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25th November 2019, 23:31 | #1 |
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I am surprised that Old Bones hasn't not been snapped up for £350 from the members cars for sale. She is a real beaut <3 and loved and a members car. The stereo must be worth almost that
I do not do enough miles now days to keep a battery alive long enough with the alternator recharging big cars, My second car is a 3.2L and the battery is flat already (but it has been 12 weeks) hence the 1.1 Kia Picanto I have now as a run around. I suppose we all can have only so many cars but I wish Old Bones the best in her future life
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26th November 2019, 05:52 | #2 |
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Me too - for that money you'd usually be expecting a neglected heap that was lucky to get to the end of the driveway
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26th November 2019, 06:24 | #3 |
I really should get out more.......
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Its probably the time of year. It was this time of year I sold her and my black one and it was the same. I think near xmas you need the wider audience of Ebay to sell stuff.
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26th November 2019, 09:23 | #4 |
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Quentin Willson said that November is the best time to buy a car because no-one else is! If Bones can hang on until the spring he/she'll have an improved chance of finding a new home. Simon
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My cheap Kia was £730 and then you can only open the central locking system by the passenger key and it loses some coolent and has a few dents.
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26th November 2019, 20:34 | #6 |
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I was seriously considering it but unfortunately the insurance proved to be prohibitive
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I would have quite happily rehomed Bones, however I don't think the purists would have approved of a 250BHP 1800T manual conversion...........I cannot live with an automatic, especially an 1800 NASP I'm far too young Brian |
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26th November 2019, 20:41 | #8 |
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However if the ZT fails it's upcoming MOT, then.............no no no no
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26th November 2019, 21:00 | #9 |
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Shame you don't have somewhere to keep it off the road until the spring arrives, and just take the battery off it, and keep it on a trickle charge. My SORNED MGF has killed its battery through slow leakage over the weeks. I forgot to disconnect the battery since last time I took it for a run up the back lane. We currently have 3 vehicles in use, and 3 SORNED, 2 of which are good cars with long MoTs, but as you say, no- one is buying at the moment, especially older cars. Yet they'll go out and sign up on the never-never for a soul-less modern box that costs more per month in payments and depreciation than a fleet of Rovers maintained at no expense spared. Perhaps we are a dying breed of people who actually own and repair cars. PS I took the dead battery to my local scrappie, and PXed it for £20 for a fully charged, as new one off a scrapper. I could have had an equally good, bigger one, to suit the CDT, for the same money, but it wouldn't fit the F's battery tray.
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26th November 2019, 21:46 | #10 |
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My ZT is on a classic policy and very reasonably priced, Bones was working out almost three times as expensive. Tried a few standard and classic insurance providers and all much the same
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