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(Message started by: Tons_of_fun on Apr 7th, 2008, 7:10pm)
Title: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 7th, 2008, 7:10pm
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.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Snoopy on Apr 7th, 2008, 7:44pm
Its actually only worth about £600 as it stands . and that is a GOOD Price . .
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 7th, 2008, 8:09pm
Snoopy...If you only knew half of it  ::).It would cost about half his asking price to put it right  ;D ;D ;D.Incidentally im looking to replace it around the end of april.Cossie saloon around birmingham anyone ???????  ;D ;D
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by jonnycab on Apr 8th, 2008, 9:34am
"Chairman of the owners club & a show winner"

What's that all about ?  ???
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 8th, 2008, 6:25pm
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  :o :o :o it got 2nd place at billing last year & eeerrrr ...thats it  :o.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" :o :o.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
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by LiverpaulH on Apr 9th, 2008, 9:15am
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.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 10th, 2008, 4:54pm
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  ::) ::)
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by TiberiuS on Apr 11th, 2008, 9:28pm
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 :)
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 12th, 2008, 3:26pm
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. :o.Went to look at a 24v this morning ,drove 140 mile round trip to basically get there & look at a mobile skip  :o.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  :-X :-X
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Scorpio_Mike on Apr 12th, 2008, 5:26pm

on 04/12/08 at 15:26:41, 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. :o.Went to look at a 24v this morning ,drove 140 mile round trip to basically get there & look at a mobile skip  :o.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  :-X :-X


Good ones are out there - keep looking, it will be worth the effort.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by TiberiuS on Apr 14th, 2008, 2:03am
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.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Tons_of_fun on Apr 14th, 2008, 7:57pm
Paying over the odds seems to be a bone of contention at the moment  >:(.Good ultimas are fetching over & beyond my budget  :o.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.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by TiberiuS on Apr 14th, 2008, 11:06pm
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.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Pete_M on Apr 15th, 2008, 8:48pm

on 04/11/08 at 21:28:13, 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..


Oi!

We're not all dodgy, ask Baz.
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Baz on Apr 15th, 2008, 9:26pm
Ask me what Dodgy Pete?

;D
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Pete_M on Apr 15th, 2008, 11:52pm
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.

Hope you've sent off that logbook....
Title: Re: What a liberty
Post by Baz on Apr 16th, 2008, 8:01am
what log book?? ;D


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