And the winner of dreamer of the year is...

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Saw a good few of those kias on the roads in Portugal. And Renault 4s!
I'd say they'd be snapping up stuff we can't insure as dailys here if we drove on the same side of the road.

166man

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Saw a good few of those kias on the roads in Portugal. And Renault 4s!
I'd say they'd be snapping up stuff we can't insure as dailys here if we drove on the same side of the road.

Not sure you could pay someone enough to drive that Kia Sportage from Ireland on portugal though...:D

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166man wrote: »

Not sure you could pay someone enough to drive that Kia Sportage from Ireland on portugal though...:D

Christ no, load em onto a ship for sure!

colm_mcm

tossy wrote: »

It's one of those motoring trivia ones like the way the first generation Hyundai coupe was designed by Pininfarina.

A bit like that except my one isn't made-up

Tommyboy40

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-cl-class-cl500-coupe-auto/9791191
I went to see this and offered €1000 scrap value

Tzardine

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-cl-class-cl500-coupe-auto/9791191
I went to see this and offered €1000 scrap value

The seller is a dreamer with that price, no doubt, but you are the reason I hate selling cars online.

bear1

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-cl-class-cl500-coupe-auto/9791191
I went to see this and offered €1000 scrap value

I can't believe you offered that.

Sam Russell

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-cl-class-cl500-coupe-auto/9791191
I went to see this and offered €1000 scrap value

You would pay in excess of £5,000 in the UK for one of those. Export it and get some VRT back and you would be able to offer asking price.

The Honey Monster

The Honey Monster wrote: »

Yeah but the ad says its got a "lady owner"



Helen ****ing Keller.

TTeyron

DakarVert

Tzardine wrote: »

The seller is a dreamer with that price, no doubt, but you are the reason I hate selling cars online.

I agree... But these can be very expensive when they go wrong!

What was up with it Tommy? Suspension issue?

tossy

colm_mcm wrote: »

A bit like that except my one isn't made-up

Trivia was the wrong word but you missed my point, it doesn't make them any less a sh!t box lol

Tommyboy40

Tzardine wrote: »

The seller is a dreamer with that price, no doubt, but you are the reason I hate selling cars online.

This is the reason that I hate Boards sometimes. You see how the car was advertised as a clean example if missing a wing mirror. I called about 2 for sale in Limerick, both with full service histories etc. The photos of this car had obviously been taken a long long time ago and it has sat in a yard for close to 2 years I imagine. It was sitting right down on it's ass, the windows didn't't work at all. The fronts fully up so that you couldn't close the doors properly and the rears open 2 inches. The interior was badly water damaged from this. The car obviously wouldn't start and the salesman forced open the electric boor to jump it. When it started, still no windows, no soft close doors, multiple error messages and best of all, a single stamp at 8,800 miles in the service book. The other was just as bad. I'd driven to Limerick wasting €80 odd in fuel and my day to see them. The car was genuinely only worth €1000 in scrap. The CL is a difficult barge to shift but an honest description would at least weed out the scrap. It's easier to buy a perfect car with a scrap engine and replace it than to chase electrical gremlins in a bogey one

James Bond Junior

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

This is the reason that I hate Boards sometimes. You see how the car was advertised as a clean example if missing a wing mirror. I called about 2 for sale in Limerick, both with full service histories etc. The photos of this car had obviously been taken a long long time ago and it has sat in a yard for close to 2 years I imagine. It was sitting right down on it's ass, the windows didn't't work at all. The fronts fully up so that you couldn't close the doors properly and the rears open 2 inches. The interior was badly water damaged from this. The car obviously wouldn't start and the salesman forced open the electric boor to jump it. When it started, still no windows, no soft close doors, multiple error messages and best of all, a single stamp at 8,800 miles in the service book. The other was just as bad. I'd driven to Limerick wasting €80 odd in fuel and my day to see them. The car was genuinely only worth €1000 in scrap. The CL is a difficult barge to shift but an honest description would at least weed out the scrap. It's easier to buy a perfect car with a scrap engine and replace it than to chase electrical gremlins in a bogey one

Search the garage on here..

vintagevrs

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

This is the reason that I hate Boards sometimes.

Maybe you should have included some of that detail as the reason you offered a seller a 6th of their asking price in your original post?

Tommyboy40

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Search the garage on here..

Really? I wasn't aware of that. The other was for sale at a main dealer of another inferior German marque and while not nearly as bad, had spent too much time on salty UK roads. The only good thing about our ridiculous tax system is that it makes these big engined cars cheaper over here.

Tommyboy40

vintagevrs wrote: »

Maybe you should have included some of that detail as the reason you offered a seller a 6th of their asking price in your original post?

Point taken but it was a morning post, had to build up to it

James Bond Junior

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

Really? I wasn't aware of that. The other was for sale at a main dealer of another inferior German marque and while not nearly as bad, had spent too much time on salty UK roads. The only good thing about our ridiculous tax system is that it makes these big engined cars cheaper over here.

The one in the garage on the roundabout I take it? I thought it looked clean enough as I drove through for a sconce recently. It has been there a while mind you.

Tommyboy40

James Bond Junior wrote: »

The one in the garage on the roundabout I take it? I thought it looked clean enough as I drove through for a sconce recently. It has been there a while mind you.

It looks clean from a distance and I was offered a deal but they baulked at letting me plug this into it

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CianRyan

To be fair is sounds like a **** car but let's be real
1. You should have just walked away, offering €1000 scrap value just to be a dick is just being a dick. Not cool.
2. I work in a garage and if someone brought their own diagnostic equipment with them and wanted to plug in they wouldn't be entertained.
Sure, it seems innocent but I have no idea what the persons intension is. It could easily be used to damage the car if someone wanted to.
If they wanted to watch as we used our own equipment that would be fine.

What were you really expecting to happen?

James Bond Junior

CianRyan wrote: »

To be fair is sounds like a **** car but let's be real
1. You should have just walked away, offering €1000 scrap value just to be a dick is just being a dick. Not cool.
2. I work in a garage and if someone brought their own diagnostic equipment with them and wanted to plug in they wouldn't be entertained.
Sure, it seems innocent but I have no idea what the persons intension is. It could easily be used to damage the car if someone wanted to.
If they wanted to watch as we used our own equipment that would be fine.

What were you really expecting to happen?

I've sold cars to people whom have brought code readers and never had an issue and also bought cars and plugged them in and people have had no issue.

grogi

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

I'd driven to Limerick wasting €80 odd in fuel and my day to see them.

Unless you're after some exotic, never drive more than 30 mins to see a car. You can see enough rubbish in that radius not to take longer trips...

CianRyan

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I've sold cars to people whom have brought code readers and never had an issue and also bought cars and plugged them in and people have had no issue.

Privately or in a dealers?

grogi wrote: »

Unless you're after some exotic, never drive more than 30 mins to see a car. You can see enough rubbish in that radius not to take longer trips...

I've driven much longer for sheds but I was fully expecting them to be sheds. Haha
If you're prepared to just buy whatever the **** it turns out to be then just enjoy the road trip.

grogi

CianRyan wrote: »

2. I work in a garage and if someone brought their own diagnostic equipment with them and wanted to plug in they wouldn't be entertained.
Sure, it seems innocent but I have no idea what the persons intension is. It could easily be used to damage the car if someone wanted to.
If they wanted to watch as we used our own equipment that would be fine.

What were you really expecting to happen?

I have been keys for the cars to test drive them alone... I could do much more damage than with a diagnostic equipment...

CianRyan

grogi wrote: »

I have been keys for the cars to test drive them alone... I could do much more damage than with a diagnostic equipment...

Same as above really, no garage is going to let you take a car alone because if something goes wrong, the sales man or mechanic is going to loose their job over it.

Tommyboy40

CianRyan wrote: »

To be fair is sounds like a **** car but let's be real
1. You should have just walked away, offering €1000 scrap value just to be a dick is just being a dick. Not cool.
2. I work in a garage and if someone brought their own diagnostic equipment with them and wanted to plug in they wouldn't be entertained.
Sure, it seems innocent but I have no idea what the persons intension is. It could easily be used to damage the car if someone wanted to.
If they wanted to watch as we used our own equipment that would be fine.

What were you really expecting to happen?

I was buying a CL. I didn't want to buy a lemon. The request to diagnose the car was only for the second one I saw, which was 100% better than the first but still a bag of ****e. I wouldn't buy a car of this type with such potential pitfalls without having a look at the codes. When a suspension refurb costs over 5k in parts you would have to be sure. if i was a dealer, i'd understand that taking a car like this is a gamble and do anything to try shift it. On a side note, the first yard I visited was a testament to our messed up system. There was well over a million quids worth of rotting high end cars, cars which would be worth money anywhere except here, where anything over 2.0 is considered excessive. I own several cars and it's a constant dance of taxing and declaring off road. If I had to keep everything taxed all the time it would cost €7528, and one is a Smart which costs €199

grogi

CianRyan wrote: »

Same as above really, no garage is going to let you take a car alone because if something goes wrong, the sales man or mechanic is going to loose their job over it.

I was talking about garages only... I test drove cars from 15 year old bangers to brand new ones... All alone or only with the Mrs...

It was only the MSL guys that insisted on being in the car.

Tommyboy40

CianRyan wrote: »

Same as above really, no garage is going to let you take a car alone because if something goes wrong, the sales man or mechanic is going to loose their job over it.

Cian, I arrived and the salesman handed me the keys and I drove away alone. I'd be stunned if a salesman suggested coming along.

Duke O Smiley

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

I was buying a CL. I didn't want to buy a lemon...

I just can't get my head around why you'd travel (?) 200 km to Limerick to look at a CL with a broken boot badge and a missing wing mirror if you didn't want to buy a lemon...

Tommyboy40

grogi wrote: »

Unless you're after some exotic, never drive more than 30 mins to see a car. You can see enough rubbish in that radius not to take longer trips...

See how many CL's are for sale on drugdeal, weed out the obvious lemons and pre facelift (never buy a prefacelift, that's when they fix all the problems) and there aren't many left. I also went there in a W140 CL and would have driven to China if I had the 20k it would cost in petrol. The 215 CL gets over 30mpg, positively frugal.

Tommyboy40

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

I just can't get my head around why you'd travel (?) 200 km to Limerick to look at a CL with a broken boot badge and a missing wing mirror if you didn't want to buy a lemon...

Broken boot badge €25, mirror €300 ish eBay. A couple of small things like that wouldn't put me off. You can't own these kind of cars without being handy, having mates with the Mercedes SD connect and having a Merc specialist indie is a must. Anything I buy I pull apart, clean and put back together again. It should look as if it's just come from the factory. If there was nothing to do to it I'd be bored!
Gratuitous picture of polished R129 SL 500
Ulrich front.jpg

James Bond Junior

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

Anything I buy I pull apart, clean and put back together again. It should look as if it's just come from the factory. If there was nothing to do to it I'd be bored!

I like you tommyboy! You're my kinda fella! Ha!

grogi

Tommyboy40 wrote: »

See how many CL's are for sale on drugdeal, weed out the obvious lemons and pre facelift (never buy a prefacelift, that's when they fix all the problems) and there aren't many left. I also went there in a W140 CL and would have driven to China if I had the 20k it would cost in petrol. The 215 CL gets over 30mpg, positively frugal.

You're a collector - that's a different breed

Tommyboy40

grogi wrote: »

You're a collector - that's a different breed

I spend less than someone who buys a BMW 520D and changes it every 2 years, and I get to keep the cars. I don't care whether they'll ever be worth money, I get to look at them all the time. I'm probably a salesman's worst nightmare, I see every tiny thing and have to make it right. Mercedes do help a lot with this; how much to replace this door courtesy light?

IMG_4116.jpg

Less than €10 and it comes with the bulb! Special order from Germany

colm_mcm

https://www.donedeal.ie/carparts-for-sale/toyota-landcruiser-rear-seats/13535519?campaign=2

James Bond Junior

That cost more than my couch and armchair combined! :eek::eek::rolleyes::rolleyes:

colm_mcm

My grandfather had the rear seats off a jag as their sofa. Way before Top gear!

James Bond Junior

colm_mcm wrote: »

My grandfather had the rear seats off a jag as their sofa. Way before Top gear!

My house isn't big enough for me to have a mancave, and being childless doesn't really necessitate one, but when the time comes that will be the first thing to include!

James Bond Junior

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I'm on the lookout for one of these at the moment. About a grand overpriced.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-s60-2-4-d-se-4dr-auto/13382532

I bought this today. Advertised at 3800 initially, I paid 2750 with a FULL tank and €20 back for luck. It is genuinely like new inside and I'd say there is barely an option that didn't go unticked. Book is stamped every 10000 on the 10000. Belt done and serviced. Needs a few bushings and a bearing is whining slightly but I'm very happy.

colm_mcm

They've aged so well considering when they came out.

Autosport

Welcome to the Volvo club well wear!

James Bond Junior

I love it. I drove back from cork and it was so relaxing. I sold my 2005 mondeo st and it cost a grand total of 150 to upgrade. Some amount of car for the money. The seller was going to trade it in in the U.K. And was getting 2.5k sterling unseen. You wouldn't buy an equivalent for £3500 as far as I could see.

James Bond Junior

colm_mcm wrote: »

They've aged so well considering when they came out.

It has sat nav and a built in phone in the dash and a handset in the centre console. Which all works! Gas stuff altogether!

Tommyboy40

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I bought this today. Advertised at 3800 initially, I paid 2750 with a FULL tank and €20 back for luck. It is genuinely like new inside and I'd say there is barely an option that didn't go unticked. Book is stamped every 10000 on the 10000. Belt done and serviced. Needs a few bushings and a bearing is whining slightly but I'm very happy.

Well wear with it.

coolbeans

James Bond Junior wrote: »

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I'm on the lookout for one of these at the moment. About a grand overpriced.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-s60-2-4-d-se-4dr-auto/13382532

I bought this today. Advertised at 3800 initially, I paid 2750 with a FULL tank and 20 back for luck. It is genuinely like new inside and I'd say there is barely an option that didn't go unticked. Book is stamped every 10000 on the 10000. Belt done and serviced. Needs a few bushings and a bearing is whining slightly but I'm very happy.

Ran one of those for a year or so before I got the Abarth. Lovely motor in many ways. I always liked the looks and the engine is a smasher for a diesel.
It even made a nice five cylinder warble. Mine was manual. Ridiculously bad rear space.
Any questions send me a pm.

bidiots

coolbeans wrote: »

Ran one of those for a year or so before I got the Abarth. Lovely motor in many ways. I always liked the looks and the engine is a smasher for a diesel.
It even made a nice five cylinder warble. Mine was manual. Ridiculously bad rear space.
Any questions send me a pm.

Is there really bad rear space in an s60? I'm on the look out for an auto to replace my s80 whenever she hits the dust, was considering an s60 but not if tight at the back....
James, are there blinds in the back windows?

James Bond Junior

bidiots wrote: »

Is there really bad rear space in an s60? I'm on the look out for an auto to replace my s80 whenever she hits the dust, was considering an s60 but not if tight at the back....
James, are there blinds in the back windows?

I won't be using the back seats really so I'm not too pushed but I threw a few bits in this morning as I was going to work and it does seem tight legroom wise. No blinds in the back of mine anyway.

If you're anywhere near Limerick, you're welcome to have a look.

bidiots

Man, its not pimped out so:p

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bidiots wrote: »

was considering an s60 but not if tight at the back.... are there blinds in the back windows?

James Bond Junior wrote: »

If you're anywhere near Limerick, you're welcome to have a look.

bidiots wrote: »

Man, its not pimped out so:p

I think you need a mazda Bunga Bunga tbh

bidiots

A bit toooo Ted Bundy to be fair:eek:

James Bond Junior

Special Circumstances wrote: »

I think you need a mazda Bunga Bunga tbh

Does the stereo play porn music and a disco light come on when you put those seats down?!