Best Smoker Barges 1-5 large [Vol 7]

[Zwolf]

Alternatively, spending a significant percentage of your vehicle's value every year to use it.

£500pa to tax a £10k+ vehicle I don't really onject to in principle. But when you're sub £5k it's a bit rich, relatively speaking.

>sticks to pre-23rd March 2006 bargain barges<

[MJK 24]

Does anyone know anything about this W126?

Looks the part in the photos but he is asking strong money for a six cylinder lacking A/C and leather. Been on sale for a mOnth now.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C531561#

[Agent Orange]

S3_Graham said:

after reading this in the ///M thread, can someone find me an S/SL/CL600 please?

http://carbuying.jalopnik.com/how-to-make-a-used-m...

Wouldn't it be easier to just cut holes in the airbox....

[E65Ross]

sam303 said:

Ross, my 745i which I think is of a very similar vintage to yours, does just about 26mpg with a mix of 80mph commuting and occasional crawling in traffic. Pretty good and that's without any effort to maximise economy. So it could be that your car has returned to 'normal' after fixing that air mass meter.

Cheers for the info!

Hoping to be able to leave the car alone for another 2 months or so and then get the new tyres. I have some steering wheel wobble under heavy high speed braking so will get that addressed too.

[r129sl]

bmthnick1981 said:

Caruso said:

Found this sorry sight - a W124 Estate graveyard of 11 mostly 300 and 320s caught in a race between destruction by cannibalisation or by succumbing to the elements.

Where is this?

Another one wants to know where.

[slippery]

harry kular said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Like our very own Slippery, who until recently ran 4 V8s at a time!

[Caruso]

harry kular said:

Yes, do tell! I need a few bits.

It's in Worthing.

[cat220]

bmthnick1981 said:

Caruso said:

Found this sorry sight - a W124 Estate graveyard of 11 mostly 300 and 320s caught in a race between destruction by cannibalisation or by succumbing to the elements.

Where is this?

No doubt a great source of parts, I can't help feeling that would be a very depressing place to visit.

[phil_cardiff]

You'd think that with a budget of thread maximum plus 3 I'd be able to find something practical AND interesting.

All I want is an estate or saloon with folding rear seats within a couple of hours of Cardiff. Can't find a thing I like.

[Adrian E]

phil_cardiff said:

You'd think that with a budget of thread maximum plus 3 I'd be able to find something practical AND interesting.

All I want is an estate or saloon with folding rear seats within a couple of hours of Cardiff. Can't find a thing I like.

You're in a potential world of pain still with over-priced tat and boring as sin rep-mobiles long since past their best with soul destroying turgid engines

Folding seats in a saloon must limit the search a bit? Guess it varies by manufacturer more than model?

Buy something French - at least it will amuse the masses

After a quick look (and based on 100 miles from my folks in Somerset):

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

or creeping into thread budget, just:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

[0a]

r129sl said:

In place of working for a living I am busy nurturing a BMW E23 fantasy. How about this? Nicest one I've seen for a while although, I seem to recall, E23 purchases have not gone well on this thread! And, even if they are original, the BBS spoilers would have to go

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Historic-1981-E23-BMW-73...

Doesn't that look wonderful. I still love the looks of the e23. I had to sell mine because on balance the engine work needed was likely to be beyond my willingness to spend (as a non mechanic) but I really enjoyed the drive to the highlands and back again.

They are a generation or five behind something like a W124, but I found mine rather charming when you took your time. The handling was interesting (on older tyres especially) - faithful enough but you had to be careful in the wet. I loved driving it around the tight roads on the west coast of Scotland when I got into a nice rhythm, imagining I was a semi-successful businessman in the 80s.

I'd love another, but i'd want it at another time of my life when I had funds I didn't want to use on my merc, a garage, and lots of time: none of which I had when I had mine!

ETA: the interior was a complete joke, funny almost in its anti-VAG group ness!

[0a]

Caruso said:

Found this sorry sight - a W124 Estate graveyard of 11 mostly 300 and 320s caught in a race between destruction by cannibalisation or by succumbing to the elements.

WHY???!!!

[0a]

phil_cardiff said:

You'd think that with a budget of thread maximum plus 3 I'd be able to find something practical AND interesting.

All I want is an estate or saloon with folding rear seats within a couple of hours of Cardiff. Can't find a thing I like.

Everything on Autotrader is within 2 hours of Cardiff if you travel there by plane

[slippery]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

It's going to play havoc with my eon direct debit though!

[0a]

slippery said:

It's going to play havoc with my eon direct debit though!

Could there be any less 1-5 thread than a new car that costs a lot more than £1-5 AND does good MPG?

[0a]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

perhaps it will depreciate really quickly and you can burn the fuel by running the 3 cylinder engine overnight via some kind of 'chip'?

[slippery]

I'll be bargain barging in the A8 for some time yet. The projected delivery date on the i8 is mid May and the Range Rover is not due until December either.

[0a]

I'm up watching the referendum results - as someone in Edinburgh who's purchased barges from Torquay and London (and other places in the UK) I am worried about the England-Scotland barge trade post independence - will there be a tax increases on large engines? Will cross boarder barging be banned? And so on (joke... kinda)

[Janluke]

0a said:

I'm up watching the referendum results - as someone in Edinburgh who's purchased barges from Torquay and London (and other places in the UK) I am worried about the England-Scotland barge trade post independence - will there be a tax increases on large engines? Will cross boarder barging be banned? And so on (joke... kinda)

Me too, well South Lanarkshire

Don't worry Alex will drop the price of fuel to 6p a litre and we can run as many barges as we want !

[phil_cardiff]

Adrian E said:

phil_cardiff said:

You'd think that with a budget of thread maximum plus 3 I'd be able to find something practical AND interesting.

All I want is an estate or saloon with folding rear seats within a couple of hours of Cardiff. Can't find a thing I like.

You're in a potential world of pain still with over-priced tat and boring as sin rep-mobiles long since past their best with soul destroying turgid engines

Folding seats in a saloon must limit the search a bit? Guess it varies by manufacturer more than model?

Buy something French - at least it will amuse the masses

After a quick look (and based on 100 miles from my folks in Somerset):

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

or creeping into thread budget, just:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

Cheers, I do like the E60 (and E61) but getting a saloon with folding rear seats is a real pain in the rectum.