Citroen C1 Airscape Flair
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Y16 SES said:
avenger286 said:
You have done some miles! Nice picture of the car with the seil bridge in the background. I used to live on the island as a kid in the village of balvicar and went to primary school in easdale. While you were in Glen Coe you should of went down Glen etive.
I have, bought the car with 3147 miles on it and it now has over 15000, the vast majority being for “pleasure”. Hasn’t put a foot wrong either, despite being on some pretty dreadful roads (like the single lane one up to the Seil bridge). The passenger window rattles, dealer says there is nothing wrong thoughIt looks exceptional, you were very lucky to live there!
I’ll put it on my list, when the weather gets better I’ll be making a trip back up
avenger286 said:
Yes I was very lucky to grow up there! I was up in Glen Coe last weekend pity the snow was about gone. I would recommend going over to Mull if you liked Seil. I still get back up there 3/4 times a year as I live in Seaton Carew in England now. Usually get up to Mull for 2 weeks in October to do the Mull rally.
I’ll try to get over as soon as I can, weather means I can’t right now (well I could but parents strongly discourage it)mwstewart said:
You are a real enthusiast - it's nice to read your posts. I remember the fun and adventure in my first car - yours is a not newer and nicer than mine was!
Thank you, I normally get told the exact opposite! Most people don’t consider me an enthusiast because I quite like electric cars, see the point in SUVs (wouldn’t buy one though) and I don’t see the huge hatred towards automatics! The internet can be a great place! You’re not the first person to say that! I also would have had a complete banger but a death in the family meant I got a bit of inheritance, so of course I bought a newer, better car than i was originally planning on. What did you have?
Good thread, nice to see a young enthusiast enjoying their little car.
There's nothing wrong with a cheap, low powered vehicle and it doesn't mean you're any less of a car person - it's a mindset thing and nothing more. I've had a few quick-ish cars, and sold my 414bhp M3 to now run around in a 59bhp Skoda Citigo (also have an MX5 with a heady 160bhp as my weekend car, which is genuinely more fun than the M3) and the Skoda is a hoot; willing, thrummy 3 pot engine, utterly tenacious chassis and fantastic levels of grip, even on Bridgestone Eco-something-or-other tyres.
Keep it up, OP.
There's nothing wrong with a cheap, low powered vehicle and it doesn't mean you're any less of a car person - it's a mindset thing and nothing more. I've had a few quick-ish cars, and sold my 414bhp M3 to now run around in a 59bhp Skoda Citigo (also have an MX5 with a heady 160bhp as my weekend car, which is genuinely more fun than the M3) and the Skoda is a hoot; willing, thrummy 3 pot engine, utterly tenacious chassis and fantastic levels of grip, even on Bridgestone Eco-something-or-other tyres.
Keep it up, OP.
This is great to read.
My first car was a Peugeot 107. Was great fun, and I learned a lot. I remember properly hammering it around some country lanes; the steering and chassis feel actually wasn't bad, and it made a great little noise.
Everything went to pot as soon as you put a fat passenger in, though.
My first car was a Peugeot 107. Was great fun, and I learned a lot. I remember properly hammering it around some country lanes; the steering and chassis feel actually wasn't bad, and it made a great little noise.
Everything went to pot as soon as you put a fat passenger in, though.
Welcome to PH dude.
Excellent post and I'm loving your first car. I'm a wee bit older than you, however my first car was a Citroen. I absolutely adored my Saxo, all 1400cc rampant French horses. In my first year I racked up 20k, both on and off road.
I haven't had a chance to drive a modern day Citroen, but I bet they are superb.
Keep up the good work
Excellent post and I'm loving your first car. I'm a wee bit older than you, however my first car was a Citroen. I absolutely adored my Saxo, all 1400cc rampant French horses. In my first year I racked up 20k, both on and off road.
I haven't had a chance to drive a modern day Citroen, but I bet they are superb.
Keep up the good work
Y16 SES said:
Thank you, I normally get told the exact opposite! Most people don’t consider me an enthusiast because I quite like electric cars, see the point in SUVs (wouldn’t buy one though) and I don’t see the huge hatred towards automatics! The internet can be a great place!
You’re not the first person to say that! I also would have had a complete banger but a death in the family meant I got a bit of inheritance, so of course I bought a newer, better car than i was originally planning on. What did you have?
A Mk3 Fiesta 1.1L (Google image below). You’re not the first person to say that! I also would have had a complete banger but a death in the family meant I got a bit of inheritance, so of course I bought a newer, better car than i was originally planning on. What did you have?
The 'L' was a trim level which equated to a five speed gearbox, a glovebox lid, and digital clock amongst other things. Can you imagine?
I loved it all the same and spent most of my spare funds on fuel
5er said:
Good thread, nice to see a young enthusiast enjoying their little car.
There's nothing wrong with a cheap, low powered vehicle and it doesn't mean you're any less of a car person - it's a mindset thing and nothing more. I've had a few quick-ish cars, and sold my 414bhp M3 to now run around in a 59bhp Skoda Citigo (also have an MX5 with a heady 160bhp as my weekend car, which is genuinely more fun than the M3) and the Skoda is a hoot; willing, thrummy 3 pot engine, utterly tenacious chassis and fantastic levels of grip, even on Bridgestone Eco-something-or-other tyres.
Keep it up, OP.
The eco-tyres at strangely grippy. Don't know why, but I know I'll be replacing the tyres with the same Continental Eco-Contacts when they need done (very soon)There's nothing wrong with a cheap, low powered vehicle and it doesn't mean you're any less of a car person - it's a mindset thing and nothing more. I've had a few quick-ish cars, and sold my 414bhp M3 to now run around in a 59bhp Skoda Citigo (also have an MX5 with a heady 160bhp as my weekend car, which is genuinely more fun than the M3) and the Skoda is a hoot; willing, thrummy 3 pot engine, utterly tenacious chassis and fantastic levels of grip, even on Bridgestone Eco-something-or-other tyres.
Keep it up, OP.
mwstewart said:
Y16 SES said:
Thank you, I normally get told the exact opposite! Most people don’t consider me an enthusiast because I quite like electric cars, see the point in SUVs (wouldn’t buy one though) and I don’t see the huge hatred towards automatics! The internet can be a great place!
You’re not the first person to say that! I also would have had a complete banger but a death in the family meant I got a bit of inheritance, so of course I bought a newer, better car than i was originally planning on. What did you have?
A Mk3 Fiesta 1.1L (Google image below). You’re not the first person to say that! I also would have had a complete banger but a death in the family meant I got a bit of inheritance, so of course I bought a newer, better car than i was originally planning on. What did you have?
The 'L' was a trim level which equated to a five speed gearbox, a glovebox lid, and digital clock amongst other things. Can you imagine?
I loved it all the same and spent most of my spare funds on fuel
brickwall said:
This is great to read.
My first car was a Peugeot 107. Was great fun, and I learned a lot. I remember properly hammering it around some country lanes; the steering and chassis feel actually wasn't bad, and it made a great little noise.
Everything went to pot as soon as you put a fat passenger in, though.
Fat passenger comment is spot on! Had to pick up my parents from the bus station after a long weekend holiday they had, two adults (which are admittedly a bit overweight) and their suitcases in the car. It didn't like it, only time it set off nicely was when we were pointing downhill, and the handbrake was holding it it was all heavy!My first car was a Peugeot 107. Was great fun, and I learned a lot. I remember properly hammering it around some country lanes; the steering and chassis feel actually wasn't bad, and it made a great little noise.
Everything went to pot as soon as you put a fat passenger in, though.
Pig benis said:
Welcome to PH dude.
Excellent post and I'm loving your first car. I'm a wee bit older than you, however my first car was a Citroen. I absolutely adored my Saxo, all 1400cc rampant French horses. In my first year I racked up 20k, both on and off road.
I haven't had a chance to drive a modern day Citroen, but I bet they are superb.
Keep up the good work
Modern day Citroens are lovely, although people still turn their noses up at them because of the past.Excellent post and I'm loving your first car. I'm a wee bit older than you, however my first car was a Citroen. I absolutely adored my Saxo, all 1400cc rampant French horses. In my first year I racked up 20k, both on and off road.
I haven't had a chance to drive a modern day Citroen, but I bet they are superb.
Keep up the good work
20k is a lot! I thought I was driving an excessive amount!
I bought a Mondeo at 17 and loved it. I now have two at 26.
In this thread there are some people having a go and criticising. Do not take any notice of them!
It is great to see a young lad enjoying his first car so much, and it is a fantastic car to have too.
It is also smart looking and very presentable which is what you need.
I get stick because my Mondeo is not considered ph-worthy, I don't care.
Enjoy your car, you could buy a top of the range <insert favourite dream car here> and it will NEVER be as good as that 'first car feeling'.
In this thread there are some people having a go and criticising. Do not take any notice of them!
It is great to see a young lad enjoying his first car so much, and it is a fantastic car to have too.
It is also smart looking and very presentable which is what you need.
I get stick because my Mondeo is not considered ph-worthy, I don't care.
Enjoy your car, you could buy a top of the range <insert favourite dream car here> and it will NEVER be as good as that 'first car feeling'.
Edited by zarjaz1991 on Wednesday 21st March 15:14
zarjaz1991 said:
I bought a Mondeo at 17 and loved it. I know have two at 26.
In this thread there are some people having a go and criticising. Do not take any notice of them!
It is great to see a young lad enjoying his first car so much, and it is a fantastic car to have too.
It is also smart looking and very presentable which is what you need.
I get stick because my Mondeo is not considered ph-worthy, I don't care.
Enjoy your car, you could buy a top of the range <insert favourite dream car here> and it will NEVER be as good as that 'first car feeling'.
A Mondeo at 17? That's certainly a different first car! I bet you had many "dad's car" joked...In this thread there are some people having a go and criticising. Do not take any notice of them!
It is great to see a young lad enjoying his first car so much, and it is a fantastic car to have too.
It is also smart looking and very presentable which is what you need.
I get stick because my Mondeo is not considered ph-worthy, I don't care.
Enjoy your car, you could buy a top of the range <insert favourite dream car here> and it will NEVER be as good as that 'first car feeling'.
It looks smart from a distance, but up close it isn't as in good a nick as I would want. Dent from being door dinged, humongous scratch from rear wheel to front wheel from a hit and run incident and for some strange reason there is a lot of tiny little scratches just above the passenger door. In reality it needs a full, proper detail, which I don't have the skills to expertise to carry out. Thinking of getting it done professionally in the summer.
Many people do say that selling your first car is the worst thing you can do and you will forever want it back, so it seems this first car feeling really is true!
I came here from that parking thread!
I really do enjoy reading owners write-ups of 'ordinary' obtainable cars. I like the look of yours too, the higher spec ones look great in darker colours.
They're pretty bomb proof too from what I've heard. A security company that looks after some of our buildings at work had a fleet of them a few years back. All as basic as they come, with the diddy 3 cylinder engine, but were used to run between all their sites across the north of England. As they were pool cars they were given a pretty hard time as they didn't have regular drivers to look after them. They all had well over 150k hard miles on the clock when they got rid of them, but apart from routine servicing and tyres they didn't have any major issues with any of them.
There's no finer feeling though than having the freedom to go where you want, when you want in your first car.
I remember shortly after I bought my first car, a 5 year old five-door Astra, my dad was quite surprised when I turned up in it. 'It's a grandads car'. Grandads car maybe, but it was cheap to run, insurance was cheaper than a Corsa with a smaller engine, and my mates could all fit in it. Our first road trip was to Southport on a nice summers day. Did about 170k miles in it in the 5 years I had it, and apart from one random breakdown that even confused the AA man (as it fixed itself!) it never let me down.
So many great memories are made in your first car, and they're always so much more special than any other car you'll own because of that.
Looking forward to future updates with the C1!
I really do enjoy reading owners write-ups of 'ordinary' obtainable cars. I like the look of yours too, the higher spec ones look great in darker colours.
They're pretty bomb proof too from what I've heard. A security company that looks after some of our buildings at work had a fleet of them a few years back. All as basic as they come, with the diddy 3 cylinder engine, but were used to run between all their sites across the north of England. As they were pool cars they were given a pretty hard time as they didn't have regular drivers to look after them. They all had well over 150k hard miles on the clock when they got rid of them, but apart from routine servicing and tyres they didn't have any major issues with any of them.
There's no finer feeling though than having the freedom to go where you want, when you want in your first car.
I remember shortly after I bought my first car, a 5 year old five-door Astra, my dad was quite surprised when I turned up in it. 'It's a grandads car'. Grandads car maybe, but it was cheap to run, insurance was cheaper than a Corsa with a smaller engine, and my mates could all fit in it. Our first road trip was to Southport on a nice summers day. Did about 170k miles in it in the 5 years I had it, and apart from one random breakdown that even confused the AA man (as it fixed itself!) it never let me down.
So many great memories are made in your first car, and they're always so much more special than any other car you'll own because of that.
Looking forward to future updates with the C1!
WarrenB said:
I came here from that parking thread!
I really do enjoy reading owners write-ups of 'ordinary' obtainable cars. I like the look of yours too, the higher spec ones look great in darker colours.
They're pretty bomb proof too from what I've heard. A security company that looks after some of our buildings at work had a fleet of them a few years back. All as basic as they come, with the diddy 3 cylinder engine, but were used to run between all their sites across the north of England. As they were pool cars they were given a pretty hard time as they didn't have regular drivers to look after them. They all had well over 150k hard miles on the clock when they got rid of them, but apart from routine servicing and tyres they didn't have any major issues with any of them.
There's no finer feeling though than having the freedom to go where you want, when you want in your first car.
I remember shortly after I bought my first car, a 5 year old five-door Astra, my dad was quite surprised when I turned up in it. 'It's a grandads car'. Grandads car maybe, but it was cheap to run, insurance was cheaper than a Corsa with a smaller engine, and my mates could all fit in it. Our first road trip was to Southport on a nice summers day. Did about 170k miles in it in the 5 years I had it, and apart from one random breakdown that even confused the AA man (as it fixed itself!) it never let me down.
So many great memories are made in your first car, and they're always so much more special than any other car you'll own because of that.
Looking forward to future updates with the C1!
That parking thread blew up much more than I wanted to!I really do enjoy reading owners write-ups of 'ordinary' obtainable cars. I like the look of yours too, the higher spec ones look great in darker colours.
They're pretty bomb proof too from what I've heard. A security company that looks after some of our buildings at work had a fleet of them a few years back. All as basic as they come, with the diddy 3 cylinder engine, but were used to run between all their sites across the north of England. As they were pool cars they were given a pretty hard time as they didn't have regular drivers to look after them. They all had well over 150k hard miles on the clock when they got rid of them, but apart from routine servicing and tyres they didn't have any major issues with any of them.
There's no finer feeling though than having the freedom to go where you want, when you want in your first car.
I remember shortly after I bought my first car, a 5 year old five-door Astra, my dad was quite surprised when I turned up in it. 'It's a grandads car'. Grandads car maybe, but it was cheap to run, insurance was cheaper than a Corsa with a smaller engine, and my mates could all fit in it. Our first road trip was to Southport on a nice summers day. Did about 170k miles in it in the 5 years I had it, and apart from one random breakdown that even confused the AA man (as it fixed itself!) it never let me down.
So many great memories are made in your first car, and they're always so much more special than any other car you'll own because of that.
Looking forward to future updates with the C1!
It's sometimes better to get something most people don't have, as crash statistics are lower, so your Astra was probably a very good call!
170k in 5 years!? You must have had a hugely long commute or something.
It looks in very good nick in that picture, do you still have it?
My job involves a lot of driving, so during the week it was on the road a lot, as well as random road trips at weekends which racked up the miles.
Every 6 months regardless of mileage I'd have it fully serviced, which I think helped a lot with the reliability. With around 204k on the clock the engine was still mint, quiet, pulled well, good on fuel still, etc.
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, I traded it in against a new Land Rover Defender in 2009. Even more unfortunate, I came across the Astra in a local scrap yard a couple of months later. I can understand why really, who'd want a mid range, mega mileage 10 year old Astra? As much as I loved the Defender, specced just how I wanted, it just wasn't as special to me in the same was as the Astra was.
Every 6 months regardless of mileage I'd have it fully serviced, which I think helped a lot with the reliability. With around 204k on the clock the engine was still mint, quiet, pulled well, good on fuel still, etc.
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, I traded it in against a new Land Rover Defender in 2009. Even more unfortunate, I came across the Astra in a local scrap yard a couple of months later. I can understand why really, who'd want a mid range, mega mileage 10 year old Astra? As much as I loved the Defender, specced just how I wanted, it just wasn't as special to me in the same was as the Astra was.
WarrenB said:
My job involves a lot of driving, so during the week it was on the road a lot, as well as random road trips at weekends which racked up the miles.
Every 6 months regardless of mileage I'd have it fully serviced, which I think helped a lot with the reliability. With around 204k on the clock the engine was still mint, quiet, pulled well, good on fuel still, etc.
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, I traded it in against a new Land Rover Defender in 2009. Even more unfortunate, I came across the Astra in a local scrap yard a couple of months later. I can understand why really, who'd want a mid range, mega mileage 10 year old Astra? As much as I loved the Defender, specced just how I wanted, it just wasn't as special to me in the same was as the Astra was.
Oh, that's a bummer. Couldn't you have given the scrapper a coupe of hundred quid to get the Astra back? Even if it wasn't allowed back on the road, you might have been able to do something else?Every 6 months regardless of mileage I'd have it fully serviced, which I think helped a lot with the reliability. With around 204k on the clock the engine was still mint, quiet, pulled well, good on fuel still, etc.
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, I traded it in against a new Land Rover Defender in 2009. Even more unfortunate, I came across the Astra in a local scrap yard a couple of months later. I can understand why really, who'd want a mid range, mega mileage 10 year old Astra? As much as I loved the Defender, specced just how I wanted, it just wasn't as special to me in the same was as the Astra was.
Not an exciting update, just showing what happened to today (nothing exciting)
Had to go to a local Post Office to hand in some packages for the charity shop I currently volunteer for however the car park was very busy, despite the fact there was only one person in the building and there was only one space available; next to a badly parked Triumph (not badly parked in my "defensive parking" sense, just badly parked). I parked next to it (never normally would) as my thoughts were: Classic Car, owned by an enthusiast or an old guy, both of who I assumed wouldn't hit my car. Didn't have to worry, I was in and out in like 3 minutes and the Triumph was still there. So, my parking:
I know this is Pistonheads and thus there are many "driving gods" who will say they could have driven their Range Rover in the gap with one smooth swoop but I don't care, I'm pretty proud of how close I got to the wall.
Had to go to a local Post Office to hand in some packages for the charity shop I currently volunteer for however the car park was very busy, despite the fact there was only one person in the building and there was only one space available; next to a badly parked Triumph (not badly parked in my "defensive parking" sense, just badly parked). I parked next to it (never normally would) as my thoughts were: Classic Car, owned by an enthusiast or an old guy, both of who I assumed wouldn't hit my car. Didn't have to worry, I was in and out in like 3 minutes and the Triumph was still there. So, my parking:
I know this is Pistonheads and thus there are many "driving gods" who will say they could have driven their Range Rover in the gap with one smooth swoop but I don't care, I'm pretty proud of how close I got to the wall.
Edited by Y16 SES on Wednesday 11th April 15:17
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