Welcome! Nice car. Just be sure to check oil levels often.

 

Thank you- I most definitely will!! I’m a preventative maintenance hound on my Hondas so this car won’t get any less doting - likely a whole lot more. 👍👍

 

Another welcome to the Cadillac Forum. And, good to hear of yet another immeasurably intelligent bloke joining the ranks of our fair zoo. That sistership of your parent's coupe showed their exemplary taste, as well!

After just another year to finish payments on my wife's bought-new SUV I'll be cranking up my interest in pretty much mimicking your scheme, even down to the year and powertrain. And the most sought-after features. I'm 'Follow'-ing now, and at least in small part in finding whether you've eventually tired of your new ride and looking to part with it. j/k, - no I'm not.

 

I definitely keep updating everyone on my experiences and hope to be sharing nothing but superlatives!

 

Congrats and welcome! I too, have a love for that early generation of Cadillac Coupe Deville‘s (as well as the previous body style with fender skirts) that you once owned and drove. I owned similar cars when I first started driving, although in the Buick category since I could never quite afford the Cadillac variants.

I stayed with mostly owning GM‘s over the years, owning an Oldsmobile Aurora (great car) then getting into the crossover SUVs for a while when our kids were young. I knew I wanted to get back into a sport luxury sedan for our last car, and was seriously researching the Maserati Quattroporte until I was finally convinced against it because of their expensive maintenance and overall vanilla interiors. So I circled back to Cadillac, and found the CT6 as you did… Although I took a slightly different path. 😉

I researched and shopped online for almost a year (much of my shopping saga is documented here as I’ve always been a big fan of automotive forums and joined early) before finding and buying my CPO one owner 2019 Premium Luxury with 33K miles on it… Having been traded in at a Subaru dealership, of all places! It had every feature I had been looking for, including Super Cruise, which I absolutely LOVE. I did have a few items repaired under warranty (so it was great to have that for a while) but otherwise it’s been nothing but a joy to own and drive for about 1.5 years now — just passed 55K miles yesterday!

 

Awesome story - thanks for sharing - so cool to hear other folks’ experiences!

 

[Hmmm, silently 'Follow'-ing that scottydl up there as well now]

Seriously, just consider the coup in scoring a Cadillac, just about any Cadillac, that's been owned (not to mention maintained) by a fellow member on here.

 

Will do for sure 👍

 

@Gottroccaddy Congrats on a gorgeous car and welcome to the forum.

IMO the 2019/2020 refresh made an already handsome car phenomenally gorgeous. The scale (size) is perfect for the design.

I searched high and low for a CPO 2019 CT6 Sport back in 2022 and 2023 and gave up and settled for a 2023 CT5-V. A year plus in the market and the sole example I found was an overpriced but low mileage Sport. I would have dug deep into the wallet for it but it had been previously owned by a chain smoker. My experience is that you can never get rid of that odor.

 

Sorry your search for a good CT6 didn’t pan out but I’ll bet you love your CT5V nonetheless. I LOVE that car in Velocity Red with the Satin Graphite Rims. I just test drove a ‘25 in Typhoon Metallic (Green) paint which was also super sharp. Alas, a new one wasn’t in my budget and, as it turns out, the CT6 really floats by boat just as well.

 

Welcome to Cadillac Forums @Gottroccaddy and congrats on your purchase- the CT6 is a beautiful machine.

 

Northern-,
I would have dug deep into the wallet for it but it had been previously owned by a chain smoker. My experience is that you can never get rid of that odor.

Just for ref:
My son lapsed into the ranks of mini-vans of the earth after his new wife's Prius finally expired (not before 230k though), and his growing family outsized his Altima. He just couldn't pass up a v. low mile fully optioned '17 Grand Caravan. But it REEKED of cig smell. So, enough YouTubes and he bought a rolling steam cleaner, and the Before-After really impressed me. In the 5 years he's had it, if anything it smells even nicer and claims no added work since the 5 top-bottom front-back cleanings he did initially.

And he says that thing has paid for itself twice over with musty basement rain-leaked carpet, sick dog puke/poop, etc.

 

My guilty pleasure is auto detailing. When the weather is good (sadly, only a few months of the year here in the NorthEastern US 😢) I’m always outside cleaning one part of our fleet. Can you tell me what steam cleaneryour son purchased? I’m interested (at some point) in adding one to my slowly growing arsenal of products and tools. Thanks 🙏

 

I have a 2020 CT6 Luxury in red. The only warranty work I have had done was a thermostat replacement, which was covered under the powertrain warranty since I'm outside of the bumper to bumper warranty. The car is a pleasure to drive and the seats are very comfortable. I also like having a car that you don't see everyday in the wild.

 

So reassuring to hear of your trouble-free ownership! I can’t agree more - these sedans are so rarely seen that it makes them all the more special - unlike the dime-a-dozen BMW sedans I see everywhere.

 

Hi there,

Warm regards from Baja, MX. That's a nice car, congrats. Don't skip oil changes (every 3k miles for longevity purposes) and make sure to use ONLY synthetic oil e.g., Mobil 1, Valvoline, AMSOIL..


Have a great rest of the day!

 

Thanks for the recommendation on oil change frequency- I always do every 5K - I wasn’t planning on every 3K. Thanks 🙏

 

5K worked for my 3.6L. I also sent samples to Blackstone for analysis.

 

I love all these inputs and insights - this is exactly why I joined this group.

 

To continue my thought about Blackstone, I always got the extra testing to see about my oil life. They always recommended me to "go longer" between changes up to 11,000 miles. I ended up usually changing my oil around the 7500 mile mark based upon their recommendations. I just couldn't go longer - personal preference.

 

Yeah- I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to go past 5K before changing the oil - just so ingrained in my mind

 

Steamer details coming this evening from him.

 

Awesome - thank you

 

Congratulations are in order i came home from being born in a 1959 cadillac coupe Deville ivory owned 3 never regretted it a bit my avatar is my newest.

 

Awesome - something about these cars just seems to get under your skin (in the best way)! Beautiful white one you’ve got now!

 

Congratulations on your purchase! That's a beautiful CT6. I especially love the wheels. Like you, I learned to drive a Cadillac, but my parents had a 1975 Eldorado convertible in Emberust Firemist. Luckily the top was down when I had to back out of the driveway the first time. The blind spots were crazy on that car. I've been a Cadillac fan ever since.

• 1971 Eldorado Coupe (Dad said drive this to high school or walk)
• Lots of Pontiacs
• 2012 CTS
• 2014 CTS
• 2017 CT6
• 2021 CT5
• 2019 CT6
• 2023 CT4
• 2024 CT5

Enjoy your new ride!

 

What a great story - your dad’s quote is hilarious! I love your red CT6 looking AMAZING out front of the dealer in the bright sun! I drive a lot for work and part of what I was looking for was a car that would help me relax and a very long (and often frustrating) day. After 1 week of ownership I can definitely say that my CT6 is doing EXACTLY this - I’m so thankful! And, when I want to get on it and let er’ rip, she hauls without any fanfare - just fast and smooth and agile. What a sleeper this car is- I’m in love !

 

Tardy, but here 'tis. And my oopsie, it's not steam cleaner, and he remembers paying ~$65 7 years ago:

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How interesting - I didn’t know something like this existed - many thanks to you and your son for this information!

 

I'll take a look tomorrow to see if I can find the cleaner I bought for one vehicle I had. It was a heluva cleaner and came highly recommended.

 

Enjoy!

 

I just had to reply here.

The car that your parents owned has a very rare one year only option called the D’Marchand package. It was a pretty expensive option, adding about $3000 on top of a $9000 car. It’s estimated that no more than 200 people ordered the car with that package.

It had that color scheme you see, two toned black and silver with a red pin stripe separating them. The seats matched, gray with black inserts and a little bit of red piping separating the gray and black. Gray carpets. Probably a couple of more other things.

I know a bit about it because I actually owned a 79 Coupe Devile D’Marchand from around 2010 to 2020. What a head turner. I loved that car.

Enjoy your CT6.

 

Thank you so much for sharing all of this excellent detail. I was aware of this - I had stumbled across this same information you just shared a few years ago but couldn’t remember where I saw it and I was sad that I couldn’t recall the details. Now, thanks to you, I can refer back to this in the future!

 

My parents bought our example of this D’Marchande Coupe in 1985 at Boyle & Lane Cadillac in Pittsburgh, PA. I was 14 at the time and I remember going to the dealership with them to test drive and and purchase it. A friend of my dad’s (Dale Pinkerton) from our town (Butler, PA) told my dad about this car and advised him to grab it quick as it was a very special car in excellent condition. It might have even been Dale’s car that he had traded in. Dale owned the local Firestone Store in Butler, PA.

 

When we got to the dealership in Pittsburgh, they too told us that this was a very special car but we, being Cadillac noobs, just chocked this all up to salesmanship. However, Dale Pinkerton was my dad’s trusted friend so we felt reasonably assured that it was in fact at least a good car to get. 300,000 miles and nearly 20 years of nearly trouble-free life later, my dad had to finally bid this beautiful car goodbye as it’s life in the Northeast finally took its tole on the frame and it was deemed unsafe to continue driving. This car was an absolute BEAST - reliable, beautiful and comfortable. We loved it and drove it everywhere. As I said in my original post, I learned to drive in it and that really cemented my love of Cadillacs. My folks went on to own 2 more Cadillacs (‘81 Diesel Coupe DeVille and ‘93’ Sedan DeVille) and these too were amazing cars. I know that Diesel motor is rather notorious but let me tell you- we had ZERO issues with it. It had torque for DAYS, range like you cannot believe.

 

Wow, I can only imagine the excitement of being 14 and going into the dealership with your parents and checking out that car and then actually taking it home.

My first car was a hand-me-down Nissan but the first car that I ever actually purchased on my own was that Coupe Devile. I didn’t purchase it as a daily driver.

Speaking of reliability, it was up until only recently that a 1979 Deville, I’m not sure if it was a coupe, with that 425 held the record for the gas engine which traveled the most miles without an overhaul. The mileage was somewhere in the 500,000s.

I imagine the one that was more reliable was the carbureted one as EFI became optional in 1979 as well.