Its a beauty & sods law dictates you'll spend a packet on the replacement!
Luxury car for £5500
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Its a beauty & sods law dictates you'll spend a packet on the replacement!
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I would have said keep it if you'd hadn't just gone and said you're moving to France and trying to save...?
( |-| |2 ][ $;25682904 said:
It's not quite as simple as that really. I can easily afford to run the car, and I'll be needing a similar car for when I go to France - I've no intention of going there without a car, or with something crap. It's simply a case of possibly being able to pocket some cash and end up with an identical car, perhaps with a few more options as well.
In that case flog it and get something else in your own time. If you buy a good one then it shouldn't need thousands in repairs.
FWIW, as I'm sure you know, used cars are much more expensive in France than the UK. So obviously buy sth RHD. 5 grand won't get you much in France.
That is true, although driving around the country looking at cars can turn out quite costly too!
I'm definitely going to bring my UK cars over: I've no intention of buying anything in France. In fact, until I got this offer, my Jag was going to come with me.
Update: I met him earlier and let him drive the car. He completely fell in love with it and said he would be able to increase his offer: we haven't discussed exact amount yet, but I think £6500 may be a distinct possibility, in which case I shall definitely be selling it.
Bearing in mind I get any work done on cars extremely cheap (£10 per hour cheap) am I completely nuts to be considering something like this? Not expecting it to be cheap to run by any means, but my logic is that I'd be protected for the first few months by SOGA if I got one from a dealer, and even if something terminal goes wrong they still go for £4-5k which is what I paid for my Jag last year.
Bearing in mind I get any work done on cars extremely cheap (£10 per hour cheap) am I completely nuts to be considering something like this? Not expecting it to be cheap to run by any means, but my logic is that I'd be protected for the first few months by SOGA if I got one from a dealer, and even if something terminal goes wrong they still go for £4-5k which is what I paid for my Jag last year.
He likes my personal plate which I'm selling the car with (not a valuable plate, worth £400 tops), likes the colour combination and the rare wheels, and to be honest he would class £6500 in the same way as I would class £50. The convenience of having a nice example in the spec he wants with a plate that he wants delivered to his door is worth the extra for him, apparently, and having been to his flat and met his family, I have no reason to doubt him.
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What car are you now considering? Cant open your link as blocked at work...
L322 Range Rover 4.4 petrol.
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V. nice. I can't comment on whether you're bonkers for considering one as I know nothing about them.
I think I'd want more powwah than 282bhp out of a 4.4 litre V8 though.
Especially so in a vehicle weighing 2.5 tonnes.
That is my concern, and it's why I'd need to have a good drive of one before committing. 0-60 is around 8-9 seconds which is a bit slower than I'm used to, but I'm much more concerned about how the car pulls once it's moving: 30-60, 70-100 etc. I find the Jag pretty much spot on power wise: it's got enough to leave the TDI crowd behind and the delivery is very smooth and effortless. Ideally I'd like more power, obviously, but my insurance company won't consider anything properly quick until I'm over 21.
I could well end up driving an RR and hating it, in which case I'll probably end up in another XJ6. I have always wanted a 4x4 though, and an RR would always be my 4x4 of choice.
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How do you have somebody skilled enough to perform decent diagnosis and repair work on something like that yet only want £10 an hour for the trouble?
Why is this guy you know so desperate to give you thousands of pounds over book price for a not particularly uncommon car that in your own words needs work?
The entire thread seems weird.
Also, good luck obtaining your SOGA rights from a trader advertising a car as 'PART EX TO CLEAR' (Which usually means 'shed to flog'). It's not even out of the sort of cars he sells - its similar to the other stuff he has that isnt advertised as PART EX TO CLEAR...
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[TW]Fox;25713414 said:
To be honest, I was kind of waiting for that reply, as even reading the thread back myself I accept it's rather unbelievable. All I can say is that I haven't lied about anything and have no motive to. The guy completely checks out and I'm sure everything's genuine. If for some reason it all falls through, then I haven't lost anything: I still have a car that I love.
With regards to my mechanic, I met him around a year and a half ago when I needed some work done on my Volvo. I have a sideline buying and selling laptops, phones etc, so I sell him items for less than I would normally, plus help him out with any IT related issues him or his family have. In return, he works on my cars at a very low rate, and has access to a professional workshop with diagnostic equipment, so can do fairly complex tasks.
As an example, he recently did the lower rear wishbone bushes on my Jag, a job that the majority of garages refuse to do as the bushes are extremely tricky to remove - they prefer to buy the whole unit direct from Jag which is extremely expensive. He did them in a few hours with no problems, and also replaced my shock bushes whilst he was at it. He's done work on my dad's classic as well so we're on very good terms with him.
The RR I linked was more an example than one I'm definitely going to buy, although I'd be taking my friend with me to check over any car I'm looking at, so anything dodgy should hopefully be noticed.
[TW]Fox;25713565 said:
That's what a lot of people have told me, and based purely on photos/descriptions I'd be inclined to agree. I don't want it to be spending more time broken down than working or costing me thousands every month. Of course, in no way am I expecting a 10 year old RR to be cheap to run, but I don't want supercar running costs either.
If I really like one when I test drive it, I'd be willing to go up to £7k, plus a few hundred sorting out any niggles. It would have to be good to tempt me away from another XJ6, as I don't want to be spending more money on a car I don't like as much.
I am not sure i would go into a Range Rover at £7k either to be honest, i looked at a fair few before deciding that really, you might as well drop a bit more and try and hunt out a top spec face-lift model (2005 at least). They are all stupidly uneconomical and total liabilities, so why bother with anything other than the highest spec model at all?
For the record, i absolutely love mine, they are genuinely amazing cars. You can see why all the celebs drive them, I really struggle to think of anything much better for a daily day to day car.
For the record, i absolutely love mine, they are genuinely amazing cars. You can see why all the celebs drive them, I really struggle to think of anything much better for a daily day to day car.
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