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Wed May 25, 2011 3:51 am
chris il pop it round thursday on way to work if i dont forget ! - or if your comming past this way form work ,pop round and have abutchers over this is ? (would be handy to have agood opinion)
its not a kepper dan for me dan but im gonna have a good inspection of it tomorrow, and ponder what to do, absolote steal for £150
i already had a bits to get list of - a set of tyres for my refurbed wheels, head light ajusters,a rocker and inlet to get refurbed, door moulding strips,the gutter trim, and its got 2 near new kumhos on it and all them other bits
from the quick look (last mot was a clean pass with just 1 advisory for a tyre-and its had 2 new ones on it) drove,breaked,steered,handled, perfectly fine,nice and straight and all good, electric windows and mirrors worked, il check if all the lights and indicators etc all work and all interior bits, a service and i think it might even pass an mot, the rubber boot inlet had a all way through split in it and if bent engine died, and generally the bay was very grubby and hoses etc not that great, and it still drove nice, no iffy noises, the diff i think is also sweet -again another thing thats handy as mines leaky and a whine
exterior- just that dent to back part of the door and rear quater,although my mate can do small dents not sure about big but hes a sprayer by trade and small body repairs, il see if he can sort that dent or at least make it half decent / or if he cant but reckons a proper dent wizard could sort it for not too much, if that can be sorted and doesnt need paint there, then its just the sills need some welding and the rear valance, and its not a bad is, but it needs a proper good clean and scrub and clay bar to really be able to see what the paintwork is like
120k and full history if that dent/sills/valance was sorted and a good service with mot if nothing major and if the paint was ok and its solid underneath, then its not a bad is for the money/nice profit to be made, to put towards a sport/6 pot, even maybe sling it in as px for a sport seller to still keep an e30 runabout, so need to have a good clean up, a good look round it, get the body man to have a look and my mot mechanic mate to give it a good look over, and weigh up approx fix on the road cost and the end value if i did
but then on the flip side- if theres hidden rot and major mot fails and the roofs too bad- /or/then ... all the parts are very handy for me, a whole is in parts for £150 !! , to sell what i really wouldnt need id get my money back with ease like the bonnet/door/boot/sunroof panel/bumpers , have a set of bbs with caps , things like a nice rear bench- and when i ever sold my is i could take the rear bench with head rests out, and put that in to make standard and sell that for extra cash, have a complete interior as spares for the future, all the lights,indicators,side repeaters, carpet,boot carpets,all the boot extras ,grill and trim, is lip, air intake bits, fog covers,all the plastic arch liners,nice wings,all glass, seals, all the running gear, engine and gear box, ecu, all the door locks and central locking parts, ecu,it had new power flex or whatever they are called,bushes on it not long ago, il see what the suspension, running gear, breaks and discs etc are like ,exhaust prob worth £80/100 or something as it looked quite new, if its a bmw one il maybe put that on mine, and all the other morsels and spares galore - which as an is owner, is unreal for £150 and in the long run will save me a fortune if i just hoarded it all up
gonna go through the history and reciepts and see whats been put on the car when and get an idea of the running parts that are on the car and what new recent bits etc, and get my car next to it and see what can be swapped over with mine to improve my car
just need a good look and clean up, then a good think and weigh it all up, its fix up and sell for £1500 potential - depends on that side if it can be done reaonably and the paint all round, sill and valance welding i can get done easy enough - depending how bad it is, and its then just stone chip and rattle cans to make look alright
an option would be to fix it up, mot it , sell both of my is`s and buy a tech 1 sport/6 pot , or sell my black one and use this while i found a sport as it is
maybe like mentioned above -give it a good clean up and just wack it in for £40 for an mot and see what happens , before i do anything else ?
il report back tomorrow with full findings
Last edited by polsta on Wed May 25, 2011 4:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
