Citroen C4 Grand Picasso
Discussion
so Mrs AS currently has a xsara picaso 1.6 d exclusive. An old one 2006. Its a nail of a car and battered but will not die. It refuses to do less than 50 odd mpg, and it goes nowhere of any length of a journey. eg home, school, work and repeat. At best she's doing 4000 miles a year. I don't think it drives well and its terrible to demist. Possibly this is due to the full glass panoramic roof and the volume of glass. I certainly would never want a full glass roof again.
But it needs to go to shed heaven.
For our purposes of transporting children, their junk and other random children: another one seems quite sensible. It does pack an enormous amount of rubbish within its shell.
So a grand picasso seems obvious. A 1.6/2.0 d. I don't mind. petrol seems to be a no, plus there are very few out there (obviously) and all my wife will care about is the cost of fuel: not the dull PH petrol v diesel debate.
However reliability reports seem shocking. Mainly around suspension failure and the auto system gear boxes.
Do these cars come with a traditional manual gearbox: or are they all some nonsensical auto system ?
The suspension (spheres) seems to be something Citroen will do under warranty- up to 10 yrs old/120k miles.
anyone any views/thoughts to share please ? There are vast amounts for sale and they are extremely cheap: I'm only after a run about.... it wouldn't be the main car to go out in as a family for example.
I've had plenty of French cars over the years and I do find them to be ok: in fact I've had far more bother with German stuff !
But it needs to go to shed heaven.
For our purposes of transporting children, their junk and other random children: another one seems quite sensible. It does pack an enormous amount of rubbish within its shell.
So a grand picasso seems obvious. A 1.6/2.0 d. I don't mind. petrol seems to be a no, plus there are very few out there (obviously) and all my wife will care about is the cost of fuel: not the dull PH petrol v diesel debate.
However reliability reports seem shocking. Mainly around suspension failure and the auto system gear boxes.
Do these cars come with a traditional manual gearbox: or are they all some nonsensical auto system ?
The suspension (spheres) seems to be something Citroen will do under warranty- up to 10 yrs old/120k miles.
anyone any views/thoughts to share please ? There are vast amounts for sale and they are extremely cheap: I'm only after a run about.... it wouldn't be the main car to go out in as a family for example.
I've had plenty of French cars over the years and I do find them to be ok: in fact I've had far more bother with German stuff !
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