French Reliability

[Milby]

Been driving the above car for last few days as it's my Dad's Citroen C4 Grand Picasso and he's away so thought I would see what it's like quite poky for a MPV has 1.6 diesel in it drove it too work first day and the engine just stopped and came up on dashboard saying parking brake faulty :S as it has a electric handbrake so I thought OK stopped checked it was working and it was and then restarted and kept going .... was driving home and it juddered to a halt again this time saying anti-pollution failure and didn't let me restart engine for few mins then was working fine again.
Spoke to my Dad about it he said it happens all the time been to garage several times but never been fixed and they don't know what's wrong with it.
Drove next day this time it stopped and it just said STOP on dash so i stopped and the  it worked fine :S

I think it just likes to turn off engine then randomly show a fault :L

Stupid french peice of crap :L the only good thing on it is the cruise control

[Jay]

Went to look at a VTR version as a replacement for the Sharan, Spec wise and what you can get is good for the money sounds good on paper but

it really felt like a bunch of blind monkeys built it, its no wonder they're cheap!

[Milby]

this one is vtr+ and yeh there's a lot inside it but even the dash buttons have worn off to white plastic and it only a few years old :L

[Jay]

Yup, we looked at an 08 plate and it was the same, even the top dash storage compartment lids were loose and made of the thinnest possible plastic  I know why the mpg figure is meant to be so high... 'cos it'll spend most of it's time out and about on the back of a flat bed 

[Milby]

yeh or just refusing to use it's engine  the  mpg computer is rubbish as well it goes down it huge jumps goes from like 50 to 20 to zero in a few mins then up then back down 

[RandomJord]

Fcuk french cars, all of them, without exception!

[R32UK]

I used to have a C2 vts.. considering it was less than a year old to my surprise it decided to turn itself off whilst I was driving down a dual carriageway. Good job too as when I opened the bonnet the engine was on fire!

tbh I dont even know why I opened the bonnet.. just seemed like the normal thing to do. I soon closed it which thankfully seemed to put the fire out 

[richw911]

Is there such a thing?

[Ant1981]

Stupid french peice of crap :L the only good thing on it is the cruise control

I've had French, which was trouble free actually.

I should make a thread about German reliability, and loads of people can join in, as the Golfs aren't without problems.

Stupid German peice of crap.

[JulesS3]

To be fair thats just old german cars, or mk4's really