Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 10]

Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 10]

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josh00mac

322 posts

110 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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I think you are realistically looking at just over 2 thousand once you have had everything done but that would be a recon box from a specialist i.e absolute worst case.

Could be something a knowledgeable specialist can sort - there are a lot of these boxes out there and it is amazing what specialists come up with to sort previously 'write off' style malfunctions

great bargaining tool as the vendor will just want it gone

Lowtimer

4,293 posts

170 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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Stegel said:
Lowtimer said:
So: who would like to have a stab at why the width of a normal post-war car wheel is Imperial, whereas the width of the tyre that goes on it is metric?
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smile
I wonder if it's the switch to aspect ratio percentages for tyres which would mean tyre sizes expressed in fractions of inches - although I grew up pre-metrication, I find working in fractions very laborious.
My hypothesis is that it's because a French company pioneered radial-ply tyres. As far as I can see the width of tyres being denoted in mm started with the switch to from crossplys to radials. The width of the previous crossply tyres was sized in inches e.g. a Mark II Jag might be on 640H15, where the 640 was 6.4 inches.

josh00mac

322 posts

110 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38....

QuantumTokoloshi

4,168 posts

219 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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josh00mac said:
Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38....
Give it a respray and a new gearbox and you have, more or less, a new car. Winner biggrin

anonymous-user

56 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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josh00mac said:
Krikkit said:
A haggle and a bit of a tidy up, this LPG'd one seems good value.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...



That list of jobs done scares me. And I run a P38....
hehewink

dscam

1,889 posts

189 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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ELUSIVEJIM said:
E34 BMW 520i

1 owner from new

67,000 miles

£1,800

MOT history is very good also

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

At first glance those wheel trims do a passable impression of the Type I alloys from th contemporary M5.

W00DY

15,519 posts

228 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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MJK 24

5,648 posts

238 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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Caruso said:
r129sl said:
Don't know which bit is worse... the chrome arches, the white dials or the silver mats.
The leather seats look superb!

BigBen

11,675 posts

232 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!

Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.

Ben

Biglips

1,338 posts

157 months

Sunday 30th October 2016
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122194082834

A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....

defblade

7,468 posts

215 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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derin100 said:
In a continued quest for improving the headlamps on the E39 Touring and suspecting something may be awry in the form of perhaps a broken adjuster on one side, I decide to order a set of four and set about opening them up.

Just as well that I did. Here's a what I found. All FOUR where broken!

You really don't need the capitals and exclamation mark; every single person with an E39 knows already wink In fact, I was going to mention it when you said about the polishing the plastic and poor lumens output the other day, but then I thought, "no, it's Derin, he will know about and have checked that."


At least it's a cheap job that should only need doing once. I didn't find it took so long at all once I'd got the front covers off, but they were a sod - SWMBO wouldn't let me bake them loose frown

tobinen

9,266 posts

147 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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BigBen said:
Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!

Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.

Ben
I bought my 210 in the daylight without those, not knowing it should have them.

W00DY

15,519 posts

228 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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Biglips said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122194082834

A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
That's lovely.



Really shows off the E65 design at its best.

W00DY

15,519 posts

228 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-MERCEDES-190E-AUTO-...

Looks lovely although I suspect the reserve will be quite high.

Krikkit

26,639 posts

183 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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BigBen said:
Barge update. Regular theadists will know I bought an S600 with a strange 'vibration' noted in the advert. I assumed this would be the usual ABC pulsation damper problem. Today I changed said damper. It's not that!

Also in a lesson as to why you should not buy cars in the dark I found out the car is missing its front undertray. Not just the front section but all of it (probably 3 seconds from the bumper to behind the gearbox). Ah well ebay here we come, just hope S600 undertrays are the same as lesser rusted ebay scrappers.

Ben
Bad luck!

Looking on ebay it looks like you might be in luck - the first one is listed for the S600, the 2nd just any W220. It looks like the difference is a small section which is cut out of the casting for the 600 (presumably for exhaust clearance), so it should be nice and easy.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201693567275
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122076831612

S600:


W220:


Had a similar thing with floor mats etc on a few cars- just an extra step to trim excess material for the awkward models

BigBen

11,675 posts

232 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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Krikkit said:
Bad luck!

Looking on ebay it looks like you might be in luck - the first one is listed for the S600, the 2nd just any W220. It looks like the difference is a small section which is cut out of the casting for the 600 (presumably for exhaust clearance), so it should be nice and easy.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201693567275
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122076831612

S600:


W220:


Had a similar thing with floor mats etc on a few cars- just an extra step to trim excess material for the awkward models
Thank you. I need to look on the EPC and see exactly which parts are missing, my R230 had the cover you linked to plus one behind it and one in front, I suspect the W220 is the same and all are missing. It was serviced at a dealer this year which makes it all the more odd.

Ben

Krikkit

26,639 posts

183 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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The pile of undertrays out the back of the Mercedes dealer I can see out of my window says it's not a surprise yours are missing!

pitchfork

279 posts

152 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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Re. the E39 headlights: I cut a hole in the top of the unit to access the (broken) adjusters. They're still terrible.

Retrofit units are available, although I've no idea of the quality.

A US company

A Dutch company


A thread

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

181 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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W00DY said:
That's brilliant. A T5 with those wheel trims!

r129sl

9,518 posts

205 months

Monday 31st October 2016
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W00DY said:
Biglips said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122194082834

A bit of haggling and would get close to upper thread limit....
That's lovely.



Really shows off the E65 design at its best.
I think this makes some of the Mercs—126, 124 and 201—look rather expensive.
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