CITROEN C3 V4 (B618)

The risk

Insufficient tightening of screws could lead to the uncoupling of a connection between a wheel and the axle arm (front and rear), a rupture of the parking brake cable and/or a door opening unexpectedly during driving, creating a risk of an accident. The product does not comply with the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Manufacturer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 26/09/2022

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Citroen C3

Other injuries alerts in 2023

278 of the 395 motor vehicle alerts published in 2023 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2023

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2023

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Citroen C3

More Citroen alerts

231 EU Safety Gate alerts for Citroen since 2007; the most were issued in 2017 (29).

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