2007 CITROEN C8 reviews

Citroen C8 2007

I have had the car a month now and have only had to return to the dealer 7 times for repairs. This is mainly because the dealer is so focused on meeting their own needs rather than the customers that you should be charging them. The first problem was that 2 of the seats were broken so because I had only bought the car that day I had to return to Chesterfield autoworld to be told that it would have to be fixed under warranty. This meant booking the car into their service centre (and a day off work). They were able to fix one seat but the other had to be sent away for a ’new base’. It appears that Citroen do not really use ’new’ anything - they actually use reconditioned parts. I found this out when the CD player skipped tracks and after 2 afternoons off work and 10 days without a radio or any music in the car (it takes a few hours to check a stereo and remove it apparently) they replaced it with something worse. On my way home the stereo jammed, wouldn’t play and wouldn’t release my much loved CD. On returning to the dealers who "were just about to return my call" they explained that even though they had had to removed the CD player and send it off they hadn’t actually fixed it like they told me that they were going to but instead they had exchanged it for a reconditioned CD player, which it appears they had not bothered to fix. The warranty doesn’t appear to be worth the paper that it is written on if Citroen replace the problem parts with more substandard parts.