Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: aaronjb on 10 June 2011, 17:56:25
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I spotted the 'holy grail' of Omegas (for me!) on Autotrader earlier; what looks to be a facelift W reg Estate with the 2.5TD engine, towbar, good condition etc at a reasonable price. Only way it could have been better would be to have been a higher spec (i.e. Elite) rather than CDX.
Anyway, I thought I'd just see what 'webuyanycar.com' would offer me on the 3.2 Elite and see if it was worth it (i.e. worth more than the diesel).
Bear in mind the 3.2 has 88k on the clock, is cosmetically about as good as they get and mechanically great..
£560 was their offer. £560!
I know they make low offers but I was shocked; even the MR2 (slghtly newer but higher mileage with dents down one side thanks to careless parkers etc) is worth more at ~£1800.. or am I just being very optimistic about the value of the Omega? :o
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I'll give you £600 and a Twix bar :y
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I'll give you £600 and a Twix bar :y
Make it a Yorkie and I might be tempted ;D
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Take a 3.0ltr Elite estate with LPG????
Mini facelift with towbar/twin electrics?
Go on you know you want too, oh and I'll throw in 2 Yorkie bars, lol
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Take a 3.0ltr Elite estate with LPG????
Mini facelift with towbar/twin electrics?
Go on you know you want too, oh and I'll throw in 2 Yorkie bars, lol
;D ;D
If I'm staying with petrol/lpg then I'll just keep the current one ;) it's just that I've had an eye out for a mint diesel for a while on the basis that I reckon I could save a fair bit of money on fuel with a manual diesel..
But not if I'm going to take a roasting financially to buy one ;D admittedly I did pay a bit over the odds for the 3.2 Elite as it was from a dealer..
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Take a 3.0ltr Elite estate with LPG????
Mini facelift with towbar/twin electrics?
Go on you know you want too, oh and I'll throw in 2 Yorkie bars, lol
;D ;D
If I'm staying with petrol/lpg then I'll just keep the current one ;) it's just that I've had an eye out for a mint diesel for a while on the basis that I reckon I could save a fair bit of money on fuel with a manual diesel..
But not if I'm going to take a roasting financially to buy one ;D admittedly I did pay a bit over the odds for the 3.2 Elite as it was from a dealer..
Damn - worth a try though, lol
Good luck on the hunt for "the" car though and don't get ripped off when selling yours either!!
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Take a 3.0ltr Elite estate with LPG????
Mini facelift with towbar/twin electrics?
Go on you know you want too, oh and I'll throw in 2 Yorkie bars, lol
;D ;D
If I'm staying with petrol/lpg then I'll just keep the current one ;) it's just that I've had an eye out for a mint diesel for a while on the basis that I reckon I could save a fair bit of money on fuel with a manual diesel..
But not if I'm going to take a roasting financially to buy one ;D admittedly I did pay a bit over the odds for the 3.2 Elite as it was from a dealer..
Think LPG when its down to the figures is cheaper, worth running some spreadsheets to compare?
I used to get around 10p a mile on LPG, its now around 12.5p mile thanks to rise in LPG :(
Think its going to be tough for a diesel to beat that. That said no belts to worry about on the 2.5TD :)
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Take a 3.0ltr Elite estate with LPG????
Mini facelift with towbar/twin electrics?
Go on you know you want too, oh and I'll throw in 2 Yorkie bars, lol
;D ;D
If I'm staying with petrol/lpg then I'll just keep the current one ;) it's just that I've had an eye out for a mint diesel for a while on the basis that I reckon I could save a fair bit of money on fuel with a manual diesel..
But not if I'm going to take a roasting financially to buy one ;D admittedly I did pay a bit over the odds for the 3.2 Elite as it was from a dealer..
Think LPG when its down to the figures is cheaper, worth running some spreadsheets to compare?
I used to get around 10p a mile on LPG, its now around 12.5p mile thanks to rise in LPG :(
Think its going to be tough for a diesel to beat that. That said no belts to worry about on the 2.5TD :)
I think you're probably right about LPG (although I'm not sure a toroidal tank would get me very far based on what LD has said :)) - the diesel would only make sense if I could sell mine for ~£2k and pick up an equivalent condition 2.5TD for ~£1k and pocket the difference..
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thay will give me £50 for mine wow im off to spend it
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thay will give me £50 for mine wow im off to spend it
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that'll get you a few twix bars! ;)
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I'm quite surprised it was as high as £560
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webuyanycar.coN ;)
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webuyanycar.mong
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they know how difficult it is to sell omegas on, so they offer stupidly low
they're part of carcraft, it goes straight back up for sale
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By all accounts you'd be lucky to get what they offer anyway. They always find some reason to climb down on their initial offer and hep you're desperate enough to bend over.
Kevin
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I bet if you asked them to come for the inspection they would lower the price to around the £300 area .They are nothing but a total con
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For a laugh I stuck my Estate details in and got offered........... £960 ;D ;D ;D
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i was offerd 85 quid for a 96 2.5 v6 tourer i laughed for a week
i currently have a 2.5td manual that i bought from a club member which has tow bar with twin electrics stacks of paperwork and history is in what i call good condition is only cdx though has been sat for 2 weeks now as im trying to source a crankshaft pully without much luck so im undecided as what to do with it its too good to scrap
got nearly 40 to the gallon out of it on the m3 a month ago so good on fuel