Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 19]
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Doing my bi-weekly (as in every other week) trip to the tip.
It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]
It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]Edited by mondayo on Sunday 27th June 15:18
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11868633
Looks tidy and a good price too. The wheels don't work for me though.
W00DY said:
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11868633
Looks tidy and a good price too. The wheels don't work for me though.
Grey on grey though; it'll have its haters, I quite like it
Agree; alloys look s
te and they're very well known for cracking. Needs to be on 17" Style 66s or 18" Style 37s really...d_a_n1979 said:
W00DY said:
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11868633
Looks tidy and a good price too. The wheels don't work for me though.
Grey on grey though; it'll have its haters, I quite like it
Agree; alloys look s
te and they're very well known for cracking. Needs to be on 17" Style 66s or 18" Style 37s really...Edit to add.
What cannot be unseen...
What should have been a simple single exhaust tailpipe has been butchered into cross-eyed pipes...
Edited by McGee_22 on Sunday 27th June 15:50
mondayo said:
Doing my bi-weekly (as in every other week) trip to the tip.
It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]
They really are a very good car: I miss having mine to throw crap in as I'm a bit precious with the s124.It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]Edited by mondayo on Sunday 27th June 15:18
Apologies for not working out how to link a photo, and sorrynotsorry for doing any actual MOT legwork, but this looks to be a nice 124 for mid thread: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-W124-esta...
Serialbuyer said:
As a long time lurker and long ago poster. The desire to get back into a Barge has become too strong. However SWMBO wants an XJ diesel. Budget around £4k. What is general consensus on these (apart from wrong fuel)? A8 is also a possibility but again it'll be Satan's fuel
The 2.7d X350 is slow, prone to oftentimes severe engine related bork, has to pay for any ULEZ type zones, and gets maybe 10-15% better economy than the petrol 3.0. My S-Type with that engine barely averaged 31mpg while absolutely eating money on engine and gearbox repairs, and this was over a decade ago when they were fairly new cars.It's refined for a diesel, very refined in fact, but that's the only nice thing I can find to say about it.
Northbrook said:
Apologies for not working out how to link a photo, and sorrynotsorry for doing any actual MOT legwork, but this looks to be a nice 124 for mid thread: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-W124-esta...
Handsome. Odd that a classic car seller would't go to the trouble of scrubbing the interior though.
W00DY said:
https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/11868633
Looks tidy and a good price too. The wheels don't work for me though.
Does the sticker on the lower right of the boot aperture relate to an integrated towbar? If so it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
stickleback123 said:
Serialbuyer said:
As a long time lurker and long ago poster. The desire to get back into a Barge has become too strong. However SWMBO wants an XJ diesel. Budget around £4k. What is general consensus on these (apart from wrong fuel)? A8 is also a possibility but again it'll be Satan's fuel
The 2.7d X350 is slow, prone to oftentimes severe engine related bork, has to pay for any ULEZ type zones, and gets maybe 10-15% better economy than the petrol 3.0. My S-Type with that engine barely averaged 31mpg while absolutely eating money on engine and gearbox repairs, and this was over a decade ago when they were fairly new cars.It's refined for a diesel, very refined in fact, but that's the only nice thing I can find to say about it.
harrykul said:
mondayo said:
Doing my bi-weekly (as in every other week) trip to the tip.
It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]
They really are a very good car: I miss having mine to throw crap in as I'm a bit precious with the s124.It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
[url]
|https://thumbsnap.com/aS4NiH98[/url]Edited by mondayo on Sunday 27th June 15:18
mondayo said:
Doing my bi-weekly (as in every other week) trip to the tip.
It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
3x tip runs in the E91 over the weekend.It's so nice (relatively) to do it in my S210....you can ram it full of crap and also give no craps.
I'd suggest that you'd struggle to find a bigger estate car and due to them mainly being (rusty) nails now, they're the perfect tip/load lugging car.
It's noticeable how much bigger it is than the S211.
That E39 Touring looks nice, great spec.
Serialbuyer said:
As a long time lurker and long ago poster. The desire to get back into a Barge has become too strong. However SWMBO wants an XJ diesel. Budget around £4k. What is general consensus on these (apart from wrong fuel)? A8 is also a possibility but again it'll be Satan's fuel
The stickled-one has answered with the proper response but was too polite to offer the alternative of divorce. It'll obviously cost more, but you'll be saved the shame of a diesel on your drive and the arsey opportunities of reminding her of why the bloody thing is costing you more than the supercharged petrol version would have done. 
dscam said:
£4750 but needs all that body work... Ha; not a chance!Serialbuyer said:
stickleback123 said:
Serialbuyer said:
As a long time lurker and long ago poster. The desire to get back into a Barge has become too strong. However SWMBO wants an XJ diesel. Budget around £4k. What is general consensus on these (apart from wrong fuel)? A8 is also a possibility but again it'll be Satan's fuel
The 2.7d X350 is slow, prone to oftentimes severe engine related bork, has to pay for any ULEZ type zones, and gets maybe 10-15% better economy than the petrol 3.0. My S-Type with that engine barely averaged 31mpg while absolutely eating money on engine and gearbox repairs, and this was over a decade ago when they were fairly new cars.It's refined for a diesel, very refined in fact, but that's the only nice thing I can find to say about it.
TommoAE86 said:
Stickleback is 100% right here, my S-type was the same with that awful engine... interestingly my Crown petrol gets almost the same mpg as my S-type despite being faster, the 'proper' fuel and better in every way except wind noise - but then you don't get the "other" noises of impending wallet emptying from the Toyota
I could see how my S-type could have been a good car with the 3.0 and an absolutely fantastic car with the 4.2 but it was such a disappointment with that engine. Just when it felt like it was getting into the swing of things it'd run out of revs and shift back to the nothing zone, very frustrating. dscam said:
Does the sticker on the lower right of the boot aperture relate to an integrated towbar? If so it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
If you look at the bottom-right of pic. 18, you can see the detachable towbar. The red thing is the, erm, glans cover. (I dunno what it's called!)Nice E60 530i saloon here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224505285342?hash=item3...
Looks well; well priced too IMO
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224505285342?hash=item3...
Looks well; well priced too IMO
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