What do you think?

[jay140285]

A good friend who is not mechanical at all has the following?

2000 W plate 1.8 Freelander 3 door.

Full service history,

Will have 12months MOT

4 good tyres

Ok condition, not what I would call great.

Needs a rear prop on it.

She was going to PX it but I was thinking of making her an offer on it? Purely to tidy it up and re sell it.

What would your thoughts be,

We Buy Any Car say £525 but that is with a new prop on and obviouly classing it as in good condition.

Cheers

James

Edited by jay140285 on Thursday 24th January 13:03

[Six Fiend]

See what her p/x offer is.

If you can make a few quid after doing the prop then offer to match it.

If not, let it go

[Snowboy]

Post the car details on a car website and see uf anyone offers to but it.

Oh, wait a minute......

[jay140285]

lol,

I am thinking she is going to get offered £400 on px, I was going to say £500 to her.

[Hub]

A dealer would probably need to budget in a potential warranty head gasket replacement in their offer!

[BOBTEE]

I thought you could take the prop off and run them as FWD?

[Krikkit]

£4-500 sounds fair, as long as you can do the rear prop yourself it'll be worth it.

[rumple]

OP keep in mind the reason the props are removed on these is because the transfer box or rear diff is fked, I can't remember which but it cost a lot of money to pit right so most people made them FWD.

[Caulkhead]

rumple said:

OP keep in mind the reason the props are removed on these is because the transfer box or rear diff is fked, I can't remember which but it cost a lot of money to pit right so most people made them FWD.

^This. They never 'need a propshaft', it's always because the IRD is dead and to have it done properly is about £1200 though if the viscous coupling as also screwed it will go again so you might need one of those too.

[jay140285]

Caulkhead said:

rumple said:

OP keep in mind the reason the props are removed on these is because the transfer box or rear diff is fked, I can't remember which but it cost a lot of money to pit right so most people made them FWD.

^This. They never 'need a propshaft', it's always because the IRD is dead and to have it done properly is about £1200 though if the viscous coupling as also screwed it will go again so you might need one of those too.

Righto, I was going to do a bit of googling to see if there was more of a common issue other than it needed a new prop.

So what is the consensus on it remaining FWD, how much is this going to effect resale?

[ajb85]

Chances are she'll get offered a touch more than that within a deal. Warning lights blanked over it'll do it's money at the block.