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This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

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    #2492
    supervento
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭supervento


    project for someone

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-230e/19667769


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    #2493
    Bus Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭Bus Boy


    supervento wrote: »
    project for someone

    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-230e/19667769

    Jesus, I’m tempted... step away from the mouse.. My Mrs would kill me if I came home with another Classic.


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    #2494
    w124man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭w124man


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-300e-w124/19668320


    I was going to offer him €3000 and get him to VRT it!


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    #2495
    Bus Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭Bus Boy


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-300e-w124/19668320


    I was going to offer him €3000 and get him to VRT it!

    €200 if you have a garage for 4 months?


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    #2496
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 36,048 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MERCEDES-240D-W123-MANUAL-LOW-MILEAGE-1-OWNER-SUPERB-THROUGHOUT-POSS-PX/273420265912?hash=item3fa91e29b8:g:YosAAOSwiKlbXqxT

    Lovely 240d


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    #2497
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,280 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    w124man wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/mercedes-300e-w124/19668320


    I was going to offer him €3000 and get him to VRT it!

    Oil pressure a bit low on tickover?

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2498
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Esel wrote: »
    Oil pressure a bit low on tickover?
    Yes, but still well within the limits.


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    #2499
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,280 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Seweryn wrote: »
    Yes, but still well within the limits.

    Are the tickover revs a little low? That might explain the lower pressure.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2500
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    Esel wrote: »
    Are the tickover revs a little low? That might explain the lower pressure.
    The idle speed looks fine and more/less where it should be for this engine.
    The oil pressure is still 3 times higher than the low end set by the factory. I wouldn't worry about it unless this was the value on a cold engine.


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    #2501
    supervento
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭supervento


    Bus Boy wrote: »
    €200 if you have a garage for 4 months?


    I think you mean 12 months. It’s an august 1989 car.

    (Sorry to correct you)


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    #2502
    Bus Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭Bus Boy


    supervento wrote: »
    I think you mean 12 months. It’s an august 1989 car.

    (Sorry to correct you)

    Yes your right supervento, I stand corrected :p.


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    #2503
    w124man
    Registered Users Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭w124man


    Esel wrote: »
    Oil pressure a bit low on tickover?


    No. The oil pressure on the M103 engine will drop to 1 bar (ish) at tickover particularly at that temperature. The viscous cooling fan should kick in about 95 degrees. The pressure should build back up very quickly at about 1300 rpm. Great engines.


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    #2504
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/vauxhall-royale/19674484

    ZTZiM2VmNGEyNTc0OWIyZjAxY2JmMDQxZmYwNmEzOTnvN-NOEfQxLgBOEDrrsjpiaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xMDc5NTgwMDB8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    This could be a promising Winter project. €1250

    Cache of parts with it too apparently


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    #2505
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,362 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Bus Boy wrote: »
    €200 if you have a garage for 4 months?

    That's not the way it works. The date you bring the car into the country counts. The inspector will want an invoice (that in fairness you could fabricate yourself) but they also want your ferry ticket.

    And an August '89 2l car will need €710 motor tax, at least €720 VRT and then there is the NCT it will still need to pass...


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    #2506
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,362 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    w124man wrote: »
    No. The oil pressure on the M103 engine will drop to 1 bar (ish) at tickover particularly at that temperature. The viscous cooling fan should kick in about 95 degrees. The pressure should build back up very quickly at about 1300 rpm. Great engines.

    Thanks for sharing! My car does this as well. Now I know why :)


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    #2507
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,280 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    unkel wrote: »
    ...an August '89 2l car will need €710 motor tax, at least €720 VRT and then there is the NCT it will still need to pass...

    It's a 3 litre though :), so ++€ for tax...

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2508
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,471 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    unkel wrote: »
    That's not the way it works. The date you bring the car into the country counts. The inspector will want an invoice (that in fairness you could fabricate yourself) but they also want your ferry ticket.

    And an August '89 2l car will need €710 motor tax, at least €720 VRT and then there is the NCT it will still need to pass...

    Or park it up until August next year, then a road trip to NI, ferry to Scotland and back via Holyhead. Fit in the Highlands, Borders, Lake District and North Wales. Or do West Scotland and the Hebridies and back by the Ballycastle ferry, and Bob's your uncle.


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    #2509
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    Maybe a silly questions but why is a ferry ticket needed?


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    #2510
    SCOL
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭SCOL


    to prove it came into the Republic on a date.


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    #2511
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    I bought a car up north in march and all I needed was a handwritten receipt (which anyone could have made up) Different from the mainland is it ?


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    #2512
    tabby aspreme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    Duke O Smiley wrote: »
    https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/vauxhall-royale/19674484

    ZTZiM2VmNGEyNTc0OWIyZjAxY2JmMDQxZmYwNmEzOTnvN-NOEfQxLgBOEDrrsjpiaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xMDc5NTgwMDB8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

    This could be a promising Winter project. €1250

    Cache of parts with it too apparently

    Parked on the main street in Castledermot most of the time but driven regularly, it's not a bad car


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    #2513
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,079 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Not bad indeed, heres a (terrible) photo of the other side from 2014

    14792785689_6c948c1ec2_b.jpg


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    #2514
    kja1888
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭kja1888


    Demetrius Famous Color wrote: »
    I bought a car up north in march and all I needed was a handwritten receipt (which anyone could have made up) Different from the mainland is it ?

    "The mainland" ffs


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    #2515
    WildWater
    Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭WildWater


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Or park it up until August next year, then a road trip to NI, ferry to Scotland and back via Holyhead. Fit in the Highlands, Borders, Lake District and North Wales. Or do West Scotland and the Hebridies and back by the Ballycastle ferry, and Bob's your uncle.

    Would Brexit and or getting pulled over by the British cops for no Tax/MOT not be potential banana skins for that plan?


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    #2516
    26000 Elephants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭26000 Elephants


    kja1888 wrote: »
    "The mainland" ffs

    Well, he was speaking about Northern Ireland, and was wondering if there is a different requirement if the car was coming from [ the mainland ] UK ( thus requiring a ferry, so a ticket might be apt in that scenario).

    Is that the 'ffs' or is it for something else?


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    #2517
    kja1888
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭kja1888


    26000 Elephants wrote: »
    Well, he was speaking about Northern Ireland, and was wondering if there is a different requirement if the car was coming from [ the mainland ] UK ( thus requiring a ferry, so a ticket might be apt in that scenario).

    Is that the 'ffs' or is it for something else?

    He was on about the difference importing a car from GB to RoI as opposed to from NI into RoI. GB is not our "mainland". If he was on about bringing a car into NI from GB then there's no issue as you don't actually import them.


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    #2518
    26000 Elephants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭26000 Elephants


    kja1888 wrote: »
    He was on about the difference importing a car from GB to RoI as opposed to from NI into RoI. GB is not our "mainland". If he was on about bringing a car into NI from GB then there's no issue as you don't actually import them.

    You have the wrong end of the stick, but you seem happy enough to hold on to it so I'll let you be.


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    #2519
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    I meant mainland UK, i.e England, Scotland, Wales and not their islands nor NI. Think of it as a UK company providing free mainland postage if you will. I'm only asking why you need a ferry ticket from England, Scotland, Wales (mainland), when you can just hand write a receipt from NI (not mainland UK).

    A post-it receipt was sufficient for revenue from me.


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    #2520
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    I guessing if the car is registered anywhere outside Northern Ireland then they would want some proof of entry onto the island of Ireland.

    NI reg'd cars I am sure are treated differently.


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    #2521
    Seweryn
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Seweryn


    RobAMerc wrote: »
    I guessing if the car is registered anywhere outside Northern Ireland then they would want some proof of entry onto the island of Ireland.

    Yes, unless you have bought the car from the previous owner while he was visiting his family in Ireland / was on holidays. Then they may want to chase the previous owner for the ferry ticket :pac:.


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