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Prothet_of_Doom

Just missed out on a bargain :

Lad in our office tells me lastTuesday, that he’s buying an "New" car and has been offered £600 in PX fromDealer of his old car : Mazda MX-5 W-Reg (2000) 83,000 miles MOT&Tax til Jan '15. Full ServiceHistory. Roof needs repairs.



He put it onGumtree for £1500 and I told him (being a bit of an Mx5 Nut)
a) If he wanted £600 I would give him cash butI’d need an hours notice, and b) It was probably worth £900 to £1000 given that it waspoverty spec and needed a roof.


I reminded him onFriday that if he wanted £600, I’d happily give it him.



On Saturday, hetook £500 in PX from the dealer, because his insurance was about to run out andhe didn’t want to pay £38 to insure it for another 2 weeks.



!!!!!!. This guy isdesigning aircraft control systems.



It makes me want to cry.

CKhalvashi

IanMSpencer wrote: »

My 1999 C240 was great, and wasn't a problem driving a 15 year old car as it still looked the part, until it got really rusty last year, and then had a string of failures, starter motor, fan, wiper, bearings on the engine pulleys. Seems it just got tired. Whoever bought it probably got a bargain though, it was either going to run for 12 months OK, looking slightly scruffy, or it would fail. For £300, worth a punt.

Possibly second best car I owned was a 190, followed by the below.

I still didn't find out what happened to it, but it was sold in London to an Azerbaijani chap on Georgian plates in late 2004, so I can only assume it went back........

My guess is that it ended up eventually in Kazakhstan/Iran, as there's no trace of the plate it had on it.

Rolandtheroadie

Just off to a scrap yard armed with some screwdrivers and a Halfords socket set.

Definitely looking for a filter head (off what I don't know, the merc one has been changed at some point) an electric aerial, an electric mirror switch and I'm sure I'll think of other things on the way. Bonnet badge. That's another thing

If there's any Voyagers there, I'll get a poke about those as well.


Needing downpipes for a Fireblade as well, they break bikes too so who knows.

Believe it or not, this is part of the enjoyment of running around in bangers (for me anyways).

colino

Before you go putting another tired aerial on your car (they all stick/break at some point) you'd be as well working on the one on the car (unless Mr Star thief actually broke it!). You might also be happily surprised at the price of a star emblem from your local Mercedes dealer, again because they replace so many of them.

Rolandtheroadie

Lol, I'd already worked on the old one, that's why it's really broken now.


Got there and there was 1 Merc in the whole place. Not the same as mines.


And no Voyagers.

Still, bought a new wiper on the way home, so not a total loss.

Alt

scotsman4th wrote: »

Just off to a scrap yard armed with some screwdrivers and a Halfords socket set.

We are lucky in this country that that is all you need. According to a friend from Texas, the biggest risk with rummaging in a scrap yard there is the rattle snakes hiding in the cars :eek:

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Inner_Zone

scotsman4th wrote: »

Just off to a scrap yard armed with some screwdrivers and a Halfords socket set.

Your lucky they let you in. Last time I went to a scrappy was refused entry, had to tell what I wanted and wait while they hunted around, no fun in that and all the odds and sods that I might have also bought as well never did.

Prior to that was not allowed to take in a tool box and was told would be searched on exit, not that that actually happened.

Seems the good old days of scrummaging around a scrap yard have declined with HSE etc.

Rolandtheroadie

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Your lucky they let you in. Last time I went to a scrappy was refused entry, had to tell what I wanted and wait while they hunted around, no fun in that and all the odds and sods that I might have also bought as well never did.

Prior to that was not allowed to take in a tool box and was told would be searched on exit, not that that actually happened.

Seems the good old days of scrummaging around a scrap yard have declined with HSE etc.

They're out there, even my local "off the shelf" place let you have a rummage if it's something they don't normally remove/sell.

lexington013

Just bought a 2 owner 03 plate Renault Laguna off ebay for £510.
It's only done 55'000 miles. It's going to be put to use for 1 month whilst my daughter is over from the UK and then will be resold. I'm hoping that I get my money back?.........:cool:

soupytwister

1 owner merc c200 petrol 1998, auto box, 120k miles, 11 months mot, 5 months tax, and a full tank of petrol - £570!!!!

Came with all receipts for servicing (last 8 yrs local garage). Yes, it has the usual late 90's rusty bits, but drives sweetly - box shifts very smoothly, engine fine, interior as new bar worn leather on steering wheel.

For an A to B car, amazing.....