Anyone reckon anything to this?

This looks a very tidy car. He's sent me some better pics & it's virtually mint & LPG too.

Could be a bargain or not?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4516104478&fromMakeTrack=true

Whats the value realistically?

Nige

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"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This looks a very tidy car. He's sent me some better pics & it's virtually
mint & LPG too.
>
> Could be a bargain or not?
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4516104478&fromMakeTrac
k=true
>
> Whats the value realistically?

Slightly dodgy history on feedback, have a look before bidding. Value with
that mileage? About 6k I'd guess.
TonyB

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:55:26 -0000, "TonyB" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> Whats the value realistically?
>
>Slightly dodgy history on feedback, have a look before bidding.

I dont trust people who write in all caps either!

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:12:22 -0000, "Nige"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>This looks a very tidy car. He's sent me some better pics & it's virtually mint & LPG too.
>
>Could be a bargain or not?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4516104478&fromMakeTrack=true
>
>Whats the value realistically?
>
>Nige


You'll know the value in 21 hours...

Frankly, I wouldn't give you £530 for it. It only needs a couple of
things wrong to double the cost. There has to be some reason why the
seventh person now wants rid of it. If it had one or two owners I'd
rate it as a possible, but...

Warren, the best mechanic / engineer I know, bought his cheap and even
with his fully equipped workshop, AutoLogic, ramps etc, came close to
chucking a match in and going home.

At 140,000 miles just about all the wear items will have worn. So
many things which are minor on a 'normal' car are second-mortgage
stuff on a P38, and that's assuming you can work out which bit it is.
You would be buying a very nice motor, but one which is bound to be
well on the way to worn out.




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Tim Hobbs wrote:

>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:12:22 -0000, "Nige"
>
>
>You'll know the value in 21 hours...
>
>Frankly, I wouldn't give you £530 for it. It only needs a couple of
>things wrong to double the cost. There has to be some reason why the
>seventh person now wants rid of it. If it had one or two owners I'd
>rate it as a possible, but...
>
>Warren, the best mechanic / engineer I know, bought his cheap and even
>with his fully equipped workshop, AutoLogic, ramps etc, came close to
>chucking a match in and going home.
>
>At 140,000 miles just about all the wear items will have worn. So
>many things which are minor on a 'normal' car are second-mortgage
>stuff on a P38, and that's assuming you can work out which bit it is.
>You would be buying a very nice motor, but one which is bound to be
>well on the way to worn out.
>
>
From the way that the bod who spanners my RRC swears about the P38's,
the above sounds only too likely. My RRC is fairly tired at 150K on an
F plate and various mechanical bits are coming to the end of their
lives, e.g. rear diff has just made terminal noises, but at least it
does not rely on a temperamental brain the size of a planet to function.

Richard

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Claims of 38 MPG equivalent are a bit out !! unless he's running it on
central heating LPG


"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This looks a very tidy car. He's sent me some better pics & it's virtually
> mint & LPG too.
>
> Could be a bargain or not?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4516104478&fromMakeTrack=true
>
> Whats the value realistically?
>
> Nige
>
> --
> Subaru WRX (The Bitch)
>
> Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)
>
> "If you tolerate this then your children will be next"
>

On or around Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:07:15 -0000, "StaffBull"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Claims of 38 MPG equivalent are a bit out !! unless he's running it on
>central heating LPG
>

I thought that was a bit optimistic, but yer never know. implies something
around 23 mpg on petrol and with a good LPG setup. If you cruise tidily at
about 60-70, it might do that.

My 3.5 disco does the equivalent of about 27 mpg, which ain't that clever,
but then it is an open loop LPG and it mostly does a lot of fiddlin'
low-speed running. On such occasions as it gets to do lightweight cruising
at A-road speeds (rare) it does a bit better.

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