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A neighbor is a Manager at VW so brings home some top spec cars, his current one is the new Passat, assume R-Line as it has side skirts and bigger alloys. Must admit very handsome car in the flesh!
 
Aye it is.

Scrubbed the wheels so it's purely corrosion left, can't hide the fact it's 14? years old and has 148k on the clock. Maybe more the fact he last washed it two years ago for a funeral....

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Absolutely fantastic for free!

Are you planning on spending much on it to bring up the paintwork/repair rust or just continue running it on very little costs?
 
I'm not entirely sure, having driven the Astra to Clydebank and back last night I decided that I love wafting around in a bigger car.

I want to sell the Astra to pay off a bit of a loan and run the Bmw as my only car. Think I'd put it up for £3750 and take £3500 but not sure if that's a fair price.

GF wants to learn to drive and I can sort out insurance on the Astra and let her do extra hours in that when I can.

Just spent £560ish on the Astra in two months and it'll be getting a service in the next few weeks so don't want to give it away after that.

The last thought I had was sell the Astra, buy a cheap mk1 Focus for around a grand that will be cheap to run and when she passes she can run about in it.

I'll definitely take the wheels back and spray them silver to start with. Exhaust blow fixed and rocker cover gasket fixed then go from there.

Averaging 22mpg the now, 31 on the motorway with cruise on though.
 
Jonny ///M said:
I'm not entirely sure, having driven the Astra to Clydebank and back last night I decided that I love wafting around in a bigger car.

I want to sell the Astra to pay off a bit of a loan and run the Bmw as my only car. Think I'd put it up for £3750 and take £3500 but not sure if that's a fair price.

GF wants to learn to drive and I can sort out insurance on the Astra and let her do extra hours in that when I can.

Just spent £560ish on the Astra in two months and it'll be getting a service in the next few weeks so don't want to give it away after that.

The last thought I had was sell the Astra, buy a cheap mk1 Focus for around a grand that will be cheap to run and when she passes she can run about in it.

I'll definitely take the wheels back and spray them silver to start with. Exhaust blow fixed and rocker cover gasket fixed then go from there.

Averaging 22mpg the now, 31 on the motorway with cruise on though.
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get some iron-x in and try cleaning up the wheels with it. you'd be surprised how well it comes up.

my dad had 3 e39 530D's each one arriving with low mileage and leaving with 180k plus as he used them for 50k a year business mileage.

things to keep an eye on are.
squeak from back suspension over bumps almost certainly a rear bottom ball-joint (looks like a bush but isn't)
brake shudder - feels like warped front discs but is actually the front control arm bushes are shagged. because of the undertrays etc they very rarely get failed on an MOT

gut out and treat the front wheel arches as they tend to start rusting where the arch liner touches the metal if you can run some up the inside of the sills this helps a lot. same with the rear arches but they tend not to get it so bad.
I'd recommend some Bilt hamber dynax with injection tubes for this

the gap between the rear bumper and the lip below the bootlid has two mounting points that like to rust. get in there and sort it before it starts streaming down the bumper

and lastly the area round the boot handle has a tendency to rust so clean out and wax.

dead pixels in the speedo can be repaired by specialists rather than new clusters or radios.

if it's an auto I'd recommend a new gearbox sump filter and an oil change once past 100k. it is meant to be lifetime sealed but makes quite a difference to when it's cold.. it's a lot of oil though so this can be pricey.

lovely big cars otherwise though
 
Gorbash12346 said:
get some iron-x in and try cleaning up the wheels with it. you'd be surprised how well it comes up.

my dad had 3 e39 530D's each one arriving with low mileage and leaving with 180k plus as he used them for 50k a year business mileage.

things to keep an eye on are.
squeak from back suspension over bumps almost certainly a rear bottom ball-joint (looks like a bush but isn't)
brake shudder - feels like warped front discs but is actually the front control arm bushes are shagged. because of the undertrays etc they very rarely get failed on an MOT

gut out and treat the front wheel arches as they tend to start rusting where the arch liner touches the metal if you can run some up the inside of the sills this helps a lot. same with the rear arches but they tend not to get it so bad.
I'd recommend some Bilt hamber dynax with injection tubes for this

the gap between the rear bumper and the lip below the bootlid has two mounting points that like to rust. get in there and sort it before it starts streaming down the bumper

and lastly the area round the boot handle has a tendency to rust so clean out and wax.

dead pixels in the speedo can be repaired by specialists rather than new clusters or radios.

if it's an auto I'd recommend a new gearbox sump filter and an oil change once past 100k. it is meant to be lifetime sealed but makes quite a difference to when it's cold.. it's a lot of oil though so this can be pricey.

lovely big cars otherwise though
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I'll maybe have a look into the ball joint on the rear as I can hear the squeak and it's a bit annoying.

The front sill area has some surface rust as you can see in the pictures as does the rear boot lid. After the rocker cover gasket I think I'll take a look at the rusty bits and take it back, krust it, anti rust primer and then try and match the paint as best I can.

Gearbox feels good to be fair, not sure what it felt like new but in D it seems to go for a higher gear and sensible revs, sport it holds it longer and if I floor it then it does drop the cogs and rev to the the red line.

Will get it up on a jack at some point soon to see what the lie of the land is and go from there.

The previous owner seems to have spent money each year though. Last bill was for a service, check all the brakes/free them up, engine flush, something on the NSR suspension and a few other things. £420 in total :|
 
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