Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Diamond Black Geezer on 03 November 2015, 15:21:34
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Given my recent experiences with the Insurers (yet to be resolved, but we shall see) it got me thinking, what would be the price you'd take for your car, if someone offered it/what would be the price you'd realistically expect to sell it for.
It got me thinking in the last couple of weeks we've had an Omega appear that's done 40-something thou, for the pittance of £500-ish. And a very nicely sorted FL model sell(has it sold?) for around a grand.
Now mine, realistically if thrown on ebay tomorrow with her smashed in side wouldn't get near £500, but there's around £1500 put in her in the last year. That buys you a car with a cambelt, refurbished front brakes, new pads, every single piece of front suspension is new, save for the springs which are low mileage MV6. The wishbones have Vx and Poly bushes, and Vx ball joints, the wishbones, track rods have had several coats of high impact stone chip resistant paint. Brand new B4 shock absorbers all round. Every piece of rust found on the underside (not much) has been ground off back to bare steel, rustkilled, and painted with suitable seam sealer or stone chip paint. New exhaust cats back. £350 roof respray and new rain sensing-ready screen. Fresh oil less thank 1k old, and always had oil changed every 6k.
Now I know that a repsray costing £350 isn't magically going to increase the value of your car by that amount, but safe to say that if I wanted a new Omega, there's very few out there that can boast that spec list above. But there are those on here who do lavish such attention on their cars, and rightly so.
So... the man walks up to you and say's 'what price do you want for that finely-sorted Omega?' what do you say? :)
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I suspect most us believe that our Omegas are priceless, but the reality is that they're not worth buttons. :( ::) ;D
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£1000 takes mine, but only because of the Recaro leather interior and Irmscher bodykit... without these, Id expect around £300ish...
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this one, 104,000 miles, 4 months MOT, went for £1,330 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252140271353 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252140271353) ???
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I have a figure, that is all I will say ;)
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So... the man walks up to you and say's 'what price do you want for that finely-sorted Omega?' what do you say? :)
I'd say 'Neither of them are for sale so 'gerorff' my land'
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I think I share a little of the sentiments of all that have posted, here! :)
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£1750 buys mine :) , worth every penny ive spent on it >:(
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£1750 buys mine :) , worth every penny ive spent on it >:(
£1750 buys every omega on here as a job lot. ;D
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Money wise it's probably worth next to nowt :D But having just passed mot I suppose in the region of £400 to £500,although it needs cam belt doing so would depend on how savvy buyer is! I'd swap it for a Senator in a heartbeat though :y
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Having sold the MV6 once, and pined after it until I got it back... it would have to be silly money by anyone's standards.
Same with the Special, actually, I get far too attached to old lumps of metal.
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webuyanycar offered me £75 for my 2.2 :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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webuyanycar offered me £75 for my 2.2 :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
You should've took their hand off ;D
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Money wise it's probably worth next to nowt :D But having just passed mot I suppose in the region of £400 to £500,although it needs cam belt doing so would depend on how savvy buyer is! I'd swap it for a Senator in a heartbeat though :y
I do love Sennys :y Thing is, there'll be as many Omegas left as there are Sennys, soon. And when was the last time you saw a Carlton? I mean, I saw dozens of Lotus Carltons at Billing last year, but I reckon we must be at the point where there are more LCs left than normal ones, now! (ie: anything that isn't a GSi/LC)
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Having sold the MV6 once, and pined after it until I got it back... it would have to be silly money by anyone's standards.
Same with the Special, actually, I get far too attached to old lumps of metal.
Yep, mine is just worth so much to me. Like I say, try and find any Omega with all that done to it. I could/should(?) have spent all my money ont he bodywork, made her look mint, and left the underneath rotting and completely un-maintained, bandages on the exhaust, no cambelt done, old sticky brakes the lot. The insurers would probably have offered me more. >:(
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Its what it is worth to you....not anybody else. Doesn't matter what anyone will pay for it, if you love the car, and spend pounds on it, so what. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. If I get a bill for £500, that's cheaper for me than shelling out for a new car. And what I can afford, would probably be as liable to go wrong as an Omega would be. :y So the shelling out would start again, on top of money paid for the new vehicle.
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Damn right. :y When it boils down to it, if I had driven into a tree and were saying to the insurance 'mend my car/replace it for free, please' that's one thing, but we're talking about someone - ie: me - who has actually tried not to crash, someone drove into me. I know it and the world doesn't work on morality, but that should make a difference when claiming.
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Good one? £700 delivered.