Water damaged salvage car.... worth a punt?????

robtri

found this beauty for sale... now it is a salvage write of due to flooding... so a bit carefull here...

what you guys think

http://www.bidisausa.com/inventoryDetailimages.php?id=10253141

CarMuppet

Yeah I'd say go for it. Bargain hard. A hairdryer and WD40 should sort most mechanical and electrical niggles. Of course check out the owners forum for specific questions.

Best of luck
CM

johnos1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwE7IIUqcXE

Max_Damage

Water, if the engine was running, will RUIN it completely. Bent conrods, valves, the list goes on.

Owen

CarMuppet wrote: »

Yeah I'd say go for it. Bargain hard. A hairdryer and WD40 should sort most mechanical and electrical niggles. Of course check out the owners forum for specific questions.

Best of luck
CM

Seriously? I'd be using special Veyron WD40 at 3k a pop instead. Much more likely to work

Aka Ishur

Revenue would love the VRT on that...

Bigus

Sure if you can't get the old engine goin you could always convert it to diesel especially with petrol @ 1.50 per litre.

Max_Damage

Bigus wrote: »

Sure if you can't get the old engine goin you could always convert it to diesel especially with petrol @ 1.50 per litre.

Stick in a 2.8L diesel from a Nissan Patrol!

spyderski

Never mind the engine, that offside front light assembly is around £10-15k!
Only 4 bids though! Wonder what will buy it? Id say Bugatti would buy it back if it was making less than £700k, otherwise it would devalue other used Veyrons!

Buford T Justice

Texas eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJTUybpox4

wee truck big driver

jesus that is one ugly car

CianRyan

I'd just park it on top of one of those virtual reality games and pretend to drive it...
That or convert the windscreen to a computer screen and hook up all the controls to I could play racing games on it.


OOOOOOR, 1.9 VAG rocket engine.

Atlantic Dawn

If you could get it for sub 10k and then pay the customs duty and shipping, then charge people in shopping centres €10 a throw to sit in it you would make some nice cash. VRT wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't going on the roads.

darragh o meara

Aka Ishur wrote: »

Revenue would love the VRT on that...

I remember hearing before from someone that revenue wanted 100k to supply a veyron owner with irish plates. Just a tad out of my league.

Are the headlights not similar to b5.5 passat? Im sure you could make one fit

Owen

100k would be very cheap for a 1.whatever million euro car.

mickdw

Yep vrt at 36% of 1.5 millions comes to over half a million

Guy:Incognito

PaintDoctor wrote: »

100k would be very cheap for a 1.whatever million euro car.

Not when nothing works.

unkel

darragh o meara wrote: »

I remember hearing before from someone that revenue wanted 100k to supply a veyron owner with irish plates.

You forgot a zero

...unless there were brown envelopes of Charlie Haughey proportions involved

A new Veyron here would sell for something like €2 million incl. VAT and VRT? in that case the VAT would be €350,000 and VRT would be €720,000. More than a million in tax!

Solnskaya

Worth every penny though. Imagine how fast 120kph would feel if you were on the motorway in a Veyron. We can only dream of speeds like that. I hear they are savage at handling potholed, rutted roads as well-the high ground clearance really helps. Anyway, apart from having to dry out the floor mats(which can be tricky I know), what harm could a little bit of water do? Sure I washed my car last week, and it was fine after.
edit-the radio might be fecked as well, just somthing to figure in when totting up the costs, though halfords do a really good one for €49.99, so it might not be a big issue.

darragh o meara

Sorry checked again and apparently it was an earlier bugatti, either that or he was spouting BS.

I feel bad handing over 1200 vehicle robbery tax for an 05 passat so it'd finish me off totally having to give them a million!