Some Advice On Citroen Before Buying One

Hi ConnecT2u, YGPM. :-)

Checked with Brooklands Motors about the shifting from Jalan Chan Sow Lin to SsangYong's service centre along Federal Highway - most probably July or August.

The retrenchment took place since service centre personnel from both brands would be combined.

This could lead to longer wait period for Citroen service, and familiarity of the Citroen technology within SsangYong service personnel.

Yep...this is a sign that in future Citroen cars will be like Opel....a legacy in Malaysia Haha. Most likely our Grand Children will not see any new Citroen cars on Malaysian road in the future.

Maybe....

:-)

PSA choose wronged distributor, wrong marketing strategy, rocket high.. prices for each model, less service center, soon future our grandson have to visit KL MUSEUM to see the real citroen

Finally our car document will be sent to custom department for clearance before sending to PUSPAKOM for inspection.

All of us are excited with the first Citroen at home. :-)

dear benson,
heard bout the new-but-old-stock unregistered picasso too.
kinda hand-itchy too but some claimed that it's only "blogger" info...
how true is this info?
how or where to verify?

Dear tansamuel,

Hope you and your family will enjoy you new ride soon

I drove only a Puegeot/Citroen cars for many years (since 1991). Being previously driving the P504, P306 and now a Picasso. Back then and even now people always asked me whether I experienced constant overheating problems and/or whether I inccured high maintenance costs. That was people general perception, Pug/Citroen never got to put an advetisement to counter that perception locally and and it had a profound affects its sales volume in Malaysia.

Glad to share with you that I had not experienced any of those issues, Why??. Well... to own one and still enjoy driving a French cars in Malaysia, you need to be somewhat technically and mechanically incline (i.e somewhat knowledgable on car maintenance aspect), and goes only to the right independent specialist workshop. My current mechanic of 12 years can diagnosed a problem quickly and accurately (very experienced he's 50+ years old) and resolved most of my problems in one attempt, typically within a day. He's also very resourceful in term of finding alternative and cheaper spare parts (for example Pug/Cit ori fuel pump cost RM 800+ but he replaced mine with a Proton Wira 1.6 for RM 160, being in the car for 3 years now). The overheating issues is a simple fix, in y case mostly burned cooling fan electrical relay contact point which is easy and cheaply fixed under RM 16 the most. The thing that made maintenance expensive is that some inexperience mechanic resort to trial and error method, (i.e replacing fan motor, changing radiator and such) all under your own expenses.

No doubt Brockland is expensive, but you'll have to live with them atleast until the warranty expires. For my Picasso, I was lucky to buy it while its still under MBF.

Have fun

may be you can try to approach directional HQ see whether they want to clear stock for RM50K or not, if they want let me know, I will body itchy to touch up citroen again

agreed. some tom, dick and harry mechanic sometimes just don't understand the works of a citroen and thus by comparing it to a jap works, say that the french designed the citroen all wrong and then these tom,dick and harry will start modifying according to their understanding. that's when things start to fall apart on the citroen.