Dieselman wrote: There is nothing special about the suspension system.
Keep the pipes coated in rustproofing, the LHM fluid clean, lubricate the height corrector pivot bearings and when the ride gets hard change the spheres and the system will remain faultless for a long time yet.
Ah, but having never driven or been a passenger in an XM (or actually any Citroen except my step daughters DS3 last week now I come to think of it....) how do I define "hard" ?
It feels fine to me but I know bugger all about the way they should ride.
What I do know is the suspension goes up and down (I assume) the way it should, the pump sometimes makes a bit of noise on start up (normal ?) but quietens down very quickly and it's a very comfortable and fast place to be. Other than the ball joint issue previously mentioned, there's a little squeak from the steering, another tiny squeak from somewhere under the dash, the odd, very slight suspension creak and what sounds like a relay making and breaking under the passenger side of the dash. Looking at the service history I was aware that the front passenger window stops working intermittently so wondered if there was a relay under the dash which controls this. It's working now but I think only since the noise appeared but could be wrong here.
You know what it's like when you buy a used car - it takes a while to understand it's quirks so I intend to use the car as is, compile a (hopefully short) list of faults and then set about fixing the inexpensive ones first !
For a car that's covered 120k miles it's obviously been very well cared for and maintained, in fact I've just written to the previous owner complimenting him on how he's kept the car and asking for any info he can provide about know issues/quirks and the radio code as it's locked at the moment.
I'm you'll soon be enlightened. I'm not going to try as I'm still very new in the XM world.
