View Full Version : No bull just help please...
brownbear
16-11-10, 02:31 PM
What should I go for, please no scrap it it's 5hit etc etc...
Option 1.
2.9 V6, bought new in 2005 with receipt approx 32k bare block £550
Option 2.
2.8 V6, 98k still in car running. With all ancillaries. £350
Option 3.
2.9 V6, approx 130k, new chains tensioners rebuilt head lightened and balanced flywheel new clutch, 4k since rebuild £350
Dilma is costing between the 3, I can afford any of them, but I can sell on ancillaries to recoup some on option 2, I'm dubious about option 3 as it's got high miles, but the rebuild is a good thing. Option 2 may end up costing me later. But option 1 is bloody deer! But seems the best but I'm so confused!!
What do you guys think is the best option and what would you do if it was your car and your money? (bearing in mind this is engine number 4, and I need it to be good!!)
what ever you do sell it as soon as its running lol
brownbear
16-11-10, 02:39 PM
Option two is off a good guy that has never sold me anything bad and has helped me out shot loads! Option 1 and 3 are eBay specials!
brownbear
16-11-10, 02:40 PM
what ever you do sell it as soon as its running lol
I need to run it for at least a year to recoup anything! Also crashing it this morning into the driveway wall has devalued it!!
http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/watusi-bull.jpg
Sounds like option two is going to be your best one then dude:thumb:
multiple blows up, crashing it, making a cardboard tank out of it sounds like you need to scrap it and move on
brownbear
16-11-10, 02:57 PM
http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/watusi-bull.jpg
My my my, how horny
brownbear
16-11-10, 02:58 PM
multiple blows up, crashing it, making a cardboard tank out of it sounds like you need to scrap it and move on
Please insert opinion based on question above not overall scenario... :(
brownbear
16-11-10, 03:01 PM
multiple blows up, crashing it, making a cardboard tank out of it sounds like you need to scrap it and move on
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blue_peg_16v
16-11-10, 03:01 PM
2 as can be seen running
pikey1986
16-11-10, 03:23 PM
option 2 sounds the best bet pal, like you say you can recoupe a little bit back
L33 LEG
16-11-10, 03:57 PM
Option two is off a good guy that has never sold me anything bad and has helped me out shot loads! Option 1 and 3 are eBay specials!
Option 2 it is then :thumb:
if option 2 is a definite runner from a trusted source, why the bloody hell are you on here asking people for opinions????
brownbear
16-11-10, 04:09 PM
Do women buy clothes without asking their friends opinion first?
Ive failed on choices so far, so see this as me asking for a more honest opinion. Lol
Burn it & report it "lost or stolen" lol lol
Burn it & report it "lost or stolen" lol lol
Lost? How the **** do you lose a sodding car lol
brownbear
16-11-10, 04:18 PM
Lost? How the **** do you lose a sodding car lol
Many a messy divorce would prove the ability to loose a car... Lol
1.8 20v bam, or r32 motor. vr's are ghey.
oh wait....
Lost? How the **** do you lose a sodding car lol
You can actually report a car lost you know lol
you ask mike how is it possible to lose a car............. where do you think most club level track racers come from????????
Many a messy divorce would prove the ability to loose a car... Lol
Lose as in no longer own sure, as in "Dude where's my car" not quite so possible!
you ask mike how is it possible to lose a car............. where do you think most club level track racers come from????????
lol lol lol
You can actually report a car lost you know lol
Wasn't a 306 forum where some guy lost his car? Either rolled away or he'd parked it somewhere and forgotten it... something like that.
Rolled away into a front garden of a house down teh street IIRC??
Wasn't a 306 forum where some guy lost his car? Either rolled away or he'd parked it somewhere and forgotten it... something like that.
Lmfao, it had rolled off his drive and into the neighbours garden iirc, and he actually rang the feds and reported it all over the internetlol
Only people stealing 306 DTurbos are skip companys???
Does anyone have the link to that thread, i need a chuckle lol
there was a bloke who drove to the shop & then walked home & was all over the net about the theft of his car.......
/On topic.
Option 2 by a country mile mate!
we'd all decided on option 2 ages ago limp.... then got sidetracked a tad.
Sorry lol. I just seen this, skimmed through a load of guff on the previous page and waded in. :thumb:
Sensible outcome FTW.
General Baxter
16-11-10, 05:26 PM
i think you should erm..............
lmao
my old neighbour is 76 and has had 49 odd strokes, he had a mk5 escort, parked at asda and came out and couldnt find it. he reported it knicked, got the payout and got another car. 3 months later asda called and said, do you own this car, its been in our carpark for 3 months... he then sold it for 350. billy bonus.
brownbear
16-11-10, 07:48 PM
Option 3 has just got interesting.... It comes with all ancillaries.
2.9 (Better torque)
Lightened and Balanced Flywheel
also new chains and tensioners.....
pikey1986
16-11-10, 07:51 PM
any proof of said work tho tom?
ive lost the vectra a few times lol
BURGO
i mean option 2 looks good, then again 3 also looks good.
brownbear
16-11-10, 07:58 PM
any proof of said work tho tom?
Receipts and blatent rebuild screams (New tensioner bolt, New gaskets etc etc)
pikey1986
16-11-10, 08:03 PM
go for it then dude
brownbear
16-11-10, 08:04 PM
I have, Just confirmed option 3!!
pikey1986
16-11-10, 08:07 PM
good man :thumb:
my old neighbour is 76 and has had 49 odd strokes, he had a mk5 escort, parked at asda and came out and couldnt find it. he reported it knicked, got the payout and got another car. 3 months later asda called and said, do you own this car, its been in our carpark for 3 months... he then sold it for 350. billy bonus.
How did Asda find out the owners phone number without going through the feds? If they had gone through them then they would of seen it had been reported stolen in which case police would of recovered it for the owners (now insurance company as they bought it when paid out for the stolen bit) There is no way the insurance would of paid out without a crime ref number and there is no way asda could of found out the owners home address/phone number without going through plice or dvla!
wasn't there a bloke who lost his car in London. he parked it down a road, then couldn't find that road again as he had forgotten where it was...was something like 3 months before he found it
wasn't there a bloke who lost his car in London. he parked it down a road, then couldn't find that road again as he had forgotten where it was...was something like 3 months before he found it
Did he get paid out by the insurance and then find it then knowingly sale a stolen car on for even more gains?
How did Asda find out the owners phone number without going through the feds? If they had gone through them then they would of seen it had been reported stolen in which case police would of recovered it for the owners (now insurance company as they bought it when paid out for the stolen bit) There is no way the insurance would of paid out without a crime ref number and there is no way asda could of found out the owners home address/phone number without going through plice or dvla!
same as any parking company i guess, contact the doovla and they give you the info. its not tricky.
Asda won't have contacted him (as they'd have to pay the DVLA for the info and have reasonable cause... which that wouldn't be), but they more than likely would have reported it as abandoned to the local council - who in turn would have found the owner. Even if they had gone straight to the DVLA it would have shown up stolen afaik.
Pretty slack policing though if they didn't investigate where he last had the car etc. And a 3 month wait for a payout is pretty nippy as well, especially considering most insurance companies will have a 30 day waiting period to see if the car turns up. AND Asda sitting on a car for 3 months in their car park, most get shirty if you park longer than 2 hours... lol
AND slack on the part of the local council who would/should have checked with the police about its status - stolen etc - so the police would have matched it up to the crime, and contacted the insurer, who are technically the owners since they have paid out to the old guy. They certainly wouldn't hand the car right back to him after a payout!
Not saying its not possible, but it would be a pretty long chain of fcuk ups!
brownbear
17-11-10, 10:29 AM
Asda won't have contacted him (as they'd have to pay the DVLA for the info and have reasonable cause... which that wouldn't be), but they more than likely would have reported it as abandoned to the local council - who in turn would have found the owner. Even if they had gone straight to the DVLA it would have shown up stolen afaik.
Pretty slack policing though if they didn't investigate where he last had the car etc. And a 3 month wait for a payout is pretty nippy as well, especially considering most insurance companies will have a 30 day waiting period to see if the car turns up. AND Asda sitting on a car for 3 months in their car park, most get shirty if you park longer than 2 hours... lol
AND slack on the part of the local council who would/should have checked with the police about its status - stolen etc - so the police would have matched it up to the crime, and contacted the insurer, who are technically the owners since they have paid out to the old guy. They certainly wouldn't hand the car right back to him after a payout!
Not saying its not possible, but it would be a pretty long chain of fcuk ups!
Bit like bodyshops and cavs I guess....
cheers. i offer advice and get slated. :mad:
wasn't there a bloke who lost his car in London. he parked it down a road, then couldn't find that road again as he had forgotten where it was...was something like 3 months before he found it
Theres a retro bikes forum im on where a guy did that, had an old skool bike as his daily commuter and always locked it up in the same place outside his work, one night they all went out for a beer after work and he decided to leave it there when they moved onto the next pub, anyways hungover he returned for his bike the next morning only to find it gone, reported it stolen and put up pictures on the bike forum and asked everyone to keep an eye out for it.
Six months later he was walking through the center of london (iirc) and saw his bike locked to a railing, wtf, he thought and went over, looked at it and was 100% certain it was his, nothing hed been removed or changed, then he looked at the lock, it was his, he still had the key on his keyring so he tried it and it unlocked, turns out it was near one of the pubs they had been to on that night out so he mustve decided to go back and move it when he was drunk, then forgotten all about it, for six months it was sat there and not one single part was vandalised, how lucky is that:eek:
my great aunt went from leicestershire to n yorks to a horse show in a series 1 landrover..... later that day, she drove back home... the next morning woke to find someone elses landrover parked in the yard... so having rung some people she knew up there.... had to drive it back to the real owner, who had actually stepped out of the horse show beer tent in the dark & driven the only landrover left back to his farm & woken to find the wrong one in his yard.... same keys. 5 hrs each way.
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