Best Smoker Barges - 1 - 5 Large [Vol 3]

[Fox-]

I shovelled almost £100 into Autotrader before eventually selling my car through PH for asking price..

[Mustard]

Over the last few years I've sold

Lotus Élan SE turbo
E46 330i sport convertible
E34 520i SE saloon

All off Ph adds for good prices

[edo]

A brace of Bangle Adrian Van Hooydonk 7's. First one looks like someone got a bargain.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Second needs a bit more negotiating, but private so you should get close.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

2002 BMW 7 SERIES 735i
4 Doors, Automatic, Saloon, Petrol, 43,000 miles, Metallic Grey. ABS, Air conditioning, Alloy wheels, Central locking, Headlight washers, Immobiliser, Navigation system, Passenger airbag, Radio/Cassette, Side airbags, Radio/CD, Radio/CD Multichanger, Telephone, Traction control, Reverse parking aid, Steering wheel rake adjustment, Front electric windows, PAS, Front fog lights, Alarm, Steering wheel reach adjustment, Trip computer, Electrically adjustable drivers seat, Electrically adjustable passenger seat, Electric door mirrors, Audio remote control, Rear electric windows, Drivers airbag. £5,855

Edited by edo on Tuesday 27th March 20:34

[Zwolf]

E65 wasn't the work of Herr Bangle, it was penned by Adrian Van Hooydonk, who succeeded him as Design Director in 2009, he was head of Automotive Exterior Design for BMW since 2000, having joined them at the same time as Bangle in the early '90s.

[cat220]

I've an advert on just now and had very little interest! Sold a VW camper a few years ago via a PH add. AT would be my last resort.

[edo]

Zwolf said:

E65 wasn't the work of Herr Bangle, it was penned by Adrian Van Hooydonk, who succeeded him as Design Director in 2009, he was head of Automotive Exterior Design for BMW since 2000, having joined them at the same time as Bangle in the early '90s.

I stand corrected!

[RenesisEvo]

edo said:

2002 BMW 7 SERIES 735i
4 Doors, Automatic, Saloon, Petrol, 43,000 miles, Metallic Grey. ABS, Air conditioning, Alloy wheels, Central locking, Headlight washers, Immobiliser, Navigation system, Passenger airbag, Radio/Cassette, Side airbags, Radio/CD, Radio/CD Multichanger, Telephone, Traction control, Reverse parking aid, Steering wheel rake adjustment, Front electric windows, PAS, Front fog lights, Alarm, Steering wheel reach adjustment, Trip computer, Electrically adjustable drivers seat, Electrically adjustable passenger seat, Electric door mirrors, Audio remote control, Rear electric windows, Drivers airbag. £5,855

That seems almost too cheap to be true what's the catch?

[Fox-]

RenesisEvo said:

That seems almost too cheap to be true what's the catch?

I guess it's 10 years old..

[cat220]

Better off going for the 4.4 v8 better performance and pretty much the same mpg and running costs.

[r129sl]

Zwolf said:

Where's R129SL when you need him?

I dimly recall he's spent sixty-odd £k running it to date - including fuel in fairness.

I'm back. I've been trying to give up cars after my s124 died (wife smacked it into an apparently invisible concrete wall).

R129s are fundamentally indestructible. The problem is that because they can take it, they get neglected. Early cars are better but at this age, the better car is always best, whatever the year, engine, colour and so on. 500s are fast. They're quite soft in the suspension department. A pleasure to drive but no Lotus Elise. They all came with hardtops: no hardtop, no sale. I've done 214,000miles in mine and it has never let me down. It sees 150 about once a week. I've spent about £50k on maintaining it like you'd maintain an aircraft. That includes lots of Michelin tyres, which I change at 4mm. Nothing much of note has ever failed: I've just serviced it every 5k miles and replaced parts which I think ought to be replaced before they fail. Don't buy one for £4,000 from a dodgy neighbourhood. Best signs: Becker wireless set, orange indicators, Michelin tyres, two tone paint.

[SuperHangOn]

Fox- said:

RenesisEvo said:

That seems almost too cheap to be true what's the catch?

I guess it's 10 years old..

Thats scary! Doesn't it feels like yesterday the new 7 was launched with all the BMW beards up in arms over the Bangleisation

[GBB]

Mustard said:

Over the last few years I've sold

Lotus Élan SE turbo
E46 330i sport convertible
E34 520i SE saloon

All off Ph adds for good prices

All of those look prime PH'ers cars. I've sold stuff from PH as well but then they were PH type cars rather than run of the mill stuff. The Classics sites are also free and good if your selling a classic or something close to one(obviously).

Autotrader isn't cheap nowadays but I'm sure it's still the most widely used so I'd guess the best way to sell there is a good ad and competitive price.

[Jobbo]

I'm not convinced PH ads are as widely viewed since the new classifieds debacle last year. Certainly I've mainly found cars I'm interested in buying on eBay (classifieds) most recently, and the PH ads tend to be rather overpriced in comparison. It's got to the point where PH classifieds aren't my first port of call when doing the usual trawl, despite having sold quite a few cars through them myself over the last 8 or so years.

Chatting to the trader from whom I'm picking up my 545i, the price of eBay classifieds is rather cheaper than Auto Trader so eBay's all he uses, not even PH.

[Mustard]

Jobbo said:

I'm not convinced PH ads are as widely viewed since the new classifieds debacle last year. Certainly I've mainly found cars I'm interested in buying on eBay (classifieds) most recently, and the PH ads tend to be rather overpriced in comparison. It's got to the point where PH classifieds aren't my first port of call when doing the usual trawl, despite having sold quite a few cars through them myself over the last 8 or so years.

I do agree, car and classic can yield some good stuff, and as mentioned, eBay with a degree of caution

[Jobbo]

Mustard said:

I do agree, car and classic can yield some good stuff, and as mentioned, eBay with a degree of caution

Car and classic seems to be coming more onto my radar, not sure if that's just because I'm getting older so the cars I like tend to be best described as classics

[Jobbo]

olly22n said:

E34
[...]
ideally Aircon

Best of luck - I looked at quite a few back in 2006 when I bought mine (which was only 9 years old since it was a very late Touring) and none of them had air-con which worked. When I found out the cost of fixing the air-con on mine, I left it alone.

[MoonMonkey]

After avidly following this thread for months after deeply regretting getting rid of my 9-5 Aero I need to report a bit of a smoker barge 'fail' I'm afraid. Got sick of the A4 and so somewhat spontaneously went out and bought an Audi A6 3.0 TDI Quattro. I think it meets the barge criteria quite nicely but was a few grand outside the thread budget. Sorry chaps

[phil_cardiff]

Jobbo said:

I'm not convinced PH ads are as widely viewed since the new classifieds debacle last year. Certainly I've mainly found cars I'm interested in buying on eBay (classifieds) most recently, and the PH ads tend to be rather overpriced in comparison. It's got to the point where PH classifieds aren't my first port of call when doing the usual trawl, despite having sold quite a few cars through them myself over the last 8 or so years.

Chatting to the trader from whom I'm picking up my 545i, the price of eBay classifieds is rather cheaper than Auto Trader so eBay's all he uses, not even PH.

Agree with this. I've bought my last 2 cars from ebay.

When I sold my PH darling, a MX-5, I got zero repsonse from Pistonheads and Gumtree and 3 viewings and a sale from autotrader.

[Matt_N]

The last two cars I've sold on PH have sold within days, they were a Mk2 16v and a Corrado G60.

[V8mate]

olly22n said:

phil_cardiff said:

Jobbo said:

I'm not convinced PH ads are as widely viewed since the new classifieds debacle last year. Certainly I've mainly found cars I'm interested in buying on eBay (classifieds) most recently, and the PH ads tend to be rather overpriced in comparison. It's got to the point where PH classifieds aren't my first port of call when doing the usual trawl, despite having sold quite a few cars through them myself over the last 8 or so years.

Chatting to the trader from whom I'm picking up my 545i, the price of eBay classifieds is rather cheaper than Auto Trader so eBay's all he uses, not even PH.

Agree with this. I've bought my last 2 cars from ebay.

When I sold my PH darling, a MX-5, I got zero repsonse from Pistonheads and Gumtree and 3 viewings and a sale from autotrader.

+ 2.

I quite like the search function on ebay too.

Yep - the eBay twiddlerbility is outstanding.

Stuart!