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Title: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Chazza12 on 31 December 2017, 19:47:54
2.500.00 if you got it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122888359547?ul_noapp=true
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 31 December 2017, 19:50:00
£2500 for a 'poverty spec' 2 litre four pot.

Hmmm.
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 31 December 2017, 19:59:42
Lovely!!!!

Makes my £4K example seem an even better buy! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Viral_Jim on 31 December 2017, 20:23:43
2.500.00 if you got it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122888359547?ul_noapp=true

Jeeze, I knew you were likely to get robbed in Manchester, but they don’t usually advertise!
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: tunnie on 31 December 2017, 20:28:41
Looks Elite spec with those wheels and fog lights. These were not on CD spec of that shape.
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: steve6367 on 31 December 2017, 20:28:55
2.500.00 if you got it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122888359547?ul_noapp=true

Why would you pick a 2.0L GLS for a rebuild?
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Fraggles Rock on 31 December 2017, 20:32:52
2.500.00 if you got it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122888359547?ul_noapp=true

Why would you pick a 2.0L GLS for a rebuild?
First new car perhaps :-\

Actually looks alright from the pictures ;)
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Nick W on 01 January 2018, 12:53:33
The poster of that ad seems to think that receipts for £3k should add £2k to a £500 car. In reality, the best of the new stuff is now worth a few pence per pound paid. The rest is worthless.


And what do they mean by a full rebuild?
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: johnnydog on 01 January 2018, 14:47:10
I think that is a 'stock' photo on the listing or one off the internet. I don't think it is of the actual car for sale. Anyone genuinely interested would be best asking for additional photos of the car in its current state.
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: TheBoy on 01 January 2018, 14:57:51
Who would spend more than £500 on *ANY* car bought on egay?


The British public has just got lazy/stupid (pick either/or)
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: ronnyd on 01 January 2018, 18:20:12
Also sells Lady Gaga fake nails. 8) ;D
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Rods2 on 02 January 2018, 11:20:50
I think Tunnie has shown us the increasingly likely fate of virtually all Omegas. :( Any car that is not hot dipped galvanised will have a typical life of 13 years due to tin worm. ::) £3k of spaces will not include a new body shell as one of them. :o

There is a reason why you still see rust free 740/760, 940/960 Volvos on the road as they were hot dipped galvanised. Volvo did this to ensure structural integrity and accident safety for longer. :y
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Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 January 2018, 11:26:12

There is a reason why you still see rust free 740/760, 940/960 Volvos on the road as they were hot dipped galvanised. Volvo did this to ensure structural integrity and accident safety for longer. :y

Indeed. I popped round to see a friend over the Christmas period and remarked on the condition of his F reg Volvo 7 Series estate. (4 pot - not the V6, so the engine had survived too!)
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: TheBoy on 02 January 2018, 16:22:48
Aren't Audis supposed to be galvanised?  As I know of many 15yr old ones that have rusty bodywork....   ....those that haven't been scrapped due to rust induced MOT failures underneath.

I think part of the issue is people just do not think (or be arsed) to do a little body/chassis maintenance (such as wax and polish, and re-underseal), and dealers certainly won't.  Maybe with the TV ads for a few years ago for Audi, Audi owners thought it would never rust. That was always going to turn out like a Series Landrover owner saying his car wasn't going to rust ;D
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: Pmacca2000 on 02 January 2018, 22:50:54
Looks like an Elite and a very pricy one considering
Title: Re: Just seen this on ebay if you have a few pounds laying around....
Post by: zirk on 03 January 2018, 10:04:52
Looks Elite spec with those wheels and fog lights. These were not on CD spec of that shape.

Looks like an Elite and a very pricy one considering

Says Elite on the Door Badge.  ;)