Citroen C6 - Anyone had any experience?
Discussion
Hi all,
Fairly new here, hope you don't mind this kind of thread?!
I've been looking for a comfortable cruiser for a new role, budget of £6kish, must be diesel and must be auto.
It also needs to look more expensive than it is, if that makes sense.
Had a strong desire for a C6 for many years, but wondered if anyone on here had any experience of them? Yes, I know they're French and all that, but looking for peoples genuine experience, or if they're not too rosy, what you'd have instead?!
Thanks guys.
Fairly new here, hope you don't mind this kind of thread?!
I've been looking for a comfortable cruiser for a new role, budget of £6kish, must be diesel and must be auto.
It also needs to look more expensive than it is, if that makes sense.
Had a strong desire for a C6 for many years, but wondered if anyone on here had any experience of them? Yes, I know they're French and all that, but looking for peoples genuine experience, or if they're not too rosy, what you'd have instead?!
Thanks guys.
No experience of owning a C6, but looked into it once. From what I gather, 2.7 diesel is the best overall. If you want something looking expensive, get a black one with the cream leather interior. Check it's history as I think the Achilles heel on a C6 is something to do with the suspension "spheres", they wear out and are expensive things to replace, especially given that there's one on each corner and no C6 will still be in warranty.
Also any given time I look on autotrader, there seems to be between 10-20 C6's for sale nationwide, so finding the right car may just take a little while, be patient and good luck.
Also any given time I look on autotrader, there seems to be between 10-20 C6's for sale nationwide, so finding the right car may just take a little while, be patient and good luck.
Muddle238 said:
No experience of owning a C6, but looked into it once. From what I gather, 2.7 diesel is the best overall. If you want something looking expensive, get a black one with the cream leather interior. Check it's history as I think the Achilles heel on a C6 is something to do with the suspension "spheres", they wear out and are expensive things to replace, especially given that there's one on each corner and no C6 will still be in warranty.
I'm not sure about much of that 
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I have driven one and my opinion was that it is probably the most comfortable and quiet car I have ever driven but its hardly quick and the quality is questionable. Considering the 2.7 diesel exclusives (or whatever the top spec was called) were almost Jag XF prices when they came out the interior is the quality of a Peugeot 407. The sat nav and HUD looked old fashioned even back then. Drives and handles just like you would expect a big citroen to do. Best colour combo is black exterior with cream interior but probably hard to come by. Any other colour looks odd because the car isnt colour coded. Engines are bulletproof and see service in other PSA cars not to mention diesel Jags. If you can find one in good condition at a good price buy it and waft. No experience of the smaller engine.
I bought a 3 year old C6 with 40k miles on it in 2010. It is now almost on 100k.
Apart from servicing, brakes and tyres, it had a suspension strut changed under warranty, a new alternator, a new starter motor, a few suspension bushes and a couple of bits of cooling system changed. It also needs a new gearbox, which should have been done under warranty, but wasn't, because Citroen don't give a stuff about customer retention. I think it has probably cost me around £4k in maintenance and repairs over the past 60k miles.
Road tax is around £500 a year. I pay £250 a year for fully comp insurance. It averages around 30mpg in daily use, and around 40mpg on a long journey keeping to speed limits.
To drive, pulling away is very slow (sometimes scarily so) but once it's going it accelerates nicely and unlike many more modern cars I have driven it can overtake things whilst going up hills.
The steering feels more like a computer game than a real car, but the car holds the road very well.
Seats are comfortable, and I like the interior generally. It looks like what someone in the 1970s might imagine the car of the future to look like.
Even though the car and the company that made it really annoy me sometimes, I can't think of anything to replace it with, so I'll carry on paying the repair bills for now. It's got a lot cheaper to run since I stopped using main dealers and started using a local French car specialist.
Apart from servicing, brakes and tyres, it had a suspension strut changed under warranty, a new alternator, a new starter motor, a few suspension bushes and a couple of bits of cooling system changed. It also needs a new gearbox, which should have been done under warranty, but wasn't, because Citroen don't give a stuff about customer retention. I think it has probably cost me around £4k in maintenance and repairs over the past 60k miles.
Road tax is around £500 a year. I pay £250 a year for fully comp insurance. It averages around 30mpg in daily use, and around 40mpg on a long journey keeping to speed limits.
To drive, pulling away is very slow (sometimes scarily so) but once it's going it accelerates nicely and unlike many more modern cars I have driven it can overtake things whilst going up hills.
The steering feels more like a computer game than a real car, but the car holds the road very well.
Seats are comfortable, and I like the interior generally. It looks like what someone in the 1970s might imagine the car of the future to look like.
Even though the car and the company that made it really annoy me sometimes, I can't think of anything to replace it with, so I'll carry on paying the repair bills for now. It's got a lot cheaper to run since I stopped using main dealers and started using a local French car specialist.
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