Anyone breaking an old Laguna V6 24V?

[25v6turbo]

My Dad needs a few spare parts for his Laguna v6 24v its 1998 and is a Phase 1 V6 but i think a phase 2(98-2000)will do.

Anyone have one dumped on there drive or in there local scrapyard?

[Bstardchild]

http://autoshite.com/topic/23215-valuable-splitter-car-irrelevant-1999-renault-laguna-v6-24v/page-5

 

As many spares as you want as long as you don't need engine or cooling system parts (possibly)

[D Spares & Tyres]

ERM...

 

There is someone I know of......

[25v6turbo]

Get it to me in Surrey and i would have that FACT but its miles away,anyone up for helping me to get it to me?

My Dad has just forked out another ton on bits for his today and wants a spares car...

[Partridge]

Get Dugong's, drive it half a mile before it steams itself and call the AA. HELUP MY GOOOOONNNNAHHHHH HAS BEEN HAVING BROKEN DOWN SEND FLAITBEAD PLEZ.

[Pillock]

Get it shiplied, I think the days of being able to wander into a scrapyard and see a row of Lagunas 1s are over. You might have to look a bit further afield....

[nigel bickle]

A frame it south. Hardly a trial....

[dugong]

Get Dugong's, drive it half a mile before it steams itself and call the AA. HELUP MY GOOOOONNNNAHHHHH HAS BEEN HAVING BROKEN DOWN SEND FLAITBEAD PLEZ.

This would be my preference.

[Captain Slow]

This would be my preference

 

Likewise. I can even advise you as to the best place to break down in it for ease of being found.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

To slightly misquote Rory Breaker in Lock Stock;

 

"Is this some Laguna cunt's joke ,that non-Laguna cunt's don't get?"

 

Person A wants a car that is rarer than an honest politician.

Person B has,probably the only one available in the country.

Person A knows B is a motivated* seller.

Person B knows nobody else on the planet wants it.

 

How could this go wrong?

Welcome to Autoshite the only place on the planet in 2016 that travelling 100 miles is too far to pick up your hearts desire.

Fuck me, DollyWobbler has to go further to the supermarket.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

its 90 miles. Too far away? simply get one of the many others that are available closer to home then.

 

You should be able to get it shifted on a truck for £100 or less with a bit of phoning/emailing.

[Pete-M]

100 miles is nothing, especially when there's a car you want at the other end.

[dugong]

To slightly misquote Rory Breaker in Lock Stock;

 

"Is this some Laguna cunt's joke ,that non-Laguna cunt's don't get?"

 

Person A wants a car that is rarer than an honest politician.

Person B has,probably the only one available in the country.

Person A knows B is a motivated* seller.

Person B knows nobody else on the planet wants it.

 

How could this go wrong?

Welcome to Autoshite the only place on the planet in 2016 that travelling 100 miles is too far to pick up your hearts desire.

Fuck me, DollyWobbler has to go further to the supermarket.

QED. Brilliantly summarised.

 

The bloke who wants* the car has gone on holiday now.

I have suggested 25V6Turbo buys the car, drives out of Captain Slow's and then has it recovered home on his breakdown policy.

Shiply is 'too expensive', apparently.

Captain Slow would like the space on his drive back. You know, because it's his drive, or something.

 

I have a tow car but no A frame or suitable trailer.

 

Who knows - maybe we'll be blessed with a visit from the HIAB faerie in a week or so.

 

100 miles is nothing, especially when there's a car you want at the other end.

I've long believed in this. If the car you want is rare, you go to where it is. That's part of the craic. Stuns me the number of people who expect the exact old piece of chod they want to be round the corner and then baulk at the cost of transport. You need one of those Vauxhall CORSA'S mate, they're cheap and easy to fix.

 

I'm sorry, but there's a solution here and it's pretty easy and straightforward to sort. I don't even need to be cryptic.

[Pete-M]

Yup. Call the scrap man. Don't wait a week. Cap'n Slow wants his drive back, you want the Laguna gone and the man with the HIAB will probably* be happy to take it away.

 

"Only car my local scrap man ever refused was a V6 Cougar. He took a Renault 30TS without complaining.

[Hertz]

Yep scrap it. You have given everyone an opportunity and even someone who wants one doesn't want it ffs!

[Captain Slow]

I do have quite a big driveway, and I don't like seeing rare cars put down unless there's a good reason. But I have Jon's pair of 605s here too, and my own fleet presently numbers eight with another one coming soon. I'm also looking after another mate's Honda Concerto, and I'm about to take on my dad's X Type for a short spell. Things are starting to get seriously out of hand and in addition to thinning out my own cars I want to have fewer cars here that belong to other people.

 

The attached pic shows my driveway as it currently stands. Out of shot is the Stag which is housed in a shed behind me. If you can't see, the KNOBVAN is in my garage at present behind the XM and the blue Montego. Range Rover isn't mine, a mate is borrowing some of my driveway to avoid mither from his neighbours while he does a head gasket swap. Behind the red 605 and the Concerto are my Montego diesel auto prototype and my 800, the latter of which will soon be for sale.

 

 

 

Jon - I know you're making an effort so I'm not pissed off that the car's not gone yet. But I'm staggered that here's someone who wants a V6 Laguna, there is one for sale, and somehow for the sake of 100 miles a deal doesn't get done. I once drove from Sheffield to Gravesend on a whim to look at a car I didn't end up buying - and something far more common than this is. When the AA and RAC are out there, surely buying this Laguna is a no brainer?

[trigger]

I used to be in the believe that a car more than 40 miles away was in fact too far but i got a lot of grief from the likes of Pete-M, grew some balls and drove 200 miles to look at a 40 year old BMW and drove it 200 miles home and i bloody loved it and done it numerous times since, In fact i think the collection is one of the highlights of buying a shite old car now.

[Pete-M]

I did 2650 miles in three days to buy this. Then 7000 miles in return flights and 2000 miles in my old XJR delivering parts for it.

 

Then 1000 miles and seven countries across Europe in 28 hours only stopping to fix things to get it home.

 

Because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

 

Not going 100 miles to get a virtually free car you actually want because it's too expensive to Shiply does seem a bit half-arsed.

 

The bloke I sold it to drove it from Warrington to Monaco - where it now lives.

 

That's what you do when you find a car you like.

[dollywobbler]

Wow. DRIVEWAY OF DREEMS.

 

While I agree entirely that putting out a request for an oddball car, then not being very impressed when just what you need is all of 90 miles away, is a bit silly, of course the other flipside is that selling oddball stuff is a nightmare too, as you need to somehow find the one person who wants it. Probably R9UKE right over the otherside of the world. Fact remains though, as the seller, the ball is in your court and the easiest course of action certainly isn't to deliver the car to an address 90 miles away when the bridge is a lot closer. Shame, but them's the facts.

[HH-R]

This has overtones of the Renault 20 saga.

[SiC]

That's what you do when you find a car you like.

Maybe that's the problem?

[vulgalour]

With a driveway like that anyone would think you were some sort of motoring journo.

[anonymous user]

With a driveway like that anyone would think you were some sort of motoring Mr Trebus.

sorry

[Partridge]

I do have quite a big driveway, and I don't like seeing rare cars put down unless there's a good reason. But I have Jon's pair of 605s here too, and my own fleet presently numbers eight with another one coming soon. I'm also looking after another mate's Honda Concerto, and I'm about to take on my dad's X Type for a short spell. Things are starting to get seriously out of hand and in addition to thinning out my own cars I want to have fewer cars here that belong to other people.

 

The attached pic shows my driveway as it currently stands. Out of shot is the Stag which is housed in a shed behind me. If you can't see, the KNOBVAN is in my garage at present behind the XM and the blue Montego. Range Rover isn't mine, a mate is borrowing some of my driveway to avoid mither from his neighbours while he does a head gasket swap. Behind the red 605 and the Concerto are my Montego diesel auto prototype and my 800, the latter of which will soon be for sale.

 

 

 

Jon - I know you're making an effort so I'm not pissed off that the car's not gone yet. But I'm staggered that here's someone who wants a V6 Laguna, there is one for sale, and somehow for the sake of 100 miles a deal doesn't get done. I once drove from Sheffield to Gravesend on a whim to look at a car I didn't end up buying - and something far more common than this is. When the AA and RAC are out there, surely buying this Laguna is a no brainer?

Hang on - did you climb a tree to get that picture?

[Junkman]

Jon - I know you're making an effort so I'm not pissed off that the car's not gone yet.

 

Truer words were never written.

But in my case, it wasn't even a car.

 

I still feel bad about it, though.

[Captain Slow]

Hang on - did you climb a tree to get that picture?

 

 

The wonders of a ten second self timer and a six foot tripod held high above my head...

 

 

Anonymous User - I know. That's why I want the Renault off my drive and I'm selling 3 vehicles myself. I've a P6 coming and temporary custodianship of my dad's X Type, so something has to give!

[Captain Slow]

Right. Does anyone want this damned thing or not? It has got to go, I'm sick of looking at it and I'm starting to have a sense of humour failure about the amount of metal on my driveway. I know Jon's been trying to sell it but if it's not gone by the time he comes back off holiday I'll be asking him to send it over the bridge.

[Lankytim]

Sorry, where are you again?

[Pete-M]

Hopefully on the way to the weighbridge.

[Angrydicky]

Slow is Cambridgeshire based I believe.