Anyone got a trailer?

Thanks raz I appreciate it, but I'm just PMing stig, as he's got second dibs

I'm thinking very seriously about this but will have to work out fuel costs etc.
Looking at 25 mpg ish round trip from your house plus dinner money etc.
or
you can do it and borrow my trailer for a small fee to cover tyres etc. and a deposit in case you don't bring it back

It's a tilt bed twin axel with a winch (I've had an AA van on it from Glasgow to Warrington)see avitar

TheVengefulElephant said:

Thanks raz I appreciate it, but I'm just PMing stig, as he's got second dibs

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just been informed mate, i ahve stigs trailer here, whatever yer have lined up it will fly on it.

ah landowner that's good of ya!

I've emailed stiggy with his details now though, I'm gonna give it over to him!

TheVengefulElephant said:

ah landowner that's good of ya!

I've emailed stiggy with his details now though, I'm gonna give it over to him!

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Rather fancied a trip up there, never mind

landowner said:

Rather fancied a trip up there, never mind

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yeah my mates gonna be really depressed, he wanted to go on a road trip oh well. lend us 500 quid towards sirus' series and you can pick that up for me

eh what eh erm what eh

Sirus said:

eh what eh erm what eh

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still gorrit fer sale?

Yes, ask me again after the insurance quote

Sirus said:

Yes, ask me again after the insurance quote

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Ta, I was gonna look up a quote in the morning for a series v8, I can't get one online because its "modified"

redhand said:

Right Flumps reality check time if you have to pay someone to drive all that way and back again 950 odd miles it's gonna cost you at least £500. You could buy a disco for that money.

If you can't find a trailer to put it on, you need to decide if your gonna risk travelling down there on the train and getting it sorted & driving it back That's gonna cost you the best part of £100 for fuel £50 for MOT plus any parts & another £100 for the train which will get you as far as Oban. If you've got a student or young persons rail card this'll be cheaper.

Everyway you look at it, It's gonna cost you the price of a cheap disco to go and collect it. My advice is forget it. Let someone else buy it and look for something nearer to home..

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I actually kinda agree, I know you are really happy to have this series, and its cheap etc....but, doesn't have mot,insurance etc, added to the fact it is a very long way away..suddenly does not make it so cheap. You're assuming you can fix it in time to get an MOT in one morning, what if a problem is more complex than you thought/can deal with....

I'm not trying to put a downer on this at all, please don't think that I am, but it just seems alot of effort and money and i'm not entirely sure how it would work.
However if you are still set on it, I reckon your best bet is to do what redhand said, get GJ's disco or something, borrow a trailer, redhand to drive you up there, pick it up and come back, that way you don't risk breaking down on the way back, you'll have to pay diesel, but its cheaper than a transport company, also, it would mean you don't have to work on it/MOT it while up there, you can do that once you're back here which is surely easier.

Having said that, if you look in the right places you can pick up a bloody decent disco for peanuts, and it'll have an MOT. Have you ever considered a disco? or are you set on a series/90......I could help you with towing something if it came from round this are, I know of a few going at the moment.

Wow....what an essay, please don't hate me now!!!

letsgoagain1 said:

I actually kinda agree, I know you are really happy to have this series, and its cheap etc....but, doesn't have mot,insurance etc, added to the fact it is a very long way away..suddenly does not make it so cheap. You're assuming you can fix it in time to get an MOT in one morning, what if a problem is more complex than you thought/can deal with....

I'm not trying to put a downer on this at all, please don't think that I am, but it just seems alot of effort and money and i'm not entirely sure how it would work.
However if you are still set on it, I reckon your best bet is to do what redhand said, get GJ's disco or something, borrow a trailer, redhand to drive you up there, pick it up and come back, that way you don't risk breaking down on the way back, you'll have to pay diesel, but its cheaper than a transport company, also, it would mean you don't have to work on it/MOT it while up there, you can do that once you're back here which is surely easier.

Having said that, if you look in the right places you can pick up a bloody decent disco for peanuts, and it'll have an MOT. Have you ever considered a disco? or are you set on a series/90......I could help you with towing something if it came from round this are, I know of a few going at the moment.

Wow....what an essay, please don't hate me now!!!

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lol! you jumped the gun, am not gonna get it now, think stiggy's having it!

Disco? urrrggghhh

Am gonna try and get a quote on si's v8 when I get home

stiggy can't travel that far on doctors orders at this moment in time so I would not be able to collect it for a couple of months. So no I am not in the running for it.

I,ll have it .......... anybody got a trailer..........

It's on e-bay now - see Ambriel's fred.

I like the one goonearmy,s put on.........

apart from the brake fluid paint job!