For Sale RENAULT VEL SATIS FOR SALE - ULTIMATE IN LUXO BARGE SHITE

[beko1987]

I love that the only person on this site who has taken no part at all on the raffle is the owner          

Amateur!

[stripped fred]

Time will tell, I am looking to go through with a more traditional sale

 

i would just like to say that on autoshite a roffle is the traditional type of sale!  Your car has generated more interest than most on here and has really whet our appetites.  Please don't tease us anymore!

[KruJoe]

tomorrow should see an end to the speculation......

 

Too right!

All you need to do is send out a group "Private Message" with you P.Pal details to each member named on the list, the cash will start rolling in immediately, and by this time tomorrow the car will have sold for £100 more than the asking price. WINNING!

What more could you want?

[DSdriver]

Of course the knowledge that he has us lot as a fallback is increasing his bargaining power with his other potential purchaser. What a wonderful position to be in. 

[Bear]

Too right!

All you need to do is send out a group "Private Message" with you P.Pal details to each member named on the list, the cash will start rolling in immediately, and by this time tomorrow the car will have sold for £100 more than the asking price. WINNING!

What more could you want?

 

I'm gonna guess, a pony.

Everybody wants a pony.

[Christine]

Yeah, i need a pony as soon as  i've had breakfast

[DSdriver]

Donkeys are also cute.   I found one wandering about in a back lane once, had made a temporary harness out of tow rope and was trying to work out how to get it into the back of my Volvo 740 saloon when the owner rocked up in a landy. 

[UltraWomble]

A ROFFL without the actual raffle content?

 

Thankfully Ive just spent £150 on a new (well 2009) razor so I have no money left to spend on raffle tickets for a Vel Satis - despite it being utterly lovely to look at.

[Tetleysmooth]

If anyone feels they're missing out here I'm man enough to offer my 'tickets' up for just. £50 each.

 

Capitalism epitomised.

 

Nice one Billy.

[chodweaver]

You all know what this means!

 

Yes, I have been the most terrible person, spoiled all your fun, and been totally selfish into the bargain.

 

But I haz Renner! With added toys!

 

 

 

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[Jim Bell]

Well played!

 

 

 

Is it on fire yet?

[DSdriver]

Bastard 

[drum]

Oh well, I'm 20 quid up.

[Tam]

FFS !! No Raffle this week  well done on your purchase though 

Better go and buy a lotto ticket then 

[MarvinsMom]

bugger

 

shit 

 

bollocks,

 

congrats on your excellent purchase,

 

bollocks.... ect.

[DodgyBastard]

Worst roffle ever!

[dollywobbler]

I won £10!* (ok, I didn't actually take part as I was too late to claim a number, but hey).

[doobietoo]

Autoshite in non Roffle shocker......

[STUNO]

Man of the match award goes to ................chodweaver

[Guest Renault20tx]

 

My thanks to Mr ChodWeaver for a smooth and gentlemanly sale

My thanks to you all for your interest. 

 

 

[DSdriver]

Have you got an Avantime we can play at roffling next? 

[Guest Renault20tx]

This Vel Satis is an important reminder that French executive cars can be just as good as their German counterparts. With 238K on the clock, it still drives like a new car and has it's original engine and battery. The clutch has only been changed for the first time within the last 3000 miles. 

 

A chain reaction causes the untimely death of such cars, and their absence from British roads make for a sadly duller street scene than can be found almost anywhere on the continent. Firstly, the public is generally not prepared to pay Merc/Audi/Jag/BMW money for anything French, badge snobbery knows no bounds. Consequentially just 800ish Vel Sati found their way to these shores, compared to the 62,000 sold in France. Because this also applies to the secondhand buyers, savage depreciation takes hold. Once the car is out of warranty, it is usual to find that servicing is kept to the bare minimum it is possible to get away with. This poor standard of maintenance is the reason that problems then occur, and the usual cries of "All Renaults are shit!" are to be heard. 

 

With the correct maintenance, I should not be a bit surprised to see this example get past the 500K mark on it's original engine. A car this size cannot be run and maintained on KA/Corsa money, hence my somewhat reluctant decision to sell. A change in circumstances has meant that I would only be running the car down from this point on, and I believe it to be well worth keeping in good order. There are just 36 Renault 20/30s left on our roads, and I would expect the Vel Satis to become even rarer within the next decade. 

[Guest Renault20tx]

Have you got an Avantime we can play at roffling next? 

Well a raffle (why do they call it roffle btw?) Was always a possibility. However I needed to get this sold so I can sort out a few things with my finances, so holding a raffle was a last resort option. Fortunately for me Mr ChodWeaver came good with the money.

 

Anyone who didn't want the Vel Satis enough to pay just £500 for it would balk at the running costs in fairness, especially at 17 MPG around town!

 

Anybody who didn't have the means to pay £500 for it certainly would not have the means to run it.

 

If you can't afford to run an Audi A6, you can't afford to run a Vel Satis, a Peugeot 607  or a Citroen C6. And that's not being snobby, I have had it for about 2 months, and it has pretty well drained me!

[MarvinsMom]

i believe that the term comes from the first raffle cars been a string of rovers.

 

so instead of rover raffles, it just became a roffle, a term which has since stuck.

 

so some, most, or all of this may, or may not be a bear faced lie.......

 

and having run the rover 75 and xjr, i know just how hideous the running costs can be on what was once a very expensive, flash motor car.

[Guest Renault20tx]

i believe that the term comes from the first raffle cars been a string of rovers.

 

so instead of rover raffles, it just became a roffle, a term which has since stuck.

 

so some, most, or all of this may, or may not be a bear faced lie.......

 

and having run the rover 75 and xjr, i know just how hideous the running costs can be on what was once a very expensive, flash motor car.

Haha nice one

 

Sorry you missed out on the Vel Satis, 

But they do quite often come up at the £600 - £700 mark

For me, it's an itch I've scratched now, I'm looking forward to the 20tx coming to these shores - providing it's owner has not been wiped out today - I shall make some tactful enquiries, as I do know he works at an art gallery in Paris...........

 

Would anybody be interested in the 20tx once I've had my fun do you think? I would like to move it on eventually and bring another over. Sort of a rare species reintroduction program

[MarvinsMom]

as ever, it was just that the car came up and was nice, cheap and cheerful looking. it isn't that i need another car or anything as both mine and the other half hands are full enough at the moment.

 

but who knows, maybe one will be mine, one day?

[chodweaver]

Thanks to Renault20tx alike for a patient sale and honest presentation of the car. I can confirm that the drive this car delivers belies it's mileage. It does have a small oil leak that I will be sorting for my own peace of mind, and to remove the hot oil smell that follows it around, but that aside, the journey home has been effortless - true wafting!

 

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[Jazoli]

 

Well a raffle (why do they call it roffle btw?) Was always a possibility. However I needed to get this sold so I can sort out a few things with my finances, so holding a raffle was a last resort option. Fortunately for me Mr ChodWeaver came good with the money.

 

Anyone who didn't want the Vel Satis enough to pay just £500 for it would balk at the running costs in fairness, especially at 17 MPG around town!

 

Anybody who didn't have the means to pay £500 for it certainly would not have the means to run it.

 

If you can't afford to run an Audi A6, you can't afford to run a Vel Satis, a Peugeot 607  or a Citroen C6. And that's not being snobby, I have had it for about 2 months, and it has pretty well drained me!

 

 

I disagree with this, I have cars and bikes and spare money each month, I could have bought the car outright but I didn't need it, for £10 a ticket however I would have taken a punt and may have won it and had I done so I would have kept it in good fettle and would have been over the moon with it, Roffles are a good way of getting a car you might not necessarily need and this one was the fastest subscribed one ever and would have netted you a ton more than you were asking with no hassle, but you seemed to think otherwise, maybe I'm just bitter because I didn't win

 

Congrats on the purchase chodweaver, it looks great, I'll have no's 17 and 21 when the time comes 

[Guest Renault20tx]

Thanks to Renault20tx alike for a patient sale and honest presentation of the car. I can confirm that the drive this car delivers belies it's mileage. It does have a small oil leak that I will be sorting for my own peace of mind, and to remove the hot oil smell that follows it around, but that aside, the journey home has been effortless - true wafting!

 

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That smell is truly ghastly Chodweaver, but a little drip of oil onto a hot manifold has that effect! You will be pleased to know that if you wipe around that weeping oil point, then it will stop it dripping down for about a week. but be sure to do it when the engine is cold, or you are liable to loose your fingerprints If recirculating the air is not helping, I should operate the window wash when you're driving along, with the air vents open, it neutralises the smell very effectively for some reason that I know not

[beko1987]

Top buy! Please keep us updated, a Vel Satis has always been a mystical sort of car to me, be good to see how one actually performs!