What have you done to your car today?

geekman · 4 Feb 2017 at 19:54

Vita said:
Why did you sell it geekman?

Just fancied a change - I've had X350s for over 4 years and I want to try something else. It also needed 4 new tyres, an engine service and a gearbox service which would have cost around €2000 in total, so I thought I'd put it up at a speculative price and see if anyone wanted it, and if not I'd get the work done and keep it for a while longer. Turns out 3 different people were willing to buy it so I was happy to make a decent profit and dodge a few bills at the same time.

Akagi · 4 Feb 2017 at 19:56

Skillmister said:
Daily mpg updates again, brill

Only this time because I said I'd report back with an actual figure when I fill up. And today I filled up.

Cleisthenes · 4 Feb 2017 at 20:02

geekman said:
Just fancied a change - I've had X350s for over 4 years and I want to try something else. It also needed 4 new tyres, an engine service and a gearbox service which would have cost around €2000 in total, so I thought I'd put it up at a speculative price and see if anyone wanted it, and if not I'd get the work done and keep it for a while longer. Turns out 3 different people were willing to buy it so I was happy to make a decent profit and dodge a few bills at the same time.

I hope that your current employer is willing to get you a good deal on something exotic?

I'll miss that car, I felt like David Cameron when I sat in the back!

Akagi · 4 Feb 2017 at 20:03

You're like david cameron in many ways.

geekman · 4 Feb 2017 at 20:17

Cleisthenes said:
I hope that your current employer is willing to get you a good deal on something exotic?

I'll miss that car, I felt like David Cameron when I sat in the back!

He said I should get a Quattroporte until I reminded him how his 430s spend more time in the garage than on the road

I've got no idea what I'll get yet but it'll almost certainly be something that makes OCUK explode with OMG you can't run that without a warranty!!!1!!1!!11

mjt · 4 Feb 2017 at 20:20

geekman said:
He said I should get a Quattroporte until I reminded him how his 430s spend more time in the garage than on the road I've got no idea what I'll get yet but it'll almost certainly be something that makes OCUK explode with OMG you can't run that without a warranty!!!1!!1!!11

My money's on CL600, S65L AMG, 760Li or W12 Phaeton/A8

geekman · 4 Feb 2017 at 20:28

mjt said:
My money's on CL600, S65L AMG, 760Li or W12 Phaeton/A8

Scary how well you lot know me

hux · 4 Feb 2017 at 21:10

Swearing at it mostly, rear pads need doing and possibly discs so lots of gentle driving for the next few days until I get the bits.

It is french mind.

T0pPredator · 4 Feb 2017 at 22:33

Thats some serious profit on the Jag, how did you manage that? Good buying?

grudas · 4 Feb 2017 at 22:56

bought a set of Z4M alloys! mazda 3 is the perfect truck

Clarkey · 4 Feb 2017 at 23:16

Wow, they must be without doubt the most plain jane wheel ever put on an M car? Looks like something off a base model.

Akagi · 4 Feb 2017 at 23:24

Simplistic and elegant /= plain.

Interested to see how they look when fitted! I do like that style. I do also like the style you currently have, but they are about an inch too big for my taste.

grudas · 4 Feb 2017 at 23:43

They're plain but I like how beefy they look on the z4.

Currently it's on 19s those are 18 so will be interesting. They need refurb as finish is tired but I'm going either black or gun metal. Still to decide. Including some beefy rubber and maybe spacers..

Blackhawk47 · 5 Feb 2017 at 01:29

Akagi · 5 Feb 2017 at 01:34

Not black please for the love of God, that style has to be some shade of silver, gunmetal at an absolute push.

grudas · 5 Feb 2017 at 01:39

They're not going to be silver I can tell you that lol, going to be dark as that's the look I'm chasing.

Beefy stance with fat rubber.

Sorta this..

Akagi · 5 Feb 2017 at 01:51

Yeah that looks good. Aside from being higher at the front than the back.

Uther · 5 Feb 2017 at 05:44

I'd go gunmetal.

badgeruk · 5 Feb 2017 at 07:44

They look familiar :cool:

Also plain equals best wheels with the added bonus of being easy to clean.

geekman · 5 Feb 2017 at 08:23

T0pPredator said:
Thats some serious profit on the Jag, how did you manage that? Good buying?

Pretty much. I took a bit of a risk buying it as the ad was light on detail and the seller didn't seem to know a whole lot about it, although at £4300 I knew it was a bargain regardless. I reckon at the time it was worth about £1000 more than that and prices have gone up about £1000 since then so I guess it was a combination of luck and judgement.