Thank you for the update, Richard. You opened my eyes to the C6 and what a great car it is, in spite of the inevitable 'very modern classic' plastic issues. It's been interesting watching the series on this car, as all of your videos are. Hope that the rest of 2023 is better for you.
Well, I for one appreciate the C6. I once considered a 407 Coupé and whilst it would likely have been very expensive to run, it doesn't stop you wanting something unusual. It's been interesting to see this one's journey.
… we shouldn’t forget how much work, time and money you have put into the car to resolve and restore it. It’s a ton better than the vehicle you bought!!! I love it
I'm in full agreement about the quality of French roads. All three of mine were even more of a dream to drive from Warsash to Newhaven, then Dieppe to 03370 Saint-Palais and back again. Every time. I even 'did' C6 CYX's (originally RO06 HRF) timing belts whilst there at the outlaws. (AND the coolant inlet manifold on the front of the fwd bank! -- A/c comp off [swinging on its hoses], alt off and reach up into the gap... The C6 was BORN for French roads!!
Family holidays to France were a game of chance in the 70's. Dad worked for Air France and could get cheap air tickets "if" we went standby. I don't remember being bored at the airport. We once flew to Paris and drove from Paris to the SW in a hired 1100 Fiesta. It took two days, When we went to bed, Mum said every time she closed her eyes, all she saw was those long straight roads with the Poplar? trees flashing by each side! Hope you managed to chill out nicely.
Those roads 👍 in my humble opinion Richard whatever things are going on back in Blighty it is better to speak about it. Not publicly of course but it seems many of us this year have things going on, physically, mentally or both, and I have learned that to keep things too close to chest is not so good. I hope whatever is happening improves soon. As for the C6… still love it and I’m trying to think of a car I could let go (not a simple thing) to have space and funds to buy one. The previous owner wanted yours saved and that is commendable (as you said) and it would be great if it were to go to someone with the same ethic. My cars are pampered and many monies spent, not to hope to make a profit, but to keep history on the road. Anyway, if you ever wonder what’s going on in your world… remember… you own an SM. ATB.
Love your Vlog and your presenting style. It's always sad when you have to say goodbye to a car. I cried when I emptied my possessions from the first car I had to say goodbye to - after taking her from 15k at 5 years old to 120k at 7 3/4 ... and that was a NA maestro diesel - hardly a class car! I've only once sold a car that wasn't dead or dying (all the others scrapped or given to friends at my previously local garage) - the last one having 4 years of suspension failures at Mot's - I just couldn't afford to repair her fully, always battling the damage our lovely roads have inflicted. I'd love to do more of the repairs myself, but being a daily driver and my health making crawling around on the floor really painful for the next couple of days, I could never give them the love they needed. So, Mr Kitch, please accept all the positive energy and best wishes I can direct to you. Please use it to recuperate. To recover from the grief of having to part with a much loved car. All the very best!
I'd almost try to argue you should keep the C6, but if you think it needs to go you're in a better place to make that decision than any of us are. Just don't have any regrets about it mate.
Your post feels like the end of a difficult relationship with a beauty, which demanded a huge amount of effort but was just not reciprocal enough to contunue any longer. Don't worry, chin up, I am sure that there will be other Citroens >>> !!
I appreciate the C6, and what you've done to it Richard. The C6 series has been fascinating to watch. Glad the trip has gone well in the attractive C6. I guess such a trip was good for the car in the end. Perfect French roads.
13:28 That problem does exist also for other makes. People somehow more and more refuse to seriously repair Your car while still demanding Your money for the non-work they _call_ repair. Plus You will find often more damage/problems when tackling it Yourself finally than You originally had when You brought it to the "mechanic" in the first place, and it is often difficult to blame that on the "mechanics" even when You _know_ they caused it. You, Sir, are blessed with Your own shop and knowledge.
As a C6 owner myself I've loved watching your series of vidoes on fixing things. It's the best (and possibly only!) channel on TH-cam to document the highs and lows of owning a C6 combined with the practical aspects and your humourous presenting style. Thank you. I'm sad to hear that you're thinking of passing it on but I almost understand. Every time it comes to paying for road tax, MOT and repairs I think the same! (I hope you find a way to keep it.) I wish you every success.
Brilliant Video Rich, it's been great to see you working on the C6, one day I will have to make it over to Paris with the wife for.a break. That Clio you spotted in Paris was rather tidy.
Good job with the vid mate ! Thanks for showing me the car... how bad is for DIY. I want one now Keep making good content with Interesting projects! More difficult more viewers
Sooooo happy C6 went with you (you sneaky so and so, you posted the Picasso pic on the You Tube short message!) - told you she’d never miss a beat, and really glad you now have that memory! Whomever takes her on next (and no, I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise) MUST commit to you what you committed to the previous owner - to keep her from the scrapper, so release carefully ! Great update Kitch, and looking forward to the next one Keep ‘em comin’! JCHK
Many thanks for another very good video. Good to her that you made it. I really liked the French scenery and music at the end of the video. Regadiing the reliability of the c6 may i suggest that some people seem to delight in saying that French cars are rubbish and unreliable. Pass the Picasso proves what mileage a Citroen is capable of. What an anazing achievement.
good to hear all is well so far. Fingers crossed for the returm journey. I have lttle faith in just about any modern car. They all seem to break quite easily.
It's interesting watching vids about older cars and I now realise my 2010 Landcruiser 200 in Australia is basically the same age. It hasn't missed a beat in the 13 years I've owned it and only had regular maintenance. That said it's only done 180,000km / 110,000 miles (mostly towing and off-road) in those years. V8 4.5L twin turbo Diesel, 6 Spd auto, About to set off on another 6000km trip to the desert, towing again
Outstanding work there Rich, getting her ready for a deadline, though I guess that doesn’t help with the stress. She is outrageously beautiful. She deserves to have cash lavished on her. Could you talk Jay Emm into buying her? ;-)
Well summed up. The more you need to do to get to “that broken bit” the more likely you’re going to get something else to repair/ replace. Regardless of the make or model. Here’s a quick idea ( I’m full of these… ) why not transplant in a normally aspirated XUD ? It’s less complex, bullet proof and if you got a 1.7 HubNut special it will be “ unique “….. mmmm… might lack a bit of performance but would be “interesting “…..😂
How about inserting a temporary filter into the cooling system and just leave it idling to see if you can catch some of the crap, or drain some off and see how long it takes to settle out?
@@julienbee3467 You see the trouble Google translate can get you into? I'm well out of my depth. Now how did it go? M. Bertillon travail a Orly Airport...
I do, sometimes. I'm not a full-time Citroen mech at the moment, but there are certain jobs I can do. The petrol I did a head to head with a while back was a customer's car.
Love the little montage at the end with the nice music. I love old Frenchy stuff. Does the C6 have a bypass valve solenoid? I chased an unknown 'whooshing' sound in my sister's Saab 9-5 for years until I replaced that part. It was slowly failing until one day it gave a p1110 code. Changed the solenoid and all was well. I enjoyed the series but did feel sorry for you, especially when you find yourself deep into something.. only to something else has gone wrong too. Arghh!
I remember those horrendous white in the front, yellow in the back 90s plate. Imagine removing the black ones off a black 5 series to put those. Grandad thought his beloved car was ruined.
As an Australian I cannot fathom the price of cars in the UK. As the same car down here. Even if I did all the work myself as I’m also a mechanic. Would cost the equivalent of at least £10-£12k. If you got a shop to do the work it would be about £18k. You cannot buy a running & driving C6 here for under £7.5k it is just impossible. How is it so cheap to buy used cars in the UK? As in Australia it is astronomical the prices. A 2007 like yours with 100,000miles is £12k.
@@UPnDOWNif I were to do that it would cost the same as buying one locally. As the import costs are hideously expensive as I would have to pay import duties of 15% on the market value of the vehicle in $AUD plus have the vehicle certified for use in Australia With new vin plates among other things. We also need an import permit which is a major pain in bum. If I was to pay you a bit over £4K for your car it would cost me another £4K to get in the road. Such is our stupid system over here.
Yep, old cars break, that's the nature of it: compared to the piles of rust & filler I mispent my youth on, your C6 is a paragon of virtue...just a very complicated one...
I may have done! There are hold ups with almost all the other cars at the moment, which I won't go into just yet. Only car I can really progress is the TVR, as things stand. The C6 has the beauty of being roadworthy so it's like a 'rolling resto'.
Such a headlining on such a recent car... I agree.
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Dear Reader, When I look at this video, in wich Mr. UPnDOWN can enjoy all the work, he has put into the C6, I start to think of a solution for not having to dump the car made by - and who made Mr. UPnDOWN into a dedicated technician. A vacation car, mostly put in a dry shed (outside of the garage?), and only insured and road taxed at the vacation itself? A car you can rent from Mr. UPnDOWN for vacations or whatever? A car donated to a charity (free transport for...let's say poor people who want to go on vacation), where Mr. UPnDOWN get's a servicecontract and the car to use for his own vacations? So it gives me energy to think about solutions, Mr. UPnDOWN perhaps isn't really interested in. Well, at least it's well mend. With Kind Regards, Michel F. van den Brun Dutch pedestrian
Michel, I am sure that it will go to a good home. Rental is impossible for legal reasons and that's the same situation for charities. Kitch now needs to release it into the wild where maybe it will find a DS3 to settle down with and bring up a couple of Meharis...😎
to the nay sayers don't forget on the previous trip this "unreliable" citroen did france and back without any real prep because a super reliable ford shit itself
Well, the S-Max had a wobbly first year with us, then we pretty dependable for the next 5-6 years (other than a few electrical gremlins). Then last summer the real issues started, so I'll be trying to figure that one out next.
Thank you for the update, Richard. You opened my eyes to the C6 and what a great car it is, in spite of the inevitable 'very modern classic' plastic issues. It's been interesting watching the series on this car, as all of your videos are. Hope that the rest of 2023 is better for you.
Well, I for one appreciate the C6. I once considered a 407 Coupé and whilst it would likely have been very expensive to run, it doesn't stop you wanting something unusual. It's been interesting to see this one's journey.
… we shouldn’t forget how much work, time and money you have put into the car to resolve and restore it. It’s a ton better than the vehicle you bought!!! I love it
I'm in full agreement about the quality of French roads. All three of mine were even more of a dream to drive from Warsash to Newhaven, then Dieppe to 03370 Saint-Palais and back again. Every time. I even 'did' C6 CYX's (originally RO06 HRF) timing belts whilst there at the outlaws. (AND the coolant inlet manifold on the front of the fwd bank! -- A/c comp off [swinging on its hoses], alt off and reach up into the gap... The C6 was BORN for French roads!!
Family holidays to France were a game of chance in the 70's. Dad worked for Air France and could get cheap air tickets "if" we went standby. I don't remember being bored at the airport. We once flew to Paris and drove from Paris to the SW in a hired 1100 Fiesta. It took two days, When we went to bed, Mum said every time she closed her eyes, all she saw was those long straight roads with the Poplar? trees flashing by each side!
Hope you managed to chill out nicely.
Surprised the views were low on this C6 saga, I've always thought of it as a core part of the channel. Can't please everyone 🤷♂️
Glad to hear the C6 made it and nearly 35mpg isn't bad at all for a big barge
It'll tip 40mpg if you keep the speeds legal in the UK (or raining in France!)
Great she made it over to France 👍👍 also great work getting her ready for the trip 👍
Not all cars got charisma, your C6 does. I really enjoy hearing about your work on it. A pity, if it must go
Those roads 👍 in my humble opinion Richard whatever things are going on back in Blighty it is better to speak about it. Not publicly of course but it seems many of us this year have things going on, physically, mentally or both, and I have learned that to keep things too close to chest is not so good. I hope whatever is happening improves soon.
As for the C6… still love it and I’m trying to think of a car I could let go (not a simple thing) to have space and funds to buy one. The previous owner wanted yours saved and that is commendable (as you said) and it would be great if it were to go to someone with the same ethic. My cars are pampered and many monies spent, not to hope to make a profit, but to keep history on the road.
Anyway, if you ever wonder what’s going on in your world… remember… you own an SM. ATB.
8l/100km is really good for a diesel V6
I get almost 23/100 in my Jeep, higher is better right? 😂
@@MattBrownbill of course! 🤣
Kudos to you for all the work you did. Thanks for the ride along.
Just realised you’re getting dangerously close to 10k subs. Keep up the excellent and informative content 😀
Scarily close!
Love your Vlog and your presenting style. It's always sad when you have to say goodbye to a car. I cried when I emptied my possessions from the first car I had to say goodbye to - after taking her from 15k at 5 years old to 120k at 7 3/4 ... and that was a NA maestro diesel - hardly a class car!
I've only once sold a car that wasn't dead or dying (all the others scrapped or given to friends at my previously local garage) - the last one having 4 years of suspension failures at Mot's - I just couldn't afford to repair her fully, always battling the damage our lovely roads have inflicted. I'd love to do more of the repairs myself, but being a daily driver and my health making crawling around on the floor really painful for the next couple of days, I could never give them the love they needed.
So, Mr Kitch, please accept all the positive energy and best wishes I can direct to you. Please use it to recuperate. To recover from the grief of having to part with a much loved car.
All the very best!
I'd almost try to argue you should keep the C6, but if you think it needs to go you're in a better place to make that decision than any of us are. Just don't have any regrets about it mate.
Your post feels like the end of a difficult relationship with a beauty, which demanded a huge amount of effort but was just not reciprocal enough to contunue any longer. Don't worry, chin up, I am sure that there will be other Citroens >>> !!
I appreciate the C6, and what you've done to it Richard. The C6 series has been fascinating to watch. Glad the trip has gone well in the attractive C6. I guess such a trip was good for the car in the end. Perfect French roads.
Great video will be sad to see the c6 go but at least you had one last trip to it's home together ❤️
13:28 That problem does exist also for other makes. People somehow more and more refuse to seriously repair Your car while still demanding Your money for the non-work they _call_ repair. Plus You will find often more damage/problems when tackling it Yourself finally than You originally had when You brought it to the "mechanic" in the first place, and it is often difficult to blame that on the "mechanics" even when You _know_ they caused it. You, Sir, are blessed with Your own shop and knowledge.
As a C6 owner myself I've loved watching your series of vidoes on fixing things. It's the best (and possibly only!) channel on TH-cam to document the highs and lows of owning a C6 combined with the practical aspects and your humourous presenting style. Thank you. I'm sad to hear that you're thinking of passing it on but I almost understand. Every time it comes to paying for road tax, MOT and repairs I think the same! (I hope you find a way to keep it.) I wish you every success.
Thank you for this video series. I for one have throughly enjoyed the ups and downs. Keep up the great work 👏👍
You're welcome.
Brilliant Video Rich, it's been great to see you working on the C6, one day I will have to make it over to Paris with the wife for.a break. That Clio you spotted in Paris was rather tidy.
Thanks for the update, keep the memories.
Good job with the vid mate ! Thanks for showing me the car... how bad is for DIY. I want one now
Keep making good content with Interesting projects! More difficult more viewers
Sooooo happy C6 went with you (you sneaky so and so, you posted the Picasso pic on the You Tube short message!) - told you she’d never miss a beat, and really glad you now have that memory!
Whomever takes her on next (and no, I’m not going to try to convince you otherwise) MUST commit to you what you committed to the previous owner - to keep her from the scrapper, so release carefully !
Great update Kitch, and looking forward to the next one
Keep ‘em comin’!
JCHK
Many thanks for another very good video. Good to her that you made it. I really liked the French scenery and music at the end of the video. Regadiing the reliability of the c6 may i suggest that some people seem to delight in saying that French cars are rubbish and unreliable. Pass the Picasso proves what mileage a Citroen is capable of. What an anazing achievement.
good to hear all is well so far. Fingers crossed for the returm journey. I have lttle faith in just about any modern car. They all seem to break quite easily.
Depends what you mean by modern, I guess, but I know what you mean.
I wish you'd keep the C6 since you will only make better and more reliable because you know how to fix it. Thanks for sharing 🤗
Well done it made it Kudos big time. Don't sell it. You now know where you stand with the C6.
It's interesting watching vids about older cars and I now realise my 2010 Landcruiser 200 in Australia is basically the same age. It hasn't missed a beat in the 13 years I've owned it and only had regular maintenance. That said it's only done 180,000km / 110,000 miles (mostly towing and off-road) in those years. V8 4.5L twin turbo Diesel, 6 Spd auto, About to set off on another 6000km trip to the desert, towing again
Outstanding work there Rich, getting her ready for a deadline, though I guess that doesn’t help with the stress.
She is outrageously beautiful. She deserves to have cash lavished on her. Could you talk Jay Emm into buying her? ;-)
Haha! I think he's probably content with his current Citroen plight!
Thanks for sharing your work on the C6 and its ups and downs.
Lovely motor car but working class people just can’t afford to have one.Thanks for the ride to France and I hope the C6 goes to a good home,cheers.
Most Excellent! Thanks for sharing! 👍
I had a berlingo and the reason why i went out was becaus all the plastic parts where crumbling. It was execpt that a very good car.
Well summed up. The more you need to do to get to “that broken bit” the more likely you’re going to get something else to repair/ replace. Regardless of the make or model.
Here’s a quick idea ( I’m full of these… ) why not transplant in a normally aspirated XUD ? It’s less complex, bullet proof and if you got a 1.7 HubNut special it will be “ unique “….. mmmm… might lack a bit of performance but would be “interesting “…..😂
You had your share of the car now its time to let it go for you. So up to the next car
How about inserting a temporary filter into the cooling system and just leave it idling to see if you can catch some of the crap, or drain some off and see how long it takes to settle out?
Nice thinking, though would probably be easier to drain the coolant and filter it out of the car.
Eh bien, j'ai vraiment apprécié le voyage C6, je le manque déjà.
Et sympa qu'il soit allé à la campagne et à Paris
@@julienbee3467 You see the trouble Google translate can get you into? I'm well out of my depth. Now how did it go? M. Bertillon travail a Orly Airport...
@@ianjoyce5120 😉
A rare car in France did you see another C6. Or all they in the Netherlands and Germany.
Hors serie is a special magazine not the regular monthly.
Absolutely love the C6 series l have one myself do you actually work on other peoples cars? I live in Wiltshire and need some work done thanks Rich
I do, sometimes. I'm not a full-time Citroen mech at the moment, but there are certain jobs I can do. The petrol I did a head to head with a while back was a customer's car.
Pretty sure the same engine was in the Jag S type I had in 2005
It was, yes. Also Land Rover/Range Rovers.
Another good video 🚗🚙🚘⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍
Having fixed most things on this rare and beautiful car have you talked yourself into keeping it ? I hope so
Love the little montage at the end with the nice music. I love old Frenchy stuff. Does the C6 have a bypass valve solenoid? I chased an unknown 'whooshing' sound in my sister's Saab 9-5 for years until I replaced that part. It was slowly failing until one day it gave a p1110 code. Changed the solenoid and all was well. I enjoyed the series but did feel sorry for you, especially when you find yourself deep into something.. only to something else has gone wrong too. Arghh!
Bonnet de douche!
Cheers mate =)
Good update,out off curiosity where did you stay in France, looking for a reasonable price get away
Near Soissions/Reims
Its not just the C6 its all modern cars they are all a pain in the arse to work on
French plates should always be silver on black for me.
I remember those horrendous white in the front, yellow in the back 90s plate. Imagine removing the black ones off a black 5 series to put those. Grandad thought his beloved car was ruined.
You can these plates if your car is over 30
My DSuper still has the handpainted white over black Version.😊
Shane about the cameras…could have lent you a GoPro with an easy pick up just off M20.
But are you going to do headliner video?!? 15:59
I didn't realise how much I need to until I edited this...
did the trip made you reconsider and you are keeping it after all?
It's made me want to keep it, but I just can't justify it.
@@UPnDOWN I understand your predicament... nevertheless I do hope you do find a petrol C6. Abraço dos Açores, Portugal.
Need to get Hubnut to fix the headlining lol
Calling @MissHubnut!
Ideal situation, sell the car to someone and fix it for them when it goes wrong 💷💷 kerching!
is the headlining sagging?
Just a bit!
As an Australian I cannot fathom the price of cars in the UK. As the same car down here. Even if I did all the work myself as I’m also a mechanic. Would cost the equivalent of at least £10-£12k. If you got a shop to do the work it would be about £18k. You cannot buy a running & driving C6 here for under £7.5k it is just impossible. How is it so cheap to buy used cars in the UK? As in Australia it is astronomical the prices. A 2007 like yours with 100,000miles is £12k.
Why don't you buy this one and import it? It's even RHD....
@@UPnDOWNif I were to do that it would cost the same as buying one locally. As the import costs are hideously expensive as I would have to pay import duties of 15% on the market value of the vehicle in $AUD plus have the vehicle certified for use in Australia
With new vin plates among other things. We also need an import permit which is a major pain in bum. If I was to pay you a bit over £4K for your car it would cost me another £4K to get in the road. Such is our stupid system over here.
Stardate 46254.7 & a half..''It appears Spock..that we haven't lost coolant''...''Thankyou captain ..but that seems a little illogical''.
...and unprecidented!
Yep, old cars break, that's the nature of it: compared to the piles of rust & filler I mispent my youth on, your C6 is a paragon of virtue...just a very complicated one...
At least the next owner will know where NOT to take the car for repairs in future. Including to you I would imagine !
Haha! Yeah, I'd rather not.
Admire the honesty, but it’s time to send your limited time on your other classics. Didn’t you mention you had a SM?
I may have done! There are hold ups with almost all the other cars at the moment, which I won't go into just yet. Only car I can really progress is the TVR, as things stand. The C6 has the beauty of being roadworthy so it's like a 'rolling resto'.
Have you seen C15s too ?
I was tailgated by one!
Get rid of it, that headlining gives me OCD😂
Such a headlining on such a recent car... I agree.
Dear Reader,
When I look at this video, in wich Mr. UPnDOWN can enjoy all the work, he has put into the C6, I start to think of a solution for not having to dump the car made by - and who made Mr. UPnDOWN into a dedicated technician.
A vacation car, mostly put in a dry shed (outside of the garage?), and only insured and road taxed at the vacation itself? A car you can rent from Mr. UPnDOWN for vacations or whatever? A car donated to a charity (free transport for...let's say poor people who want to go on vacation), where Mr. UPnDOWN get's a servicecontract and the car to use for his own vacations?
So it gives me energy to think about solutions, Mr. UPnDOWN perhaps isn't really interested in.
Well, at least it's well mend.
With Kind Regards,
Michel F. van den Brun
Dutch pedestrian
Michel, I am sure that it will go to a good home. Rental is impossible for legal reasons and that's the same situation for charities. Kitch now needs to release it into the wild where maybe it will find a DS3 to settle down with and bring up a couple of Meharis...😎
hino p11 3m victor
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love ((mae))
Erm, thanks.
That not much for that car 8 liters
It's pretty big. Most cars are around 4-6 litres.
to the nay sayers don't forget on the previous trip this "unreliable" citroen did france and back without any real prep because a super reliable ford shit itself
Well, the S-Max had a wobbly first year with us, then we pretty dependable for the next 5-6 years (other than a few electrical gremlins). Then last summer the real issues started, so I'll be trying to figure that one out next.