eBay tat volume 3.

[D.E]

Brilliant! Do not paint.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295537082305?hash=item44cf61ffc1:g:gusAAOSwJfhj89Ep

[Matty]

@barrett weren't you in the market for one of these?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204250513512?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=BEky8FhmT5i&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=svwv9r4orxa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[egg]

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1552294

[alcyonecorporation]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

bASe C4, £1500 Leics

While we're on the subject, how the hell does that fixed hub steering wheel work? It doesn't compute, I don't get how it's held onto the dashboard.

The inner spokes go to hidden hub on a geet big nut, just like every other steering wheel. 
There may or may not be some gearing involved, I can't remember. 

Said steering wheel gave no issue during the 11 years I owned mine, although the glovebox, air con condenser drier and engine eventually broke. 

I will also say that my car, an SX with centreless alloys, was the fussiest little cunt about wheel balance I've ever encountered in 20+ years of driving. 

 NO-ONE, bar a motorbike place in Liverpool had a balancing machine that a: was calibrated properly or b: could balance a wheel accurately down to zero, which is what it needed. 

I also had to steal it back from the dealership when they tried to make me pay for a warranty repair. 

'WELL, Mr Burgess, we've got your key,' they said. 

"We'll fucking see about that," I replied.

Off I went home in a taxi, still in my suit from work, and got a hi-vis jacket.
 Spare key in hand, I strolled in the workshop bold as brass and told a young lad reversing a Dispatch that I was the area manager from the Manchester branch and that I needed to move that C4 (my C4, helpfully) for a customer who'd given me their key. Also, I was in a hurry, so could you please move that C2 and let me get on my way?  

The lad hurriedly agreed and I slowly drove out of the workshop and right past the reception desk, the receptionist now goggle-eyed, with a big shit-eating grin on my face. 
I eventually got the key back without a bill when I kicked off to fuck at head office about it and threatened to take it to the press. 

Fucking thing. 

 

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Cheap Dae-poo Tacuma 

I didn't realize they did a facelift of these, who knew they could make them even uglier 🤣

^ that's what mine looked like, I don't think either are winning any awards in the looks department 🤣

GIB, could be a 'nice little earner'!

[RoverFolkUs]

8 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

GIB, could be a 'nice little earner'!

They hit the bottom of their depreciation curve about 15 years ago! 😅 I'd be interested to know if when it's going to start going upwards

I remember thinking I scored a right bargain, £1295 from a dealer in 2008 for a shiny* 03 plate one. 

Suffered OMGHGF after 4 years of trouble free motoring. Was actually a fairly decent car.

Just stupidly expensive to run for a 1.6 petrol, even for 2008 petrol prices!

[wuvvum]

Petrol in 2008 was pretty dear from what I remember.  Probably as expensive as it is now once inflation is taken into account.

[Metal Guru]

14 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Petrol in 2008 was pretty dear from what I remember.  Probably as expensive as it is now once inflation is taken into account.

Peaked at about £1.20 before dropping back to below £1 in early 2009.

[sheffcortinacentre]

10 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Greta Thunberg's brother doesn't look too happy with selling his Astra 

2011 Vauxhall Astra J spares and repairs | eBay

 

Great who????? She one of those z list celebrities on " I had a carer on ice it's behind me factor"?

[RoverFolkUs]

18 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Petrol in 2008 was pretty dear from what I remember.  Probably as expensive as it is now once inflation is taken into account.

I thought it was below the £1 mark then it spiked to £1.40 in 2013 ish, then down to 99p in 2015 ish then upwards from there..? 

I'll have to consult my giffer style book where I have hand written every single fuel transaction, comprising of the price per litre, tank to tank mileage and date since about 2005 I think 😅

[Asimo]

[wesacosa]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266136960824?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=j6CTbCDPTYC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=8AFYP6nlRMa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[wesacosa]

[Schaefft]

26 minutes ago, wesacosa said:

Was about to post the same.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I thought it was below the £1 mark then it spiked to £1.40 in 2013 ish, then down to 99p in 2015 ish then upwards from there..? 

I'll have to consult my giffer style book where I have hand written every single fuel transaction, comprising of the price per litre, tank to tank mileage and date since about 2005 I think 😅

Being even sadder, I have it on a spreadsheet going back to  2003/4. In Jan 2008 I was paying £1.04/l, in June £1.12 and in December only 85p/l

 

 

[cort16]

ooft, seems like a lot of car for 8 grand.

https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/873836957140354/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment

[BeEP]

Rare Mk1 Punto EL (6 speed!)...

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1533679

[mk2_craig]

Low kms derv 309 left hooker for a quarter of a bag?

 

[wuvvum]

Rough but running and MOT'd MX-5 for 600 BINs.

[LightBulbFun]

52 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Low kms derv 309 left hooker for a quarter of a bag?

 

something something @Talbot something something XUD 309 something something pre booked MOT?

[Talbot]

3 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

something something @Talbot something something XUD 309 something something pre booked MOT?

something something @LightBulbFunsomething something resgistering it in the UK something something Jersey registration something something err... how TF do you do that?

Edit.  Also, is there a ferry from Jersey direct to UK, or will that need driving thru france?

[LightBulbFun]

13 minutes ago, Talbot said:

something something @LightBulbFunsomething something resgistering it in the UK something something Jersey registration something something err... how TF do you do that?

something something, Jersey reg doc, and/or dating letter something something V55/5, something=DVLA V5 something something, DVSA/the MOT people, does not care where the vehicle is from, something something @hairnet something something lookup 60UKK (NZ Mark!) something something you bought it yet?

[Talbot]

I understood there was an issue with a change of regs recently where a NOVA or similar paperwork can only be carried out by the importer of the vehicle, and there are a list of approved importers.  Anyone other than that (EG a private individual) is no longer able to do the paperwork themselves.

There's apparently already a "tame" importer who will do the paperwork for a £95 fee, but it's still yet another bloody hoop.

I'd quite like it tho...

[cort16]

Crusty the Cortina

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/711400920468021

[egg]

2 hours ago, BeEP said:

Rare Mk1 Punto EL (6 speed!)...

I think I'd opt for HGF repair rather than the proposed engine swap. I assume its the same 1.1 that always fails in cinq's/seicentos?

[LightBulbFun]

49 minutes ago, Talbot said:

I understood there was an issue with a change of regs recently where a NOVA or similar paperwork can only be carried out by the importer of the vehicle, and there are a list of approved importers.  Anyone other than that (EG a private individual) is no longer able to do the paperwork themselves.

There's apparently already a "tame" importer who will do the paperwork for a £95 fee, but it's still yet another bloody hoop.

I'd quite like it tho...

I saw that doing the rounds on the Book of Farce etc, 

https://www.facebook.com/DAVO.bookface/posts/pfbid0qQMJi9Z6bt83gq2R2pQMHU6EVme8XHzgvMVjLLj45RmqZadqPqahmSijp68dPUNQl

but reading it, to me it just comes across like just a bunch of FUD to me, no links to anything or the such like, a load of hand waving panic, without actually understanding the system to hand

looking at it myself, looks like its still entirely possible to do it all yourself

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/telling-hmrc

and heres a link to a NOVA1 form so you can roughly see what your up against https://bfgnet.de/files/282/VAT-NOVA1-v03-feb-20.pdf

(I would see if you can request one from HMRC or whoever to get the latest version)

ill also tag @Dave_Q @Dick Longbridge because I know they have recent experience importing vehicles to the UK  

[Dave_Q]

Mine was post Brexit but I claimed on the nova form it had been in the UK since before 2020 (almost certainly had but can't prove it)

I have also seen some stories doing the rounds about private importers not being able to do a NOVA which seems to directly contradict the gov.uk guidance LBF posted which says you can email them to sort it and gives an address.

£95 to fill in some customs form seems a bit much TBH, a suspicious person would think that this is some wheeze by the "tame importer" and the car club to make a few quid.

[D.E]

Quote

comes exactly as shown in pics

Ringer to make a newer Transit tax & mot exempt? Why else would you pay over 2 bags for a van that's been cut up and stripped?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204251682577?hash=item2f8e595711:g:5U0AAOSw8Ndj9Naf

[barrett]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

I saw that doing the rounds on the Book of Farce etc, 

https://www.facebook.com/DAVO.bookface/posts/pfbid0qQMJi9Z6bt83gq2R2pQMHU6EVme8XHzgvMVjLLj45RmqZadqPqahmSijp68dPUNQl

but reading it, to me it just comes across like just a bunch of FUD to me, no links to anything or the such like, a load of hand waving panic, without actually understanding the system to hand

looking at it myself, looks like its still entirely possible to do it all yourself

Yeah I saw that and came to the same conclusion. Lots of stuff which is demonstrably false in that post (you can't get a replacement V5 anymore? If you try and register a car you'll end up with a Q-plate??) that I'd guess the rest of it is nonsense, too. Judging by the level of literacy involved I can only imagine the state of the V55 the author would send off so not really a surprise if it's come back as a 'no'.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Both of mine had already been imported from Italy and were complete with Nova declaration. I then applied to Doovla for UK registration whereby they insisted on sending out a chap to give it a basic i.d inspection. Simple enough really.