Citroen ZX Suspension

[FarmerPug]

I was wondering after driving behind a zx the other day how does the back wheels steer in tandem with the front ones, i have read that they do but it didnt look too dramatic in action, is there a connector to the back wheels steering them. I nearly bought a zx from an aunt who owned a dturbo one which was a rocket, the 306 dturbo just didnt compare except for styling but i quite liked the pointier design of the zx

[HimBigChief]

They run torsion bar rear suspension, and they are not meant to steer along with the front wheels. Any rear end steering on one is not meant to be there!

[steve_earwig]

I just looked it up on Citroen's Service Box 'cos I'd never heard of it - that's almost the same set-up as a Renault 4 There's still loads of them here and when they do that it means the suspension mountings have rusted away to nothing...

[HimBigChief]

Either as Steve says or there is excessive movement on the trailing arm bearings. Either way, it would need fixing pretty sharpish before it swapped ends round a corner.

[Doggy]

Some fwd designs of the 70's/80's had rear suspension geometry which altered the castor angle, (or summat like that), as the suspension compressed or extended, thus 'steering' the rear wheels a little as the car leans.

Designed to overcome the feckin useless, (sorry), advantages of fwd.

[FarmerPug]

its on wikipedia it refers to some unusual suspension, and i remember jezza doing a review on the zx it was back in the 90s but he did praise its handling

[FarmerPug]

Here it is
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The hair is different, he speaks slowly and there is no POWER but its still jezza

[jasper5]

They used to break rear top suspension mounting rubbers very often, a right pain, easy to replace though with the right tools.

[Bailes1992]

Just a peugeot 306, just uglier!

[Welly]

Passive rear wheel steering.

I thank yaw.

[Bailes1992]

The 406 has passive steering too!

[Welly]

The 406 has passive steering too!

Yes, your 406 has it..........only each wheel isn't really sure which way to point

[FarmerPug]

the zx isnt really an uglier 306 its not too bad looking, its just more dated than the 306 i always thought the citroen was a bit quicker than the 306

[Doggy]

Close, but it may be even tinier.