Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 16]

[21st Century Man]

I'm not sure I follow CdG's exhaust dilemmas. Can't you just order a dirt cheap pattern section, or even OEM, from a UK factor and have it delivered for a modest freight charge? UK is cheap, delivery is cheap, no tariffs/duty as we're still in transition, so Luxembourg local prices aren't relevant. What am I missing?

[Dadoc2001]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Failing all else, I'll get a dealer-provided exhaust fitted by my local garage. The real issue is continued spending on a RHD car in a LHD country. It's all possible, but it's not necessarily sensible.

Would the cheaper idea be to source a LHD barge in the UK, sell the current RHD to a buyer in the UK and do a swap over during a visit? Surely LHD cars are cheaper to buy in the UK due to the wheel being on the wrong side? Granted the available cars will be lomited but......

• i have absolutely no experience buying/selling left hookers - just a guess.....

[ElectricSoup]

In my experience LHDs for sale in the UK match continental prices because they're being bought by people to take abroad, so sellers price accordingly. They always seem significantly more expensive than RHD equivalents.

[BlueMR2]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202...

Facelift? CL500 with sensible miles, under £2k.

[The Don of Croy]

MrNoisy said:

harrykul said:

Why are Volvo turning circles so st? It's barely better than a 993!

5 cyl, transverse, nowt left for the steering gear...

My P1 V70 has a small turning circle, unlike the P2 model which is pants. Same engine/gearbox but smaller wheels (the later car also rubbed the arches on full lock).

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

[BlueMR2]

The Don of Croy said:

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

You can’t tell with CdG .

[biggbn]

The Don of Croy said:

MrNoisy said:

harrykul said:

Why are Volvo turning circles so st? It's barely better than a 993!

5 cyl, transverse, nowt left for the steering gear...

My P1 V70 has a small turning circle, unlike the P2 model which is pants. Same engine/gearbox but smaller wheels (the later car also rubbed the arches on full lock).

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

My old rwd 940 felt like a London cab for turning!!

[Speed addicted]

biggbn said:

The Don of Croy said:

MrNoisy said:

harrykul said:

Why are Volvo turning circles so st? It's barely better than a 993!

5 cyl, transverse, nowt left for the steering gear...

My P1 V70 has a small turning circle, unlike the P2 model which is pants. Same engine/gearbox but smaller wheels (the later car also rubbed the arches on full lock).

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

My old rwd 940 felt like a London cab for turning!!

Maybe it’s a safety feature! No chance of getting nailed half way through a U turn if you can’t do U turns

[21st Century Man]

BlueMR2 said:

The Don of Croy said:

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

You can’t tell with CdG .

[CharlesdeGaulle]

21st Century Man said:

BlueMR2 said:

The Don of Croy said:

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

You can’t tell with CdG .

Filthy minds chaps!

Exhaust update: my Man, in his imperfect English, messaged that I need the double cat at around 2000 euros. I'll get that verified/decoded/translated when I'm back in UK and then investigate options. 2 grand seems a lot on this car, especially for something I'll never see.

[tobinen]

I think you could beat that quite easily here. Depends if he means the Y pipe or the two cats before it though

[Mikedknight]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

21st Century Man said:

BlueMR2 said:

The Don of Croy said:

Also upthread the phrase “smashing continental borders” sounds distinctly iffy. Or is it a U-fer-mizzum?

You can’t tell with CdG .

Filthy minds chaps!

Exhaust update: my Man, in his imperfect English, messaged that I need the double cat at around 2000 euros. I'll get that verified/decoded/translated when I'm back in UK and then investigate options. 2 grand seems a lot on this car, especially for something I'll never see.

Make sure you ask him for the old ones back, I’m no Lexus expert but would expect £400 back for the old ones at least. Buy the librarian a moderately priced handbag.

In a way garages are incentivised to replace cats with prices on scrap ones being so high.

[BlueMR2]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Filthy minds chaps!

Exhaust update: my Man, in his imperfect English, messaged that I need the double cat at around 2000 euros. I'll get that verified/decoded/translated when I'm back in UK and then investigate options. 2 grand seems a lot on this car, especially for something I'll never see.

It'll cost less than 2,000 to drive over here and get a full stainless exhaust made up.

Then sell it to one of us and fly back .

[Macron]

ElectricSoup said:

In my experience LHDs for sale in the UK match continental prices because they're being bought by people to take abroad, so sellers price accordingly. They always seem significantly more expensive than RHD equivalents.

Yes it's really annoying. Examples of usual thread fodder at mad prices because of an awkward wheel:

E38 x 2
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bmw/bmw-735i-e38-auto-le...

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bmw/bmw-740-il-auto-lwb-...

Current Thread Sponsor
https://www.gumtree.com/p/rover/lhd-2003-rover-75-...

W124 isn't that bad actually
https://www.gumtree.com/p/mercedes-benz/1991-merce...

[dscam]

BlueMR2 said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/202...

Facelift? CL500 with sensible miles, under £2k.

Lots of car for well under £2k.

Does look to be riding high which I suppose is a novelty for these when the ABC is goosed and they’re slammed over the tyres. Still may require some remedials though!

[Phil Dicky]

Macron said:

ElectricSoup said:

In my experience LHDs for sale in the UK match continental prices because they're being bought by people to take abroad, so sellers price accordingly. They always seem significantly more expensive than RHD equivalents.

Yes it's really annoying. Examples of usual thread fodder at mad prices because of an awkward wheel:

E38 x 2
https://www.gumtree.com/p/bmw/bmw-735i-e38-auto-le...

https://www.gumtree.com/p/bmw/bmw-740-il-auto-lwb-...

Current Thread Sponsor
https://www.gumtree.com/p/rover/lhd-2003-rover-75-...

W124 isn't that bad actually
https://www.gumtree.com/p/mercedes-benz/1991-merce...

Bloody hell...I never knew.

[ian316]

Dadoc2001 said:

Would the cheaper idea be to source a LHD barge in the UK, sell the current RHD to a buyer in the UK and do a swap over during a visit? Surely LHD cars are cheaper to buy in the UK due to the wheel being on the wrong side? Granted the available cars will be lomited but......

• i have absolutely no experience buying/selling left hookers - just a guess.....

I wouldn't admit to selling hookers either

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Mikedknight said:

Make sure you ask him for the old ones back, I’m no Lexus expert but would expect £400 back for the old ones at least. Buy the librarian a moderately priced handbag.

I don't want 'exhaust-gate' to become this week's 'Jaguar-gate', but in a twist I re-discover* that the two cats were replaced last year, so this ought to be a simple pipe replacement. I'll do the research this weekend and then make a decision on what to do and how to do it.

* I'd purged the bill from my memory having had to pay for 2 cats, 2 headlights and various other extraordinarily expensive bits and pieces that, genuinely, cost more than the car. With what I've 'invested' in it, I ought to keep it for a thousand years.

[PrinceRupert]

So it turns out the UK's pre-eminent Rover 75 specialist's garage is 17 minutes away from my accommodation for our August staycation. It feels like fate ...

[E30M3SE]

A friend is about to put his name to this Bronite Benz,



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-Mercedes-Benz-320C...

was previously sold n December 2019,

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1994-mercedes-...

any threadists know the car or have any views on it at double thread max?