Scuba mark
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https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/263840503722
How does this one look please
How does this one look please
Skinny Mike
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Ooh that made me laugh "Ultra smooth auto box" in your dreams.
Anyway, on a serious note. Looks really nice, and it needs to for that price.
I would want to take it on an extended test drive, minimum half an hour. 70000 miles in 12 years means it's been doing short trips, or parked up for long periods.
Look for the gearbox lurching or slipping once the cars nice and hot. Run it in circles on full lock in both directions and see if it skips or looses traction. If it does either of these walk away.
There are other buying threads to read through. So look them up. But do the normal car buying stuff, if it doesn't feel right, walk away. If it makes your heart sing start at £2800 and try and top out at £3000, but up to you.
Mike
Anyway, on a serious note. Looks really nice, and it needs to for that price.
I would want to take it on an extended test drive, minimum half an hour. 70000 miles in 12 years means it's been doing short trips, or parked up for long periods.
Look for the gearbox lurching or slipping once the cars nice and hot. Run it in circles on full lock in both directions and see if it skips or looses traction. If it does either of these walk away.
There are other buying threads to read through. So look them up. But do the normal car buying stuff, if it doesn't feel right, walk away. If it makes your heart sing start at £2800 and try and top out at £3000, but up to you.
Mike
Skinny Mike
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And check the road tax. You might find that ones £500 a year
Mike
Mike
GrumpyGel
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What planet do you guys live on? Surely you'd never have to pay $1,000 just to let you use a car on the public highway? That's madness.And check the road tax. You might find that ones £500 a year
Mike
neilly
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Iancorky
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If done properly, they do
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-Lan...3840503722&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=m570.l1313
We are, when our road tax for private cars not goods vehicles and trucks exceeds £2000 then I might change my mind.
@GrumpyGel That would be $4000NZ to you bud
I used to have to pay £2400 in the year when I lived in Holland for a 200Tdi Discovery 1 from 1992, it's dirt cheap here for road tax and also insurance, I never got my insurance below £1600 in the year and that was limited mileage classic policy, over here £101+pence happy days.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
1988smithy
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Get a decent disco 2 for that
neilly
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1988smithy
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Hippo
Lord Hippo
Yer but no but it would take 4 months welding to get the chassis through the motGet a decent disco 2 for that
1988smithy
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Yer but no but it would take 4 months welding to get the chassis through the mot
Welding?! Tub of filler and a lick of stonechip, structural integrity in half hour
I'm not bashing hippos in all seriousness, I've had 2 I love em. But north of 3.5k is decent disco territory and they ain't all got rotten backsides
just more landy for yer money imo
Shippers
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We are, when our road tax for private cars not goods vehicles and trucks exceeds £2000 then I might change my mind.
@GrumpyGel That would be $4000NZ to you bud
I used to have to pay £2400 in the year when I lived in Holland for a 200Tdi Discovery 1 from 1992, it's dirt cheap here for road tax and also insurance, I never got my insurance below £1600 in the year and that was limited mileage classic policy, over here £101+pence happy days.
Yeh but you probably got paid more pro-rata for what you did...here in Portugal....beer 1€ a bottle in a bar...good wine 1.50€ a bottle in a shop...but after tax minimum wage on a contract (hard to get now) is 500€ A MONTH...
It is all relative for sure. I think a lot of the UK ex-pats living in Spain & Portugal do so because the cost of living there is cheap, and their pensions get paid into their accounts and their UK homes are appreciating in value.
Friends of mine do 50:50 UK:Spain. Home for the English Summer and Xmas, and Spain for the rest. Baby-Boomers never had it so good ;-)
Shippers
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I wasn't meaning retired people on pension in my reply to the cost of road tax in Holland the cost of living is higher and therefore wages as well..the cost of living in northern European countries means UK expats can't afford to retire there...so they move south because it's cheaper
Working full time on a 39hr week nets you a cool €1200 month take home and you still gotta pay your mandatory health insurance out of that too!!!
Beer €2 glass €3 bottle in the bar, wine €3.50~5 glass in the bar €4.50~6 bottle in the shop. It's all relative though and the cost of housing has shot up and up since Rutte pushed through the import of migrants and wages are being suppressed even more.
It is interesting though as it was always pushed that the EU project would equalise all the member states and there would be the same wage in every state and everyone would be equal under one umbrella, seems as though something went wrong somewhere.
