After 18 months of driving around in a Volvo XC70 I decided I needed to get back into a Citroen. Having had an estate for 18 months and having a child, 2 dogs and a plethora of bikes I decided I needed another estate. I also decided that I wanted an auto as I seem to get stuck in traffic often and my driving style has become much more laid back over the last few years. So I decided I needed a Citroen C5 estate with an auto box. I also like petrol as I only do circa 4/5k per annum, so decided I might as well get a V6. On top of this, I wanted the facelift as the original is a bit ugly, the facelift looks marginally better to me
Do you know how rare a facelift V6 estate is?! I didn't!
In the last 2 months, only one has come up for sale in the usual places. A blue one on eBay for £1200. I offered the guy £1k, then £1200 and he turned them down and took it off sale. As I'm impatient I posted on here asking if anyone knew of one for sale, and Malcolm from Savoys pointed me to his website, where he had a slightly damaged one for sale. Grey, 96k. The car had a small knock to the front wing.
Malcolm had fixed it with a new wing and bumper as he thought it too good to scrap. The only issue with this car was the fact it was in Burnley, I was in Southampton, I couldn’t really see it. Malcolm was great, sent me a multitude of images, including pictures of the damage and pictures once fixed. Now beggars can’t be choosers, and with a real lack of these cars around, and my impatience a deal was struck. I’ve never sat in one, never driven one, don’t actually recall seeing a facelift in the flesh, but I now owned one!
Malcolm had to apply for a logbook and send the car off for a MOT, so I had a wait a few weeks for the car to arrive. In the meantime, I did what any normal person would do, and researched the car that I had just purchased. I’ve watched countless youtube videos (like this one):
read many reviews and reimmersed myself in the world of FCF and the Citroen Facebook page.
Fast forward to today, and the car is ready. I’d found someone on Shiply to transport it, and he was picking it up at 9am this morning and driving it down to Southampton for me. I’ve just received a text advising he has collected, filling up and should be here around 2pm. Fingers crossed it makes it!
Few more pics Malcolm sent me once fixed
