C6 - The adventure continues........in blue

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 13 Sep 2011, 18:43

I thought very much the same last night after taking the BMW out, god I miss comfort.

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 21 Sep 2011, 20:27

Vehicle examiner coming tomorrow morning

CitroJim · Post by **CitroJim** » 21 Sep 2011, 21:44

Steve,

I've only just seen what happened

Fingers crossed it all comes good for you...

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 21 Sep 2011, 22:46

Jim, I'm hoping for that too, but if not there is another possibility, Ikm not saying anymore at the moment, except that I have my fingers and toes crossed.

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 26 Sep 2011, 22:02

Update: 1

Vehicle examiner came on Friday to have a look, he say's "it's nothing that isn't repairable, depending upon the cost" which at least gives me some hope

a throughly nice chap who has known Dave Ashworth (

) a number of years, we had a chat about CX's, XM's and SM's.

The trouble is that I've seen a 3.0 HDi for sale (Blue and Cream, Exclusive) and I'm now really in a quandry

KP · Post by KP » 26 Sep 2011, 22:20

Take the money and the car, fix it, sell it, add cash to pot to buy the 3litre

If thu can fix and pay you quick enough and you can sell it quick enough

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 26 Sep 2011, 22:22

KP wrote:Take the money and the car, fix it, sell it, add cash to pot to buy the 3litre
If thu can fix and pay you quick enough and you can sell it quick enough

Spoken like a true 'Yorkshireman'

DickieG · Post by **DickieG** » 26 Sep 2011, 23:06

I see that on the Citroen UK website there is a C6 with 92k miles being offered ATM for £9,990, rather hopeful with the price

The 3.0 litre one looks nice, a good colour combination.

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 26 Sep 2011, 23:15

DickieG wrote: The 3.0 litre one looks nice, a good colour combination.

Richard,

I agree, for me, it's the best colour combination, it's the one I wanted originally.

TBH I'd be happy if they repaired mine, there is nothing wrong with it, and it's such a cracking drivers car (nothing like the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' they have given me) and read into that what you will..........

DickieG · Post by **DickieG** » 27 Sep 2011, 00:26

Trainman wrote:and it's such a cracking drivers car (nothing like the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' they have given me) and read into that what you will..........

What model have you been given? If its a four pot its not up to the marque

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 27 Sep 2011, 01:05

DickieG wrote:
Trainman wrote:and it's such a cracking drivers car (nothing like the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' they have given me) and read into that what you will..........
What model have you been given? If its a four pot its not up to the marque

It's a 520D SE

-t has some good features, but OMG the suspension is hard, and the steering is heavy

DickieG · Post by **DickieG** » 27 Sep 2011, 01:35

Trainman wrote:
DickieG wrote:
Trainman wrote:and it's such a cracking drivers car (nothing like the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' they have given me) and read into that what you will..........
What model have you been given? If its a four pot its not up to the marque
It's a 520D SE

-t has some good features, but OMG the suspension is hard, and the steering is heavy

Ah a four pot, not a proper BMW then

the suspension on 5 series gives quite a nice ride unless its got the sport suspension option. The other thing that upsets the ride is if its fitted with run flat tyres as the side walls on those are all but solid, hit a bump mid bend and the car will skip a little sideways, having said that it will still hold on very well indeed. When run flats came out we took a few of them up to Millbrook to test how they performed and whether the little skip was potentially dangerous, but found there wasn't any noticeable difference on the level of ultimate grip.

Pity you weren't given a 525D, the ones made from around 2008 onwards go very well indeed.

Post by **xantia_v6** » 27 Sep 2011, 06:34

KP wrote:Take the money and the car, fix it, sell it, add cash to pot to buy the 3litre

Or take the money and the car, sell it to someone here as-is, buy the 3litre

Trainman · Post by **Trainman** » 27 Sep 2011, 08:58

xantia_v6 wrote:
KP wrote:Take the money and the car, fix it, sell it, add cash to pot to buy the 3litre
Or take the money and the car, sell it to someone here as-is, buy the 3litre

I've uplifted this from C6 owners:

Steve, I wouldn't get too excited about the 3.0HDi that was for sale at Howrds of Weston Super Mare.

Apparently, it was sold by 9.30am on Monday 26th.

I saw it advertised on Sunday & tipped off another forum member who is looking for a C6, he called to find out that it had already been sold to an existing C6 owner.

And the advert is still live on the web.

I think it was under priced by about £3000. Surely there should be a price premium for the 3.0HDi over the 2.7?

Oh well, back to the drawing board.............

On subject of the UDM it does have run flat tyres, but even standing still you need to 'really' push down to get the suspension to move, I had an 02 plate 'facelifted' Xsara that was a better ride quality that this...............

KP · Post by KP » 27 Sep 2011, 10:48

As part of the re-work if you buy the car back why not just fit the 3litre

or see about an SDV6 from JLR as they are plenty powerful

PS i aint no yorkshire man, thats far too southerly for my origins :p