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Zwolf
22,321 posts
76 months
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Chrisw666 said: What can possibly go wrong with a Lexus for £650?
Even as a spares or repair job on ebay you'd recoup most of that shirley? ...and so it begins 
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SuperHangOn
1,710 posts
23 months
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Zwolf said: Chrisw666 said: What can possibly go wrong with a Lexus for £650?
Even as a spares or repair job on ebay you'd recoup most of that shirley? ...and so it begins In fairness it would get you home without aid of the AA. I've not heard of an autobox packing up on one, catastrophic engine bork or rot. Cambelt is non-interference. Suspension gubbins, flickering dials, broken a/c.
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Chrisw666
21,093 posts
69 months
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Zwolf said: Chrisw666 said: What can possibly go wrong with a Lexus for £650?
Even as a spares or repair job on ebay you'd recoup most of that shirley? ...and so it begins I promise I haven't just checked my current account balance, and I honestly haven't got the meerkats open in another tab. 
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bigsinky
27 posts
86 months
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Chrisw666 said: What can possibly go wrong with a Lexus for £650?
Even as a spares or repair job on ebay you'd recoup most of that shirley?  had this for 5 years now. great car. so over engineered its scary. smooth as a baby's ar$e. M reg 145K sure it's only just run in 
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Sump
1,599 posts
37 months
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I never posted mine!
530i manual with all the toys, a few previous owners but it seemed too good a nick..!
£2850
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tdm34
4,761 posts
80 months
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V8Wagon
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30 months
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SuperHangOn
1,710 posts
23 months
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chorus
148 posts
20 months
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V8Wagon said: V8 Merciness for £2.5k. Looks like VFM, but are this era 'E' classes rubbish? They were very rusty. My dad has had several new-ish E class Mercs, and this was the nadir. It was charismatic- probably the one I liked most- but he had to repair rust when it was only 4 or 5 years old. Shortly after there was a second dose, and he moved it on.
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V8Wagon
1,064 posts
30 months
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chorus said: They were very rusty. My dad has had several new-ish E class Mercs, and this was the nadir. It was charismatic- probably the one I liked most- but he had to repair rust when it was only 4 or 5 years old. Shortly after there was a second dose, and he moved it on. Shame that as it looks like a nice modern family saloon which must have a schizophrenic personality with a whopping 4.3 V8 under the bonnet.
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volks al
4,001 posts
84 months
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My w210 e430 seems to be fairly rot free, other than the usual wing bubbling. Front cross member has been replaced at some point. I like the barge for wafting around in, but the v8 is soulless and less willing to pick up than my bro's 540 e39, but its a deceptive quick. Passed its MOT this month with no advisories so not bad for a 14 yr old car.
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theironduke
6,268 posts
58 months
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SuperHangOn said: Every petrolhead needs to own a W126 (i went down the coupe route) They just define what a solid car, designed by engineers and not accountants should be like.
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jonnydm
4,627 posts
79 months
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CB 987 said: Hi,
I've been lurking here for a while now, inspired by this thread I thought I had better make my first post a good one! I have just got back from picking up the Imola red Spanish E39 Sport that was listed a few pages. Such a great car, really wish I had made the decision to buy a barge sooner!
It is a two owner car, the previous keeper had it for eight years and purchased it at 3 years old as an Approved Used Car, its been garaged all its life, so no rust at all and has clearly been cherished. It came with about an inch of BMW receipts, all previous MOT’s etc, all but one of the service stamps are main dealer, turns out the sellers brother works for a main dealer and the car always went there if it needed anything. Recent work includes a new radiator, which is reassuring, the only slight issue is the rocker cover gasket appears to be leaking a small amount of oil at the front. From what I have read this should be an easy fix, managed to get £300 off though, hope this should cover it. Any advice on the cost of this and additional items to change as a precaution at the same time would be much appreciated.
All in all very happy, even managed to average 36.6 mpg up the M40 on the way home, which did surprise me. I will get some pictures up in the readers' cars section when I get a second.
Cheers
Chris Nice. And thanks for ensuring I did one less stupid thing this coming week.
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ATM
3,131 posts
89 months
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V8Wagon said: If this has been rust repaired there may be some life left in her. Parking on a slope like this may even prevent rust.
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Output Flange
12,493 posts
81 months
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carreauchompeur said: Black wheels on any flavour of reasonably old performance BMW worry me immensely. Visible chav-ation. What's funny is that if you ever meet Alan (the owner) he's about as far from a chav as is possible to imagine. The black wheels aren't to my taste, but that and the fixed-mode EDC aside, it's a decent car.
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louiebaby
5,377 posts
61 months
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CB 987 said: Hi,
I've been lurking here for a while now, inspired by this thread I thought I had better make my first post a good one! I have just got back from picking up the Imola red Spanish E39 Sport that was listed a few pages. Such a great car, really wish I had made the decision to buy a barge sooner!
Chris Finally, we're getting away from those nasty Saabs, and back to where we should be.  Get it up in the BMW forum too!
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Zwolf
22,321 posts
76 months
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Output Flange said: The fixed-mode EDC aside, it's a decent car. In fairness, that is quite an aside. After all, EDC-related histrionics aside - most of them are decent cars
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Output Flange
12,493 posts
81 months
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Zwolf said: In fairness, that is quite an aside. After all, EDC-related histrionics aside - most of them are decent cars True
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confused_buyer
1,911 posts
51 months
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V8Wagon said: V8 Merciness for £2.5k. Looks like VFM, but are this era 'E' classes rubbish?
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No, they're by no means rubbish and were/are a very close competitor to the E39 and are better in some ways. What they do do is rust, not so much in essential places but they can end up looking very tatty. Find a well looked after one which has had the rust sorted and they are excellent although they are few and far between.
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Output Flange
12,493 posts
81 months
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You said "do do".
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