I've just bought some poverty Pork…

[andy97]

TROOPER88 said:

andy97 said:

Absolutely the cheapest I have seen.
Scruffy, but for that price does it matter?
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202406110...

It was advertised for £1750 last week on FB.

I messaged the seller who seemed a decent chap but I have too much on at the mo to have taken it on. The £1750 included the hard top.

Crikey, the hard top is probably worth about £750.
It does make me wonder if there was more wrong with it than just requiring an MoT and a brake servo. Did the seller explain everything that was wrong?
Why not just get the MoT and servo done and sell it for a bit more?
Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.
The MoT history isn’t too bad to be fair, https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?regis... but I am not really a gambling man but maybe someone is?!

Edited by andy97 on Tuesday 25th June 14:06

[ATM]

andy97 said:

Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.

There is no such thing as a cheap Porsche

Cars like this with no MOT only make sense for mechanical minded folk who can fix at home themselves. If you can't then you need to buy a car which needs little to nothing doing.

[andy97]

ATM said:

andy97 said:

Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.

There is no such thing as a cheap Porsche

Cars like this with no MOT only make sense for mechanical minded folk who can fix at home themselves. If you can't then you need to buy a car which needs little to nothing doing.

Oh, I know that. I have owned and raced several 924/944Ts so i have experienced the cost of Porsches. Sometimes it can be justified, sometimes not?
I just think that the seller of this one would have more joy selling if he sorted an MoT and repairs the brake servo.

[Armitage.Shanks]

andy97 said:

ATM said:

andy97 said:

Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.

There is no such thing as a cheap Porsche

Cars like this with no MOT only make sense for mechanical minded folk who can fix at home themselves. If you can't then you need to buy a car which needs little to nothing doing.

Oh, I know that. I have owned and raced several 924/944Ts so i have experienced the cost of Porsches. Sometimes it can be justified, sometimes not?
I just think that the seller of this one would have more joy selling if he sorted an MoT and repairs the brake servo.

As a dealer it's probably easier for them to flip it having made a decent wedge if they got it from FB at I suspect less than £1,750. And they're selling the hard top separate.

[andy97]

Armitage.Shanks said:

andy97 said:

ATM said:

andy97 said:

Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.

There is no such thing as a cheap Porsche

Cars like this with no MOT only make sense for mechanical minded folk who can fix at home themselves. If you can't then you need to buy a car which needs little to nothing doing.

Oh, I know that. I have owned and raced several 924/944Ts so i have experienced the cost of Porsches. Sometimes it can be justified, sometimes not?
I just think that the seller of this one would have more joy selling if he sorted an MoT and repairs the brake servo.

As a dealer it's probably easier for them to flip it having made a decent wedge if they got it from FB at I suspect less than £1,750. And they're selling the hard top separate.

Trooper88, 3 or 4 posts above, said that the £1750 now included the hard top.

I assume it was a trade in, and they just want rid having made their money on whatever the purchased car was.

[CallMeLegend]

Nice cheap launch spec car

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395454911226?itmmeta=01...

[TROOPER88]

andy97 said:

Crikey, the hard top is probably worth about £750.
It does make me wonder if there was more wrong with it than just requiring an MoT and a brake servo. Did the seller explain everything that was wrong?
Why not just get the MoT and servo done and sell it for a bit more?
Sadly, I am mechanically incompetent so I would have to rely on a specialist to fix whatever needs doing and at £90 plus Vat an hour, plus parts, that probably quickly adds up.
The MoT history isn’t too bad to be fair, https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/results?regis... but I am not really a gambling man but maybe someone is?!

Edited by andy97 on Tuesday 25th June 14:06

All I recall is that it had been sat on his drive and the brake pipe split. This is why he could not get it MOT'd.

The dealer would have just replaced the offending pipe and got the MOT. Had the owner got it recovered to his local garage, it could well have been that they wanted to replace far more than just the one pipe and this is when costs can spiral.