Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 15]
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wjwren said:
A £700 eBay purchase MX5 was rusty and a bit rubbish? What would you expect!?They are flipping well renown for rot. £700 is "use it until the MOT expires and then scrap/track car" territory.
Examples that you could get a clean ticket on at twice that price are slim pickings.
wjwren said:
More recent in September as well. Nice bloke.
https://www.dudley.gov.uk/news/second-prosecution-...
£1750 LS430. No doubt 15+ years older, x00,000 miles worn more worn and about £58250 cheaper than new? https://www.dudley.gov.uk/news/second-prosecution-...
Discs should have been flagged/replaced. But I suspect the vendor would have almost certainly covered if really bad.
The Exhaust seems really bad on the face of it, but you cannot reasonably expect every trader to have inspected a vehicle on a ramp prior to sale. Again, something I would have hoped the vendor would have offered to sort out because it's not something to be "expected".
Wonky air suspension kind of is though. A small enough leak isn't going to render the car unusable, unsafe or unfit for purpose.
Most of us would probably want to get that sorted, and I'd feel for the purchaser as a fellow barge lover... But that's the game we play!
We all love a bargain and having a little bit of that champagne life for lemonade money, but you have to be realistic and expect that cars at this end of the market aren't going to be perfect.
These are PRISON SENTENCES for faults that seem hardly earth shatteringly surprising or horrendously dangerous.
Frankly I'm ecstatic if I get home in a new car without a recovery truck
Mr Tidy said:
cornershop said:
That looks great - I remember thinking when they came out that they were stunning. Especially at a time when most Volvos were boxes on wheels in styling terms!
WorldBoss said:
A £700 eBay purchase MX5 was rusty and a bit rubbish? What would you expect!?
They are flipping well renown for rot. £700 is "use it until the MOT expires and then scrap/track car" territory.
Examples that you could get a clean ticket on at twice that price are slim pickings.
But if isn't as advertised it isn't as advertised.They are flipping well renown for rot. £700 is "use it until the MOT expires and then scrap/track car" territory.
Examples that you could get a clean ticket on at twice that price are slim pickings.
Based on this, the recent £1 thread LS should be held together with pound land cable ties and nothing else.
He's clearly very disingenuous and untrustworthy. Thanks to thread for the warnings.
TVR-Stu said:
JOB2.5-16 said:
Fabulous! Loving the rear overhang too. What happens to the handling if you put something heavy in the boot? 
WorldBoss said:
£1750 LS430. No doubt 15+ years older, x00,000 miles worn more worn and about £58250 cheaper than new?
Discs should have been flagged/replaced. But I suspect the vendor would have almost certainly covered if really bad.
The Exhaust seems really bad on the face of it, but you cannot reasonably expect every trader to have inspected a vehicle on a ramp prior to sale. Again, something I would have hoped the vendor would have offered to sort out because it's not something to be "expected".
Wonky air suspension kind of is though. A small enough leak isn't going to render the car unusable, unsafe or unfit for purpose.
Most of us would probably want to get that sorted, and I'd feel for the purchaser as a fellow barge lover... But that's the game we play!
We all love a bargain and having a little bit of that champagne life for lemonade money, but you have to be realistic and expect that cars at this end of the market aren't going to be perfect.
These are PRISON SENTENCES for faults that seem hardly earth shatteringly surprising or horrendously dangerous.
Frankly I'm ecstatic if I get home in a new car without a recovery truck
It's a tough one. If it's a private sale then you expect your £700 MX5 to be a rotter, and you expect you £1,750 Lexus to need a grand or two spent to make it right, but rightly or wrongly if you are a trader then the onus is on your to make sure the car is fine or clearly communicate and document what isn't fine. Consumers have to be treated like clueless little babies. There is a good reason you can't get £500 snotters from used car lots anymore!Discs should have been flagged/replaced. But I suspect the vendor would have almost certainly covered if really bad.
The Exhaust seems really bad on the face of it, but you cannot reasonably expect every trader to have inspected a vehicle on a ramp prior to sale. Again, something I would have hoped the vendor would have offered to sort out because it's not something to be "expected".
Wonky air suspension kind of is though. A small enough leak isn't going to render the car unusable, unsafe or unfit for purpose.
Most of us would probably want to get that sorted, and I'd feel for the purchaser as a fellow barge lover... But that's the game we play!
We all love a bargain and having a little bit of that champagne life for lemonade money, but you have to be realistic and expect that cars at this end of the market aren't going to be perfect.
These are PRISON SENTENCES for faults that seem hardly earth shatteringly surprising or horrendously dangerous.
Frankly I'm ecstatic if I get home in a new car without a recovery truck
He seems like a chap who likes knobbing about buying and selling cheap cars and has accidentally entered a space where you need to be better than that.
stickleback123 said:
It's a tough one. If it's a private sale then you expect your £700 MX5 to be a rotter, and you expect you £1,750 Lexus to need a grand or two spent to make it right, but rightly or wrongly if you are a trader then the onus is on your to make sure the car is fine or clearly communicate and document what isn't fine. Consumers have to be treated like clueless little babies. There is a good reason you can't get £500 snotters from used car lots anymore!
He seems like a chap who likes knobbing about buying and selling cheap cars and has accidentally entered a space where you need to be better than that.
I think you're being a bit generous there. I think he's a persistent and now happily convicted crook.He seems like a chap who likes knobbing about buying and selling cheap cars and has accidentally entered a space where you need to be better than that.
(lexuslegend, lexuschap, hello google)
Talking of dealers....think mine is a good ones.
LS460 went in to Micheldever Tyres today.....The drone noise isn't a wheel bearing, it's an issue with one of the tyres. Both front tyres being replaced and the dealer happy to pay for 1 of them. The knocking is a steering component.....£115 plus VAT and he's paying for that as well. Knocking can't be sorted yet as the part needs to be ordered in but will be done soon
LS460 went in to Micheldever Tyres today.....The drone noise isn't a wheel bearing, it's an issue with one of the tyres. Both front tyres being replaced and the dealer happy to pay for 1 of them. The knocking is a steering component.....£115 plus VAT and he's paying for that as well. Knocking can't be sorted yet as the part needs to be ordered in but will be done soon
Sterillium said:
Where are all the W12 Phaetons at?
No longer barge/thread territory I reckon, sought after modern classic, strong money and rising unless rough/borked. They didn't spend all that long scraping along the bottom of the curve, unlike 750/760/S600/A8/Turbo R which flatlined for an age and are still barely appreciating if at all.TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
Talking of dealers....think mine is a good ones.
LS460 went in to Micheldever Tyres today.....The drone noise isn't a wheel bearing, it's an issue with one of the tyres. Both front tyres being replaced and the dealer happy to pay for 1 of them. The knocking is a steering component.....£115 plus VAT and he's paying for that as well. Knocking can't be sorted yet as the part needs to be ordered in but will be done soon
That's good, you've got a cracker of a car! LS460 went in to Micheldever Tyres today.....The drone noise isn't a wheel bearing, it's an issue with one of the tyres. Both front tyres being replaced and the dealer happy to pay for 1 of them. The knocking is a steering component.....£115 plus VAT and he's paying for that as well. Knocking can't be sorted yet as the part needs to be ordered in but will be done soon
I have just arrived home, safe and sound and with no more damage to the E39. Proper shock back on UK motorways, but there you go.
1,828 miles door-to-door.
I have the rest of the week off so I will try to write-up my mini-adventure
In other news the heated rear screen is in for the CL - much more quickly than I had expected but all good, thanks to a text from Sytner while I was away. It's booked in tomorrow for the locking vacuum pump.
To save me a trawl back two weeks, has anyone bought anything?
1,828 miles door-to-door.
I have the rest of the week off so I will try to write-up my mini-adventure
In other news the heated rear screen is in for the CL - much more quickly than I had expected but all good, thanks to a text from Sytner while I was away. It's booked in tomorrow for the locking vacuum pump.
To save me a trawl back two weeks, has anyone bought anything?
WorldBoss said:
We all love a bargain and having a little bit of that champagne life for lemonade money, but you have to be realistic and expect that cars at this end of the market aren't going to be perfect.
These are PRISON SENTENCES for faults that seem hardly earth shatteringly surprising or horrendously dangerous.
Frankly I'm ecstatic if I get home in a new car without a recovery truck
It's not that the bits that they've found with the cars are particularly bad - it's that this bloke has had multiple offences in the past of the same thing. Deliberately mis-describing cars, and generally doing over his buyers. Eventually the sentences get tougher and tougher.These are PRISON SENTENCES for faults that seem hardly earth shatteringly surprising or horrendously dangerous.
Frankly I'm ecstatic if I get home in a new car without a recovery truck
For a first offence you'd get away with a fine and a slapped wrist.
tobinen said:
To save me a trawl back two weeks, has anyone bought anything?
One chap bought the 233k FLSH 430 from another threadiste. He bought it on a whim in order to compose a photo of blissful bargedom in front of a double garage annex in his home in the lovely county of Somerset.JOB has purchased a red old Merc with a boot that can hold six bodies, it exceeds thread budget.
Another chap has purchased a 430 for a net -£0.14.
bolidemichael said:
tobinen said:
To save me a trawl back two weeks, has anyone bought anything?
One chap bought the 233k FLSH 430 from another threadiste. He bought it on a whim in order to compose a photo of blissful bargedom in front of a double garage annex in his home in the lovely county of Somerset.JOB has purchased a red old Merc with a boot that can hold six bodies, it exceeds thread budget.
Another chap has purchased a 430 for a net -£0.14.
Bah humbug.
RicksAlfas said:
bolidemichael said:
tobinen said:
To save me a trawl back two weeks, has anyone bought anything?
One chap bought the 233k FLSH 430 from another threadiste. He bought it on a whim in order to compose a photo of blissful bargedom in front of a double garage annex in his home in the lovely county of Somerset.JOB has purchased a red old Merc with a boot that can hold six bodies, it exceeds thread budget.
Another chap has purchased a 430 for a net -£0.14.
Bah humbug.
Northbrook said:
TyrannosauRoss Lex said:
It was a 400 for -14p, not a 430. But still....yes....git!
I'm not going to argue with that. Not while I'm standing here, in Bruges, with Belgian beer in one hand and a fresh waffle in the other.
How well does the Lexus Ls430 work with LPG?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...
This looks a bit tired, but cheap enough to almost be disposable
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...
This looks a bit tired, but cheap enough to almost be disposable
As my commute grew I moved from a sporty 3litre Alfa to a turbo hatchback and cover about 20k of mostly motorways.
This is one of my favourite threads and tempted by the idea of a barge commuter instead of the hatchback, hoping to listen to my audio books with little noise and lots of comfort.
My question, what kind of mileage do you drive in your barge?
This is one of my favourite threads and tempted by the idea of a barge commuter instead of the hatchback, hoping to listen to my audio books with little noise and lots of comfort.
My question, what kind of mileage do you drive in your barge?
bassanclan said:
How well does the Lexus Ls430 work with LPG?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...
This looks a bit tired, but cheap enough to almost be disposable
Has amazing spec, apart from the usual electric everything, it has rear heated, reclining and massaging seats, soft close doors, radar cruise control, separate rear air conditioning, keyless entry and start up. Etc. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...
This looks a bit tired, but cheap enough to almost be disposable
Wow.
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