A610... help!

and yet another question, this time on the brakes....

Mine has Bendix rear calipers (one is a bit seized), are they the same as the fronts?
What is the cheapest exchange/replacement option, is it a front Xantia caliper or something like that?

check your handbrake cable is moving first

Think it is, do I need to watch the lever arm whilst someone else pulls the handbrake? The lever moves in the caliper ok

yes, if it's seized on a bit you should be able to push it further back by hand at the caliper.I had this problem and removed the cable from the caliper and soaked it in wd40 pulled it on and off a few times and it works fine now

If the rear brakes are the same as the GTA then you need front callipers from a Peugeot 205 T16....which you can get exchange from brakes Int. There have been several threads about this before!

think the 610 are the same as xantia or xm

A quick update on this...

Power Steering - The electric pump had a slipped brush, took it out, cleaned it refitted the brush, now works perfectly.

Headlights: These went up okay, but wouldn't go down. Got a new control unit. This is a black box about 10cm x 10cm x 3cm thick located just near the relays in the nearside end of the nosecone. The new control unit made no difference.
This unit basically switches an isolated earth and a live so the motors run either way (one motor per headlight). There are two connector blocks. One has green and white wires, the other has three red, one black and one grey/brown. The green wires are the 'up' live and the 'down' earth and the whites are the 'down' live and the 'up' earth. Thes go to the motors.

At the other connector, two of the reds are permanent live, the black is earth, the grey/brown is the 'up' live, the other red is the 'down' live.

All of the reds and the grey brown run though a 18 point connector block near the brake fluid reservoir. This connector is unsurprisingly crap. Test the reds and the grey brown either side of the connector block to check which is which - you'll need someone to turn the lights on and off. Ignore the twin greens and whites in this connector which are the supplies to the bulbs.

This connector will almost certainly be the problem. Initially though, just check the green and white output wires from the control box to check they come live at the right times. Then work back.

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Hi Rupert,
the rear calipers on the A610 are "nearly" XM units- not sure which one, but they need to have different seals to suit the Dot 5 brake fluid, as opposed to Citroen hydraulic fluid of the XM.
I am expecting to have to do mine too- but cannot shift the handbrake cables as yet (at either end) I was quoted "around 100 a side " for overhaul by my local factors after they had called Bosch who were actually going to do the work for them. They had all the parts on the shelf.
Before you do it though, I managed to get mine to fee up last time by manually rotating the pistons in and out repeartedly by. I have since had one stick off and the other on - and I think this may be due to the lack of a peg on the back of the pads- the correct ones should have a projection that locks the pistons. Bosch ones for the XM show this in their on line catalogue, but I haven't yet managed to get any to try and my MOT is coming up fast.....

Cheers
Lee