I'm Too C6-y for My Cars - Eifion's Bad French Motors

[eifion]

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.

[grogee]

AC condensation? 

[eifion]

AC condensation? 

That’s a possibility. I hope it’s just that.


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[Schaefft]

We need photos of the car, it's hard to keep track of all the C6s lately!

[eifion]

1 hour ago, Schaefft said:

We need photos of the car, it's hard to keep track of all the C6s lately!

Here it is, an actual C6 base model.

[GeordieInExile]

"It's been fine since I bought it five weeks ago..."

Yep, I know this feeling and I assume so does every other budget C6 owner on here. 

Mine is mostly just trolling me through its intermittently always-on front parking sensors. A good squirt of WD40 didn't sort it so I'm just gonna have to grit my teeth and enjoy* it as a bit of typical French character.

[cort16]

7 hours ago, eifion said:

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.

I had the same panic on mine but a quick dab and smell of the fluid told me it was water and coming from the AC.

[eifion]

Everything's been fairly quiet with my cars over the last few months, but the C6 has finally started playing up a little. Unlike earlier hydraulic Citroëns it's not supposed to sink when then engine's turned off but my has decided that it will. Someone on the C6 Owners Forum thinks it's a stuck valve so it may not be too bad a problem. I hope not, I did nearly 400 miles in it last weekend and it's still a joy to drive.

In other news, I've finally had the driveshaft that @loserone sold me fitted to my Peugeot 205 and today I took it for its first run out. It's much better now, but opening the hatchback makes me think that it might be a little damp at the back.

[PicantoJon]

28 minutes ago, eifion said:

 

Free cress! Yummy!