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Bangernomics car of the week/day - Part II

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  • Posts: 23,497 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The ABS light is most likely just a sensor. I'd want a good few hundred off the €1700 asking price, if not €500 off tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    Tested.
    Diesel.
    Half leather.
    Low miles.
    Clean.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4010471

    Full-14774482.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    Tested.
    9 months tax
    Leather.
    Big miles.
    Might be worth a look...

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4007837

    View2-14761805.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,115 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    RoverJames wrote: »
    The ABS light is most likely just a sensor. I'd want a good few hundred off the €1700 asking price, if not €500 off tbh.

    +1

    Probably a sensor, but I would rather have it diagnosed first (without the seller looking over my shoulder :D) before parting with my moneys

    And he is lying where he says: "brakes work perfectly"

    If the ABS light is on, ABS does not work. So the brakes are far from perfect...

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Posts: 23,497 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    9 times out of 10 if it's a sensor on them the light comes on at start up, goes off and comes back on again once you're rolling :)

    The more I think about that 75 the less I'd be happy anyone parting with €1200 for it.

    If anyone is tempted have a look with a flashlight into the V of the engine, if there's signs of coolant in there than the stat housing is leaking, few other small things to watch for but nothing major really aside from the belts being done sometime in the past, that would be a bonus. If the stat housing it leaking it's anyone's guess was the thing ever moderately cooked. I had a leaking stat housing for 18 months but topped it up weekly and than more often as it got worse, temp gauge had no idea at all what was happening :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    Was this posed up here a while back??
    Plenty of test.
    Few months tax.
    Leather.
    Low miles.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3726023

    View2-13413513.jpeg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    unkel wrote: »
    +1

    Probably a sensor, but I would rather have it diagnosed first (without the seller looking over my shoulder :D) before parting with my moneys

    I take my diog scanner with me and one of the first things I do is plug it into the car (under the dash) much to the bewilderment of sellers ....then scan the ecu for faults and if there's any, use it to hammer them over the head on price...:D:D:D:D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Light Switch


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    unkel wrote: »
    +1

    Probably a sensor, but I would rather have it diagnosed first (without the seller looking over my shoulder :D) before parting with my moneys

    I take my diog scanner with me and one of the first things I do is plug it into the car (under the dash) much to the bewilderment of sellers ....then scan the ecu for faults and if there's any, use it to hammer them over the head on price...:D:D:D:D:D:D


    Not a hope would i let a buyer plug in something to a car!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,466 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Not a hope would i let a buyer plug in something to a car!
    Yeah, 'cos it might break it.... :rolleyes:

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,697 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Not a hope would i let a buyer plug in something to a car!
    Why not? Given that any buyer will life the bonnet, unscrew the oil cap etc. what's to fear about them plugging in a diagnostic tool that's read only?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Not a hope would i let a buyer plug in something to a car!

    good jayyyyyyzusssss, then you don't have a clue it must be said. :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    another facelifted 156, but we can't add it to the bangernom scope....cos its got NO nct ......BOOOOOOOO...!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3998578

    View2-14717063.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,115 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    I take my diog scanner with me and one of the first things I do is plug it into the car (under the dash) much to the bewilderment of sellers ....then scan the ecu for faults and if there's any, use it to hammer them over the head on price...:D:D:D:D:D:D

    Good thinking, must remember that one :D

    That said, a basic scanner (like the €40 one I have) hasn't a hope of diagnosing anything to do with the ABS, does it?

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    unkel wrote: »
    Good thinking, must remember that one :D

    That said, a basic scanner (like the €40 one I have) hasn't a hope of diagnosing anything to do with the ABS, does it?


    should do Unk, if its logged in the ecu memory as a fault it should see it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,697 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    unkel wrote: »
    Good thinking, must remember that one :D

    That said, a basic scanner (like the €40 one I have) hasn't a hope of diagnosing anything to do with the ABS, does it?
    It doesn't need to tell you how to fix the problem in order to be included in a negotiation ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭Col200sx


    unkel wrote: »
    Good thinking, must remember that one :D

    That said, a basic scanner (like the €40 one I have) hasn't a hope of diagnosing anything to do with the ABS, does it?

    You'd get them for that cheap :confused:

    Where'd you get that unkel?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭fl4pj4ck




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    another facelifted 156, but we can't add it to the bangernom scope....cos its got NO nct ......BOOOOOOOO...!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3998578

    I do like the facelift 156, but it needs leather and alloys...

    Am I asking too much...probably...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    I do like the facelift 156, but it needs leather and alloys...

    Am I asking too much...probably...

    Not really to be honest.

    On the note of computers, the lad who bought my last Golf tried telling me my airbags weren't working and were basically walking away from the sale... I nearly went mad, and he clicked a few more clicks followed by an "Oops"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    Am I asking too much...probably...
    In Ireland? Almost definitely asking/hoping for too much. Anywhere else in the civilised world, not asking too much at all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Top Dog wrote: »
    In Ireland? Almost definitely asking/hoping for too much. Anywhere else in the civilised world, not asking too much at all.

    I just wouldn't touch one that wasn't loaded with all the toys and for the cheapest price imaginable....I'm not hard to please at all:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    I do like the facelift 156, but it needs leather and alloys...

    Am I asking too much...probably...

    no I agree.....a 156 without leathers is a no go for me too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,115 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Col200sx wrote: »
    You'd get them for that cheap :confused:

    Where'd you get that unkel?


    CP9125.jpg

    Actron CP9125 about €25 shipped to Ireland

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Merc 7 seater estate..new nct, overpriced a tad......

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3975454

    View2-14600235.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Very clean looking C5 with small miles:

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3960467

    Full-14527319.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    Merc 7 seater estate..new nct, overpriced a tad......

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3975454

    View2-14600235.jpeg

    That exact ad was up not too long ago.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    That exact ad was up not too long ago.


    ahhhhhhhhhhh........wonder what the craic is?

    re; the C5, pity she's not a derv..but still....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    ahhhh, and here's a derv burner.....again, a tad overpriced.....tax n' test, on a DL plate, ohhh my god........thats terrible!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/4025507

    View2-14850239.jpeg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,115 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    maidhc wrote: »
    Very clean looking C5 with small miles:

    If that had hydractive and I'd be in the market, I'd be very, very tempted :)

    Very few of them have the hydropneumatic suspension, don't they? Such a pity...

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    unkel wrote: »
    If that had hydractive and I'd be in the market, I'd be very, very tempted :)

    Very few of them have the hydropneumatic suspension, don't they? Such a pity...

    yeah, rare .......and its a pity....such a good suspension on irish roads.


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