Mine...mine I tell you!

[bozothenutter]

Put down a deposit on a arctic blue 182 today, picking her up on saturday.
2005 64K Km's looks like a cup, but not sure yet...
Happy as the clap in a whorehouse.....

and so it starts.........

 

[iso982]

good on u mate, congrats! :approve:

 

[marinemackay2003]

and so what starts?

 

[andywa]

Spot on. Need pics once you pick up the car.

 

[Wests Renault]

where you from??

 

[bozothenutter]

Pics coming up...was such crap weather yestreday I could hardly see out on the stest drive!
I'm from Holland, the country where Rs's are 2 to 3 times as expensive as in the UK.

 

[easym5]

You have picked the best colour matey,when you say they are more expensive how much are you having to pay

 

[Mason-G-]

looks like a cup, but not sure yet... QUOTE]

Wouldnt this be a key bit of info when buying the car? :S

Sounds like youve rushed into this

 

[bozothenutter]

don't laugh...9k.....that is about twice the prices in the UK right?
It looks like a cup with the frontspoiler missing,, will check on sat if it is (measure the bolt spacing)
It did feel very thight suspension wise, and strong and quiet engine wise.
I have made an appointment to have its belts done, so it should be nealrly new in a few days....:approve:

these are pics I nicked from the traders site.

 

[Nickson]

Not a Cup, but has Cup packs if I am not mistaken?

Looks nice

 

[.Adam.]

Looks nice, mad amount of money for a 182!

 

[-J-]

Im off to Holland to Sell my Cup if thats what they are fetching out there!

Looks nice though, as above looks to be a 182 With Cup Packs rather than a 182 Cup.

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

no front splitter though so maybe just the 1 cup pack.

 

[Jacko90]

Im off to Holland to Sell my Cup if thats what they are fetching out there!.

Me too! Looks like a cup packed! Nice choice.

 

[Mason-G-]

surely you would have been better off buying one over here and taking it to hooland with you as an import :S

 

[Nickson]

Wrong hand drive? Lol.

 

[.Adam.]

surely you would have been better off buying one over here and taking it to hooland with you as an import :S

That's what I was thinking but it could be the whole RHD/LHD thing..

 

[Owen]

^apart from the fact that it would then be RHD

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

buy one from france?...

 

[Mason-G-]

Yeah it would be RHD but thats the only way to drive IMO lol. Nah the import surcharge apparently is something like 70% so with travel costs etc it wouldnt have work out much different

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

Problem solved!!

 

[jimjim150]

I sold a Clio to some guys from France once, it had a number of problems and they didn't really seem to care. As it was half the money they'd pay back home anyway - I got a really good price for it lol. So win win.

To the OP, did you say you're getting the belts done? 6 years old, ~£9k, at a dealer (by the looks of it) - and the belts have never been changed?!
:S

 

[bozothenutter]

actually i have been looking at france and belgium as a possible source aswell...but the pricing is the same there, and on arrival in Holland i'd have to pay an extra tax based on it's residual value...

 

[Mason-G-]

Oh well, look at it this way.............. you have the dam and all its glory so be happy with that

 

[bozothenutter]

not even a dealer.....I think they had it on consignation (correct word?) from a dealer....tried to haggle them down but no joy.
There were only 50 odd 182's ever sold here in holland anyways.....

 

[Leeshez]

Nice car .

 

[bozothenutter]

Dammit...just had the belts done....just found out they had been done in 2010.....€1K down the drain

 

[Tiger260]

Oh well, better safe than sorry.

At least you now know for sure that they have been done and done properly.

 

[pendulumx]

We are lucky in the UK for used car prices, you just cannot get the deals we can in a lot of countries. £4000 for a 10-year-old 1.2 Corsa in Portugal and so on... could not believe it as I walked around the forecourts...

Congratulations on your buy