Citreon brakes activated from the passenger seat???

280special · 19-05-2011 8:25pm #1

Anyone see the full report on this tonight on BBC1 ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13446522

Flaming 'eck !!!!:mad:

squod · 19-05-2011 8:36pm

Wonder if Citroen Ireland are gonna do a renualt on this ?

peasant · 19-05-2011 9:05pm

"Cable" in the passenger footwell?
They have electronic brakes now?

Wetbench4 · 19-05-2011 9:05pm

So are these electrically activated brakes instead of mechanically? if they are,I don't like the sound of that at all. Is this common on modern cars?

mickdw · 19-05-2011 9:12pm

Its a steel bar running from brake pedal across the car into passenger footwell where the pasenger can kick a knuckle on that bar and thereby move the brake pedal. Its as a result of the conversion from left hand drive where the master cylinder etc has been left on the left.
Very shoddy I have to say.

Daegerty · 19-05-2011 9:16pm

I dunno why they don't build them as RHD cars, surely enough of a market for them. which other company makes LHD cars and then converts the export version?

if I was getting one of those Citroens I'd just get the LHD. Normally I wouldn't care if a car is LHD or RHD but if they are doing this kind of job on them there is definitely a case for just buying the LHD and bringing it to Ireland

galwaytt · 19-05-2011 9:16pm

No more than the questions raised over the NCT this week, you have to wonder how the car got through EU Type Approval, and NCAP crash testing without anyone, anywhere, spotting, let alone triggering it..........

But, such 'ignorance' isn't new: for years, manufacturer's have been fudging the definition of the 'A' pillar, to avoid issues over the sizes of them, as patently on some cars now, they impair the actual visual field to the front of the car - this is particularly true at junctions, merging at lanes, roundabout's etc.,

Maybe their brown envelope's are.........much bigger...... ??

recyclebin · 19-05-2011 9:17pm

Are there any photos of the braking mechanism? It would be interesting to see how bad the design really is.

Mahuga · 19-05-2011 9:20pm

I hear the passenger can also steer the car via the glovebox as they didn't shift the steering column either, 100% true.

Daegerty · 19-05-2011 9:21pm

Driving instructors will be snapping these up like there is no tomorrow

19-05-2011 9:22pm

galwaytt wrote: »

, manufacturer's have been fudging the definition of the 'A' pillar, to avoid issues over the sizes of them, as patently on some cars now, they impair the actual visual field to the front of the car - this is particularly true at junctions, merging at lanes, roundabout's etc.,

I found the Insignia a bastad for that

unkel · 19-05-2011 9:33pm

I'm getting a strong sense of deja-vu here. Didn't this happen on another RHD car (iirc French too) a few years ago?

mickdw · 19-05-2011 9:40pm

Running a solid bar on which the brake pedal pivots across the car at least maintains proper brake function. I remember some old vw had an arrangement of levers to transfer pedal movement to the mastercylinder on the other side of the car which resulted in terrible pedal travel etc. Citroens idea is good. It just needed a solid cover or at least remove any features off the bar that a persons foot could use to rotate the bar.