye on a Citroen DS3 now just beause it “Looks a pretty” car. I don’t think women think the same as men, re residuals, service intervals, spares.But thats just my opinion.And why do they never check oil, water levels etc.:rolleyes:
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I think we bought the C3 at about £8,999 and sold it for £2,500 so depreciation worked out at about £36 per 1,000 miles or about the same capital sum as my (2004) car has depreciated in the 15 months and 7,000 miles since I bought it.

Moggy

Hmmm, still reckon that the idea that a passenger could activate the brakes without knowing it is a fairly serious issue, and would definately be so if you were travelling round a corner,were in the fast lane of a motorway or trying to pass another car ! But I was amazed when talking to a friend who has been in the trade for many years to be told, French car, designed as a LHD, not the first time this has happened and not only with Citreon.

As regards quality only ever owned one French car, a Pug 205 gti, grand wee car, very quick,fun to drive, but the trouble was all the little things that went wrong, switches, door handles, the hatchback openers and rust !

But always reckoned Citreon was a good enough car not like their big brothers Renault ! Pure junk !

Moggy. I purchased a brand new Citroen C4 Loeb 1.6,This time, last year. petrol, returns, according to the trip of 37 mpg.
Now she wants a smaller car and better mpg. The car, a year ago was just under £15.000. as it’s not in Glasses Guide at the moment, everyone has offered between 5. to 7. Grand. You dont need to be a mathamatition to realise it has lost 50 % plus in a year.
So, she is stuck with it, apart from that, it’s fine, reliable, omfortable, all singing and dancing, but due to the residuals, don’t think I would reommend one to anyone.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Mrs Moggy, against my advice – “Get the Seat Ibiza” – chose a new C3 (90bhp 1.4 litre diesel) back in March 2003.

By April 2010 when we sold it, it had covered 180,000 miles, with just regular servicing, the usual replacements and a couple of front springs. It was still on its original clutch and regularly returned high 50s mpg.

What’s not to like?

In all that time we never had a single incident of passenger-commanded braking.

My respect for the marque, or at the very least for that particular model, is now profound.

Moggy

O.M.G. Thats exactly how she drives, so it IS a woman thing:D
Jim.

Lincoln .7
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I have had a few experiences of Pigeons unique driving style in the past :dev2:

actual footage!

😀

pot calling kettle, over. 😀

I guess this is a woman thing, if I brake “Late” as my wife says, she holds on to the door grab, or her seat, go too fast round a roundabout, again holds on tight to sides of her seat. It annoys me and I tell her I”Will get the seat fixed if it;s coming loose”.:D, This realy “Ps” her off, so much so I do the same when she is driving, won’t comment on what she says, but is it seriously a woman thing?.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

pagen. I have a friend, who STILL has one of the 1st Dss when they came out.
Hardly anything has ever gone wrong with it, they use it as a run around. He lives in San Diego, CA, so no doubt the weather has played a great part in keeping it going all these years.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Anyone who has been a passenger with my missus driving will wish they were in a car with passenger activated brakes!

pot calling kettle, over. 😀

Ha she knows, anyway some may say the same about my driving!
I like the idea that the natural reaction of the passenger getting more and more stressed about the driving, instinctively presses their feet into the footwell and can stop the car – brilliant!

The only Citroens I’ve ever had admiration for were the DS and CX, not sure I would ever want to own one though!

Anyone who has been a passenger with my missus driving will wish they were in a car with passenger activated brakes!

Bet you dare not show her what you have put on here, about her driving James.;)
Jim.

Lincoln .7
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I once had a Citroen Cub, with the hydroelastic suspension, and traded it infor a Ford Cortina estate. I knew the owner of the garage well, and he phoned me and asked me to go to the garage. I was told the “New” owner had blown the head gasket, and there was something I may like to see, at the garage, I was shown the head, and the cam lobes were pointed out, they were virtualy round, instead of eliptical, and they couldn’t understand how the old girl had been able to keep going, but she did.So, I cant moan about Citroens.
Lincoln .7

Not sure about Le Mans, but they used to race 24H at Snetterton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGHF66AGe0

Would loved to have raced my GSA Club, what a little power package. Still thinking of using the flat 4 power plant for an aircraft.

Anyone who has been a passenger with my missus driving will wish they were in a car with passenger activated brakes!

Cheers Sky High, Just shows, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, They can certainly shift when they have been tuned up and prepped for a race. It would seem it was in 2007 when they last raced?.

Thanks for the link.
Jim

Lincoln .7