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Tons_of_fun
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What a liberty
« on: Apr 7th, 2008, 7:10pm » |
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Unfortunatly for reasons best not disclosed i had to sell my estate to a trader on sunday.I only got £500 for it because it needed shall we say "more than a bit of work".Imagine my supprise when i loged onto E-bay today & saw it for sale.Item number 3800 152 882 30.Talk about greasing the pole !!! If anyone would like to know the TRUE history of my once loved Kermit then send me a P.M. & i,ll spill the beans  . Im not usually this vendictive but this guy is taking the rise somewhat.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #1 on: Apr 7th, 2008, 7:44pm » |
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Its actually only worth about £600 as it stands . and that is a GOOD Price . .
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #2 on: Apr 7th, 2008, 8:09pm » |
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Snoopy...If you only knew half of it  .It would cost about half his asking price to put it right  .Incidentally im looking to replace it around the end of april.Cossie saloon around birmingham anyone  ?
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #3 on: Apr 8th, 2008, 9:34am » |
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"Chairman of the owners club & a show winner"
What's that all about ?
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #4 on: Apr 8th, 2008, 6:25pm » |
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Well...I shant go into too much detail as this is a public friendly site,but he knows that im an active member of both this site & unleashed & that i get involved with the monthly midlands meet,but that is all the involvement i have .as for show winner  it got 2nd place at billing last year & eeerrrr ...thats it .i think it,s whats commonly known in the trade as "laying on the fat".Yes sure it is /was a lovely car but was developing a LOT of issues inc ABS , Huge wiring headaches & a gearbox that was on it,s way out.The thing that gets me though is he told me he was going to put it right & move it on "cheap" .To put a £850 mark up on the vehicle is sort of rubbing salt into the wounds as he could clearly see i was quite upset about loosing the car,but with the loss of one of my rented garages & the ever spiraling cost if repairs it wasnt viable.I just hope he has sorted the problems,as i wouldnt like to have just brought a car & be faced with around £800 of repairs to make it realiable again
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #5 on: Apr 9th, 2008, 9:15am » |
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I will drop a few pertinent questions to him now craig, like have you fixed the completely winked wiring loom and the abs fault yet mate.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #6 on: Apr 10th, 2008, 4:54pm » |
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LOL. Probably not a good idea m8.TBH i think he,s had "questions" from quite a few people by now. .Well thats what happens when you take advantage
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TiberiuS
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #7 on: Apr 11th, 2008, 9:28pm » |
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Tonnes, it's life mate. Car dealers are dodgy by nature, it'd be asking a lot of one to expect them to honestly sort all the faults and resell the car with a honest discription..
Someone without a lot of money or experience will pay top dollar for it and get a nasty shock when it comes to MOT time, then it'll probably be another otherwise nice car on the scrap pile.
If it means anything I don't think £500 was bad and I doubt he'll get anywhere near what he's asking unless he waits a very long time (the 2.0 Ultima in on the local industrial estate is up for £1195 and has been there since September, they still shift but only for peanuts unless they're 110% perfect)
Good luck with getting a 24v, if you don't find one you could always pick up another Jag. Go on, you know you want to
Regards, Bruce 
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #8 on: Apr 12th, 2008, 3:26pm » |
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Good idea bruce,another xj 300 would be easier to find than a good 24v  .I,ve scoured the net ,e bay,& local garages but come up with nothing  .Even granadas are thin on the ground & when you find one they want a kings ransome for it. .Went to look at a 24v this morning ,drove 140 mile round trip to basically get there & look at a mobile skip .Seller told me it was VGC but sadly was a wreck.....Not amused  .He was asking £1250 for it (N plate) so at that price i would of expected something descent .Oh well keep on looking.im sure something will turn up soon 
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #9 on: Apr 12th, 2008, 5:26pm » |
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on Apr 12th, 2008, 3:26pm, Tons_of_fun wrote:| Good idea bruce,another xj 300 would be easier to find than a good 24v .I,ve scoured the net ,e bay,& local garages but come up with nothing .Even granadas are thin on the ground & when you find one they want a kings ransome for it. .Went to look at a 24v this morning ,drove 140 mile round trip to basically get there & look at a mobile skip .Seller told me it was VGC but sadly was a wreck.....Not amused .He was asking £1250 for it (N plate) so at that price i would of expected something descent .Oh well keep on looking.im sure something will turn up soon |
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Good ones are out there - keep looking, it will be worth the effort.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #10 on: Apr 14th, 2008, 2:03am » |
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Tonnes, I've put 8k on mine now and it's been great. Had some problems at first (brakes, emissions, nice cheap stuff to fix ) but everything's great now it's all sorted. But you could buy one which looked mint but it'd be a dog and cost you a fortune, it's the chance you take.
Same with the Scorps, TBH mine wasn't much trouble at all compared to what some people have. I had the autobox and the wiring loom issues and it cost a bomb to get it through the MOT when I bought it. But other than that it never let me down in 2 1/2 years and although the guy who bought it new had it until 2001 and looked after it, it had been run into the ground by the time I picked it up.
There still seems to be a few nice condition 2.0 Ultimas around, 2.3's are thin on the ground around here, only seen 3 for sale and 2 of them were facelift poverty spec Ghias. 24v's are like the holy grail, you don't see many but a couple have turned up for sale around here, all prefacelifts. One I saw before I let the 2.3 go looked really nice but rattled and had some kind of fuel problem, I saw one which was like a shed cosmetics wise but drove quite nice and one which looked tidy but had the dreaded autobox thumps and the OBD showed some funny stuff on the fuel trims..
A 2.3 might be worth considering if you can't find a decent 24v, ok it's never going to rival a sixer for outright grunt but it's a d**n nice car/engine package, could still give a cossie a run for its money on point to point driving, more so if you had one with a manual box..
There's still plenty out there, it's just finding the right one and not paying over the ods for it
Regards, Bruce.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #11 on: Apr 14th, 2008, 7:57pm » |
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Paying over the odds seems to be a bone of contention at the moment .Good ultimas are fetching over & beyond my budget .Even dogs are going for around £700,well they are here in sunny birmingham anyway .I have been offered a reasonable 2.0 (wheel arches rotten) ,but have been down the 4 cyl route before.2.0 are pretty useless untill you get them up to speed & finding a 2.3 without wiring or inlet manifold problems for the right money is near impossible.I,ve even thought about another granada (had 7 of them) but cant find a good one within 150 miles.Think i,ll keep on looking.theres bound to be one out there As for jags Bruce ...i love them.I,ve had a 3.2 & 4.0 x300 shape xj6 & thought they were beautiful,but suffered with the same bad wiring as scorpios (my 4.0 caught fire).shame really,it was one hell of a car & no thirsty than a V6 scorp to run.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #12 on: Apr 14th, 2008, 11:06pm » |
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Tonnes, wiring problems shouldn't be there on an X300 series Jag, believe me. Even my old V12 wasn't that bad once I'd sorted out the MOT bodges, it was mainly solder joints on the old modules failing and parts of the looms exposed to the elements like the good old dual tank fuel circuit..
Honest mate, I wouldn't have one if they were known to go up in flames like that, I've never heard of anything like that happening to anyone else...X300s are supposed to be almost bulletproof. Must have been a fluke, aftermarket wiring or something
There are still Scorpios out there, it's just finding the right one and not paying too much. The day will probably come when I'll pick up another, worry about paying for it afterwards..
Regards, Bruce.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #13 on: Apr 15th, 2008, 8:48pm » |
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on Apr 11th, 2008, 9:28pm, TiberiuS wrote:Tonnes, it's life mate. Car dealers are dodgy by nature, it'd be asking a lot of one to expect them to honestly sort all the faults and resell the car with a honest discription..
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #14 on: Apr 15th, 2008, 9:26pm » |
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Ask me what Dodgy Pete?
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #15 on: Apr 15th, 2008, 11:52pm » |
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Ta matey.
There was me trying to let the world know that I'm not at all dodgy and there ya go blowing me cover.
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Re: What a liberty
« Reply #16 on: Apr 16th, 2008, 8:01am » |
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