Collection I didn't know would happen 20mins ago - Buying a car in Bradford

[Marshall2810]

4 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

And there we are, no air on one tyre, now sorted. Off we go!

How's the handbrake? 🫣

[Timewaster]

7 minutes ago, Marshall2810 said:

How's the handbrake? 🫣

Should be OK.  That forecourt looks fairly flat.

 

Good luck wafting home.

[GeordieInExile]

Buying shite 'bargain' C6s unseen in Yorkshire and driving them back up to Newcastle is for winners. Well bought!

I hope you have more luck with yours than I did with mine. Although in a way, I also sort of don't. 😅

[GeordieInExile]

20 minutes ago, Marshall2810 said:

How's the handbrake? 🫣

MOT history:-

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):

Electronic parking brake defective but can be satisfactorily operated (1.1.6 (d))

Parking brake efficiency only just met. It would appear that the braking system requires adjustment or repair. (1.4.2 (a) (i))

Bon chance...

[grogee]

Flippin eck that's all the DON'T BUY warning cherries lined up. 

Balls of steel! Are you home yet? 

[jim89]

3 minutes ago, grogee said:

Flippin eck that's all the DON'T BUY warning cherries lined up. 

Balls of steel! Are you home yet? 

That would be an impressive average of 100mph 😲👍🏻

[Rightnider]

14 minutes ago, jim89 said:

impressive average of 100mph

Impressive, but not impossible. After all, it’s a C6, made for high speed journeys across continents. 

[jim89]

4 minutes ago, Rightnider said:

Impressive, but not impossible. After all, it’s a C6, made for high speed journeys across continents. 

Er... A1 ? A19 maybes? On a Sunday, in the dark 😬🤞🏼🍷

[Schaefft]

Well everyone, what can I say other than: If something is too good to be true, take your chance and go for it! I just drove a 550 quid Citroen C6 from Bradford 100 miles home and didn't encounter a single problem (after inflating the tyre and topping up the coolant). The car wafted home beautifully, maybe even more so than the Velsatis which felt a little more sketchy at higher speeds. I didn't even see a check engine light and with the battery hopefully somewhat recovered everything mostly seems to be working now. Well done Citroen! More updates in the fleet thread.

[Hertz]

[Schaefft]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Was the V5 misplaced?

Yup, he had it on a trader policy which made things slightly more complicated as he never applied for a new logbook, the online change of ownership worked fine.

2 hours ago, EspenO said:

Exactly! Storage issues aside, I’d love to have a similar collection (and the skill set to keep them going). Hope you didn’t take it as a dig, it wasn’t meant as one

Congrats on the new ride, C6es are amazing!

I'm certainly lucky to be able to jump on something like this fairly quickly. He had tons of messages from various interested people, as usual you really need to be quick and be there in person to avoid losing out straight away, which often is a gamble. He had various people show up throughout the day buying pretty much anything he had on marketplace since yesterday evening.

[Schaefft]

2 hours ago, Marshall2810 said:

How's the handbrake? 🫣

It's obviously f*cked. Can't see an error popping up and I can hear the motor moving but doesn't seem to hold the car at all when in reverse. Unless that's intended behavior?

2 hours ago, GeordieInExile said:

Buying shite 'bargain' C6s unseen in Yorkshire and driving them back up to Newcastle is for winners. Well bought!

I hope you have more luck with yours than I did with mine. Although in a way, I also sort of don't. 😅

I feel somewhat ashamed for not jumping on the opportunity to pick yours up more locally. I think it was an equally good deal but I guess with this one being a few hundred quid less (without nearly as much service history) it was a little bit easier to justify.

[wesacosa]

Top work, brave man. 

Did you leave a deposit on anything else? 😂

[Schaefft]

1 minute ago, wesacosa said:

Top work, brave man. 

Did you leave a deposit on anything else? 😂

He had his sisters and friend there to help with things, all 3 girls offered a buy one, get 3 for free deal.😂 I was tempted by the other C6 though, more miles but lots more work done, better service history and cosmetically actually decent. Really a better deal if you want to spend a few more quid. As a mate said, you'll end up with issues no matter what, might as well buy the cheapest.

[wesacosa]

25 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

He had his sisters and friend there to help with things, all 3 girls offered a buy one, get 3 for free deal.😂 I was tempted by the other C6 though, more miles but lots more work done, better service history and cosmetically actually decent. Really a better deal if you want to spend a few more quid. As a mate said, you'll end up with issues no matter what, might as well buy the cheapest.

what was the story with him.  Collection got out of hand? Loss of storage? Making room for more motors?  Hell of a collection he got 

[Schaefft]

48 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

what was the story with him.  Collection got out of hand? Loss of storage? Making room for more motors?  Hell of a collection he got 

He needs roof repairs done on the property his store is in and needs to sell some stuff to get the money together. Most of the Audis apparently were inherited from his father who died a few years ago. There's a couple of news articles about him wanting to open a museum. It looks like he's putting quite a bit of money into those cars, money he's obviously not getting back again now unfortunately.

[tooSavvy]

This guy.....

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/bradford-businessman-aims-to-open-museum-of-well-known-fathers-audis-4732080

🚙💨

[maxxo]

good god well bought!

i was looking at that this morning, thinking to myself that's probably one of the worst C6s i've seen in a good while

balls of steel

[riek]

2 minutes ago, maxxo said:

 

balls of steel

Having 93 other liabilities parked around probably helps. At least a couple of them should be working.

[High Jetter]

Epic work, true spirit of AS!

[GeordieInExile]

2 hours ago, Schaefft said:

It's obviously f*cked. Can't see an error popping up and I can hear the motor moving but doesn't seem to hold the car at all when in reverse. Unless that's intended behavior?

I feel somewhat ashamed for not jumping on the opportunity to pick yours up more locally. I think it was an equally good deal but I guess with this one being a few hundred quid less (without nearly as much service history) it was a little bit easier to justify.

I think if mine had been in Bradford and advertised on this forum you would have had it. It's more fun when you add the danger of a collection mission. I still remember the feeling of "oh fuck oh fuck oh what have I done" when mine pinged up the EML after about two minutes of driving. And then the ABS, handbrake and traction control lights. 

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, wesacosa said:

Top work, brave man. 

Did you leave a deposit on anything else? 😂

the interior of the c6

[fatharris]

Very brave purchase there - this one was a walking red flag factory, but fingers crossed it pays off!

[Captain Mainwaring]

Fucking hell!

[Kringle]

3 hours ago, Schaefft said:

 

Schaefft with his honey's lined up in a row be like:

 

[Schaefft]

Since collection threads never really catch all the detail of the happenings of the day, here's a quick recap:

 

[HillmanImp]

3 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

This guy.....

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/bradford-businessman-aims-to-open-museum-of-well-known-fathers-audis-4732080

🚙💨

I think I've got a photo of that Audi 80 somewhere.

*edit its not a very good photo but there can't be many red b2 Audi 80s smoking about Bradford.