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Title: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: terry paget on 28 April 2016, 13:35:05
Y reg 2.5 manual saloon, MOT till January, 41000 miles, £32, will drive away. For sale spares or repair, loud knocking noise at top of engine. Recent cam belt change is the clue; I reckon belt has jumped a couple of teeth.
 I have been there; took advice, checked cam belt, 2 teeth out, replaced cam belt and pulleys, car did 4 years more service till daughter crashed it.

Too far away for me, I wouldn't drive it home, but could be a real bargain.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111981111708?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: biggriffin on 28 April 2016, 14:17:26
Car park leprechauns, will get that ;)
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Post by: baggers on 28 April 2016, 18:47:08
Maybe £150 - 200 end of auction.  All the mileage numbers are evenly pissed so 40K mileage is maybe questionable, radio head hanging out and looks like dogs have been jumping all over interior.  That said still worth a pickup for spares.
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: 05omegav6 on 28 April 2016, 19:01:18
Officially, it's done around 3k miles every year since 2006... Fail items seem to have been done on demand rather than being allowed to fester :-\
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Post by: STEMO on 29 April 2016, 11:41:42
This guy sells cars. If it was an easy repair, I'm sure he'd have done it.
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Post by: Viral_Jim on 29 April 2016, 12:13:07
This guy sells cars. If it was an easy repair, I'm sure he'd have done it.

Indeed, but then again, would he? a good'un is only worth £750 at a garage maybe? Timing belt must be a few hrs labour, even if you have all the kit, and that assumes no other damage done. He's probably given someone £250 for it against another car and just wants rid. Of course he's lying about not knowing (or at least suspecting) whats up with it. That's par for the course  ::)

VOSA MOT history shows mileage evenly spaced since 2006 2-3k/yr with 18 months off the road. So it would have had to be clocked every year for the last decade (seems unlikely) - don't think you can re-write the odometer history on the MOT can you?  ???

I'm not in the market for it - just speculating.  :)
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: STEMO on 29 April 2016, 15:37:21
Omegas in general are cheap enough without driving miles to pick up a poorly one.
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Post by: Elite Pete on 29 April 2016, 18:33:08
The wear on the top of the gear stick and handbrake gaiters suggest its done more than 41000 miles to me ::)
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Post by: RobG on 29 April 2016, 19:05:05
Mileage digits don`t seem to "sit" right :-\
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Post by: STEMO on 29 April 2016, 19:08:51
If there's any doubt about it...just leave it.


Move on.....nothing to see here.
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Post by: tunnie on 29 April 2016, 22:01:21
Bet that has done 141k miles  ::)
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Post by: omega2018 on 30 April 2016, 01:34:38
ooh there's a nasty bird poo on the windscreen too.

you lot are so critical............ :)
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: tunnie on 30 April 2016, 17:45:56
ooh there's a nasty bird poo on the windscreen too.

you lot are so critical............ :)

Not really. Just know a shabby example when we see one, with excellent examples to be had for £500. What's the point in a shit one, with loads to fix up?
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: terry paget on 01 May 2016, 08:11:57
Thanks for your collective wisdom. I did not know I could check early MOTs on the VOSA web site; I do now. As I said at the start, it's too far away and not really driveable. so I was never really interested, just tempted.
And yet, best car in my fleet is X168, bought as spares from ajsphead in Portishead. Omega 2.5 CDX, manual petrol, MOT failure, e-bay £302. On the drive home I realised it was a better car than  my current 2.5 estate, so repaired it and scrapped other estate. My current favourite is 2.5 CDX V828, bought in Clacton last summer for £257, to replace Jonny's 2.2 with head gasket failure. Both these cars are unusually rust free, so will not suffer the fate of Catherine's Opel, rear shock absorber mounting failure, scrapped. I note this Llangollen car had brake pipe rust problems, bad sign.
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: baggers on 08 May 2016, 00:00:27
Maybe £150 - 200 end of auction.  All the mileage numbers are evenly pissed so 40K mileage is maybe questionable, radio head hanging out and looks like dogs have been jumping all over interior.  That said still worth a pickup for spares.

Final price £190  There are a lot of spares on it but I don't think I could have gone to that price with it's condition.
Title: Re: bargain at Llangollen
Post by: Elite Pete on 08 May 2016, 16:43:04
I considered putting a sneaky bid in at the end but the old girl told me about an 09 Vectra 1.9 CDTi that has been traded in at her place of work for pennies so I went for that instead ::)
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Post by: annihilator on 10 May 2016, 21:39:47
Re-listed  ::)
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Post by: baggers on 10 May 2016, 23:44:54
 :o

There where 32 bids whatever happened to second chance offers?  ::)
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Post by: Steve B on 11 May 2016, 00:20:50
looks crap  :y