Citroen C15 Champ 1.9D 765D Reviews

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Please read for very important tip! I have recently bought a Romahome built on the C15 and am very pleased with it, as it is small enough to use all year round. Whist reading up on them I read that they are prone to rusting, especially the front bulk head. Having spent all my life in the car body repair business, I decided to look into this. I found that rain water which enters through the air intake grill just in front of the windscreen where the wiper are fitted is meant to drain out through a drain pipe fitted behind the jack mounting plate in the engine compartment. If this drain pipe gets blocked it will hold a few gallons of water which when it gets to a certain level eventually finds its way out by travelling down the inside of the door pillows into the sills and hopefully out onto the road. This water causes corrosion from the inside out and also whilst this pond of water is inside the vehicle evaporates into the entire roof crevasse causing yet more corrosion. But don't dispair, it is easily rectified.
Remove the jack from the rear of the engine compartment, and then remove it mounting plate (black elliptical plate) (When I did gallons of water came gushing out). In the centre of the recess toward the front but behind the lip is the drain hole, poke a piece of wire down the drain hole to make sure it is free Just below this on the outside of the bulk head is a rubber pipe fitted to the other end of the drain hole. Remove the rubber pipe and make sure it is unblocked. A final check should be to pour a jug of water onto the air vent by the wiper and watch the water run freely out of the tube onto the road.

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ive had my Citroen C15 Champ 9 months its done 190,000 miles . 7,000 by me mega reliable 50+ mpg . i do 50 mile round trip every day and kick its arse all the way there and back without any bother
if i can offer bit of advice re rear brakes if yours fails on rear brakes adjust new shoes up till its difficult to get drums on , then run it just long enough that they dont bind too bad . ive had couple of these and had same beef with them

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I have owned 2 c15 vans my latest has done 101.561 miles on P reg been everywhere Germany Holland France Belgium must have van !! runs on anything from cooking oil to bio-diesel and some funny red coloured stuff ;-) 55 mpg all day long

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It's a good van for the money. Cheap to buy, and had few problems with it other than having to change stoplight bulbs frequently. I've had mine 8yrs and done 98,000 miles at around 45mpg. It's a basic vehicle, but as a workhorse I've been more than pleased with it. I find it comfortable enough and pretty nippy about town. I can also get into parking spaces bigger vans can't. For what you pay for a new C15, you could pay the same for a three year old Escort with 60,000 miles on the clock.
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I've had the Citroen C15 Champ van for just over 4 years but have only done about 14000 miles in my job as a decorator. I've lined it out and added soundproofing so it's pretty quiet to drive. The gearbox is fairly 'agricultural' and you're not likely to be first off the lights but the vehicle has good mid-range acceleration and will happily cruise. I broke the flimsy indicator switch within weeks and, being a Citroen, the radiator packed up just out of warranty (they all do) but no other faults ...

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I've had my C15 for about 3 months, to use basically as a private vehicle, and expect to cover 20 - 25000 miles a year. At the time of writing it has approximately 85000 on the clock. The above comments not withstanding I would not put anyone off buying a good secondhand model. Mine belonged to a multi-drop delivery company, and then by a guy who used it to transport a strimmer, so it hasn't been used in a harsh environment. Some of the newer ones have power steering but I wouldn't let the l ...

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I bought this Citroen C15 Champ 1.9D 765D van mainly for the cheap price of about five grand and the reliable diesel engine. It has been reliable except for a problem with the fuel injection system which happened when just out of warranty and cost me £600 to repair, plus 2 weeks off the road, so not happy about that from a van carefully driven by myself, and under 10,000 miles from new. Apart from that problem, it has proved to be a bargain for the money, and easy to use as a trade vehicle ...

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I bought this Citroen C15 Champ van to replace a dying petrol Ford Escort. It is in red (the only colour option available in my view!) and has been ply lined. I ordered it with mud flaps but the rears are no longer available and the fronts are a little insignificant. The engine starts easily and runs relatively quietly for a diesel. It pulls well and if not rushed is very economical. 55mpg is the best so far with only 3500 on the clock. This should get better still as the mileage builds up. The ...

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I bought a Citroen C15 Champ 1.9D 765D van as a cheap replacement for a car the last being a 2001 Astra hatch.
From a main dealer with full 3yr warranty (6yrs antirust) and a colour choice (red silver or white) it was £6500
You can get them for just under 6K online but they wll be white or white with a 1yr warranty. No thanks.If youre VAT registered then its 17.5% cheaper still.
I wanted a vehicle with good ground clearance because our lane floods frequently. There's around 8" under the ...