Best of the Bargain Basement Vol. 2
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Emeye said:
I guessed at the mirrors, but what's wrong with big wing mirrors when we're talking shed money?
What's the issue with the non-modified cluster?
The DIM in the cluster on the V70 can fail. The fix is to take it apart and get out the soldering iron: http://stichl.at/2014/01/volvo-xc90-instrument-clu...What's the issue with the non-modified cluster?
As for the mirrors, I have no idea what the issue with them is.
Emeye said:
Volvo T5 estate with black leather - MOT history not great but nothing major to worry about if engine and gearbox swap proof is there.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
Are they 5 speed autoboxes?http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...
KTF said:
Emeye said:
I guessed at the mirrors, but what's wrong with big wing mirrors when we're talking shed money?
What's the issue with the non-modified cluster?
The DIM in the cluster on the V70 can fail. The fix is to take it apart and get out the soldering iron: http://stichl.at/2014/01/volvo-xc90-instrument-clu...What's the issue with the non-modified cluster?
As for the mirrors, I have no idea what the issue with them is.
funkyrobot said:
Back. 
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
Have to admit I still use our old MGTF as a daily runaround. Worth nothing, but with the hardtop decent enough for the winter, and still great fun in the summer with the roof down, it is decent. Reliability, now, is good (there were a few things badly put together but I've long since fixed them).
It's old fashioned engineering, there's nothing on it that's difficult to fix.
It's old fashioned engineering, there's nothing on it that's difficult to fix.
R E S T E C P said:
forzaminardi said:
JumboBeef said:
Found one! What do people think of this for £460? It's the 3 litre version. Air con needs regassing and it needs a couple of tyres soon. Other than that all seems good.
I used to have a V6. Good solid car, good cruiser and with a wee bit of characterful V6 noise. Very American, I'd say, in a laidback sort of way. Not an entertaining drive, but swift, comfortable, well-equipped and rare enough to be interesting, and to this day pretty good looking (imo). Mine had a Honda bodykit (front dam, side skirts and rear wing spoiler) and fandango wheels but as they are I think the styling is pretty neat. Very reliable if serviced, spacious inside for a coupe. I can't see there being many "better" or more reliable cars for the money if biggish size and 2 doors are what you're after. I'd have another - in fact I'm thinking of getting one as a commuter car!I paid over the odds for a good one, fell in love with it and gave it a major service - timing belt, all brakes, all tyres, all filters... Then the honeymoon period ended and I realised I was too tall for it. I kept thinking "it'll be OK, I'll find a solution" but that never happened - the sunroof was too low and my head was too high. No matter how I adjusted the seat, my head rubbed on the roof. So it went, at a massive loss (both emotionally and financially)
But if height is not an issue for you, then I would highly recommend one. It felt so solid and mechanical... Like there were no computers interfering. No lag, no delays - if you stabbed the throttle it slammed into life. If you were smooth, it was smooth.
All the buttons were mechanical with solid clicks - no soft touch electronics dampening the experience. I loved it! Also the 2.0 engine, while not particularly fast or economical, was smooth and sounded amazing above 4.5k rpm. It was a shame the limiter was around 6.5k rpm as it felt like it was just waking up!
I can imagine the 3.0 is even better - but it's only available with an auto box and that might not suit an engine that likes to be revved.
funkyrobot said:
I hate to be negative but having suffered that engine with a manual gearbox, I am disembowelled by the thought of it with an auto! A long dead sloth would gather speed sooner. Being an LS does it no favours neither. Who the f
k specs near top of the range engine with bottom of the range trim? (I do/did actually like the Vectra "B" and owned a lovely 2.0 SRI in star silver no less!) W reg IIRC. Much better offerings available than that slug.Pacman1978 said:
funkyrobot said:
I hate to be negative but having suffered that engine with a manual gearbox, I am disembowelled by the thought of it with an auto! A long dead sloth would gather speed sooner. Being an LS does it no favours neither. Who the fk specs near top of the range engine with bottom of the range trim? (I do/did actually like the Vectra "B" and owned a lovely 2.0 SRI in star silver no less!) W reg IIRC. Much better offerings available than that slug.
TonyRPH said:
JumboBeef said:
Update:
That's a shame, anything serious?I hope not.
That's the same colour as the 2.0 I once owned.
JumboBeef said:
A simple problem but a nightmare to fix: the factory fitted immobiliser is on. Been trying to work out how to sort it for two weeks and today, thanks to a fellow PHer, it's off to a place in Cheshire (from Devon) to be un immobilised. Other than that, it has been running great and we've been really happy with it.
Good, hopefully you'll get it sorted.One thing I remember well about mine, it had the best heater demister in any of the cars I've owned.
Frosty mornings were no challenge for it at all.
Hoofy said:
Back.
A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Looks like the suspension needs pumping up.A brief history.
Ok, about four years ago, I bought a Mk3 Golf Cab for about £700.
Was good fun for 18 months but it was getting tired especially the gearbox (usual jolt from old auto boxes) so I decided to retire it (SORN).
I replaced it with a Volvo S60 2.4T for about £700. Ran that for about 18 months but the gearbox is also tired (it too had developed a jolt in the auto box). Am also getting a few dodgy warning lights.
Was going to scrap both of these but a contact had a gold MGF that he wanted to swap. He's handy with a spanner so I asked if he wanted the Volvo and Golf. Bizarrely, he said yes. So now he has two cars with little to no MOT and I have one MGF with a fresh MOT, a brand new roof and a hardtop. 72k miles on the clock.
Will sell the hardtop for about £250.
It looks and sounds like a gold vibrator.
Purchase price = £200?
Edited by Hoofy on Tuesday 29th November 17:33
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