Swapping a 1996 BMW for a 1990 Ford.....

MrLOL said:
thirded

really depends how much you know and trust the guy.
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Well, I work with him but thats about it.

I have had a good look over the car previously - but without any "would I buy this?" consideration - and it is very very tidy.

Unless he's a complete idiot, he must know his car is worth around double what mine is assuming his car is straight so I am very wary of this.

I have a mate who can look up car history for a few beer tokens so I think I'll get him to run a check on it.

Cheers for the advice chaps.
 
If its worth more, swap it and sell it, then use the money to buy something newer/nicer than the E36 you have at the moment?

If you do choose to do that, don't decided to keep it and run it for a few months, things may well go wrong and it could cost you, rather than earning you a bit.
 
MrLOL said:
ask him straight out why its not worth market value and see what he says ?
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He might just be out of touch with his car's value, or more to the point, how much the E36 is worth.

He could be thinking that the E36 is actually worth the same or more than the Escort.

Think about whether you want to ask him that question or not, as it could lead to him going out and pricing up both cars, and changing his mind about a potential straight swap.
 
I'd swap, E36's are easy to find, good RST's are getting hard to find. You'd be driving something that is getting rare, and dare I say a little "special" despite it being a 19 year old Ford. All the quirks and flaws make the car what it is.
I have an E36 M3 and a 1990 Sierra 2000E, and the sierra gets more looks than the M3.
 
No way. Once the blinkers are off, they really aren't very good cars. It will be unreliable, cost a fortune to fix, use similar quanties of fuel to your HGV for similar performance, rust infront of your very eyes and probably end up being stolen.

I must be honest in saying I'm not an enormous E36 fan, but there's no way I'd have another RST. Sorry.
 
All is revealed!

It turns out the car started life as an XR3i that was stolen & recovered minus its engine, gearbox, interior & wheels. A subsequent owner (not the guy who has the car now) bought it and a wrecked RST from the same salvage yard and he fitted the RST bits to the XR3i's shell.

It certainly had me fooled but he was honest when I asked him outright what was the issue re its value.

So whilst it may look like an RST (and drive like I recall my old one) its not actually a "real" RST at all!

Needless to say, talk of a swap stopped there & then. :D

What really surprised me is he still has it registered apparently as an XR3i (!) - I'd love to know what his insurers would make of the truth were it to come out!

This saves me giving my mate those beer tokens anyway! :D

Cheers for the input chaps, it looks like me re living my Turbocharged youth was a short lived idea, oh well, I'll carry on going grey.... :o
 
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