Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 10]

[CB 987]

Firstly apologies, this is well over thread budget, but I thought it would be appreciated here.

A rather clean looking, low mile, E32 750il in red, I can't imagine it was a colour chosen by many!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771485

[rm163603]

fathomfive said:

r129sl said:

Forgetting all about the budget for a minute, how nice is this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROLLS-ROYCE-CORNICHE/322...

Cor nice

That really is spectacular, will be interesting to see how much it ends at.

[bob-lad]

Just over an hour left and at £15k it's probably still £30k under the reserve.

[Happy Jim]

1st Year Barge update!!

Last year in June I bought a Mercedes W220 S350L for the princly sum of £4,100 following a year in a company car that I hated (and was costing me a fortune!!), 12,000 Miles later and the results are in:


MOT £54
TAX £290
Insurance £320
Extra Fuel Cost (against a 40MPG Company Car) £945
Crank Angle Sensor £120
Duo Valve (Heating) £170
Tyres (2 rears @ 93,000 Miles) £240
Wheel weld *1 & Refurb *4 £350
Wiper Blades £20
RTV Sealant for Valve Cover £20
Exhaust welding £60
Lower Arm (MOT) £95

All Up = £2,684

Ignore Fuel/MOT/TAX/Insurance = £1,075

For comparison purposes my Company car cost me £7,440 the previous year, this one has cost £6,784 (including purchase price) and I now have a "free" car !!

Jim

[canonbeck]

Good looking motor that - are those the standard rims?

[Lowtimer]

bob-lad said:

Lowtimer said:

I have got a bit of a want going for the Corniche

Me too, but I'll be surprised if it doesn't jump well past £50k pretty sharpish.

Unsold at £15,301 (didn't reach reserve)

[harrykul]

That's textbook barging, no wonder you are Happy Jim.

Wish I could do it without spending silly amounts of money!

[Happy Jim]

canonbeck said:

Good looking motor that - are those the standard rims?

AMG rims, standard ones came with the car as well!!

[Happy Jim]

harrykul said:

That's textbook barging, no wonder you are Happy Jim.

Wish I could do it without spending silly amounts of money!

It was definitely a bit of a punt at the beginning, but it's waftastically comfortable. Fortunately I can turn a spanner and it's all been DIYable so far - loving it currently :-)

Jim

[bob-lad]

Man maths shown to work.

Excellent

[SpeckledJim]

Well done, Jim. That's the way to do it.

LPG would have saved another £1000 - £1500 over the year.

[anonymous-user]

Ok this Volvo T5 has been modified but it still looks in very good condition with a great service record.

£3,999 is pushing it but it should be trouble free motoring.

Sorry for the screen shot only picture. If people prefer just the link I can do that from now on. Tried everything to get a non screenshot of the car but it just comes up with a blank box. Bl**** Chromebook


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1995-VOLVO-850-T-5-SALOO...

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 28th July 13:17

[olly755]

CB 987 said:

Firstly apologies, this is well over thread budget, but I thought it would be appreciated here.

A rather clean looking, low mile, E32 750il in red, I can't imagine it was a colour chosen by many!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771485

Very much. Lovely car, unfortunate colour.

XJ6/XJS are the only barges I can think of that can carry off DKR.

[idiotgap]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

Ok this Volvo T5 has been modified but it still looks in very good condition with a great service record.

£3,999 is pushing it but it should be trouble free motoring.

Sorry for the screen shot only picture. If people prefer just the link I can do that from now on. Tried everything to get a non screenshot of the car but it just comes up with a blank box. Bl**** Chromebook


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1995-VOLVO-850-T-5-SALOO...

Edited by ELUSIVEJIM on Thursday 28th July 13:17

For the above example, this is what you need to be adding to your post.

[pic]http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N~IAAOSwdzVXmQ6P/s-l1600.jpg[/pic]

You supply the pic tags and the picture url you have to find within the advert.
On a standard everyday PC and using chrome as the browser you can get the image url by clicking the picture in the ebay listing so it appears magnified to fill the browser window. Then right click the picture and select "Copy image address". This can then be pasted between the pic tags.

[tobinen]

I think you've put the URL of the page in the [pic] and not the image

Not sure a Golf convertible is a barge BTW

[idiotgap]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

[pic]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-VOLKSWAGEN-GOLF-1-8-CABRIOLET-S-NO-RESERVE-/182216598165?hash=item2a6cf4a295:g:gm8AAOSwRgJXk18P[/pic]

Yep, Toby's right, this url isn't an image. If you look at the difference between that and the one I posted before, it's quite different in not having a the reference to ebay's image area and not having the ".jpg" part at the end.

The part you need to crack is finding the image's url.

[K50 DEL]

What you're looking for is this I imagine:

[K50 DEL]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

idiotgap said:

For the above example, this is what you need to be adding to your post.

[pic]http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N~IAAOSwdzVXmQ6P/s-l1600.jpg[/pic]

You supply the pic tags and the picture url you have to find within the advert.
On a standard everyday PC and using chrome as the browser you can get the image url by clicking the picture in the ebay listing so it appears magnified to fill the browser window. Then right click the picture and select "Copy image address". This can then be pasted between the pic tags.

Hi mate.

Thank you for this but as you can see the post above this all I get is a small blank box. A few on here have given me tips but still it will not post the picture.

Driving me insane

I'll put you out of your misery.... ebay pictures use JavaScript to allow them to automatically zoom when you hover over the central part....
To uplink the photo like I have above, you must first double click on it to open the image full screen.
Then right click on it and select properties.
You'll see the URL of the image there, highlight it, right click and copy
within the PH post box, right click and paste
Then simply put [img] before the URL link and [/img] after it

Job done

[W00DY]

CB 987 said:

Firstly apologies, this is well over thread budget, but I thought it would be appreciated here.

A rather clean looking, low mile, E32 750il in red, I can't imagine it was a colour chosen by many!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771485

That's rather splendid. Not too ridiculous a price either.

[Krikkit]

tobinen said:

I think you've put the URL of the page in the pic and not the image

This.

Open the gallery in the browser, right-click on the image, then click "Copy image address" (or similar).

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This is a link directly to the image, which needs to go between [img ] [/img ] tags for the forum to pick them up.