Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 15]

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V6todayEVmanana

759 posts

143 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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Lord.Vader said:
Alfa light has been off for the last few weeks after adjusting the seat, some fool in a Fiat 500 slammed on for no reason last night (too turn but obviously no indicator) and now it has returned, furious as MOT in 2 weeks!
Can a delecately placed piece of black tape cover it up? wink

Adjusting the seat, potholes and swift roundabouts all seem to trigger the airbag light, seems to plague the PSA brands too.

Best was trying home from the MOT/Service and it flashed on after getting some G's on a roundabout.

I had the under seat connectors looked at by an car electrical tech, all looked fine but still goes off. Haven't tried swapping the connectors for direct contact

olly755

3,070 posts

161 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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mondayo said:
W00DY said:
olly755 said:
Thanks Woody, although the one in the link isn’t mine smile
Sorry wink

I saw it and couldn't resist



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-300SL-24-...

An MOT'd SL-24 for under £2k is definitely a bargain.
Sold?
It sold last night in record time. Sounds like the new owner is an enthusiast who will give it the attention it deserves.

As one door closes, another (double glazed) one opens...

C12HLL

88 posts

186 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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So i have viewed the GS300 and seen what is going to be required. Made an offer, now just waiting on the owners coming back from holiday.

Managed to get some pictures while i was there.








SlowV6

624 posts

138 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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em177 said:
Northbrook said:
- What value an LS400 with 250+k miles on the clock, with reasonable MOT history and in decent-at-first-glance shape?
My LS430 with just under 230k miles is currently on eBay for what I think its worth with all the right mechanical bits done (well perhaps a little on the high side expecting some haggling). It’s amazing how many there are out there with that kind of mileage still going strong and how many (like mine) have a full Lexus history...
this one you say

Looks nice. Tell us more as we need a refresher..


South tdf

1,518 posts

194 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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S2r said:
So what are the suspension problems on the GS450h?

Asking for a friend obviously as when the half-a-barge Volvo goes I will be looking to replace it with something small and economical and not a GS450h, honest guv...
Do they have suspension issues? I have an early GS450h, everything works perfectly and it has never had anything apart from routine services and never so much as an MOT advisory but that may change as I am lending it to a mate who has lost his car due to being made redundant.

bmthnick1981

5,310 posts

215 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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BigBen said:
Macron said:
P38 4.6 with working rear VHS. Get in! Pricey at £3700 when not mint but has potential.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1151660
Am I the only one who sees "rear VHS" and all bets are off, I have to have that car.......

Similar levels of want would apply to a 7 series with the fax machine option, which shows the level of the disease, it would even make me buy a BMW......
Ben, my w220 s600 has a fax machine .... rare option when new cost £2k I think. I even have spare rolls of fax paper in the boot!

golfer19

1,564 posts

132 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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SlowV6 said:
em177 said:
Northbrook said:
- What value an LS400 with 250+k miles on the clock, with reasonable MOT history and in decent-at-first-glance shape?
My LS430 with just under 230k miles is currently on eBay for what I think its worth with all the right mechanical bits done (well perhaps a little on the high side expecting some haggling). It’s amazing how many there are out there with that kind of mileage still going strong and how many (like mine) have a full Lexus history...
this one you say

Looks nice. Tell us more as we need a refresher..

That's a fine looking car.
Very impressive service history.

em177

3,127 posts

163 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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SlowV6 said:
em177 said:
Northbrook said:
- What value an LS400 with 250+k miles on the clock, with reasonable MOT history and in decent-at-first-glance shape?
My LS430 with just under 230k miles is currently on eBay for what I think its worth with all the right mechanical bits done (well perhaps a little on the high side expecting some haggling). It’s amazing how many there are out there with that kind of mileage still going strong and how many (like mine) have a full Lexus history...
this one you say

Looks nice. Tell us more as we need a refresher..

That’s the one!

I’ve just seen your PM and have sent you a quick reply. Thanks.

Macron

9,807 posts

165 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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cornershop said:
2x SAAB 9-5 estates for your delectation

Top end and above budget but potentially justifiably so and nice colour combo: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

Near bottom budget: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

Really like these in estate form
About the first one, which insurance company would you need to speak to about the mods? Adrian Flux? Asking for a friend.

Johnny Raydome

1,427 posts

104 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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It's all gone very Lexus around here lately, hasn't it? smile

Fine looking 430 there, em177.

I'm a bit of a Lexus-biff, unfortunately. I've only had a brief waft or two in an LS400 and was mightily impressed with the comfort and silence.
How does the 430 stack up? I can't imagine they took a backwards step in this regard.

bolidemichael

13,721 posts

200 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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Johnny Raydome said:
It's all gone very Lexus around here lately, hasn't it? smile

Fine looking 430 there, em177.

I'm a bit of a Lexus-biff, unfortunately. I've only had a brief waft or two in an LS400 and was mightily impressed with the comfort and silence.
How does the 430 stack up? I can't imagine they took a backwards step in this regard.
Very much so! That 430 looks superb, however! What a steal it could be.

Here's one we haven't seen in a while, a 3.2L petrol Phaeton

Crap photos, better description



rich12

3,461 posts

153 months

Thursday 21st November 2019
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em177 said:
That’s the one!

I’ve just seen your PM and have sent you a quick reply. Thanks.
What's it like on fuel? You've done quite a lot of mileage since the mot in Jan so surely it can't be that bad right?

phil_cardiff

7,043 posts

207 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Macron said:
cornershop said:
2x SAAB 9-5 estates for your delectation

Top end and above budget but potentially justifiably so and nice colour combo: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

Near bottom budget: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

Really like these in estate form
About the first one, which insurance company would you need to speak to about the mods? Adrian Flux? Asking for a friend.
How did I miss these? The first one is more or less the holy grail of 9-5 aeros. If it has the HK audio upgrade then get it bought!

nomank

236 posts

194 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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South tdf said:
S2r said:
So what are the suspension problems on the GS450h?

Asking for a friend obviously as when the half-a-barge Volvo goes I will be looking to replace it with something small and economical and not a GS450h, honest guv...
Do they have suspension issues? I have an early GS450h, everything works perfectly and it has never had anything apart from routine services and never so much as an MOT advisory but that may change as I am lending it to a mate who has lost his car due to being made redundant.
It's the ones with the adjustable suspension. The shocks leak and need to be replaced...but they seem to be an OE part and cost a few hundred pounds a corner. I've been told you can replace with non-adjustable ones but then that throws up a warning on the dash which some folk say becomes a MOT failure.

Etypephil

724 posts

77 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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RicksAlfas said:
Easternlight said:
Cheap winter hack. Pretty tatty but it's got a years ticket and the MOT history doesn't even look too bad.
£1895 or offers!
What could possibily go wrong etc etc
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-Land-Rover-Range-R...
Still a handsome beast on sensible wheels and not-black paint.
As much as I like the idea of this, and think it is reasonable value, I can't make the the man maths work well enough to justify the £1,000 I would spend to sort out the cosmetics and other faults, plus an additional £325 VED, and £450 insurance annually, on top of the £1,140 and £800 respectively which we already pay, especially for the minimal mileage it would probably cover. frown

I see that the asking price has been reduced to £1,795 (although he told me that he would take £1,700), and that he has noted the steering angle sensor problem discovered on my test drive, but not the inoperative sunroof.
In case anyone is interested, the driver's seat trim missing in the ebay photo is in the adjacent door pocket.

em177

3,127 posts

163 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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rich12 said:
em177 said:
That’s the one!

I’ve just seen your PM and have sent you a quick reply. Thanks.
What's it like on fuel? You've done quite a lot of mileage since the mot in Jan so surely it can't be that bad right?
My commute is certainly not what the vast majority of people will use the car for (40-50 miles each way) of pretty much exclusively M25 & M23, minus the short stop/start trafficy bits getting on/off the motorway. The trip computer was reset circa 8k miles ago and the car claims its achieving 31mpg. Some quick fag packet maths on the odd fill up confirm this to be pretty accurate. On a recent trip to Scotland at 65mph on the cruise the whole way it did 35 brim to brim.

I would hasten to add however it wouldn't take much town mileage to bring this back down to reality mind.

TyrannosauRoss Lex

34,946 posts

211 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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em177 said:
rich12 said:
em177 said:
That’s the one!

I’ve just seen your PM and have sent you a quick reply. Thanks.
What's it like on fuel? You've done quite a lot of mileage since the mot in Jan so surely it can't be that bad right?
My commute is certainly not what the vast majority of people will use the car for (40-50 miles each way) of pretty much exclusively M25 & M23, minus the short stop/start trafficy bits getting on/off the motorway. The trip computer was reset circa 8k miles ago and the car claims its achieving 31mpg. Some quick fag packet maths on the odd fill up confirm this to be pretty accurate. On a recent trip to Scotland at 65mph on the cruise the whole way it did 35 brim to brim.

I would hasten to add however it wouldn't take much town mileage to bring this back down to reality mind.
That's really not bad, is that with the earlier 5 speed auto or the later 6 speed?

But.....65mph to Scotland? Are you mad!? I'd be tanking it in an LS430 hehe

em177

3,127 posts

163 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
em177 said:
rich12 said:
em177 said:
That’s the one!

I’ve just seen your PM and have sent you a quick reply. Thanks.
What's it like on fuel? You've done quite a lot of mileage since the mot in Jan so surely it can't be that bad right?
My commute is certainly not what the vast majority of people will use the car for (40-50 miles each way) of pretty much exclusively M25 & M23, minus the short stop/start trafficy bits getting on/off the motorway. The trip computer was reset circa 8k miles ago and the car claims its achieving 31mpg. Some quick fag packet maths on the odd fill up confirm this to be pretty accurate. On a recent trip to Scotland at 65mph on the cruise the whole way it did 35 brim to brim.

I would hasten to add however it wouldn't take much town mileage to bring this back down to reality mind.
That's really not bad, is that with the earlier 5 speed auto or the later 6 speed?

But.....65mph to Scotland? Are you mad!? I'd be tanking it in an LS430 hehe
Mine is the 5-speed. I believe (happy to be corrected) that the 6-speed didn't come until the facelift.

Unfortunately my job is dependant on having a clean licence... so it's very much waft mode for my long journeys. Which is part of the reason the LS suits my driving style so well.

Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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Etypephil said:
RicksAlfas said:
Easternlight said:
Cheap winter hack. Pretty tatty but it's got a years ticket and the MOT history doesn't even look too bad.
£1895 or offers!
What could possibily go wrong etc etc
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-Land-Rover-Range-R...
Still a handsome beast on sensible wheels and not-black paint.
As much as I like the idea of this, and think it is reasonable value, I can't make the the man maths work well enough to justify the £1,000 I would spend to sort out the cosmetics and other faults, plus an additional £325 VED, and £450 insurance annually, on top of the £1,140 and £800 respectively which we already pay, especially for the minimal mileage it would probably cover. frown

I see that the asking price has been reduced to £1,795 (although he told me that he would take £1,700), and that he has noted the steering angle sensor problem discovered on my test drive, but not the inoperative sunroof.
In case anyone is interested, the driver's seat trim missing in the ebay photo is in the adjacent door pocket.
Forgive me, but I don't think it's the kind of car to try and get nice again - accept the scuffs, don't wash it too often, just shed it along until something critical breaks then get rid of it.

rich12

3,461 posts

153 months

Friday 22nd November 2019
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em177 said:
Mine is the 5-speed. I believe (happy to be corrected) that the 6-speed didn't come until the facelift.

Unfortunately my job is dependant on having a clean licence... so it's very much waft mode for my long journeys. Which is part of the reason the LS suits my driving style so well.
I think that's pretty good for the engine/weight.
My commute is 23 miles each way and 19 of that is the M1/dual carriage ways and my stty little 1.8t Saab is only doing 30mpg at normal speeds. (It's too slow to go fast)
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