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lacedr

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Hi,
i have just been to look at a 1986 2.5 oval dash it is an original car with wear to the seats bit dirty inside but presentable enough.
body work wise there were some stone chips to the front and a couple of small dings. the sills looked solid apart from one of the drain holes was a bit corroded with a bit of flakey paint to where the plastic cover is on the bottom of the rear wing but was solid.
the car from cold was a little tappety but fine when warm the car drove very well with no untoward noises or anything and all the electrics worked as they should have.

price £1850 what do you think ?
ebay item 271073928977

cheers

Dave
 
I dont expect any car to be tappety unless its for spares/repairs money tbh at 200000 mines not tappety.

Mas
 
well not sure if it was tappets but there was a noise from the top end when cold but did not sound terrible if that makes sense!
 
they can sound very bad if they have been standing for a few weeks. it can take quite a time (10-15 mins in my experience) for the pressure to build in the tappets.

once sorted though, the next startup from cold should be noise free.
 
People frequently mistake the noise from the injectors for tappet noise. £1,800-odd sounds dear for a sheddy car, though.



Simon
 

ORIGINAL: lacedr

Hi,
i have just been to look at a 1986 2.5 oval dash it is an original car with wear to the seats bit dirty inside but presentable enough.
body work wise there were some stone chips to the front and a couple of small dings. the sills looked solid apart from one of the drain holes was a bit corroded with a bit of flakey paint to where the plastic cover is on the bottom of the rear wing but was solid.
the car from cold was a little tappety but fine when warm the car drove very well with no untoward noises or anything and all the electrics worked as they should have.

price £1850 what do you think ?
ebay item 271073928977
We'll need a LOT more information than that to give an idea of whether it's worth the money. Service history? Number of owners? Condition of bodywork? Condition of tyres? When were belts/sills/clutch/fuel lines last replaced? Bits that worked and didn't work? Was the toolkit there? Was the original owners manual there?

However, as the question is short we can probably give a short answer: overpriced shed.


Oli.
 
to be honest i think overpriced, 3 owners has spme history the guy has owned it for 20 years belts done 10,000 miles ago.
i think if it were £1200 i might have had a go as far as i know all of the body work is original.

ok while i am o the subject what about this on pistonheads
271073928977

prob take £1100 £1200
this is what the car said i quite like the look of this but how much would a clutch cost ?

The rust as far as I'm aware is non-structural (from a previous MOT advisory) and is restricted to the front wheel arches and some bubbles along the sills.
I've been under the car on a ramp recently to diagnose the clutch and actually apart from that I was surprised how good it all looked under there. I think there's a small patch above the rear number plate too but only surface and about size of an egg.
Car can be driven fine. There is only a small clunk when engaging the clutch. This is because its hitting the fail-over tabs on the clutch plate each time it gets engaged. Its less in higher gears as both are spinning faster then. If you feather the clutch its fine really.
I originally has it up for 2.5k then learnt of clutch issue. Then I reduced to 1600 but got no interest so now 1300. I've come down a lot already and its heartbreaking.
I've seen these on eBay for 1k for breaking and there are so many new parts on here.
Current buyer is paying 1200 but hasn't yet got to even see it in about 10 days! I'm losing patience with him so giving him ultimatum.
Cheers,
Fraser.
Dave
 
271073928977

Looking at the ad, it tells you nothing at all (which shows the seller knows little about the car). I think it's possibly a car with potential; it's likely to have mechanical work looming if it's not been used much, but your description of the bodywork is positive.

How many cars have you seen? I mean cars that aren't for sale, but owners who will honestly show you what to look for. The tappet noise could be nothing, or it could be a new engine; but a new engine is cheaper, for instance, than properly sorting faded Guards Red paint that's been polished up to sell a car. I'm not saying that's the case here, merely that some problems are more expensive than others, and engines aren't the biggest expense you could be landed with on an old, but common, Porsche

So many pitfalls to watch out for, and so much depents on whether you want the car for a year or two's fun, or as a keeper.
 

ORIGINAL: lacedr

to be honest not many so still finding my way round them.
Dave

Hi Dave, you sound a bit like myself, keen to buy but not sure exactly what is what.

After starting a servicing/maintenance thread and seeing the various replies I won't be rushing in to buy mine. It is unlikely that I will be buying one that doesn't have receipts for recent work and an owner who has cared for it as much as I will want to. Will probably mean it will cost top dollar, but I think it will minimise the crying into your beer moments.

Graham
 
After starting a servicing/maintenance thread and seeing the various replies I won't be rushing in to buy mine. It is unlikely that I will be buying one that doesn't have receipts for recent work and an owner who has cared for it as much as I will want to. Will probably mean it will cost top dollar, but I think it will minimise the crying into your beer moments.

So good to see wise thoughts. These cars do tend to advertise very well; a couple of grand for a Porsche, with things like "electrics", and some really shiny photos.

Look for sellers who know the car and have bills to prove it's recent history. Everything else is, sadly, in the middle ground where you are unlikely to find a bargain given the costs of running any older car these days.

 

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