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A lex
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8,935 posts
103 months
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Havent got much to say about it at the moment - the O/H mentioned last night she would quite like the idea of having a Mini and id been thinking of changing our run-around for a while. I got up this morning, followed her to work (discretely) and 'stole' her old car out of her parking space at work. Drove it 50km up to a dealer near Eindhoven and did a straight swap for our 2009 Pug 206+. Just managed to get the Mini back in to her space at work and bugger off before she saw me  So, its a Mini ONE Salt, 2003 with 180k kms (120k ish miles). Brand new 17s with new tyres all-round, brand new g'box, PAS seems fine, very good all round condition both inside and out, the interior is almost unmarked TBH. Brakes, cluth, rad etc etc all seem good, it really drives very nicely indeed. I wont tell you how much I paid, because it would make you laugh and me cry compared to UK prices  But it was a straight swap for our old car, which made it easy.  Will post more as I learn more! Its a MINI adventure!
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Shaw Tarse
19,324 posts
73 months
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illmonkey
6,284 posts
68 months
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Shaw Tarse said: She looks fine to me! Haha, yes, humm, more pictures! *Mr Burns hands*
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A lex
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8,935 posts
103 months
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Ha-ha! They are only pics ive got of the car, and the only one you'll be seeing of her, yer filthy animals
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Jamie VTS
565 posts
17 months
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Wasnt your 2009 pug worth much more than a 2003 mini one??
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A lex
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8,935 posts
103 months
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Jamie VTS said: Wasnt your 2009 pug worth much more than a 2003 mini one?? About €1000 more - which is the dealer margin. Paid 11k for the Pug in 2009 and 'sold' it to the dealer for 7k, so didnt do too badly depreciation wise.
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crocodile tears
755 posts
16 months
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looking good 
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Jamie VTS
565 posts
17 months
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A lex said: About €1000 more - which is the dealer margin. Paid 11k for the Pug in 2009 and 'sold' it to the dealer for 7k, so didnt do too badly depreciation wise.  Cool that sounds like a fair price for not having the hassle of selling privately! I know cars are very expensive in Holland, my FIL imported his rover 75 when he moved out there and the locals thought he was driving a big, posh, luxury car!
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omgus
4,977 posts
45 months
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Loving your work at swapping the car out without her knowing.  I hope this is cheaper to maintain than your other car.
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jamiebae
3,801 posts
81 months
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Can't see the pics (over bandwidth limit) but I'm sure it's lovely The engine is identical to the Cooper other than the map so a simple plug-in remap will see 120-130bhp instead of the 90 it has as standard if you fancy it. Used car prices in Europe are totally crazy compared to the UK, an 03 Mini with over 100k miles would struggle to clear £3.5k here. This is just down the road from me, and I'm tempted because it looks cheap for a left hooker, they always have a few LHD cars there and I'm sure I could do OK buying them up and shipping the over to France/Holland/Belgium given the prices charged by the Peugeot dealer near our place in Normandy! http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...
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greggy50
3,248 posts
61 months
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Supechip it mate did it to his best modification available takes it from 90bhp to circa 125bhp or more than a cooper in english for less than £300
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A lex
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8,935 posts
103 months
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Are the pictures still down? They are working for me - stupid Photobucket!
A 'Cooper' level remap is on the cards, will run it for a month or so first to shake it down.
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jamiebae
3,801 posts
81 months
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Pics are still down, they'll be cached in your browser history but to new visitors they just show a message from Photobucket saying you're over bandwidth.
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A lex
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103 months
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A lex
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103 months
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irob
84 posts
20 months
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How did your wife get home when she couldn't find the car she arrived in?
Must have been a great surprise!
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A lex
Original Poster
8,935 posts
103 months
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irob said: How did your wife get home when she couldn't find the car she arrived in?
Must have been a great surprise! I was waiting around the corner with the keys. There was a bit of a tear (eventually) when she realised her Pug had gone! First car sentiments and all that.
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Corsair7
7,403 posts
117 months
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Very Nice. But please, dont call it a BINI.
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A lex
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8,935 posts
103 months
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Corsair7 said: Very Nice. But please, dont call it a BINI. So sorry, not up with the kids on whats cool and whats not to call a BMW Mini. Itll probably get a stupid name like Bob or Jim like the rest of our cars anyway!
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Jon999
184 posts
18 months
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Good fun these are. The turn in on ours always puts a smile in my face it's so keen to play
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