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0a said:
That car has been advertised on eBay and AT for months now, and if memory serves me right was north of top thread budget to begin with. It has been advertised as located in Birmingham and Walsall, usually as a private sale. I've not seen it, but something perhaps not quite right or I'm certain it would have gone by now. 
Stegel said:
0a said:
That car has been advertised on eBay and AT for months now, and if memory serves me right was north of top thread budget to begin with. It has been advertised as located in Birmingham and Walsall, usually as a private sale. I've not seen it, but something perhaps not quite right or I'm certain it would have gone by now. 0a said:
Stegel said:
0a said:
That car has been advertised on eBay and AT for months now, and if memory serves me right was north of top thread budget to begin with. It has been advertised as located in Birmingham and Walsall, usually as a private sale. I've not seen it, but something perhaps not quite right or I'm certain it would have gone by now. 0a said:
Hmmm that's not good. I don't like the wheels - they would go, the mileage is reasonably high, and it looks dirty on the inside. As you say there's probably a good reason why it's not sold yet... but I do like the 560 and they are going up in value generally, so I thought I'd post it and get the lowdown from the experts!
I personally think the sale is unlikely for
A) Location: I personally look for cars in a nice area (well presented house with a gravel drive etc). It possibly gives an indication of the owner.
B) original specification (particularly wheels and legit number plates)
C) Idiotic signs of care - E.g. When E65 Ross bought his E38 the owner had put mats on top of the original BMW mats in order to preserve the BM ones. Silly but also a selling point, it just screams 'I've been well looked after'.
The advert doesn't give off those vibes, hence the sort of enthusiasts who are looking for a 560 will walk past this one.
Matt
r129sl said:
Look at the last picture of the SEC. See the roof lining hanging down? Nice. Pig to fix. Good of the seller to mention it...
Looks very tired on the inside, not that I'm in the market for one but the "boxing gloves" hanging from the rear view mirror would be enough to put me off it!
jke11y said:
Just had a teary wife on the phone; managed to hit a parked truck in the R129. Wing and mirror not looking great, which is ideal given that they were painted a month ago as part of the £1k spruce up it got. Gah!
Don't do what a (now divorced) guy I know did and once it's fixed present the paid invoice, to her with a cheery 'Happy Christmas'!Not too long after I passed my test when I was about 18, one Friday night, I borrowed my mum's Pug, an 1124cc 205 Junior to go out for the evening. Next day my Dad literally dragged me out of bed and down to the drive to point out how upset he was that the passenger door and wing were all scraped up. I denied all knowledge - wasn't visible from the driver's side and it was put down to me leaving it parked in a dodgy part of Leeds or something and yet more evidence of my irresponsible attitude. He went mad and barely spoke to me for days.
About 10 days later after he'd calmed down a bit, my mum owned up that she'd actually had a little accident hitting a wall in the multi-story car-park at work...
idiotgap said:
jke11y said:
Just had a teary wife on the phone; managed to hit a parked truck in the R129. Wing and mirror not looking great, which is ideal given that they were painted a month ago as part of the £1k spruce up it got. Gah!
Don't do what a (now divorced) guy I know did and once it's fixed present the paid invoice, to her with a cheery 'Happy Christmas'!Not too long after I passed my test when I was about 18, one Friday night, I borrowed my mum's Pug, an 1124cc 205 Junior to go out for the evening. Next day my Dad literally dragged me out of bed and down to the drive to point out how upset he was that the passenger door and wing were all scraped up. I denied all knowledge - wasn't visible from the driver's side and it was put down to me leaving it parked in a dodgy part of Leeds or something and yet more evidence of my irresponsible attitude. He went mad and barely spoke to me for days.
About 10 days later after he'd calmed down a bit, my mum owned up that she'd actually had a little accident hitting a wall in the multi-story car-park at work...
In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.
r129sl said:
In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Divorce.
EFA.(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Divorce.
cat220 said:
r129sl said:
Look at the last picture of the SEC. See the roof lining hanging down? Nice. Pig to fix. Good of the seller to mention it...
Looks very tired on the inside, not that I'm in the market for one but the "boxing gloves" hanging from the rear view mirror would be enough to put me off it!r129sl said:
You've got to roll with the punches.
In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.
Ouch!In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.
BMW 325 auto 4 door with 69k miles and cream leather. There are not many of these mini barges about any more. Expensive but strangely desirable to me. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C555561#
r129sl said:
You've got to roll with the punches.
In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.
I can only hope she makes up for it in other ways - as a car enthusiast, this sort of stuff is almost as bad as sleeping with your brother In the last three years:
(1) Wife reversed my newly painted SEC into a parking space between a colleague's brand new—days old—car and my estate car. On the way into the space she dunched the new car. On the way out she dunched the estate car. Laugh it off.
(2) Wife wrote off estate car in a multi-storey car park. Seeing a space on the next floor, she gunned it up the ramp, failing to take heed of the two foot tall concrete divider running up the middle of it. Laugh it off.
(3) Wife reverses (my) VW Golf into my brother's R230 SL. Laugh it off.
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