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    #6482
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    €1250 and NCT to March. Not a taxi. Says it's taxed till 01/16, so its either for sale for a while or else a typo and its meant to say 01/17. If it's the latter then its a seriously cheap car. Cheap anyway at that price.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/lexus-ls-ls430-se-taxed-nct-03-17/13348927

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    #6483
    oxnexon
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭oxnexon


    The LS430 is a great motorway barge. They do tend to suffer from steering wheel adjustment motor failure and seat foam disintegration on higher mileage examples


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    #6484
    aerofoiled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭aerofoiled


    chillin117 wrote: »
    Was looking for a cheap diesel, The Audi never entered my head, Thanks !

    That black A2 is mine. They're ideal for long-distance commuting, which is what I bought it for. It's since been replaced by an even more economical two-wheeler so it's been lying idle for the past few months.


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    #6485
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,204 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    aerofoiled wrote: »
    That black A2 is mine. They're ideal for long-distance commuting

    Now you mention that, I remember that it has exceptionally good aerodynamics. If you take it real handy, you could do long distance runs averaging 100mpg

    Very few (if any) other mainstream cars ever made can do that...


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    #6486
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,204 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Red Kev wrote: »
    €1250 and NCT to March. Not a taxi. Says it's taxed till 01/16, so its either for sale for a while or else a typo and its meant to say 01/17

    Taxed till the end of October (normal tax), NCT until the end of March

    Some car for the money and in my book it's a good sign it is still taxed. Very unlikely it was off the road. And someone paying max tax is probably someone spending all the money it needs to keep their car in a good condition. No skimping...


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    #6487
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    aerofoiled wrote: »
    That black A2 is mine. They're ideal for long-distance commuting, which is what I bought it for. It's since been replaced by an even more economical two-wheeler so it's been lying idle for the past few months.


    As a matter of interest what's the fuel consumption like and on what kind of roads?


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    #6488
    aerofoiled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭aerofoiled


    Red Kev wrote: »
    As a matter of interest what's the fuel consumption like and on what kind of roads?

    It averages about 62-63mpg on N roads and motorway. I can get 420 miles from a tank (32L).


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    #6489
    alastair
    Registered Users Posts: 19,309 ✭✭✭✭alastair


    unkel wrote: »
    Now you mention that, I remember that it has exceptionally good aerodynamics. If you take it real handy, you could do long distance runs averaging 100mpg

    Very few (if any) other mainstream cars ever made can do that...

    Just to rain on this parade slightly - the A2's capable of this economy were special models only available on the continent. They had a 1.2 litre engine, different gearing, improved aerodynamics, thinner glass, more aluminium components, skinnier wheels, etc etc. The 'regular' TDi A2's have great drag co-efficiency, but not 100mpg good.


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    #6490
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,204 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Aye, I know about the CW 0.25 models, alastair. My point is that if you take it real handy with a 1.4TDI then you might get something like 100mpg without having to resort to hypermiling techniques or anything like it. Same as you could average something like 50mpg in a large fully loaded family 2l petrol car on a gentle long distance run when you take it equally handy...


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    #6491
    Tommyboy40
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Tommyboy40


    jayo26 wrote: »
    I'm not sure why either ;);) I think they are a right ugly pig.

    Without doubt the most reliable car I ever owned.


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    #6492
    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    A nice jagX winter bruiser for the months ahead.
    Awd, 2.5P, manual!, nct1/17, yours for €1050.

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    #6493
    Joeface
    Registered Users Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭Joeface


    Yeah its a 407 ...short NCT , some tax but annual tax is a plus

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2008-peugeot-407-1-6-hdi-280-tax/13506285


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    #6494
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    @Hal, S type is a nicer buy imo!

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/jaguar-s-type-taxed-and-nctd/13503972

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    Claimed 1 owner, Irish 3.0 automatic, tax 12/16 and NCT 4/17. If the "fully documented service history" is tangible, then this is a steal at €1950 imo.


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    #6495
    Bigus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Bigus


    Dermot selling the Jag has 21 cars advertised that could qualify as bangernomics :D

    Wouldn't put me off the Jag all the same


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    #6496
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    But if the Jag doesn't do it for you...

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mercedes-benz-e240-elegance-nct-and-taxed-april-17/13499842

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    2003 E240 V6, 121k miles claimed, NCT'd till August 2017 and taxed (no, not PSV!) until 3/17 for €1950.


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    #6497
    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    That jag is gorgeous! Love the interiors on them.


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    #6498
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    That E240 is a minter...:cool:


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    #6499
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,136 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Joeface wrote: »
    Yeah its a 407 ...short NCT , some tax but annual tax is a plus

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/2008-peugeot-407-1-6-hdi-280-tax/13506285

    Sold!

    Not your ornery onager



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    #6500
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,204 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    W211 is amazing for the money. Buy it for €1,700, drive it for a bit over 6 months (to tax it would have set you back €718) in style & comfort and sell it for €1,200 with 4 months NCT left. Another free car. If my own family car failed today, I'd be buying that tomorrow...


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    #6501
    Joeface
    Registered Users Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭Joeface


    Esel wrote: »
    Sold!

    That was quick , pretty sure it said 6hours is all it had been up


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    #6502
    grogi
    Registered Users Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    Esel wrote: »
    Sold!

    We're getting into CO2 based tax territory... Until now the low prices were usually induced by high-ish motor-tax. This was more than sensible...


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    #6503
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,204 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    So it was an '08 1.6 diesel 407 then? €280 annual motor tax?

    No surprise it sold immediately. For every €100 saved in tax, people here seem to want to spend up to €1000 extra on the car :p


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    #6504
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #6505
    oxnexon
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭oxnexon


    Tired looking interior on that Merc for 121k miles


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    #6506
    chillin117
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 736 ✭✭✭chillin117


    oxnexon wrote: »
    Tired looking interior on that Merc for 121k miles
    I beg to differ...


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    #6507
    wonski
    Registered Users Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    unkel wrote: »
    W211 is amazing for the money. Buy it for €1,700, drive it for a bit over 6 months (to tax it would have set you back €718) in style & comfort and sell it for €1,200 with 4 months NCT left. Another free car. If my own family car failed today, I'd be buying that tomorrow...

    This.

    I left my car in a garage this morning and before they even made a phone call I already checked this thread. Just in case. Plenty of 2k cars to make you feel better :)


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    #6508
    oxnexon
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭oxnexon


    Chillin117 really? You only have to look at the discolouration on the seats, steering and armrest. I have had the same car with cream interior, higher mileage and it looked much fresher inside.


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    #6509
    chillin117
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 736 ✭✭✭chillin117


    oxnexon wrote: »
    Chillin117 really? You only have to look at the discolouration on the seats, steering and armrest. I have had the same car with cream interior, higher mileage and it looked much fresher inside.
    Bit of leather cleaner and some leather wax, a spray of ''new car'' smell freshner and bob's your uncle. Millionaire for a day, You would start to believe you actually had money.


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    #6510
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    Volvo 850 T5. A sleeper in the true sense of the word (if it's the real 225bhp version). This is surely available with classic insurance? It's the Auto version, but some performance nonetheless, as well as no depreciation and possible appreciation in value.

    €2200 and a newly done NCT up to March, so book it in again in December and see how you get on.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-850-t-5-estate-auto-new-nct-12-09-16/13336208

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    #6511
    Giacomo McGubbin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Giacomo McGubbin


    oxnexon wrote: »
    Chillin117 really? You only have to look at the discolouration on the seats, steering and armrest. I have had the same car with cream interior, higher mileage and it looked much fresher inside.

    You're right, either the mileage has had a haircut, or some mank owned it.


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