Citroen C6 bought, low cost big liability ?

[Frogchod]

My C6  had been behaving perfectly fine until last week when the speedo display suddenly died.

600 euro ish for a second hand replacement or 175 to send it off for repair.

I found a repair kit on French ebay for 17.90 which included the chips required (probably about 3 euros worth) and instructions.

I bought a hot air desoldering gizzmo and a bench magnifier from amaznon for less than 50 euro and set to repairing it.

Dash display can be removed in about two minuets, which was a surprise, I was expecting to take half the car apart... 

No pictures of my crap soldering, but it now works , no smoke on first turn on so that's a result

 

 

[beko1987]

It's the future way of fixes so the investment in the hot air station won't be wasted! 

My silver laguna had no lights on the heater controls and it was fixed by reflowijg a chip on the board inside. 

[Frogchod]

Today has not gone well... 

Totally fucking fucked. 

[eifion]

Oh shit, that's awful. What happened?

[montytom]

I'm so sorry to see this. Do you think you will find out how it happened?

I love the c6s and am gutted for you

[wesacosa]

aaah no, thats awful. hope everyone ok

[beko1987]

Holy shit, sorry to see that. Are the doors open from when it got yeeted out of the workshop as it went? 

[hairnet]

WTAF?!?!?!?!!?!?!

are you ok?

 

[Frogchod]

No idea why. 

Check engine light came on, then power loss, limp mode I guess, then I noticed what I thought was steam in the rear view. Pulled over then noticed the flames. Then I legged it... 

Minutes later things started exploding so I legged it some more. 

I'm ok, car's obviously fucked, shop will need new doors and windows... 

[beko1987]

Oops, hope the insurance sorts the shops windows out and you don't get a reaming for that as well as loosing your nice car. 

Looks electrical, those French cars always had those in them... 

[hairnet]

ungrateful french bastard - you were fixing it and it does that to you

glad you ran like fuck tho

hope you didnt waste any piss on it not putting it out

werent you previously slagging the german eletrics in it......???

[Ian_Fearn]

Jeez, that really sucks. Thank goodness everyone stayed safe.

My uncles Jag XJ with the 2.7 Tdv6 did EXACTLY the same thing 2 years ago albeit in a Tesco’s car park in Rochdale.

[omegod]

Christ, that went up like a Volcane........sorry Citroen humour is probably not appropriate yet. Glad you are ok !!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, Frogchod said:

Today has not gone well... 

Totally fucking fucked. 

Wow.....just....wow.

[Mrcento]

5 hours ago, Frogchod said:

Today has not gone well... 

Totally fucking fucked. 

Yeah... i know of one for sale and i was mega tempted to take a punt on it.

That's it now firmly deleted from the shortlist.

Glad you're ok and got away from it sharpish. It's just a car at the end of the day.

[meshking]

Damn that's scary. Glad you got out safely, sorry to read of the issue - please do let us know if you ever find out the cause.

[Ghosty]

[jamescarruthers]

Wow, sorry to see this and glad you are okay. I wonder what it was. 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

9 hours ago, Frogchod said:

Today has not gone well... 

Totally fucking fucked. 

Fuck! 😱 

[dome]

Fuck! I feel bad for liking earlier posts when I got to the fireball pictures. 

[dave j]

That's a real shame to see, kinda lived up to the title of the thread though - big liability! Dare you get another C6? 

[Saabnut]

Bugger!

[Mudster]

Holy heck, just glad you're OK and nobody else was hurt.

Looks like a fluid leak which caught fire but being a diesel it's unlikely to be fuel. Is the hydraulic oil flammable?

[High Jetter]

Sorry to see that but glad no-one was hurt, must have been scary though. The defination of a flaming ungrateful car.

[Popsicle]

Oh fuck, glad you got out ok.

[3VOM]

Glad you are OK. That looks really bad.

Just looked on a map, that's a petrol station isn't it? The pumps must be just out of the picture.

[maxxo]

terrible stuff, hope you're okay! such a shame to see such a magnificent machine go up in flames

it doesn't look under bonnet, EOLYS perhaps?

not an expert on vehicular fires but maybe tried to regen but EOLYS leaked on the exhaust? may explain the limp mode before

[AnthonyG]

Bloody hell. Glad you are OK.

[Bear]

Oh that is awful, glad you're unhurt. Hope the insurance means you can get mobile soon.

[richykitchy]

Oh no! I saw this on Farcebook but didn't twig it was the 'other' Autoshite C6. Now it's just me 😟 Saw another chap replied to it too, with a picture of his on fire some years ago. I mean, sure, 23,000-odd cars and pictures of two on fire is still bloody good odds, but still! Gutting to see.

Have to try and figure out what could cause it so we can prevent it happening to others (but mainly me, natch). Glad you're OK, though!