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May 11th, 2021, 13:58 | #701 | |
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Looking at the MOT history there has been no advisories for rust, the worst thing is it had 11 year old tyres on, but looking at the history not much mileage between MOTs. I would be tempted if it was easy enough for me to get it, but its just not convienient at the moment. Hoping to find something more local and driveable back from wherever it is. It would be a risk booking it in for an MOT on collection.
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May 11th, 2021, 14:33 | #702 | |
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However, given the fact it's stood for 6 months plus, there is a good chance the brakes may have siezed on (especially the handbrake if it's been used), if it's been parked on grass, it could be as rotten as a 3-week old curry left in the sun. Also electrical contacts may have oxidised making certain things not work so there could be a lot of silly problems that would make it a risk driving to the MoT station, whether near or far from the pick up point. For someone who lives in/near Canterbury and has a favourite MoT station nearby, not a problem. They've just bought the car, taking it for a prearranged test and then home to either repair and retest or straight into use, depending on the result of the test. You and i both know all of this and also that there's a fair chance that aside from a bulb failure or similar, it would go more or less straight through the test, especially if it had a bit of a drive to help get the brakes back to moving/working as they should. However the general buying public would view it simply as a 30 ish year old car that needs collecting on a trailer or similar, pushing the price up by £200+++ making it a grand minimum to buy and get it home. Even simply collecting it from where you are, you're looking at a minimum of a 350 mile round trip, call it 360 to make the maths easy and your vehicle to collect and drive back separately does 30mpg and assume the Volvo does 30mpg on the same run. That's 12 gallons for your vehicle to get there and back and 6 gallons to get this one back - 18 gallons at ~£6/gallon currently is another £108 just on fuel, without "incidentals" such as a quick feed/coffee at a motorway service station, about another £20 (Call it £22 for the maths) so up to £130 already. Granted you and a friend/partner/spouse may have had a day out but the cost remains. Then there's the MoT of £54.85 so near as makes no odds, £185 by now. We're £15 short of the magic grand now and i'm sure that would probably go on a takeaway in the evening so you'd had a dinner without cooking. Makes it an expensive gamble, if it needs £500 worth of repairs for the MoT it now holds £1500 of your hard-earned and even with an MoT and all polished up nicely, any dings/scratches attended to would still probably only be an £1800-2500 car, even with the lower mileage. If you're buying it as a labour of love, that wouldn't be a problem but if the thought, however small, is in the back of your mind that one day you'd sell it and hope to make money, as it stands at the moment, you probably would but not much if at all.
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To be fair, anything over 30-50 miles away with no MoT needs trailering if only for your own peace of mind, up to that distance, "You've just bought it and taking it for a pre-booked test then home after". If the question arises about it being a bit far from home, it didn't look that far on the map and you'd already committed to buy it. Trailer hire last time i hired one (2013) was about £70 for the day. Factor in the time and fuel for collecting said vehicle etc and it begins to get impractical for anything over about 200 miles use (each way) in a single day so there's only a small window of opportunity. As you particularly want a saloon, this one wouldn't be in the running for you but makes an interesting example of setting search limits etc when looking for another car.
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Six hours on a train the next morn got me there, the dealer collected me at the station and it took 8 hours to drive home. I checked the truck over the next morn to find I’d had no lights at the back all the way! Fortunately roadworthiness is much more liberally interpreted in the USA - it was easy to get the truck through the Virginia light and brake test (sort of MoT, but much less demanding) and I drove the truck for the 3 years i lived there. After that I checked the distance from home more carefully every time i bought another car or bike! Alan :-)
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Had a similar one with something i bought on fleabay many moons ago allegedly from Cambridge. They gave me the first line of their address and the village name which (not knoiwng Cambridge all that well) i thought was a district of the city. Got there and phoned for directions and it turned out the village they lived in was near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Some people refuse to acknowledge the difference between the county town and the county. They lost the sale as i wasn't about to add a 120 mile round trip to my journey for something i could buy new and have delivered for less than the cost of the petrol to go and collect the item from them and pay for it on top. Not quite the same scale and more their mistake than mine for not knowing where they lived but same general idea. I now double-check if it says something ambiguous on the location exactly where it is, after all there are many places with duplicated names in different parts of the country (for example, 3x St Ives, at least 2x Watlington, Narborough, Fordham and a few others i can't bring to mind) and sometimes get a rude reply back saying it's in a certain area which gets an equally polite reply of "Oh, i thought it was in <different area>".
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The Ford truck turned out to be marvellous: it had belonged to a builder and had a little ding in almost every panel - the dealer had taken it in a PX and wanted to get rid of it quickly so I bought it (for about $2,000 - then £1,000). I fixed the truck up a little bit and it became a vehicle of choice (although I also had a Mustang and a Mitsubishi SUV) for the next 3 years and 30,000 miles. It proved very popular amongst my neighbours (in a very well heeled suburb of DC) - there was always someone that wanted to borrow it to move a piano, dining room table or collect a load of mulch for their garden. At the end of my tour I sold it to a biking mate - I think for $2,000. ... interesting registration plates were much easier to obtain in Virginia:
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Likewise, however it was only added that day on a 7 day auction. It stated it was removed due to an error in the listing, and looking at the original and the new listing, they have changed the location from London to Canterbury.
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