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£1200 for a cat back ??? Urm wow..
OCUK Rolling Road Day 11 @ Eurospec (Guildford) - Sat 19th March 2011
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And someone once told me that you couldn't beat 'American' V8s for Power vs $$$ mod wise
. (By the way, I'll sort out my deposit later on in the week. My internet banking is being awkward)
Glad to hear that Monaro sounding as it should!
But £1200 just for the catback, am I reading that right?
If so the profit margins they are making is simply daylight robbery.
Can you not import the exhaust from US/Australia?
Just in comparison to the Mustang I importanted a full set of headers, race cats, x-pipe and the rest of the exhaust for less than £1000 landed. This is why I hate the UK for car stuff as most simply take the wee when it comes to tuning. I did a lot of ringing around when I got the Milltek for the EVO as the price was £1600 fitted, after calling around, checking online I finally got that price down to £850 fitted, which goes to show shopping around pays off.
With the Mustang I just imported parts myself and fitted them myself wherever possible.
UK is just a rip off, I mean look at new Mustangs and Dodge Challengers, the importers are chucking 10k profit on, for the sake of what? Id rather import it myself, I had no issues with warranty claims with Saleen, hell they even paid shipping to the UK for parts replaced under warranty.
But £1200 just for the catback, am I reading that right?
If so the profit margins they are making is simply daylight robbery.
Can you not import the exhaust from US/Australia?
Just in comparison to the Mustang I importanted a full set of headers, race cats, x-pipe and the rest of the exhaust for less than £1000 landed. This is why I hate the UK for car stuff as most simply take the wee when it comes to tuning. I did a lot of ringing around when I got the Milltek for the EVO as the price was £1600 fitted, after calling around, checking online I finally got that price down to £850 fitted, which goes to show shopping around pays off.
With the Mustang I just imported parts myself and fitted them myself wherever possible.
UK is just a rip off, I mean look at new Mustangs and Dodge Challengers, the importers are chucking 10k profit on, for the sake of what? Id rather import it myself, I had no issues with warranty claims with Saleen, hell they even paid shipping to the UK for parts replaced under warranty.
How about some work rather than posting on an Internet discussion forum?Would do anything to own a Mustang like that
Work, on a Sunday
That sounds like the attitude of someone who isn't working hard enough for that Mustang...
It's true though, I only worked 6 days a week for 6 months and therefore only saved up enough for a Z3
That sounds like the attitude of someone who isn't working hard enough for that Mustang...
Not much more I can do, no amount of phone calls is going to get me insured on one and working on a Sunday won't make me any older
Work hard enough and you can insure anything.Not much more I can do, no amount of phone calls is going to get me insured on one and working on a Sunday won't make me any older
Just sounds like you are blaming the world for you being a slacker...
For how much. I'd pay £2000 to insure one for a year which I think is a reasonable amount to look to pay at 21 with 4years NCB, brilliant post code.
Everyone I speak to either just says "Come back when you're 25/30", "Do you have LHD experience?" or "That'll be £9000 please sir.".
Plus I was looking at a 2005/2006 s197 GT so not even a Saleen!
I'm comfortable estimating that you could insure it for £5k or less.
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im going to have to pull out, the clear coat on my golf has reacted with something over the last few weeks so i will have to save up for a full respray. Ill need all the spare cash i can find.
They are cheap to insure, mine was £550 per year all mods declared, the EVO is £850 in comparison.
With 4yr NCB and at 21 you should easily get insurance sub 2k on one. Especially now as values have dropped, mine was insured/valued at 28k, wheras you can now pickup a V8 S197 for circa 15k if you shop around.
Have you looked at specialists at all or with limited mileage?
I had a quote for my DC2 of £273 with Peter Best Insurance the other day. Cracking stuff but does have a few negatives being a classic policy, limited to 5k etc.
Just realised I might make the least power on the RR, Honda VTEC horses contain muchos aural pleasure though
im going to have to pull out, the clear coat on my golf has reacted with something over the last few weeks so i will have to save up for a full respray. Ill need all the spare cash i can find.
Damn, was looking forward to mooching around your G60
I'm not going to pay 33% of the cars value to insure it. £2k is fine, £5k no way.
Apparently there have been a couple of big s197 crashes in the past 2 years, and it means under 25 is pretty much no go.
I've just logged into MOCGB and this is the PM I got back when I was looking into it from A-Plan (who are suppose to be very good)
Chris@A-Plan said:
Chris@A-Plan said:At the moment under 25 is a no go. Even if I said you would pay £5000!! They are an absolute nightmare at the moment. But they have to rely on statistics and at the moment the small minority have spoiled it for you
A-Plan were about one of 10 companies I phoned, all of which said "No" or "£StupidMoney".
I was looking at a £15k~ GT but had to totally drop the idea due to insurance. A 335i is under £1000 so that'll have to be my next car I think - even though the Mustang is the ultimate dream car and as soon as it is possible I will get one.