Cavcraft Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 How much does that put the price up to now B0l? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Your guess is as good as mine cavette! If you fancy taking it on PM me an offer, somewhere between 225 (asking price with potentially knackered engine) and 500 or so (asking price when all up and running). All efforts to sell it so far have achieved the square root of jack shit, apart from costing me £25 in fruitless eBay fees and a bit of time while a slovakian tyre kicker looked it over ("NO CHEAP?") so bear that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk1_4dr Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Great work Mr B, thats a tidy outcome with the top-end noise.I dont need this car, but I feel I need this car, you dig?No point in me buying it to leave it stood in the yard though is there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 If my Audi were to inexplicably explode i'd be all over this. Its such a bargain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIH Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Bosh an ad up on the VODC. They love this kind of thing. Well, they should if they like Vecra 1.8GLs or whatever. I have a dormant account on there if needs be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 If my Audi were to inexplicably explode i'd be all over this. Its such a bargain! "There are reports coming in of an explosion in Staffordshire this evening. An Audi is said to be destroyed, a car described as a Worrserlly is described as scorched. Police are keen to speak to the owner of a red Cavalier seen hooning away at high speed with maniacal laughter emanating from inside." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnside Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Glad the cavalier sorted Mr_Bo11ox hope somebody on here can give it a good home it's a really nice car especially after all the hard work you put in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Hey, thats good news Bol, nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Balls. I think that makes it too dear now for it to be worth me coming down to get it once i pay for the trip then tax it etc. i was strangely hoping you wouldnt fix it so i could get it home courtesy of the RAC then have a tinker... realistically im looking at at least £150 to get my ass down there and bring it back up.. plus another hundred notes in rent for the window, makes what is a cheap car a dear one for me. If it was nearer here i'd have it in a shot, it looks a barg. oh well, I'll get back on my shite hunt.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Hey Bollox if you want to pm me a draft of an advert for it i don't mind copying and pasting it on to the VODC forum (Vauxhall Opel drivers club), there's a lot of Chavalier pervs on there who might be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 Cheers Trig, TBH I have sort of given up trying to sell this for the moment, I have not had a single sniff of interest off any of the adverts I put up for it anywhere. Absolutley nothing. A couple of folk have expressed a token interest in it if sold 'with engine problems' including some slovakian nutcase who has rung me half a dozen times offering various figures between £160 and £200, all of which I turned down. When I told him i'd sorted the engine he sounded gutted. Its most annoying as I think its a nice car myself. I guess the cost of juice goes heavily against it now, its a cheap car but not necessarily cheap transport. I am half tempted to put it on the road myself for a while, and worry about flogging it another time. Theres a couple of non-MOT fail crusty bits underneath which I think I might attend to, and pump its ass full of waxoyl with my new toy (compressor and wax injection gun). Then it really will be 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Know how you feel Mr. Bx. I was amazed no-one took me up on the BMW for something close to £600. I ended up buying a new gearbox oil cooler rad for it in the end - there was a pin-hole in the feeder pipe which was causing the leak I mentioned. Definitely a decent earner for someone I would have thought. I know I'm right as a chap who did a bit of work for me once (admittedly he knew the car) offered me £850 for it but couldn't collect it until end May. I needed to shoot back east so had to decline; drove it back into the garage and will probably start using it again when I get back. The Rover is great but can't shift things around like the Touring. I'll probably stick it on Autotrader when the Jag comes back and needs the garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Have had zilch interest in the Mini too. Perhaps I should make it an OMG COOPA REPLICA or slap a load of shitty chrome all over it. Frustrating with the Cav though. It's really not expensive and seems a very sound motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 The two factors I can see that are probably slowing the sale down are: 1) RFL. Sadly the (mostly) moronic buying public are actually more interested in three weeks tax on a nail than buying a decent car like this and having to go to Crewe & Nantwich district Post Office and actually tax it to drive it home. 2) Automaticness. This really shouldn't be a problem as the car is very likely not suited to some tracksuit clad twerp to smoke round his estate uninsured in until the inevitable appearance on Road Wars one night. Its more suited to some elderly gent who had one of these back in the day and doesn't want to buy a brand new car, however it's waiting for that right person to come along-which I'm sure they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 The two factors I can see that are probably slowing the sale down are: 1) RFL. Sadly the (mostly) moronic buying public are actually more interested in three weeks tax on a nail than buying a decent car like this and having to go to Crewe & Nantwich district Post Office and actually tax it to drive it home. but the aversion to untaxed cars is not illogical. I know bol's is a fine example but, on your average shitter, how are you ever going to know about that funny knock coming from the wheels once you hit 50 if you can only drive it on an industrial estate with a speed limit of 10mph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Probably because they'll find out how bad the knock is when they're doing 81mph over the speed humps on the local estate as they're lobbing drug paraphanilia out of the window with Pat and Carl in hot pursuit and the telly commentator calling them 'muppets' and 'donuts'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Probably because they'll find out how bad the knock is when they're doing 81mph over the speed humps on the local estate as they're lobbing drug paraphanilia out of the window with Pat and Carl in hot pursuit and the telly commentator calling them 'muppets' and 'donuts'. Right up to the point where they're "giving it legs". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Good luck with the Cavalier Mr B, I'm sure someone will snap it up. It's one car I genuinely wish I couldafford to take on, I miss my old Cav Mk3 muchly. Had I the funds etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 This old crate is back on eBay, no reserve this time. Its gotta go to make room for this Croma. if anyone feels like offering me £200 for it please do so, as i dont have very high expectations of an actual sale being concluded via this means and its its last chance before crossing the bridge. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0693091191 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrett.in.the.USA Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Bloody hell, I hope this actually gets sold this time. I really can't understand why this has proven so hard to shift, 200 for ANY usable car is a good price, let alone one given the full on BOLLOX TREATMENT.Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I would have thought anything thats road legal and under 250 would be snapped up ver quickly. Not even had any of our eastern european friends interested? GR6 for optional insurance and the "no speak english" defence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I would have thought anything thats road legal and under 250 would be snapped up ver quickly. Not even had any of our eastern european friends interested? GR6 for optional insurance and the "no speak english" defenceIf it was taxed it might attract more interest from discerning buyers like this, saves them bothering with insurance. Mr_Bo1, perhaps it's too cheap? Have you thought about putting it on Autotrader for £400 then getting haggled down to £250? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danblez Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 If you dont manage to sell that for 200 notes I will eat my trilby! Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Hey, don't be telling him that yer barstards B01, pm forthcoming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Tax is the answer. Thanks to the DOOOVLA and Dibble it's a bloody nightmare trying to get cars home without tax nowadays. The "just bought it" excuse doesn't wash anymore as Dibble's standard answer is "The computer has spotted you, so I can't let you go. I'm the traffic tax man, waddya expect?". I tend to tax stuff, use if for a few months then advertise it with a month or two rent in the window. Much much easier to sell that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 Well it looks like this car is going to live with Cavette! My efforts to sell it drew a total blank, the one guy who did come to look at it was thrown off the scent by the fuggin cambelt/cover rattling and making the engine sound like the bottom end was giving up on life. My ebay 'buyer' was predictably a washout and all other avenues raised precisely zero enquiries. I am not expending any more effort to sell it (diminishing returns and all that) so Cavette is buying it for the same amount I paid to buy the car in the first place and get it home. He gets all the repairs etc for free! Good job I have a 9-5 job to fund this fuggin shite habit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Let me know when you've finished sorting out that Croma. I'm feeling flush, so I've already set aside 220 notes. (sorry Mr Bol...couldn't help it ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 26, 2011 Author Share Posted May 26, 2011 Ho ho ho!!! Admittedly I did laugh at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Nice one Cavette! Would have been a shame to see such a tidy example cubed, as they are starting to get very rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boobydoo Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Bugger! Is it sold? My dead Aunty has been looking for one for ages. She'd have deffo 'ad that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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