Thought it may be handy to have a list of Autoexpress best buys, I must add these continually change year on year but still if you got time on your hands in these covid times and you find a dry day 😉 Autoexpress tests. Body care. Bilt Hamber double speed wax, simoniz original or Alchemy duck tail. B...

Welcome c5ax, I have only recently joined, your sure to get a welcome and plenty of great advice.

Aircross recalls

https://www.regit.cars/recalls/citroen-c3-aircross

https://car-recalls.eu/common-problems/ ... -aircross/

Yes garage bills like those nobody would be happy with, while its difficult to understand when some car timing chains were not without their problems the dry belt system seemed to be lasting 100k in some cars then the industry changed to a wet belt system. To be honest as many have said oil and a ru...

So if you bought the first 2017/2018 model and your warranty ends in 2020/21 it would be wise to extend it since the belt needs to be changed in 6 years or 62k to be safe. So it will be warranty extension cost versus cost of changing belt.

Thanks chilipepper, reading the history of the belt issue I am glad I paid for 3 years servicing/mot £399 on purchasing car (it was 8 mths old when bought) not sure of warranty will have to look at paperwork. My model is the 110hp not sure if same.

I came across this article on the eb2 puretech engine, i gather this engine is also fitted to c3 aircross (correct me if wrong) lots of issues with this engine fitted in cars from around 2015 but since then they have tried 3 different belts to prevent belt failure contaminating oil. My question is h...

The 1.6 ecoboost engine i was familiar with had a dry timing belt lasting 100,000 miles, for some reason some ecoboost and early puretech engines had vapour or oil bath lubricated timing belts. Early puretech engines suffered debris in oil system, but I gather they have now changed timing belt mater...

Very interesting to see the videos on oil issue and timing belt change, now I must state I worked in a Ford engine plant for 37 years the last few years building a similar ecoboost engine, I could see similarities in the design of the two. But in the ford engine (which looked similar in video) the t...

Well after hours of trying to connect my phone to the car over last few weeks trying everything I could find to no avail, this morning after driving off the radioscreen prompted me to use given passcode to connect phone, I immediately checked phone but no 6 digit number to enter or to accept. (My ph...