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jamescarruthers   
Mon Apr 10 2017, 10:19am
Joined: Jan 19 2014
Member No: #1548
Location: Cambridge
 Is it normal that the car drops at the front, immediately upon switching the engine off? This is before I get out the car, so it isn't correcting it's height. I thought that there would be a reserve of pressure provided by an accumulator sphere like in the XM and BX's I've had. The C6, I understand much less!

Can anyone confirm if this is standard behaviour or not, please?
cruiserphil   
Mon Apr 10 2017, 01:23pm

Joined: Jan 24 2010
Member No: #38
Location: Celbridge
 James,

Depends on how far it drops. Is it an inch or two or fully flat?

Best regards,

Phil C.
jamescarruthers   
Mon Apr 10 2017, 03:19pm
Joined: Jan 19 2014
Member No: #1548
Location: Cambridge
 Not sure, will try to investigate further somehow. It's hard to tell from in the car, and if I get out, surely that will influence the test as the height corrector will compensate for me getting out. I can definitely feel it and see it when I turn off the engine.
e3steve   
Mon Apr 10 2017, 09:04pm
Joined: Jan 21 2013
Member No: #1163
Location: Warsash, Hants & Palma de Mallorca, Spain
 Yep. Mine does, and so does Colin's.
FraserG   
Mon Apr 10 2017, 09:22pm
Joined: Jan 05 2015
Member No: #2011
Location: Auckland
 Mine does this too.

My previous CX's, XM, C5, BX's, DS and GSA didn't.

Cheers Fraser
jamescarruthers   
Tue Apr 11 2017, 06:54am
Joined: Jan 19 2014
Member No: #1548
Location: Cambridge
 Phew! Good to know. Thanks everyone.


Touch wood, after my initial mega-spend on the car everything is working and I am hammering up & down the M11 every day in luxury without problem. So far, a good, reliable car that I love!
keithc   
Tue Apr 11 2017, 11:41am
Joined: Apr 03 2016
Member No: #2584
Location: Kildare
 Mine drops a few inches when I turn the ignition off. And then when I get out and close the car it rises back up again. And when I come back to the car and open it, it drops a few inches again. Been doing that since I bought it. I presume its to help us get in/out of the car!
Jas16   
Tue Apr 11 2017, 10:14pm
Joined: Feb 07 2017
Member No: #2994
Location: West London
 yep mine does that too, but stays dropped until i get in and start the ignition at which it pops back up.
e3steve   
Fri Apr 14 2017, 08:01am
Joined: Jan 21 2013
Member No: #1163
Location: Warsash, Hants & Palma de Mallorca, Spain
 My C5 (facelift) Hydractive II / III (?) would sit at a traffic light and to a little dance at the front end, from time to time! I'd be happily minding my own business when, suddenly, it would drop -- and I mean drop, not lower, an inch (25.4mm) -- for a few seconds; then, without any prompting, up it would pop again...
 

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