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SpeckledJim said:

That will find fans here I am sure. For me that is about as unappealing as a good condition C126 can look.

Agreed. That kind of combination looks great on a 190, but not the 126

[derin100]

pitchfork said:

My car "appreciates" every time I put fuel into it.

Does it actually say: "Thank you."

That would have been a thing, huh? Surely they could have easily programmed that into the vocabulary of the speaking Austin Maestro back in the day?

[cat220]

sleepera6 said:

hornetrider said:

E65(6)? 750i Sport with sensible miles are mere haggle from budget.

Looks absolutely fantastic.

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

Avoid that place at all cost! Garunteed to be a lemon.

Also looking at the MOT history, a failure on the previous MOT due to 'blue smoke' doesn't inspire confidence!

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I posted this on the retro thread, but thought it would also go well here. Just look at that interior! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-BMW-E23-735i-SE-Aut...

[bob-lad]

0a said:

I posted this on the retro thread, but thought it would also go well here. Just look at that interior! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-BMW-E23-735i-SE-Aut...

That is splendid.

[BigBen]

JF87 said:

BigBen said:

He has done the coil packs which is the major cost and the ABC seems to be fine, not sure there is anything there to really put you off. In fact at potentially sub £3000 it looks a bit of a steal.

Indeed, as I blithely concluded. Though let's be honest - he's hardly flogging this because of the fuel costs (his stated reason). He's had the car a year and probably spent the thick end of £3,000 in repairs, so the chances are something else has begun to go expensively wrong and he's cutting his losses.

So we are in agreement, someone should buy it.

[cat220]

bob-lad said:

0a said:

I posted this on the retro thread, but thought it would also go well here. Just look at that interior! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-BMW-E23-735i-SE-Aut...

That is splendid.

Agreed, be interesting to see what it finishes at.

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BigBen said:

JF87 said:

BigBen said:

He has done the coil packs which is the major cost and the ABC seems to be fine, not sure there is anything there to really put you off. In fact at potentially sub £3000 it looks a bit of a steal.

Indeed, as I blithely concluded. Though let's be honest - he's hardly flogging this because of the fuel costs (his stated reason). He's had the car a year and probably spent the thick end of £3,000 in repairs, so the chances are something else has begun to go expensively wrong and he's cutting his losses.

So we are in agreement, someone should buy it.

Essentially he's spent the £3,000 you would have spent had you purchased it when he did - you are starting £3,000 ahead! (Barge maths!)

[mondayo]

This doesn't look too bad and although not cheap, not silly money either.
Bmw 530i M Sport Aegean edition INDIVIDUAL Auto 2003 E39
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bmw-530i-M-Sport-Aegean-ed...

[86DA]

CL's get a bad press, but are basically reliable.

Although you need a good specialist to take on a 600.

[josh00mac]

Mine and a friends V8 RR. Both in budget and proving reliable luxury motoring. He bought the L322 with full dealer history. Plenty of them around like that.

[Caruso]

Local Taxi driver to be applauded for his choice of vehicle.

[Lowtimer]

mondayo said:

This doesn't look too bad and although not cheap, not silly money either.
Bmw 530i M Sport Aegean edition INDIVIDUAL Auto 2003 E39
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bmw-530i-M-Sport-Aegean-ed...

Ah, that's much more like it price-wise than the one we saw the other day. Good-sounding advert too. I would be standing by to ditch the Eibach springs, and put the standadrd BMW M-Sport II ones back on, but if someone bought it as it is and liked it being dropped and found the ride and handling acceptable that would be up to personal choice. And it's not that big a job.

[Jimmy Recard]

derin100 said:

I'd bet a substantial amount of money that it wasn't true! Far more likely to have been PCV diaphragm failure (a common failure given the age of the carand a simple and cheap fix) which causes symptoms which closely mimic a Nikasil issue. It's now acknowledged that probably many engines in the past were needlessly replaced, at a stroke because of this mis-diagnosis.

He still has the car in a unit he has. I'll mention this to him


I don't think he's ever sold a car. Since I've known him, he has only ever bought sub-£1000 cars and when they fail, he just stores them with SORN. He has some odd and interesting things in dry storage

[anonymous-user]

Barge-ists, I'm in need of your wisdom. My father-in-law has bestowed upon me the mantle of "he who knows everything about cars" and as well as finding a brand new car for my mother-in-law (oh, what fun I'm going to have! ) he's also considering selling his land yacht and wants me to find out how much it's worth.

It's a 1998 CL600 (W140/C140 I believe) with 75k miles on it, I think it's one of the very last cars as it was registered December 1998 and wikipedia suggests that was the end of the line - yes, Wikipedia. Did I mention I don't really know my 90's Mercs? . It's only done a couple of thousand miles a year for the last decade and I've not had a good go over it yet but it looks pretty clean.

No problem, thinks I, I'll head off to the classifieds and find out what similar cars are going for. Yeeeeeeah.... there's one for sale in the whole country and I have no idea if it's about right, a bargain or totally optimistic and will remain rooted to the forecourt for all eternity.

There are a fair few CL500s out there but I don't know if the V12 is worth less, more, or about the same.

This is the car I found for comparison, which has slightly higher miles:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

I know there are a few people on here who are very keen market watchers for Mercs of a certain age, help? This genuinely isn't a for sale ad, I've no idea if he's actually going to sell it or not, he says he's thinking about it but I know he's also the kind of guy who just likes to know what things are worth.

[ChocolateFrog]

charltjr said:

Barge-ists, I'm in need of your wisdom. My father-in-law has bestowed upon me the mantle of "he who knows everything about cars" and as well as finding a brand new car for my mother-in-law (oh, what fun I'm going to have! ) he's also considering selling his land yacht and wants me to find out how much it's worth.

It's a 1998 CL600 (W140/C140 I believe) with 75k miles on it, I think it's one of the very last cars as it was registered December 1998 and wikipedia suggests that was the end of the line - yes, Wikipedia. Did I mention I don't really know my 90's Mercs? . It's only done a couple of thousand miles a year for the last decade and I've not had a good go over it yet but it looks pretty clean.

No problem, thinks I, I'll head off to the classifieds and find out what similar cars are going for. Yeeeeeeah.... there's one for sale in the whole country and I have no idea if it's about right, a bargain or totally optimistic and will remain rooted to the forecourt for all eternity.

There are a fair few CL500s out there but I don't know if the V12 is worth less, more, or about the same.

This is the car I found for comparison, which has slightly higher miles:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

I know there are a few people on here who are very keen market watchers for Mercs of a certain age, help? This genuinely isn't a for sale ad, I've no idea if he's actually going to sell it or not, he says he's thinking about it but I know he's also the kind of guy who just likes to know what things are worth.

If you're not desperate to sell you can always put a slightly optimistic price on it and gauge interest from there.

Anything will sell at the right price.

[Lowtimer]

If it looks right and drives well and meets the following conditions

• everything (meaning *everything*) is working properly
• no gaps in service history, and lots of receipts
• no discernible rust at all
• no window milkiness or delamination starting
• every single piece of internal trim is present and unbroken, seats not sagging or torn
• good MOT history with no ominous advisories
• standard, i.e. no weird inappropriate wheels
• first-world tyres with decent treat and wear patterns, no more than a few years old

... then I think it is worth £10K all day long in a private sale and with a good advert should fetch more. I'd try it at £11,995 and see how it went, maybe bring it down £500 a month and it will sell eventually.

However, the market for these cars is pretty narrow, ie. very few sellers, very few buyers. So to get the best deal both sides need to be prepared to be patient.

What are the internal / external colours?

[anonymous-user]

ChocolateFrog said:

If you're not desperate to sell you can always put a slightly optimistic price on it and gauge interest from there.

Anything will sell at the right price.

Fair point, there won't be any hurry if he does decide to move it on.

[anonymous-user]

charltjr said:

ChocolateFrog said:

If you're not desperate to sell you can always put a slightly optimistic price on it and gauge interest from there.

Anything will sell at the right price.

Fair point, there won't be any hurry if he does decide to move it on.

I'd say that for something like that time and waiting for the right buyer is as important as price. It might fail to sell this month for £12k, fail to sell next month for £8k, but the month after one of the few lunatics who buys these things might be looking for one and that's the best available by a mile so he'd pay £14k. Figures from the air, but you see my point?

[anonymous-user]

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. It's silver with black leather IIRC, I've literally only given it a quick once-over from a distance at this point so I need to go over the thing properly, hopefully it's not a bucket of bolts.

Apologies for dragging the thread off-topic but it felt like a good place to ask.