BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day Part 6

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 07:57AM

yamaha4life wrote: »

I sold this guy an m sport e46 a few years ago, was easy to deal with and my GF at the time lost her iphone inside the car a while before i sold it (we searched the car couldn't find it) he contacted me immediately after finding it and offered to post it to me! He said it appeared after a heavy braking incident.

This was a thing with the e46 alright, didn’t iPhones used to find their way down the heater duct?

kalkat2002 · 28-03-2021 07:57AM

2009 hyundai i20 petrol

1950 eur

http://www.adverts.ie/23315679

kalkat2002 · 28-03-2021 08:00AM

2005 saab 9-3 tdi

High mileage so

750 eur

http://www.adverts.ie/23313240

Busman Paddy Lasty · 28-03-2021 09:15AM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Here it is back in the day with regular wheels and no fake grilles.
https://www.adverts.ie/car/bmw/other-bmw/bmw-318-m-pack-coupe-nct-tax/9533546

Best line from the old ad

And that was 5 years ago.

Is pic 1 a Polish LHD car, presumably in Poland or something?

CoBo55 · 28-03-2021 09:30AM

yamaha4life wrote: »

I sold this guy an m sport e46 a few years ago, was easy to deal with and my GF at the time lost her iphone inside the car a while before i sold it (we searched the car couldn't find it) he contacted me immediately after finding it and offered to post it to me! He said it appeared after a heavy braking incident.

Was the tattoo sore?

DARK-KNIGHT · 28-03-2021 02:21PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

Was the tattoo sore?

:pac::pac::pac::D

nsnoefc1878 · 28-03-2021 02:32PM

yamaha4life wrote: »

I sold this guy an m sport e46 a few years ago, was easy to deal with and my GF at the time lost her iphone inside the car a while before i sold it (we searched the car couldn't find it) he contacted me immediately after finding it and offered to post it to me! He said it appeared after a heavy braking incident.

That one story tells you far more about him than any judgements based on his tattoos.

yamaha4life · 28-03-2021 04:58PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

This was a thing with the e46 alright, didn’t iPhones used to find their way down the heater duct?

I actually had my suspicions that it was in the heater vent but I couldn't find it nor could the GF that phone caused war as it did my head in that it was lost in general as it could only have been in the house or the car! Add in the fact that she was extremely attached to the phone irreplaceable pictures etc, it had an awful battery so by the time we tried find my iphone app it wouldn't work

yamaha4life · 28-03-2021 05:09PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

Was the tattoo sore?

Very funny cobo!
I actually have no tattoos and no affiliation to the guy, i dont even live in the same county.

He went out of his way to contact me when the phone turned up and offer to post it, i declined the post offer and drove up to limerick the same day as my GF was over the moon to get it back.

He could have easily chucked it in the bin and said nothing or kept it!

CoBo55 · 28-03-2021 06:13PM

yamaha4life wrote: »

Very funny cobo!
I actually have no tattoos and no affiliation to the guy, i dont even live in the same county.

He went out of his way to contact me when the phone turned up and offer to post it, i declined the post offer and drove up to limerick the same day as my GF was over the moon to get it back.

He could have easily chucked it in the bin and said nothing or kept it!

Until he turned it on and find my phone would stop Mr tattoo keeping it for himself.
G.F. never heard of icloud for those precious pictures?
I've heard stories of BMW's swallowing your wallet but never your phone:rolleyes:
Anyway it makes a nice story on this wet miserable evening:)

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 06:41PM

Normally I dislike Yariss because of that dreadful rattlefest of a 1.0 engine.
Thankfully this is the relatively lovely 1.3, and being a UK TR spec, it’s the equivalent of the Irish Sol model but with aircon as well.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/07-yaris-1-3tr-new-12-month-nct-68-miles/27654086

If someone I knew was looking for a small car, I’d buy that in a heartbeat.

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 06:44PM

Nice looking Swift
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/suzuki-swift-nctd-30-11-21-taxed31-03-21/27597408

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 06:48PM

Superficially scruffy cheap tax Perodua Myvi

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/myvi/27563977

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 06:54PM

Posting this because it has a few notable points

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-avensis/27487431

Claimed 22,000km

€750 tax,

One of a field load of 1.6 Avensiss that couldn’t be sold in 2008 when the tax went up, Toyota ended up selling them for approx €17500 at the end - with a years tax. RRP €26500 before VRT went up.

Solar red, so had the paint peel issue where Toyota repainted cars FOC.

So if you can get over the tax, you might be looking at an ultra low mileage, freshly painted, very reliable car.

Duke O Smiley · 28-03-2021 07:55PM

Seller of that Avensis says the mileage is 220k

2ndcoming · 28-03-2021 07:56PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Posting this because it has a few notable points

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-avensis/27487431

Claimed 22,000km

€750 tax,

One of a field load of 1.6 Avensiss that couldn’t be sold in 2008 when the tax went up, Toyota ended up selling them for approx €17500 at the end - with a years tax. RRP €26500 before VRT went up.

Solar red, so had the paint peel issue where Toyota repainted cars FOC.

So if you can get over the tax, you might be looking at an ultra low mileage, freshly painted, very reliable car.

Say there's about a thousand percent chance that should be 220k

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 08:15PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Seller of that Avensis says the mileage is 220k

That carry-on boils my piss.

Duke O Smiley · 28-03-2021 09:09PM

Pity all the same, it kind of had the look of a OAP's to-mass-and-the-shop conveyance

Duke O Smiley · 28-03-2021 09:10PM

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-yaris/27657832

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MDEzOWI3YzZhN2I0N2ZjMDU5NmY0MjVkNTMzOTVhN2Oy9o8trh7ZIUug0hbtexjkaHR0cDovL3MzLWV1LXdlc3QtMS5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2RvbmVkZWFsLmllLXBob3Rvcy9waG90b18xNzU1NTUzMzB8fHw2MDB4NjAwfHx8fHx8fHw=.jpeg

Nice spec 1.3 Yaris with NCT til December for €600

1 owner and looking a bit mossy, although I suspect they weren't available on these shores in this spec new

colm_mcm · 28-03-2021 09:12PM

That has aircon and a sunroof.
Factory sunroof on them is an 80s style manual one

Definately a UK spec - CDX.

26000 Elephants · 28-03-2021 11:13PM

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Pity all the same, it kind of had the look of a OAP's to-mass-and-the-shop conveyance

More of a sulky-races-to-circuit-court-appearance vibe.

Mango Joe · 29-03-2021 04:24PM

2ndcoming wrote: »

Say there's about a thousand percent chance that should be 220k

Its rage inducing that almost every car on Adverts and Done Deal has made the innocent mistake of listing the miles accidentally in kms - what are they hoping for?!?!

Also that the Developers involved allow you to enter 220 kilometres as total mileage......This messes up the search filters in a really irritating way.

trixiebust · 29-03-2021 07:05PM

Anyone thinking of an Avensis of that era, mine cost €500 to pass the NCT, failed on rear swing arms [think that's what they're called].

Mechanic told me they are failing the majority of them on that one fail.

colm_mcm · 29-03-2021 07:29PM

Mango Joe wrote: »

Its rage inducing that almost every car on Adverts and Done Deal has made the innocent mistake of listing the miles accidentally in kms - what are they hoping for?!?!

Also that the Developers involved allow you to enter 220 kilometres as total mileage......This messes up the search filters in a really irritating way.

Same crap here.

“Honda CR-V low miles” in header.

Listed as 10000 miles

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/honda-cr-v-low-miles-new-nct-4x4/27641003

Turns out it’s 100000 miles

yamaha4life · 29-03-2021 07:38PM

trixiebust wrote: »

Anyone thinking of an Avensis of that era, mine cost €500 to pass the NCT, failed on rear swing arms [think that's what they're called].

Mechanic told me they are failing the majority of them on that one fail.

Mine failed on them aswell they are expensive to source i paid just under €100 each on ebay, both local motor factors qouted not much under €400 for the pair and not much better on micks garage. i fitted them myself.

i found they were a pig to do and the corrosion would have been knocked off with a wire brush.

wotzgoingon · 29-03-2021 07:53PM

yamaha4life wrote: »

i found they were a pig to do and the corrosion would have been knocked off with a wire brush.

So you could have cleaned them up before hand(if you knew obviously) and it would have passed.

I remember someone on here failed on corroded brake lines and they just cleaned them up by wire brushing and then paint and they were fine. And the mad thing is same thing happened me failed on corroded brake line and all I did was wipe them down with a cloth didn't even wire brush and then paint like the guy did and I passed. But mine weren't even corroded though just grime on them.

yamaha4life · 29-03-2021 08:11PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

So you could have cleaned them up before hand(if you knew obviously) and it would have passed.

I can't say for 100% as if i cleaned and painted them NCT could claim i was trying to hide corrosion. although they were solid no where near the stage where a hammer would put a hole in them.

The nct crowd i have noticed have really cracked down on corrosion in general not necessarily a bad thing.

wotzgoingon · 29-03-2021 08:21PM

yamaha4life wrote: »

The nct crowd i have noticed have really cracked down on corrosion in general

Yep the guy put a screw driver straight through my chassis rail last year and I had to get it welded up. Up soon enough for it's yearly evaluation but thanks to covid it was pushed back a few months.

26000 Elephants · 29-03-2021 08:28PM

Mango Joe wrote: »

Its rage inducing that almost every car on Adverts and Done Deal has made the innocent mistake of listing the miles accidentally in kms - what are they hoping for?!?!

Also that the Developers involved allow you to enter 220 kilometres as total mileage......This messes up the search filters in a really irritating way.

Ive mentioned this before, but there is a bug in the export script from Donedeal to Adverts ( when you select to have it listed on adverts as well) that takes the mileage from DD ad and posts it as KM's on Adverts. I had to manually change the BMW ad for that reason.

Obviously doesnt explain all of them, but im sure some are down to this.

johndaman66 · 29-03-2021 10:36PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I remember someone on here failed on corroded brake lines and they just cleaned them up by wire brushing and then paint and they were fine. And the mad thing is same thing happened me failed on corroded brake line and all I did was wipe them down with a cloth didn't even wire brush and then paint like the guy did and I passed. But mine weren't even corroded though just grime on them.

Possibly me? Possibly not me? In my case all I did was attack them with emery cloth, brillo pads and brasso. Didn't even paint them after and brake lines were absolutely solid underneath, just tarnished - not even that badly tarnished as I recall. Car was a Carina E. I'm not one of these cynical types that give out about the NCT at any opportunity but that just was ridiculous...

BANGERNOMICS (sub2k) of the week/day Part 6

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