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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

They say you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth but...


Mrs 944's mother passed away a couple of weeks ago and we stand to inherit a 2010 (I think) Citroen Berlingo Multispace.  This car has some sentimental value to her Grandmother who is still with us, so I have been banned from immediately selling it and buying literally anything else, or setting fire to it.

I wonder what the minimum socially acceptable time is before we can sell it on

As its French, about half an hour should suffice. 

[Keith ABS]

 1600cc means its an HDI model so plenty of poke but not so sure with the auto box.
Will have to get a rear window sticker "Snap Off, because its French" though
We have an 06 Poo Go version at work, 28k and its been nothing but a problem child
Engine fine, I cant destroy that-yet
Everything else is problematic.
It got jammed in 4th once so a very smoky clutch but the time we got back
Two sets of gearlinkages, steering rack twice
Just some of the things with ours

[henryd]

The auto quite suits the torque of the weasel engine tbh so not a bad drive

[Kevin Wood]

They say you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth but...


Mrs 944's mother passed away a couple of weeks ago and we stand to inherit a 2010 (I think) Citroen Berlingo Multispace.  This car has some sentimental value to her Grandmother who is still with us, so I have been banned from immediately selling it and buying literally anything else, or setting fire to it.

I wonder what the minimum socially acceptable time is before we can sell it on 

Just bide your time. Sooner or later it'll set fire to itself.

[Viral_Jim]

By way of an update, SWMBO has had a test drive in it (at my insistence I might add  ) and has now agreed that due to the smell of smoke it needs to go 

As soon as the probate goes through I'll launch a thread about how you get a car to stop smelling like an ashtray   

The search for a sub-£1000 auto estate is back on 

[STEMO]

You'll get nowt for it and, like I said, it just might be handy for load lugging. I suppose the downside is you'll be paying to tax and insure it if it sits around most of the time.

[Kevin Wood]

Could try leaving a few trays of charcoal in it. See if it absorbs the smell?

Pushing it off a cliff will be more satisfying, mind.

[biggriffin]

Go to Costa ( other coffee shops available) and ask for the old grinds, leave them in for a while.