Any Citroen C4 Cactus owners on here.

oxoman

Looking at replacing current motor for nearly new C4 cactus Dirty Diesel version, anybody on here own one. I'm not interested in the save the planet lark anything that's £0 car tax can't be that bad and certainly better than any car from when i stared to drive back in the 80s with a manual choke. Only reasons i'm looking at it is padded sides as fed up with muppets bashing my current car, it does a more mpg and is £0 to tax as opposed to £30 a year i currently pay. Its also cleaner to run and comes with roof rails ready to fit bars to. I'm after any reliability and driver niggles as iv'e never had a Citroen before from owners and mechanics. Cheers

fenix

We had one for a week or two as a hire car - I loved the bumpers - you can lean your bike on them.
Inside was funky too - everything is run from a big ipad in the middle.

I was very happy with it for the short time I had. Dunno about long term sorry.

bigmitch41

We also had one as a hire car, I wasn't the driver but the Wife who was driving loved it! A bit different with a funky interior.

qube

I've had one for 18 months now. Not even close to thinking about a replacement.

Absolutely love it. No faults at all. I have the diesel version in Shark Grey with black Airbumps.

20,000 miles of trouble free motoring. So comfy, quiet and great to look at, inside and out.

Very easy to drive and park. Been all around Scotland again in it. No worries.

The bikes sit on top nicely in the Thule roof bar system.

I would get another one. The concept replacement looks great too!

Buy one, you won't regret it!

bendertherobot

I have the 2008 which shares much of the chassis. So nice to travel in. Mpg on the 1.2 petrol obviously worse but such a lovely engine.

Matthewfalle

friend had one and loved it to pieces- really good fun, cool, all round top motor.

bendertherobot

Incidentally, the c3 can be specified with the air bumps

oxoman

Cheers Folks, looks like you've all enjoyed driving / owning them. I did think about C3 with airbumps but still a new model and not many discounted and I refuse to pay extortionate new car tax and suffer huge depreciation. Just got to get past the iPad controls and digital speedo, call me old fashioned.

qube

oxoman wrote:

Just got to get past the iPad controls and digital speedo.

The central screen is very easy to use. It becomes second nature in a short time. Just the right amount of sensitivity too.

All the controls are accessed from shortcuts on the left & right side of the screen.

The speedo is nice too. Cruise and gear indicator also located on there.

mouth

Avis rent them - extended test drive sans salesman 'helping' you? Surely 50 quid for a day or so wouldn't hurt, given the investment you'd be making?

Frank Wilson

Unfortunately I got stuck behind a member of the MLOC driving a bright yellow one today

oxoman

Had a decent test drive, impressed to be honest. Few definets not yellow, white or spearmint colour, slight concern on going from 6 spd gearbox to 5 but I can live with that. Other concern is cost of 17" tyres when replacements required, my mates evoke only has 17s. Just doing the numbers at the minute so watch this space.

oxoman

Well folks bit the bullet this morning and picking Cactus flair with dirty diesel engine and £0 tax. Hopefully I won't regret it. Last car was faultless for 5yrs so fingers crossed.

bendertherobot

Nice. If the media system is anything like mine (think it is) get a 64GB usb from Amazon, I have a tiny san disk one. Chuck all your tunes on there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra- ... sb+sandisk

Actually, 128GB!

Cotterend

I had one as a hire car recently, hated it. I'm not sure, it just seemed complicated. I believe that when getting into an unknown car, after a tiring flight, in the dark and wet, you should just be able to drive, and over the first half hour heading up the motorway have found your way around the controls. I just couldn't in the Cactus, I had to pull off into a services like a numpty to work it all out!

But what really puzzled me about the car was the roof bar shape. Cars are carefully designed to minimise harm to any hapless pedestrians they happent o plough into. The engine has to have a smooth, tough plastic top cover, with a deformable bonnet slightly above it, so at 30mph, the unfortunate is tossed relatively harmlessly over it, and hopefully continues with undue hindrance over the windscreen and roof, hoping not to catch a bus behind the car when landing.

So, why, oh why, put filleting points on the front of the roofbars, guaranteed to take out the kidneys as your unwilling and unwitting passenger goes overhead?? I just don't get it. Ho on earth did it get pass MIRA tests?

lesfirth

Cotterend wrote:

I had one as a hire car recently, hated it. I'm not sure, it just seemed complicated. I believe that when getting into an unknown car, after a tiring flight, in the dark and wet, you should just be able to drive, and over the first half hour heading up the motorway have found your way around the controls. I just couldn't in the Cactus, I had to pull off into a services like a numpty to work it all out!

But what really puzzled me about the car was the roof bar shape. Cars are carefully designed to minimise harm to any hapless pedestrians they happent o plough into. The engine has to have a smooth, tough plastic top cover, with a deformable bonnet slightly above it, so at 30mph, the unfortunate is tossed relatively harmlessly over it, and hopefully continues with undue hindrance over the windscreen and roof, hoping not to catch a bus behind the car when landing.

So, why, oh why, put filleting points on the front of the roofbars, guaranteed to take out the kidneys as your unwilling and unwitting passenger goes overhead?? I just don't get it. Ho on earth did it get pass MIRA tests?

While I do not currently own a Citroen I am a Citroen fan. However I do not think that is influencing my viewpoint. If I was compiling a list of tick boxes when choosing a new car, I just can not envisage that list,no matter how long, having a box titled "Welfare of pedestrians flying past roof bars".

qube

lesfirth wrote:

While I do not currently own a Citroen I am a Citroen fan. However I do not think that is influencing my viewpoint. If I was compiling a list of tick boxes when choosing a new car, I just can not envisage that list,no matter how long, having a box titled "Welfare of pedestrians flying past roof bars".

10/10 Sir.

oxoman

As the owner of one with pedestrian filleting bars I don't particularly care about pedestrians. If they are daft enough to walk out in front of me when I have daylight lights on then it's tuff titty. The roof bars are for a function so if anyone's going over the top they will impale themselves on either the bike racks or bikes after which I will beat the living censored out of them for being stupid.

cougie

Spoken like a true angry driver.

oxoman

Cheers Cougie. Compliments accepted.