Citroen C3 Picasso rear disk replacement

Nov 15, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 22 Replies

Just been helping my neighbour change rear disks and pads on a C3 Picasso. Typical Peugeot/Citoen, the rear disks have sealed bearing inside the disks and you cannot buy the disks on their own (probably need pressing out).



£60 each *trade* price, and those were after market too. !.

Local Pug dealer wanted £540 to do the job.



That's one car removed from my buying list, but the real alarm is that Citroen/Pug now own Vauxhall/Opel and the new Astra looks like it could be a Cit/Pug rebadged job.



I'll keep my Astra H for as along as possible.



Andrew


Very wise. I had a couple of older ones that were little trouble, and I think my son's is an H.

hate french engineering

Absolutely. Only the French could come up with something as horrible as the SCART.

But they did manage to build tehn Eiffel Tower

If you make it out of Meccano it looks exactly the same.

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charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> wrote

I do too with cars.

And invented the guillotine which works a lot better than chopping people's head off with an axe.

And did nukes far better than anyone else.

And the airbuses work pretty well too.

The original - The Maiden - came from Scotland.

charles snipped-for-privacy@candehope.me.uk> wrote

Those buggers claim to have invented everything.

Almost as bad as the Poles.

They did invent the haggis and some very decent single malt scotch but weren't even first with cross dressing.

Goes back a lot further than that

The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid wrote

Nope

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Yep.

Systeme European Contre les AMericaines

Au contraire!

SECAM actually stands for Systeme Electronique couleur avec memoir or Sequential Color and Memory.

SECAM is a TV broadcast system invented by French engineer Henri de France and his team attached to Compagnie Française de Télévision.

The whole idea behind SECAM was to rectify the shortcomings of NTSC developed by the USA.

That could be why SECAM has been jokingly called System Essentially Contrary to American Method.

NTSC, incidentally, is often called Never Twice the Same Colour instead of National Television Standards Committee

PAL wasn?t spared either ? from Peace At Last, to Picture Always Lousy, instead of Phase Alternate Line.

Also, Some countries are still using the SECAM system while waiting to switch to digital broadcasting. (!)

The remaining hold-outs are:

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They had some form of HD tv long before we did though

Trouble was it took up an enormous amount of spectrum space.

I switched on the telly for the first time about midnight last Friday and was shocked to see men and wummin standing about in the nip....I was shocked....what has the world come to ? ...

It was what appeared to be a good quality picture at 819 lines - I saw a demo set years ago at a Barco monitor workshop.

In theory, 625 line PAL TV should also take up an enormous amount of spectrum space, but for broadcast purposes it was squeezed in to the

8MHZ channel spaces and I believe that only 5.5MHZ was allocated to the video.

That was in the UK, Most of Europe (System B) only used 5MHz for video

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