Seems cheap

damon · Post by **damon** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 10:07 am

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/331359965977?nav=SEARCH

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:08 am

Already been posted up - that's nothing like as cheap as the car was just a month ago!!!

damon · Post by **damon** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:44 am

Didn't know it had been posted up.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:58 am

No worries, that wasn't meant to be critical.
Previous thread is here, btw.

Chuffter · Post by **Chuffter** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:58 pm

This looks very similar, sure this is an ex PUK members Lude, I remember the plate from somewhere and the Type S intake.

Post by **Donald** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:00 am

Not a TypeS intake exactly, found as standard on both the TypeS and H22A8 Preludes

Chuffter · Post by **Chuffter** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:37 am

Ahhh okay cool didn't know that, thought it was just a type S thing.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:33 pm

Chuffter wrote:This looks very similar, sure this is an ex PUK members Lude, I remember the plate from somewhere and the Type S intake.

Yes, the car was known on the forum and that's why I posted up the link to the previous for sale thread in my previous post.

The asking price was too high considering what the bloke paid for it just a month before.

I wonder if it did sell and for how much?

Post by **Donald** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:40 pm

I get what you're saying wurly, but just because someone gets something cheap it doesn't reduce it's value IMO. Sure it's a bit sly but it's his choice. I'm sure we can all agree that car is worth more than the 800 odd paid for it, and discounting any work the chap might have done with his own hands, timing belt service isn't cheap either if you get someone else to do it. I think he's right to ask for more.

If I swap a fiver for a tenner, it doesn't mean the tenner is suddenly worth less.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:09 pm

Whether the car was worth more than the £800 previously paid for it or not is debatable (£800 was actually the value I put on it when I saw it). Generally a sound car, but both arches were rusty (only one side was visible, but the inner arch was rusty all round on the other side when you got in and felt it) which counts against it a lot when there's still lots of 5th gens around.

Anyway, that argument is done and dusted.
What is relevant is that after having the cam belt done it's worth a bit more, but it's still got a broken spring and it's not suddenly worth £1500 PLUS EXTRA for the replacement set of springs that he was given FOR FREE within the £800 he paid for it. That's utterly taking the body lemonade.