eBay Needs work - Pistachio 2.2 on eBay.

[DaveP]

Just spotted on today. A good project for someone ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-02-...TLC/263827756858?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144

 

[mrscalex]

I'd be on my way to collect it if I didn't have 6 already.

 

[Tfp]

That looks well worth saving.

I wonder if the dealer will let someone drive it away with no MOT?

 

[Sean d]

Looks like a very honest advert and a great buy

 

[pgunter]

That looks a love 2.2 and would make a great car for someone to sort the little bits out. Nice colour too.

 

[Z Victor 1]

There's one on the same 'site' down in Sidmouth, 2.2i, same colour which looks really nice, £3995.

 

[miller1098]

This is interesting as I would like to know what would you estimate the cost to make this car reasonable e.g. refurb split rims ,wings ,sils,paint and service maybe tyres probably suspension bushes ,disks and pads,it would be nice if the hood was watertight and in good nick.

 

[Sean d]

This is interesting as I would like to know what would you estimate the cost to make this car reasonable e.g. refurb split rims ,wings ,sils,paint and service maybe tyres probably suspension bushes ,disks and pads,it would be nice if the hood was watertight and in good nick.

For me a couple of hundred quid

 

[miller1098]

For me a couple of hundred quid

Lol what if someone was paying you?plus the cost of parts paint because I’ll bring mine over to you for£200 please

 

[miller1098]

Pretty please

 

[mrscalex]

It’s not viable to pay someone else. And it’s barely viable to do it yourself. Everything I do with the Z3s is for the enjoyment of saving a car and making it nice. There’s no financial benefit to it.

I would start counting at £2k upwards for any car like this. And that’s before paint and panels. Just parts not labour to sort out eg suspension and brakes which invariably need doing for instance on a 100k miles and 16 year old car. Start throwing in jointed suspension components, a couple of tyres, a cam sensor and you’ll soon end up at £2k.

A dealer isn’t letting this go for sub £2k for no reason.

But the point is you can pay £4K for a car like this that looks pretty and still find out it needs £2k spent on those same bits.

But if you only pay £2k to buy it it in the first place then for the same £4k you have a known good car mechanically. Which is absolutely my take on things. I’m about to finish my 3rd car and I’ve applied the same logic to each.

On top of that...

To acquire decent secondhand replacement panels and a decent full respray you’ll probably get no change out of £2.5k to £3k.

But on all the common colours you can blag your way around getting secondhand panels with decent enough paint that can keep the cost down. Pistachio Green is not a common colour and panels rarely come up. So it’s bodyshop time...

And keep going to sort the interior out.

Or get lucky and find a mug who’s done part or most of the work as the chances are he’ll not make his money back = you win!

And that mug will be me soon as I have to move on 3 of the 6 cars I have and as mentioned that first one is nearly ready now

 

[t-tony]

For the above reasons I wouldn't want to pay any more than £1200 tops.

Tony.

 

[miller1098]

Just had a look at the pics and it looks a bit ropey lots of dented and rusty panels it looks like a lot of time and £ but would take my hat off to anyone that would take it on and I understand how people like maintaining their cars my buddy has spent £25k on a car that’s worth 15k on a good day and that’s not including the purchase price .we spent £1000 on driving around The continent and he has no interest in that.But I sometimes think of spending a bit tarting ours up a bit then again Skye is 500 miles away and would make a good road trip lol.

 

[miller1098]

For the above reasons I wouldn't want to pay any more than £1200 tops.

Tony.

Just looked at the other pistachio one on eBay looks way better and 25k miles less that’s 5 years worth of driving. subject to inspection I’ve a pretty good idea which I’d go for

 

[mrscalex]

Well like you say, you can’t call that without looking at both and knowing what each could be bought for.

 

[TrevD66]

In Australia, a roughies like this one, minus the rust, would cost about $12-15K...... that is 6-7500£ … I like your prices much better just the Australian government will not let us import one unless you have lived in the UK for more than 12 months. The 1.9’s are much cheaper but still more expensive than in the UK.

 

[miller1098]

Well like you say, you can’t call that without looking at both and knowing what each could be bought for.

Thinking about it someone would have to give me me the cheap one for me to own it,I’ll leave that one for someone else to enjoy

 

[Sean d]

Lol what if someone was paying you?plus the cost of parts paint because I’ll bring mine over to you for£200 please

I have spent around 3k on the 2.8 to add to that is about 170 hours labour, it really doesn't add up but I do it for the love of it

 

[Z3I]

I had a conversation with the dealer, sounds like a nice honest bloke, here's the detailed pics he sent me. Expect the worse behind, plus the brakes!

 

[Z3I]

I think he would grab £1500 at a guess...