Citroën C3III, C4 cactus, C4 Picasso II and C-Elysée

The risk

An internal component of an electric relay is faulty. As a consequence, the starter may not be activated, the starter control may be constantly blocked or the starter may operate unexpectedly. This could lead to unexpected movement of the vehicle or fire caused by damage to the starter due to overheating.

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: 07/04/2017

Models on CarsLore

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

• Citroen C4 Cactus
• Citroen C4 Picasso

Other fire, injuries alerts in 2017

12 of the 437 motor vehicle alerts published in 2017 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2017

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2017

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 C4 Cactus

More Citroen alerts

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

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