C3 picasso brakes activated by pressing passenger footwell

G51shopaholic

Just watched BBC1 Watchdog

Pure shocker!:eek:

Apparently if front passenger stretches out and press onto front passenger footwell they can affect the brakes due to a technical fault in the cars being changed from lefthand drive to right.

vikingaero

It doesn't even seem to take a hard press to activate the brakes. Par for the course for French kwality.

pulliptears

My Clio has the bonnet catch on the passenger side because it's French, its very confusing sometimes!

Outpost

It does seem pretty severe safety/quality control issue that these cars were allowed out of the factory and onto the roads with such a major flaw.

Although if I owned a driving school I'd snap a few of these things up now rather than shelling out money on expensive dual-control modifications.

Oliver14

Simple answer. Make sure your passenger is either a dwarf or an amputee.

d.ross_2

Outpost wrote: »

It does seem pretty severe safety/quality control issue that these cars were allowed out of the factory and onto the roads with such a major flaw.

It's just typical of Citroen

Oliver14

vikingaero wrote: »

. Par for the course for French kwality.

And British Quality is so fantastic eh?;)

bcl999

I suppose it's handy for driving instructors who want dual controls but don't want the expense of installing them.

Esqui

This wouldn't be a problem if we were all as short as Nicholas Sarkozy.

vikingaero

Oliver14 wrote: »

And British Quality is so fantastic eh?;)

We don't really have any homegrown manufacturers any more.

Nissan/Honda are present and quality is good.
Jaguar/Land Rover are owned by Tata - poor reliability
Ford & GM - American
Bentley/Rolls - German

But seriously I'd rather have a Ford/GM car any day over something French. French cars are good - up to the 3 year warranty point. On the Motoring Forum when someone posts a problem and you click on the thread it's often something French causing angst.

d.ross_2

vikingaero wrote: »

French cars are good - up to the 3 year warranty point.

I wouldn't even go that far.... a huge list of faults after just a few months.