Citroen Picasso help

Dublin44

Hello. My husband is currently driving our Citroen Picasso and the automatic gears just stopped working (you can also use the manual hand gears at the wheel). Loads of lights came on including handbrake and gear box lights.. he is currently able to drive the car using manual gears but car won't go past 35mph. Anybody got any idea what is going on?

Atlantic Dawn

Not sure if they have a gear box oil level check, if they do first thing I would do is check the level of the oil to see if it's gone. I'd say until you know the reason for the fault driving it would be a bad idea as you may cause irrepairable damage to the gearbox. You really need to have the fault codes read in order to diagnose the actual problem, any mechanic should be able to read them.

alias no.9

First of all, is it an automated manual (gear selector will have R,N,A,M) or an automatic (gear selector will have P,R,N,D,M) because this two gearboxes are completely different.

Dublin44

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Not sure if they have a gear box oil level check, if they do first thing I would do is check the level of the oil to see if it's gone. I'd say until you know the reason for the fault driving it would be a bad idea as you may cause irrepairable damage to the gearbox. You really need to have the fault codes read in order to diagnose the actual problem, any mechanic should be able to read them.

He is coming home from work now.

Dublin44

alias no.9 wrote: »

First of all, is it an automated manual (gear selector will have R,N,A,M) or an automatic (gear selector will have P,R,N,D,M) because this two gearboxes are completely different.

I'm not sure the correct terms but just to confirm we always drive only in the automatic option..you can choose to drive by manually changing the gears with the lever on the steering wheel. I only drive automatic myself

grazer

Similar happened to my Citroen Grand Picasso recently - it was a big leak of oil from the gearbox - it had to be replaced. My car stopped driving altogether, with all warning and service lights appearing on the dashboard. No advice really, except get it checked out as soon as you can at a garage who can deal with the Citroen semi-automatic gearboxes. We had to get ours towed to Universal Gearbox in Rathfarnham.

Dublin44

Dublin44 wrote: »

I'm not sure the correct terms but just to confirm we always drive only in the automatic option..you can choose to drive by manually changing the gears with the lever on the steering wheel. I only drive automatic myself

I am pretty sure there is no P for park option

Dublin44

grazer wrote: »

Similar happened to my Citroen Grand Picasso recently - it was a big leak of oil from the gearbox - it had to be replaced. My car stopped driving altogether, with all warning and service lights appearing on the dashboard. No advice really, except get it checked out as soon as you can at a garage who can deal with the Citroen semi-automatic gearboxes. We had to get ours towed to Universal Gearbox in Rathfarnham.

Thank you very much for the information. He is on way his way home now and will tell him.

grazer

alias no.9 wrote: »

First of all, is it an automated manual (gear selector will have R,N,A,M) or an automatic (gear selector will have P,R,N,D,M) because this two gearboxes are completely different.

If this poster's Citroen is the same as mine, it's RNAM - automated manual.