Bye bye MG....

Phate · 25 Oct 2009 at 13:42

Oh and Jansey_B thats a quality sig

Phate · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:27

So my courtesy car is late.....and its a....Vauxhall Vectra Deseasel

Not bad! But I keep expecting to go downstairs and find an attempted delivery card or something

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 11:48

Wicksta said:
"Give me first refusal on the salvageable parts and I'll permaban wicksta and [TW]Fox"

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 11:50

[TW]Fox;15184026 said:
I had visions of you delivering curry in a new Golf GTI but actually a Vectra diesel is the ideal currydelivery car

lol - Was driving the Vectra about last night, at first I was like 'not bad for a courtesy car'

But I turned the radio down and the seats were squeaking, there were rattles etc and the car has done a whopping 17k.....amazing build quality

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 11:56

[TW]Fox;15184734 said:
What spec is it?

Its a 57 plate Vectra 1.9tdci 'Life'

Xenon Headlights, Cruise Control, A/C are about the only 'goodies' I can think of.

150bhp and a bucket of torque, pulls well when in the torque range and isn't too bad when driving about - seats are mega uncomfortable and hurt my back a lot when I'm driving it. Oh, and it's rolling on steelies with hub caps - awesome

Want a picture? I know you love your Vauxhalls

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 11:59

[TW]Fox;15184794 said:
You sure its a Life, thats base spec isnt it, suprised it has Xenons

PIX

Unless the badges are lying

K gimme a sec.

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:13

Feast your eyes!!!

Now isn't that just sex on wheels?

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:15

Excuse the lack of focus - I don't have my contacts in or glasses on so the camera AF'd and I assumed it was correct

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:16

[TW]Fox;15184972 said:
Why on earth does it have Xenons

Infact it doesnt, no headlight washers.

It's got projectors and when they were on last night they looked like xenons?!

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 12:20

[TW]Fox;15185021 said:
All facelift Vectra C's have projectors.

ARGGH why do I know that

LOL - For someone that hates vauxhalls you know a lot

And I wasn't aware they all had projectors. So I thought it was an options thing.

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:38

I'm tempted to find out if I can change the car. The Vectra's seats are so hard and uncomfortable - it's actually making me not want to drive anywhere!

Phate · 27 Oct 2009 at 23:50

teaboy5 said:
Hope your all insurance to be running around with curries.

I haven't started the new job yet, should be at some point this week. And I won't be using the Vectra anyway...

Phate · 28 Oct 2009 at 20:28

Assessor came and looked at my car today. Valued it at £1800 - result, told him I want to buy it back and it'll cost me £360 to do that. Excellent

Have started stripping it for parts

Phate · 28 Oct 2009 at 20:41

I was expecting less to be honest with you. But the guy said he looked at used car ad's and got his judgement from there.

Is handy as I've already provisionally sold £1300 worth of parts from it

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:15

No I originally undervalued it and said it was worth about £1500 imo and he said he thought £1800.

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:30

Gaijin said:
Why would you undervalue your car to the assessor?

I thought he was going to offer something like £1300 - so I said £1500 to try and push for it then he turned round and said £1800

Ah well, I'm not moaning.

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:38

Tesla said:
How much do these go for on AT and PH?

That's the value I would have pushed for, I wouldn't base my value on what I thought the assesor would say plus a little bit.

Prices vary a lot. Most somewhere between £1500 and £2k really.

EDIT: Mainly due to the service history, most around this age need the cambelts doing and that devalues the car by £500 atleast. (Tis a big job)

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:51

InvaderGIR said:
You can knock hte value off for that though, the front end damage must be visable...and if someone from the MG forums was looking to buy it I'm sure they'd have read about all the problems you had due to the front end damage and so would offer very little.

You'd have to con someone that doesn't know about the car to get a decent value from it, which is very wrong imo...

Err...my cambelts were done thank you.

And no Rob, it isn't, because....for the millionth time....now you ready for this, as it may become a bit of a shock, because you seem to be oblivious to the other times I've posted it....it....was......STRAIGHT.

And I'm not looking to sell the car as a whole, I'm breaking it for parts (which I've already previously mentioned) so why are you saying about selling the car as whole?

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:54

Jez said:
The insurance have paid you a value based on its pre accident value as a whole. Thats what he is getting at when referring to it in that way

Ah, I see. My bad

Phate · 29 Oct 2009 at 12:41

[TW]Fox;15201305 said:
Why do you think it was? You told us on 3 seperate occasions before the latest 'jig' session that it was 'straight', so why are we supposed to beleive it the 4th time?

As I said before I have no need to prove or disprove anything, I know for a fact it was straight and that's the end of it really