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Rear End Drops, towing| mad marty |
Posted: September 14, 2007 10:01 am
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When towing our caravan up to scotland a few weeks back the rear end of the car dropped slowly and then raised itself slowly with no drop in hydraulic pressure, this happened every 50 miles or so on a 150 mile journey but has never happened when not towing, any ideas? I also changed the lhm recently, could it have anything to do with the nose weight of the caravan as i did have a lot of weight at the front of the caravan and a lot of weight in the boot.
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| Peter.N. |
Posted: September 14, 2007 02:16 pm
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Sounds like a sticking rear height corrector to me, a few squirts of WD40 should sort it out.
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| techmanagain |
Posted: September 14, 2007 03:34 pm
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I do not see the spec of your car (if it is an XM.)
If it is a saloon XM, you must keep the towbar and GVW weights within the limits laid down by Citroen. I would expect the same to apply to a Xantia saloon. The XM estate has larger rear hydraulic cylinders so can accept quite a lot more weight depite the Citroen limits. Better perhaps to transfer some of your car rear-end weight to the centre point of the caravan but be sure you are not overloading the caravan thereby. You are in a cleft stick! -------------------- Xantia 2 litre HDi Saloon X reg 1999
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| DerekW |
Posted: September 14, 2007 04:15 pm
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I think Peter's right.
Derek This post has been edited by DerekW on September 14, 2007 04:45 pm -------------------- 1999 3.0V624v Exclusive Black! (RP8362)
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