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Interior looks fantastic in that colour. What's the thing stuck onto the left corner of the dash, is it just to hold it down? On mine the glue had perished and it started lifting on that side and made buzzing sounds at speed - my solution of wedging some tissues in there looked less smart. 
quigonjay said:
biggbn said:
maxwellwd said:
biggbn said:
maxwellwd said:
bolidemichael said:
maxwellwd said:
W00DY said:
Rightly or wrongly, I just could not stop staring at this. So much so, that I have put down a deposit and travelling the length of the country to pick up Friday...wish me luck!
I don't do a great deal of mileage and I have an XC70 for daily duties and an MX-5 ND so this will be tinkered and pampered. Now picking up Saturday morning. Be a great drive home from Essex to the Angus hills.
Lower tailgate would not budge at all, airbag light on. We negotiated and I got some money off as full hisotry and to be fair a lovely example for the money. So then drove back the 8-9 hours to Angus...
The good - it drove amazingly, that engine is a real peach, so smooth but so much power. Fairly economical on a long run as well around 28mpg.
The bad, the air con was very weak, EML came on. No loss of pwer though or anything. So booked into my specialist up here to look at that and the tailgate. Tailgate required a new loom and now works perfect. He thought that the EML could be the cats as is a common problem on these, but..it appears it was a vacuum leak. (For now) will keep an eye out on that.
Booked in next week for an air con recharge and go from there. This one hasn't had the chains done, no ticking though and engine sounds good, but I know what I'm like with cars and this is certainly a keeper so will get them done by my specialist who is pretty reasonable and service the supercharger while in there.
I have never known such opulence in a car though. Had all the paperwork with it and it cost around £121k new in late 2013, an amazing car
AnonSA said:
Sterillium said:
Superb ?TVR Sagaris said:
maxwellwd said:
it cost around £121k new in late 2013, an amazing car
Depreciation is quite something, isn't it.
Epic looking motor, and I'm quite jealous. The cheap Merc rag top posted yesterday has gone already. Snooze and lose.
Sterillium said:
£5,995 on Facebook.
Long wheelbase X308 in Seafrost Green Metallic with Catkin over Pine interior package.
Catkin on the upper section to the dash, steering wheel, gear knob and carpets looks great to my eyes.
It being sold at auction for £3360 in February Long wheelbase X308 in Seafrost Green Metallic with Catkin over Pine interior package.
Catkin on the upper section to the dash, steering wheel, gear knob and carpets looks great to my eyes.
https://www.brightwells.com/timed-sale/5880/lot/86...
Given the crustiness reported on its last MOT, I think it's true value is way closer to £3360 than £6k
I'm a huge x300/x308 fan, have owned several and still lust after a 308 xjr (or another x300 manual
), but at this point in the game they either need to be cheap enough to justify welding up or already been welded up, this car despite its low miles and good history unfortunately seems like neither which makes 6k very hard to swallow.Not posted for a period of time but I was happy to see an email from someone who owns an XJ12 I used to own (B707 LPG - over a decade ago!).
He has had it restored so it’d be great to maybe see it a show at some point soon.
Hope all the usuals/regulars are well though I’m not sure there’ll be many of the OP’s left it’s been that long.
He has had it restored so it’d be great to maybe see it a show at some point soon.
Hope all the usuals/regulars are well though I’m not sure there’ll be many of the OP’s left it’s been that long.
maxwellwd said:
I know, I know an update is very late here, apologies! So, travelled down on the Friday and collected from Braintree the Saturday morning. Without boring everyone here - the car presents extremely well. Paint is great, refurbed wheel and new tyes in January, interior very very good. Had been in storage since it was serviced in January at his parents house so the battery was causing a few issues.
Lower tailgate would not budge at all, airbag light on. We negotiated and I got some money off as full hisotry and to be fair a lovely example for the money. So then drove back the 8-9 hours to Angus...
The good - it drove amazingly, that engine is a real peach, so smooth but so much power. Fairly economical on a long run as well around 28mpg.
The bad, the air con was very weak, EML came on. No loss of pwer though or anything. So booked into my specialist up here to look at that and the tailgate. Tailgate required a new loom and now works perfect. He thought that the EML could be the cats as is a common problem on these, but..it appears it was a vacuum leak. (For now) will keep an eye out on that.
Booked in next week for an air con recharge and go from there. This one hasn't had the chains done, no ticking though and engine sounds good, but I know what I'm like with cars and this is certainly a keeper so will get them done by my specialist who is pretty reasonable and service the supercharger while in there.
I have never known such opulence in a car though. Had all the paperwork with it and it cost around £121k new in late 2013, an amazing car
Which specialist do you use? It's always nice to know who is trusted in the areaLower tailgate would not budge at all, airbag light on. We negotiated and I got some money off as full hisotry and to be fair a lovely example for the money. So then drove back the 8-9 hours to Angus...
The good - it drove amazingly, that engine is a real peach, so smooth but so much power. Fairly economical on a long run as well around 28mpg.
The bad, the air con was very weak, EML came on. No loss of pwer though or anything. So booked into my specialist up here to look at that and the tailgate. Tailgate required a new loom and now works perfect. He thought that the EML could be the cats as is a common problem on these, but..it appears it was a vacuum leak. (For now) will keep an eye out on that.
Booked in next week for an air con recharge and go from there. This one hasn't had the chains done, no ticking though and engine sounds good, but I know what I'm like with cars and this is certainly a keeper so will get them done by my specialist who is pretty reasonable and service the supercharger while in there.
I have never known such opulence in a car though. Had all the paperwork with it and it cost around £121k new in late 2013, an amazing car
biggbn said:
Mr Tidy said:
biggbn said:
This looks spectacular in its ordinariness...
https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-602--...
One driver from new...
It does, but at least it has electric windows although a manual 200e must be quite a rarity! https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-602--...
One driver from new...
I really liked my 2 litre manual 190e.
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KadettE said:
It's still there, the link just stopped working for some reason. While on the auction page I spotted this extremely 70s Roller with two-tone brown exterior and lovely velour seats. How did they come up with these combos!
Interesting, so it is, here https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-602--... wonder if that link works now.I’d imagine drugs were how they came up with some of those combos
.BlueMR2 said:
KadettE said:
It's still there, the link just stopped working for some reason. While on the auction page I spotted this extremely 70s Roller with two-tone brown exterior and lovely velour seats. How did they come up with these combos!
Interesting, so it is, here https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-602--... wonder if that link works now.I d imagine drugs were how they came up with some of those combos
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