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  1. Three rather forlorn-looking Peugeot 205s in Colne. One of them looks to have been there since the Google Streetview car first went past in 2009.
  2. Nothing's going to top those Range Rovers, but here's a Citroen DS that has been sat by the side of the A6 between Hazel Grove and Disley since 2016.
  3. Merry Christmas, all. I never thought at the start of 2023 that I'd end it owning a C6. It'll be interesting to see what chod adventures await for 2024 for me and everyone else here.
  4. It's looking good. I need to do that hose trick on the back of mine, too. It can get pretty wet in there this time of year. Those poor 2CVs have been like that for years. I've spoken to the owner and he talks about doing them up but I can't see it ever happening.
  5. Rust did for my first two and the increasing difficulty of getting parts led to me sell my third. The early ones suffering from terrible electrical problems probably didn't help their longevity either. I can't remember the last time I saw one on the road. Seeing the pictures of yours makes me miss mine. They're great cars.
  6. This was just leaving the garage at the end of the road as I went for a lunchtime walk just now. I don't think I've ever seen one before. It has a 500cc, 2 cylinder engine and can be driven without a full licence according to the driver.
  7. That’s a possibility. I hope it’s just that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. It's about time I started a thread for my various bad cars, if only as something to look back at in years to come when they've driven me to destitution. I'll start with the C6. It's been fine since I bought it five weeks ago but today it decided to do something odd. After a fifty-odd mile drive out we parked it in a Tesco car park and saw the thing that every hydraulic Citroen owner dreads: a dark line following behind the car. Immediate thoughts turned to a hyraulic pipe failure but it was water not LHS. As it was cold it didn't seem to have come from the coolant system and the level in the tank was still OK, but a fair amount was dripping from underneath the car. We drove home carefully keeping an eye out for warning lights but it seemed to be fine. The only thing I think it could be is water not draining properly from the windscreen after I washed it, but it was a good couple of hours since I'd done that so I'm still baffled as to what it could be.
  9. I bought mine fully aware of their reputation and the potential expense of fixing it when it inevitably goes wrong. I've liked them ever since they were new and for the £2K I paid I'm willing to take the risk, hope I get a year's use out of it, and if it goes horribly wrong I'll leave it on the drive and treat it as a piece of automotive sculpture.
  10. Whereabouts in the boot does the CD changer live? I'm fairly sure that mine hasn't got one, but it could be hiding somewhere. Annoyingly it doesn't seem to have the USB / 3.5mm socket in the glovebox either so I'm limited to 1 CD at a time.
  11. My Citroen C6 and Citroen 2CV6 don't differ by that much namewise, but certainly do in every other way.
  12. That's good to hear. That was one of my reasons for going for the 2.2 as well. I'm not going to be using it that much and the thought of spending £50+ a month for it to sit on the drive was a bit too much. I'm hoping that the (relative) simplicity of the 2.2 will mean that there's a bit less to go expensively wrong. The previous owner has replaced some of bits that usually fail on these so fingers crossed it's going to be a good 'un.
  13. Home! It performed flawlessly all the way back and considering I've just spent seven hours behind the wheel of it I don't feel too bad at all. In fact, the only thing I can think of to criticize is that the cigarette lighters are deeper that usual and my USB adapter wouldn't work.
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