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tpr   
Sat Jul 06 2024, 09:31am
Joined: Jun 11 2024
Member No: #5543
Location: Newbury
 Hi all

Having been lurking here and on Autotrader etc for a couple of years on and off, I have finally got myself a C6. Picked it up yesterday in sunny Chesterfield. Hopefully I have some idea what I am letting myself in for, as I have had a C5X7 Exclusive with much higher mileage for some years. Except some C6 parts are unique and rarer and more expensive.

The new car is a C6 2.7HDi Exclusive, Mauritius blue (right? paint code KPKD), cream leather, lounge pack, with a fairly low mileage of 76k.

Despite paying a low-mileage-sorted-car price, I already have a problem: it twitches to the right on accelerating and twitches to the left on lifting off. I was thinking tracking, but the nice man in the local tyre place reckoned it is a lower track arm, and recommended me to go to a mechanic rather than pay him £48 for the tracking machine.

Here is me when I picked it up.

-Tim
C6Dave   
Sat Jul 06 2024, 01:02pm

Joined: Oct 01 2009
Member No: #1
Location: Northumberland
 Welcome, Tim. Yes, it's Mauritius Blue - Click Here -

Looks a nice example
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Citrofix   
Sun Jul 14 2024, 08:18pm
Joined: May 23 2014
Member No: #1722
Location: Krokstadelva
 Congratulations ????

Could be lower arm rear bushing or the lower frip bearing.

Search for frip bearing in the forum, - Click Here - putting in a grease nipple is a good option to keep new one good ????
tpr   
Tue Jul 30 2024, 08:39am
Joined: Jun 11 2024
Member No: #5543
Location: Newbury
 Thanks all. In case anyone is interested in my progress:

My friendly local garage (who have looked after my C5 since I got it in 2016) replaced both front lower arms, and that fixed the twitching on starting to accelerate and lifting off. (The arms they got did not have the hole for the height measuring thingy, so I guess they were meant for a steel C5 or a 407, but the boss for the hole was there so they drilled the hole themselves.)

They also fixed another problem that cropped up, which is that the "leak off pipe" from one of the injectors started spraying high pressure diesel on the exhaust manifold, so there was lots of smoke coming out of the engine compartment.

But it still felt a bit squidgy on steering, and the steering wheel was still a bit to the left, so I took it back to the tyre place to go on the tracking machine. The front toe was out, mostly on the left (by more than a degree). Now they have adjusted it, it feels much better pointing into corners. Pretty much the same as the C5, which is what you'd expect.

Hopefully ready now for a short holiday in Scotland and Yorkshire in a couple of days.
Jas16   
Tue Jul 30 2024, 10:46pm
Joined: Feb 07 2017
Member No: #2994
Location: West London
 ULEZ has parked up my C6, cannot come to selling it. otherwise you are not far away from me
 

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