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  • #182
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,400 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I was looking at picking up a regular SR16, gearbox etc but if this is around in a month or two... Well, it's worth a look. :D

    VZR N1

    Crashed, Almera front end and some dodgy body work but that's a doner and a half!

    Such a shame to see that destroyed, so rare :mad:


  • #183
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    TiltedBrain wrote: »
    Such a shame to see that destroyed, so rare :mad:

    It is but the body work is in bits.
    The engine and running gear are what make it special really.


  • #184
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/mazda-mx-5-1-6-convertible/5147280

    have a real fancying for the earlier ones of these!

    edit :

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/cheap-deisel/5177042

    cheap tidy looking diesel. questionable mileage and t.belt change.


  • #185
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Looks rough, proboaly has massive milage and could well be beyond enconomic repair but for €380 it could be alright
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/for-sale-97bmw-525d-tax-3month/4836901


  • #186
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Just discovered that there is fantastic Volvo s80 fixeruppers to be had

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-s80-diesel-new-pics/5219724

    Full-20896533.jpeg

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-s80-2000/5096010

    Full-20233233.jpeg

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volvo-s80-2-4t-2000/4885472

    Full-19166752.jpeg


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  • #187
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    cian ryan i found you a fixer upper!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-300zx/5233861

    needs a bit spent on it, but thats a good price tag imo.


  • #188
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    cian ryan i found you a fixer upper!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-300zx/5233861

    needs a bit spent on it, but thats a good price tag imo.

    Going by the green tyres I suspect that's been parked a lot longer than one year.


  • #189
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Toyotafanboi wrote: »
    cian ryan i found you a fixer upper!

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-300zx/5233861

    needs a bit spent on it, but thats a good price tag imo.

    Jesus, being an old Nissan that should sit around for a while. Realisticly I could offer him €750 in 6 weeks...
    I'M SO TEMPTED!

    Just work on it for a year until it's reasonable to insure. Hmm...


  • #190
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    its advertised poorly so i doubt it will sell too fast. its in my local town (i seen it passing on a flatbed into a housing estate before i even seen this add) so if **** gets real pm me and i'l gladly help out, take a look at it or whatever.


  • #191
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Cheers, man.
    I'm 100% serious now, just saving up. :D

    It'll be nice to have someone more versed in mechanics than I am to looks at it with me, and with a level head. :p


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  • #192
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    Purchased this CLK200 today.
    Overheating when moving slowly/sitting in traffic.
    ASR/BAS light on permanently.
    Needs 4 tires.
    Needs driver wing mirror, mirror.
    Needs boot liner board and carpet.
    Got it fairly cheeeeeeeap all the same.


  • #193
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    nice! was only talking to one of the lads in work today with a 01 c200 (maunal) he said he struggled with the BAS light on the dashboard for a while and it turned out to be a faulty brake pedal stop light switch. the internals had broken down/ corroded. he swapped it for one from a scrapped e class of the same vintage and it worked.

    might help you out!


  • #194
    georgefalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭georgefalls


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    Purchased this CLK200 today.
    Overheating when moving slowly/sitting in traffic.
    ASR/BAS light on permanently.
    Needs 4 tires.
    Needs driver wing mirror, mirror.
    Needs boot liner board and carpet.
    Got it fairly cheeeeeeeap all the same.

    Who's is the red FTO..?


  • #195
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    georgefalls wrote: »
    Who's is the red FTO..?

    That'd be mine aswell. My insurance is up for renewal and I can't justify the money I'm being charged so I'm giving it to the OH till I can sort out somewhere to put it.


  • #196
    ToxicPaddy
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    Purchased this CLK200 today.
    Overheating when moving slowly/sitting in traffic.
    ASR/BAS light on permanently.
    Needs 4 tires.
    Needs driver wing mirror, mirror.
    Needs boot liner board and carpet.
    Got it fairly cheeeeeeeap all the same.

    I have to say, I love that shape of CLK.. Was seriously tempted to buy one before I got the A6. Are there any major and expensive issues with them that have appeared or are thet just ones that need continuous maintenance??


  • #197
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    I have to say, I love that shape of CLK.. Was seriously tempted to buy one before I got the A6. Are there any major and expensive issues with them that have appeared or are thet just ones that need continuous maintenance??

    It was a kind of an impulse buy but I did do a little research before hand.
    Rust is an issue with bodypanels and underbody.
    Automatic transmission is prone to seals failing and leaking fluid onto the flywheel (won't be a problem for me as mine is a manual)
    And the ASR light is a very common fault but very cheap quick fix.
    I actually played up the ASR light stuck on as a knackered diff sensor and played up a whole lot of work involved in correcting it.
    The seller had only purchased this car on the 10 of June this year so I imagine he bought it and suddenly realised he needed it off his hands asap.

    Doesn't scare me, no harm in a bit of work.


  • #198
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    Purchased this CLK200 today.
    Overheating when moving slowly/sitting in traffic.
    ASR/BAS light on permanently.
    Needs 4 tires.
    Needs driver wing mirror, mirror.
    Needs boot liner board and carpet.
    Got it fairly cheeeeeeeap all the same.

    Do you own the red fto as well?


  • #199
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Do you own the red fto as well?

    Yup the OH is getting it. Selling her puma to cover the cost of getting the fto back to original condition, her idea.


  • #200
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You're not the same Keith that I bought a red fto off about 5 years ago?


  • #201
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    You're not the same Keith that I bought a red fto off about 5 years ago?

    No not me I'm afraid, this was my first fto which I bought from an Opel dealership in Louth.


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  • #202
    georgefalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭georgefalls


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    That'd be mine aswell. My insurance is up for renewal and I can't justify the money I'm being charged so I'm giving it to the OH till I can sort out somewhere to put it.

    Oh, I've loads of space here.... Bring it up, I'll look after it for ya....Promise :D


  • #203
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Remember this 2.1? (I can't be arsed trying to find the old ad that I posted!) It's for sale again. Driven till the NCT and tax ran out. And who's big fat arse bent the bonnet :(

    Full?id=21044387


  • #204
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    Looks like a nice one at that price. Is that cream leather I spy?


  • #205
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Ded_Zebra wrote: »
    Looks like a nice one at that price. Is that cream leather I spy?

    It's an exec, memory leather indeed ;)

    But at 2088cc with a piss poor 12v head, 110bhp, non intercooled and a crappy EPIC pump it's easy to see why they were never popular with that engine. I'd be binning it for a 1.9 or fitting a bosch pump :p


  • #206
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    dgt wrote: »
    Remember this 2.1? (I can't be arsed trying to find the old ad that I posted!) It's for sale again. Driven till the NCT and tax ran out. And who's big fat arse bent the bonnet :(

    Full?id=21044387

    Would you buy it?


  • #207
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    166man wrote: »
    Would you buy it?

    For the leather and rear discs yes..... Engine would be shoved into the 106! :cool:


  • #208
    head the ball!
    Site Banned Posts: 10 ✭head the ball!


    166man wrote: »
    Would you buy it?
    stevie wonder or ray charles wouldn buy that thing


  • #209
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    head the ball! wrote: »
    stevie wonder or ray charles wouldn buy that thing

    Did you ask them?


  • #210
    Ded_Zebra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,773 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    head the ball! wrote: »
    stevie wonder or ray charles wouldn buy that thing

    A car is of little use to those who can't see.


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  • #211
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,569 ✭✭✭166man


    head the ball! wrote: »
    stevie wonder or ray charles wouldn buy that thing

    Why not?


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