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Candide   
Tue Jun 10 2025, 08:20pm

Joined: Feb 27 2019
Member No: #3844
Location: Scotland
 My C6 turned 200,000 miles old on Monday! Quite a milestone, although it has to be said that the carpet doesn't match the curtains - so to speak - and this car has had a replacement engine and gearbox. The car was showing 190,000 when it was fitted with the replacement engine and gearbox with around 95,000 miles on them.

Anyway, the car is still on the road at 18 years old, so that's quite a feat in itself. This is the longest I've ever kept a car, it's a daily driver, and it needs to earn its keep. I have posted about my troubles with it, and it's fair to say that, without the sterling efforts of MGMike, this car would have been sold as spares or repair some time ago but, the battles with the Scottish weather, cleaning up the mess left by a previous bad garage and other obstacles, has paid off.

The car is driving very well now but, of course, there is a "list of things still to do"! The starter seems to be on the way out, and I have a reconditioned one ready to fit, a job I'm determined to tackle myself through a combination of guilt that I don't do enough on the car and my wallet screaming in pain. Also on the list is the front EGR and I was lucky enough to get the one off my old engine and that is now cleaned and ready to fit, again I'm hoping to do this myself.

The biggest issue remains the steering rack, which I was hoping to have fixed by now but the person who initially was up for doing it - no-one from the forum - has obviously had second thoughts. Once these jobs are done, I think I'm going to get the gearbox reconditioned. It doesn't strike me as a particularly strong unit, certainly nowhere near as good as the auto box on the old Merc I ran whilst waiting for the C6 to get back on the road, and I'm now getting very occasional jerky changes and regular slippage, so I'm using manual mode more often which seems to give better changes.

I'm glad that I kept this car, despite vowing to get rid of it several times when it sat outside my house unable to move and stubborn to shift. Now that it's driving again, every time I use it reminds me why I keep it. These cars just drive very well, when properly sorted. Of course, when ALL the mechanics are sorted, there is still the big one - that damned leaking rear window! But, that's for another time... Here's to the next 200,000 miles!
C6Dave   
Wed Jun 11 2025, 09:20am


Joined: Oct 01 2009
Member No: #1
Location: Northumberland
Candide wrote ...
I think I'm going to get the gearbox reconditioned. It doesn't strike me as a particularly strong unit,


The autobox is Japanese and variants of it are used in lots of other cars IIRC.

It's good to see a high mileage one still on the road here in the UK as most other high use ones seem to be in the EU
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cruiserphil   
Wed Jun 11 2025, 10:10am


Joined: Jan 24 2010
Member No: #38
Location: Celbridge
 Well done Candide,

I've carried out some tortuous jobs on our C6's over 16 years of ownership. Jobs that you think you'll have "finished by lunchtime" and develop into long hours. But it's always a case of "all sins forgiven" when you drive it afterwards. My wife is the main C6 driver in the house (it's her car) and she loves it and wants to keep it as long as we can. And I'm all for that.

Best regards,

Phil C.
 

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