ebay 'BARGAINS'

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, goosey said:

ah shit, the sellers lawns caught fire 

Might just be his pants! 😀

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, goosey said:

ah shit, the sellers lawns caught fire 

I hope it doesn’t spread and burn that heap of shit to the ground… 🤣

[Stinkwheel]

16 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I hope it doesn’t spread and burn that heap of shit to the ground… 🤣

I do

[goosey]

16 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I hope it doesn’t spread and burn that heap of shit to the ground… 🤣

Would probably flash over due to the isopon and aerosol fumes 😂

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, goosey said:

ah shit, the sellers lawns caught fire 

Just smoking weed.

[808 Estate]

Securicor Van with some contents.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186888075566?itmmeta=01JHE74PBSYCYZA7B59D42JQ6A&hash=item2b8365b92e:g:h4sAAOSwCa9ngqUg&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4CodCO1vSDjg2xNOt8By6oDM2n%2BhwIDCuzdVVQUiPNbY9wKGEHUsddHcyRPNPk9bfmVJCzaQiIBJZ4QbrDDLOGNd68550kLOsYEchSUrW2mH%2FmPCw3CfO85tpM9jL3d05FIzhK%2BpezCBwhLUPNKpfwkhzGCE1wX6NVJQLMaJqLdTHZUdiyy7nT5NiCmRINHnWz%2BV3HXdWJhB34VAFcMyotI%2B2Y21COpTUKwtUZK7QYwEon9agdLq96nHtGkdg5lzU%2B1iyhzWKzU0dqYmY9lO6i7cegfgHoqRDCzm5XxB9iji|tkp%3ABk9SR_7lkseLZQ

 

[wesacosa]

[Boycie]

17 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

That'll be an increase in stolen classic Ford's then ....

[sheffcortinacentre]

I charge £40 to overhaul a full set of TC/TX locks.

Trust me for most classics you don't need a key.

[ProgRocker]

Is £4,000 a good price for this mark 1 Mondeo? Looks a little rough but 75,000 miles and just passed the MOT according to the FB advert. @KWhite

1995 Mondeo V6 24v

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This car been stood for 13 years dry stored.it passed it mot no advisors at all. Body work is in very good condition. It done 75000 miles from new one owner it a 24 v v6 engine .this is a rare car.just testing water to see if any intrest.

 

[quicksilver]

5 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

Is £4,000 a good price for this mark 1 Mondeo? Looks a little rough but 75,000 miles and just passed the MOT according to the FB advert. @KWhite

1995 Mondeo V6 24v

 

That's way overpriced. Good Mondeos are still only in the £1500-2000 ballpark so they might just manage to get half of what they're asking if they tidied it up. As it stands it's probably worth around a grand.

[KWhite]

6 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

Is £4,000 a good price for this mark 1 Mondeo? Looks a little rough but 75,000 miles and just passed the MOT according to the FB advert. @KWhite

1995 Mondeo V6 24v

 

@ProgRocker I agree with @quicksilver It's a nice car, but Mondeo's just aren't there yet

[goosey]

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/1QxQg4qswQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

this 1979 110 certainly is the “rarest” of the 110s

No log book either, good luck…..

ding dong etc 

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Cheap late 2A Station Wagon project, looks like it's  an unmolested example.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/626782179964198/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A7f76f98f-40fd-4c26-a945-5b6534ec255c

[DavidB]

Not only is this SUPER RARE compact £12,500, it’s also a 316.

The ten page description is "Ty Delorean" fantastic, all over a low mileage compact with an M-Sport body kit, 1 series interior and the bottom range engine nobody likes. You could get a top of the range E30 325i for much less and they're genuinely desirable.

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To date this project has cost me £5,150.00 in parts alone and this is not including the cost and valuation of my private cherish 5 digit registration mark (CINFO) which stands for CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. Valued alone at £8995.00

 

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Keeps up with Golf GTI’s and Honda R Types no problem, due to its lightweight body. Engine can be tuned to increase its performance.

At 115 bhp, certainly nippy and as quick as the Mark 1 Golf GTI at 110 bhp, or the iconic Escort Cosworth top end was only 149mph.

They can't, and I had to push my 316 into my parking space when it killed the battery and nearly prolapsed my intestines, they are 1.5 tonnes.
Read this person's insanity:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187149279937

 

[GR8 PL8 M8]

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KGF Classic Cars acted as the intermediary broker to facilitate the sale and transfer of ownership to myself August 2021.

In case you ever wondered what their customers were like...

[grogee]

Wheels.

Tyres NLA.

£700

[DSdriver]

We had a Citroen AX years ago with metric wheels and found new tyres were far more expensive than for inch based wheels. Has the situation changed at all?

[Rocket88]

4 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

We had a Citroen AX years ago with metric wheels and found new tyres were far more expensive than for inch based wheels. Has the situation changed at all?

No!

[DavidB]

The owner of the above BMW is also selling a box, or ‘job lot’, of Fast Ford magazines.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187190603721

£130

[grogee]

12 hours ago, Rocket88 said:

No!

Well, yes. Instead of being expensive, they're simply not available any more. (There may be exceptions for race/rally tyres, I'm not sure). 

I saw a set of four on the bay a while ago but of course they were pre-date stamp so effectively prehistoric. 

The chances of finding a set now in the right size that aren't dessicated are basically zero. Which is a shame because I really like that Maestro/Montego wheel style. 

I have idly wondered if the bead faces on metric wheels could be turned down on a big lathe to some inch-friendly size. 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

Well, yes. Instead of being expensive, they're simply not available any more. (There may be exceptions for race/rally tyres, I'm not sure). 

I saw a set of four on the bay a while ago but of course they were pre-date stamp so effectively prehistoric. 

The chances of finding a set now in the right size that aren't dessicated are basically zero. Which is a shame because I really like that Maestro/Montego wheel style. 

I have idly wondered if the bead faces on metric wheels could be turned down on a big lathe to some inch-friendly size. 

I've forgotten why they brought in metric wheels, or why they didn't catch on gain more traction. @yes oui si?

[New POD]

20 hours ago, DSdriver said:

We had a Citroen AX years ago with metric wheels and found new tyres were far more expensive than for inch based wheels. Has the situation changed at all?

There was a time when my wife had a metro 1275 sport that you could only get the tyre that fitted from one manufacturer and in 1996 I didn't want to spend £65 each for them.  But scrap yards were full of Rusty metros, so you could buy a set of 4 wheels and tyres for £30 . And if you looked you could find them as new, metro having failed the mot for rust. 

I nearly bought a set of metro turbo wheels which were imperial 13 inch, but the tyres were fucked and whilst it was a better long term solution at the time cash flow was nearly negative. 

[New POD]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I've forgotten why they brought in metric wheels, or why they didn't catch on gain more traction. @yes oui si?

Apart from the USA everything in Engineering is metric.  

Given that 80% of cars are not made in the USA, you'd think the conversion to metric wheels would have been much easier.  Especially as the sizing has mm for the width. 

[Unlucky Alf]

Mrs had a Rover Metro GTa back in 90s that had a tyre size that was unobtanium and bloody expensive to replace.

 

[yes oui si]

7 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I've forgotten why they brought in metric wheels, or why they didn't catch on gain more traction. @yes oui si?

I tend to avoid them unless you know that the buyers will be of the ilk that can afford the tyres. No to Ford, Rover, BMW, Citroen etc. Yes to Ferrari. 

Iirc at the time it was an improvement  in tread width for wheel width, bead configuration and comfort, plus the ever-present need to be a bit French. 

You can now get some imperial equivalent wheels which look like the TRX originals for some manufacturers, but they're of unknown quality so I'd just fuck them off entirely for imperial OEM wheels if you're a rivet counter or quality aftermarket if not. 

[yes oui si]

9 hours ago, grogee said:

Well, yes. Instead of being expensive, they're simply not available any more. (There may be exceptions for race/rally tyres, I'm not sure). 

I saw a set of four on the bay a while ago but of course they were pre-date stamp so effectively prehistoric. 

The chances of finding a set now in the right size that aren't dessicated are basically zero. Which is a shame because I really like that Maestro/Montego wheel style. 

I have idly wondered if the bead faces on metric wheels could be turned down on a big lathe to some inch-friendly size. 

The manufacturers still do batches of the common* sizes, but not often, and not every size. Okay if you have a Ferrari and don't balk at £800 a corner, shite out of luck if you have old chod. 

Having seen a smashed up TRX wheel (got a set of mustang ones for free because the owner fucked one on a curb and couldn't find a replacement) I don't think there would be enough meat on them to turn them down. Even if there were, you'd also have to turn down the outer and/or inner lip to have any chance of getting an imperial tyre over them as they are much taller than conventional wheels in terms of height from base of bead to outer edge of lip. It may be more suitable to have them built up to the next imperial size with weld then machined to the correct bead profile (J, JJ, B, whatever) but by the time you've paid to have all that done to a standard you'd actually trust it wouldn't be much different in terms of cost to having a vastly superior set of wheels custom made from a company such as Rimscarnated that are imperial yet look identical to the TRX wheels. 

[yes oui si]

I have a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of post-'60s PCDs but I can't remember people's birthdays. Why am I like this? 

[bangernomics]

I have a near-encyclopaedic knowledge of post-'60s PCDs but I can't remember people's birthdays. Why am I like this? 

Because you don’t care about those as much?
I have to use a calendar to remember them for my lot but remember mowog numbers.

[yes oui si]

3 minutes ago, bangernomics said:

Because you don’t care about those as much?
I have to use a calendar to remember them for my lot but remember mowog numbers.

I don't think that it's a lack of care. I use a calendar as well, to the extent that I have an extra entry a month before their birthday to remind me to get a gift... Otherwise I'd have to rely on other people to remind me.