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I've never understood my wife's love of Citroens. Currently, she has a mk2 C4 Picasso, which she bought this time last year.

Recently, I bought all the filters to do a full service on it. I was going to do the job today. Took it for a 10 mile drive, to get the oil hot ready for draining, and parked in the garage. Jacked the front of the car and laid on the floor, looking for the access flap in the undertray below the sump plug. There isn't one. The undertray has to come off, and it's flamin' enormous. Apprently it has 11x 10mm bolts securing it. I can't get the car high enough to be able to get at them. It will have to go to the place I get the MOTs done.

In over 50 years of DIY servicing and repairs, it's the first time I've been beaten. .........And I've even had engines out and stripped, re-built, and re-fitted them.

Would it have been so difficult for PSA to put an access flap in the undertray, like my F25 (and the E46 that preceded it) has? To be honest, the fuel filter and cabin filters both look like a nightmare to change as well.

Rant over.

What you could do in this case is use a suction oil remover. They may get sniffed at, because of alleged debris left behind, but they work.

X5Sport wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 3:58 pmWhat you could do in this case is use a suction oil remover. They may get sniffed at, because of alleged debris left behind, but they work.

Indubitably. But that doesn't help with the cabin, fuel, and (to a slightly lesser extent....) air, filters looking like right PITAs as well. I think I'm better off paying someone to have all the aggro.