Help me out here - BUY MY SHITE (Cavalier)

[mk1_4dr]

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....

[Lankytim]

If my Audi were to inexplicably explode i'd be all over this. Its such a bargain!

[CIH]

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.

[dollywobbler]

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."

[Burnside]

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.

[retrogeezer]

Hey, thats good news Bol, nice one.

[CortinaDave]

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....

[trigger]

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.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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%.

[ChinaTom]

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.

[dollywobbler]

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.

[Cavcraft]

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.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

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?

[Cavcraft]

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'.

[Rod/b]

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".

[AXrescuer]

Good luck with the Cavalier Mr B, I'm sure someone will snap it up. It's one car I genuinely wish I could

afford to take on, I miss my old Cav Mk3 muchly. Had I the funds etc....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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

[Barrett.in.the.USA]

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

[Negative Creep]

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

[garethj]

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

If 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?

[Danblez]

If you dont manage to sell that for 200 notes I will eat my trilby!

 

Good luck!

[Cavcraft]

Hey, don't be telling him that yer barstards

 

B01, pm forthcoming...

[Pete-M]

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.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

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 )

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ho ho ho!!! Admittedly I did laugh at that.

[Angrydicky]

Nice one Cavette! Would have been a shame to see such a tidy example cubed, as they are starting to get very rare.

[boobydoo]

Bugger! Is it sold? My dead Aunty has been looking for one for ages. She'd have deffo 'ad that!

[Cavcraft]

It probably looks like I was ambulance chasing here but I'd been pondering over this for a while and Bol's post this morning made me realise it'd be criminal to see it weighed off or sold to some turd who'd drive it round uninsured.

17 minutes on the train, three hours in the Post Office behind old dears getting 217 other peoples gas stamps, a bit of rent and I'll be driving it back. Truth be told I'm looking forward to it, can't the Cavalier blood out of my sytem.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

You have a very cavalier attitude Young Man.