Collection thread - now the "quite cheap but already quite broken" C6 thread

[straightSix]

  On 07/09/2023 at 09:57, cort16 said:

That's nice but I think they're smoking crack at 19 grand.  There's a few out there above 5 grand that seem to have been for sale forever. 

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Yeah I was a bit shocked when I just had a look at prices. One near me for £3k with an ABS fault that's been up for ages 

[Schaefft]

  On 07/09/2023 at 10:08, straightSix said:

Yeah I was a bit shocked when I just had a look at prices. One near me for £3k with an ABS fault that's been up for ages 

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A petrol c6? Where's that?

[straightSix]

  On 07/09/2023 at 10:59, Schaefft said:

A petrol c6? Where's that?

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Oh nah, just a run of the mill 2.7 diesel 

[fatmanblue]

  On 07/09/2023 at 09:57, cort16 said:

That's nice but I think they're smoking crack at 19 grand.  There's a few out there above 5 grand that seem to have been for sale forever. 

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That does seem toppy and is significantly north of what I paid for mine at 2 years and 5,000 miles.  The market is a bit odd (so few cars I guess) and some hang around on sale for ages. But then the silver 2.2 on eBay the moment for £5k seems a great deal. I totally would, anyway.

[Bear]

  On 07/09/2023 at 13:17, fatmanblue said:

That does seem toppy and is significantly north of what I paid for mine at 2 years and 5,000 miles.  The market is a bit odd (so few cars I guess) and some hang around on sale for ages. But then the silver 2.2 on eBay the moment for £5k seems a great deal. I totally would, anyway.

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On eBay there's a very appealing Storm Grey with cream 2.7 with lounge pack for £2750. Sensible words, sensible price, under 100K miles.

[grogee]

  On 07/09/2023 at 14:10, RichardK said:

Sensible words, sensible price, under 100K miles

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Insensible car. 

Don't get me wrong I would love one, but it's bad enough keeping four heaps running. Keeping a C6 where I'd want it would be a full time job:

- No warning lights 

- fully working suspension 

- dependable autobox

- cosmetically nice

- fully working HVAC

[Bear]

  On 07/09/2023 at 15:57, grogee said:

Insensible car. 

Don't get me wrong I would love one, but it's bad enough keeping four heaps running. Keeping a C6 where I'd want it would be a full time job:

- No warning lights 

- fully working suspension 

- dependable autobox

- cosmetically nice

- fully working HVAC

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The one mentioned there ticked all of those boxes - new dash, maybe a suspension warning light was mentioned but also fully working according to the seller, disclosed a small suspension creak, autobox mentioned as good, cosmetically it looked pretty good.

Put it this way, because it was cream, grey, under 100K miles and described/looking well, I had an amount of nostalgic temptation remembering who I was when I had my new one...

[ruffgeezer]

The window will be laminated glass, I had one go like that on my S40,  it had shatterproof glass all round.

One day whilst waiting at a t junction,  a stone hit the Driver's front window,  just left a small mark on the glass but when I finished my shift that night, you can bet the little fucked had cracked through.

Cost me £60 to replace it with a used, standard, window from the local scrapper.

[Bear]

  On 08/09/2023 at 07:49, ruffgeezer said:

The window will be laminated glass, I had one go like that on my S40,  it had shatterproof glass all round.

One day whilst waiting at a t junction,  a stone hit the Driver's front window,  just left a small mark on the glass but when I finished my shift that night, you can bet the little fucked had cracked through.

Cost me £60 to replace it with a used, standard, window from the local scrapper.

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All C6s are double-glazed, though, so given the attrition rate it probably won't be too hard to obtain a replacement - don't think they have different shades of tint, either.

Might need to wipe the soot off some of them.

[GeordieInExile]

We have a working radio and screen. 

It's gonna cost £117.50, but hey. At least it works. Apparently it's likely had an aftermarket unit at some point which has then been removed and the standard unit put back in. The wiring was incomplete and a mess. 

I probably could have dealt with that myself but whatever, it's fixed. Hopefully tomorrow's regas gives me nice cool air!

[Bear]

A lot of these had those bloody Parrot things wired in - as did many cars of the time - though I am pretty sure my RT4 one had fairly decent Bluetooth support - paired to a Nokia E90. I miss when iPhones and Androids were just 'an option in a sea of options'.

If I'm remembering correctly you could, with RT4, hoy out the 1.8" iPod-like 30GB drive (was 10GB reserved for music? I know it was not all that generous), put in a larger one or presumably now, an SSD adaptor board and then there were some Mirascript hacks to allow a bigger partition but it still ran into the files/folders limit.

I do remember the car's own voice recognition being quite good, if limited. And it didn't have full postcodes I think so I ended up with a TomTom in the A-pillar corner anyway.

[Bear]

Also given how thoroughly batshit the role of the RT3/RT4/Navidrive is in terms of the car's interfaces it wouldn't surprise me one bit if botched radio wiring would knock out part of the HVAC.

[GeordieInExile]

Oh that's a good point. If the heads up is sorted by this then bonus!

[Bear]

  On 08/09/2023 at 11:46, GeordieInExile said:

Oh that's a good point. If the heads up is sorted by this then bonus!

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HUD definitely went off when my RT4 did random reboots, then I'd get kmh for a bit until it woke up.

[GeordieInExile]

We do not have a working heads up. Bof.

What mad Frenchman thought putting the aux input in the glovebox was a good design choice?

[loserone]

Seems ideal to me, you can put the Bluetooth unit in there and never see it again 

[cort16]

  On 08/09/2023 at 13:51, GeordieInExile said:

We do not have a working heads up. Bof.

What mad Frenchman thought putting the aux input in the glovebox was a good design choice?

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Do you have a standard jack aux in?  Mine seems to have RCA video composite inputs in the glove box.

[Bear]

  On 08/09/2023 at 13:51, GeordieInExile said:

We do not have a working heads up. Bof.

What mad Frenchman thought putting the aux input in the glovebox was a good design choice?

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One who designed the interior before the iPod wa invented...

[GeordieInExile]

  On 08/09/2023 at 13:54, loserone said:

Seems ideal to me, you can put the Bluetooth unit in there and never see it again 

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Except you can't plug it in because of the shape of the surround for the cigar lighter. Sigh...

[GeordieInExile]

  On 08/09/2023 at 14:01, cort16 said:

Do you have a standard jack aux in?  Mine seems to have RCA video composite inputs in the glove box.

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You can play music through that using a red/white to 3.5mm phono cable!

[loserone]

  On 08/09/2023 at 14:50, GeordieInExile said:

Except you can't plug it in because of the shape of the surround for the cigar lighter. Sigh...

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The battery ones last a month or so for me.

[cort16]

  On 08/09/2023 at 14:50, GeordieInExile said:

You can play music through that using a red/white to 3.5mm phono cable!

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I was just about to click buy it now on ebay for a cable when I remembered I've got a stupid fucking iPhone with no headphone jack. 

[Jazoli]

Just buy a 3.5mm Bluetooth adapter

Aux Bluetooth V5.1 Receiver Car - SOOMFON Wireless Car Bluetooth Aux Adapter Support Handsfree Call, Music Streaming Bluetooth Aux Adapter for Car, Home Stereo (Silver) https://amzn.eu/d/c31oIiT

I have them in a couple of cars and they just work.

[cort16]

  On 08/09/2023 at 16:25, Jazoli said:

Just buy a 3.5mm Bluetooth adapter

Aux Bluetooth V5.1 Receiver Car - SOOMFON Wireless Car Bluetooth Aux Adapter Support Handsfree Call, Music Streaming Bluetooth Aux Adapter for Car, Home Stereo (Silver) https://amzn.eu/d/c31oIiT

I have them in a couple of cars and they just work.

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 I'd need that then a cable to convert the aux to RCA. I also only have one USB output so couldn't use it while charging my phone. it seems 2009 is a very long time ago when it comes to this kind of thing!

[GeordieInExile]

Not that long ago when it comes to heads up displays, though. 

It lives! I can't wait to go for a drive again so I can use it. 

[GeordieInExile]

The aircon now blows nice and cold. And as an added bonus the ABS sensor related warnings are off. The engine management light is still showing but hey, I can live with that for now. Off to the garage next week for a once over and hopefully some cheap mechanical fixes. For now, I think I'm gonna go to B&M and get a load of shit to wash it with, or maybe even Halfords to get something to sort out the scuffs on the bumpers. 

I adore this car, it's my favourite car I've ever owned. Even more than the 9-5 Aero or the 306 GTi.

[grogee]

  On 09/09/2023 at 14:15, GeordieInExile said:

cheap mechanical fixes

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[GeordieInExile]

That's what we all thought about the electrical ones!

[GeordieInExile]

This thing is a superb wind up merchant, I'll give it that...

It was blowing only warm from the driver's side.

I got the aircon regassed.

It is now blowing only cold air from the driver's side. 

It's getting a pair of nice midrange tyres on the front tomorrow ahead of its big day out at Twixfest on Sunday. Looking forward to seeing how it "rewards" me for my largesse.

[GeordieInExile]

Current state of play:-

- The front parking sensors are constant at low/no speed - water ingress suspected, WD40 will be applied

- The suspension isn't floaty enough - suspected bushes as the spheres are all fine and not leaking fluid, garage can investigate when it goes in on Friday

- The ABS/TC/handbrake lights are off for now and the handbrake, after a short spell refusing to work, is working again

- The driver's side rear brake disc was glowing red and radiating extreme heat after a 15 minute drive home the other night - maybe something is stuck or dragging? Garage can investigate

- EML on again - fuel filter to be changed

 

In spite of all of this, I still love it. It was a truly lovely way to drive to Leeds and back the other day. My employer's deputy CEO was suitably impressed when I gave him a lift to a site visit the other day, as well.