Hurrow!

Has anyone experience of using one of these to tow a Touring 320, please?

Best wishes,

Doug

Small Citroen's have never been very good at automatics and the C3's is an automated manual, rather than a proper automatic gearbox, so they need a special technique to get a smooth, rather than jerky ride.

Towing limit is 1100kg which might be close to a Familia's MTPLM if it's been upgraded.

Also check the plated Gross Train Weight and Gross Vehicle Weigh. Citroen's often have GTW's that are less than the GVW and Towing Weight limit added together. In reality this means that if you tow with a caravan at anything near the Towing Limit, then the car maximum load has to be reduced, or if you load the car near it's maximum then the caravan's weight has to be lowered.

We had a guy on CT with a C4 Picasso that if he towed his caravan at MTPLM, he didn't have enough weight allowance to allow his wife to sit in the passenger seat, if she had they would be towing illegally.

As a petrol engine it has inherently low torque compared to a diesel and whilst the power rating is over the 40PS per ton that's recommended as a minimum, it's only 43PS per ton, so not far over the minimum and with limited torque it might not be a very comfortable tow.

Thank you, Andy, we do so like the C3, our Cactus is quite adequate but too low, the newer Picasso 1.6 HDiBlue diesels have a ridiculously low towbar weight limit [36kg?] due to the weoght of the Addblue gear right at the back.

Doug

I love the look of a C3 Picasso and think it's a real shame PSA have dropped it from the range and suggest buying something that looks as if it was designed for 6 year olds. I also think it's a shame that PSA never seem to get their act together on automatic transmissions.

Hi
We have a C3 petrol purchased new 2016 and tow our 320 GT. before that we had a diesel C3 they both towed the 320 with no problems
Regards Dave
PS our C3 is manual

Thanks, Dave, what HP is your petrol model, please? If it is a six-speed, do you have to spend a lot of time in 5th gear?

Doug

Our C3 is a 110 with 5 gears
Dave

Yes, noted, thank you Dave, our previous 110/5speed was good, but L.H.D. as we were living in France. With concerns about ease of use of the auto box and decidedly less frugal consumption figures than our current Cactus, we'll be sticking with 'Spiny' for now.

Doug