Two more 2.5 estates
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:48 am
Been collecting life expired, high mileage 2.5 estates this week.
Yesterdays needed trailering as it had been stood SORN for quite a while.
Towing was outside my experience so the PO was kind enough to use his V6 C5 and a hired trailer to shift the XM.
95M blue VSX estate that needs some underbody welding if it is to go back on the road.
Quite a few other items needed as well so most likely a spares donor.
Thursday car was a silver 2.5 estate, a runner with just 7 days MOT left.
At a bit above 260k miles it is the highest mileage one I have taken on.
Generally well looked after, lots spent on it over the years, with loads of service history.
It has a temporary refixed front bumper following an arguement with a gate post.
The high estimates for the permanent repair had made the PO decide to part with the car.
He needed it gone before the MOT ran out and had obtained a few scrapyard prices.
Then he realised he was too attached to the XM to send it to scrap.
He made a few phone calls to try to find a new owner and ended up talking to me.
As it was a legal runner I collected the car from Milton Keynes drove it across to Sawtry to see Malcolm at Pliaedes then back home.
Apart from no syncro on third gear it seems to do all that you would expect of a 2.5TD so it will go for MOT on Monday.
John
Yesterdays needed trailering as it had been stood SORN for quite a while.
Towing was outside my experience so the PO was kind enough to use his V6 C5 and a hired trailer to shift the XM.
95M blue VSX estate that needs some underbody welding if it is to go back on the road.
Quite a few other items needed as well so most likely a spares donor.
Thursday car was a silver 2.5 estate, a runner with just 7 days MOT left.
At a bit above 260k miles it is the highest mileage one I have taken on.
Generally well looked after, lots spent on it over the years, with loads of service history.
It has a temporary refixed front bumper following an arguement with a gate post.
The high estimates for the permanent repair had made the PO decide to part with the car.
He needed it gone before the MOT ran out and had obtained a few scrapyard prices.
Then he realised he was too attached to the XM to send it to scrap.
He made a few phone calls to try to find a new owner and ended up talking to me.
As it was a legal runner I collected the car from Milton Keynes drove it across to Sawtry to see Malcolm at Pliaedes then back home.
Apart from no syncro on third gear it seems to do all that you would expect of a 2.5TD so it will go for MOT on Monday.
John
