Mud-club
Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: xmob on April 01, 2005, 01:21:05
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I've seen an SJ on eBay. The auction finishes tomorrow. It's local to me. It'll never go on the road again. I can't really afford it, but I'll manage. Much as I'd like an SJ, I'd rather have a rag top.
Please stop me bidding.
I really really really want a plugga, but I have a Series III sitting on the drive that I should be fixing. Maybe if I buy the SJ, then sell it when Thora is complete.
Somebody stop me!!
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Dont do it, :(scared):
Put the Mouse Down Step Away from the Computer
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I'm trying, but it's so hard to.
PS Love the new avatar, "Brain the size of a planet" :D
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<whispers> Buy it, Buy it, Buy it
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Cheers for the support there, Tim.
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Glad to help 8)
Best get logged on... it ends soon ;-)
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How about playing hunt the mouse. Get your wife to hide the mouse from the computer, somewhere in the house. If you find it in time, you can bid! :(bigshock):
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Go on... you know you want too... :twisted:
Besides, you were obviously meant to have it, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed it from all the others on eBay....
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There is absolutely no way dare I mention this to the wife! I'll be looking for a new home. At least if I do buy it, I can tell her not to worry 'cos it's going up to LQ and will stay there. Hiding the mouse wouldn't work, I'd just get a new one out of the loft. :)
Come on guys! You're meant to be stopping me, not encouraging me.
You've got just under 7 hours to convince me not to buy it...
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Be honest now, you dont really want us to stop you, do you :?:
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Erm yes, erm no, I mean yes, no!
Oh, I dunno.
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Ahhhhh
but you could mention to her that it would stop you driving hers up there? :twisted: :twisted:
Go onnnnnnnnn
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But I don't drive hers up there! :^o
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Birthday treat for yourself?
Christmas is only 9 months away!
Erm, you need one for work?
Theres a super volcanoe thats threating to blow at any time, so who needs money, and we should enjoy life to the full?
Take your pick :wink: :twisted:
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"I can't really afford it"
"I'd rather have a rag top"
"I have a Series III sitting on the drive that I should be fixing"
There you are, see ... you don't actually want it at all :D :wink:
Unless, of course, the SJ seller wants to swap with your Series III :-k
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I will never part company with my Series III. Hell would freeze over 1st. Which is part of the problem. The missus wouldn't have a problem with me getting a mud plugga, if I didn't have the Series III.
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Somebody tell me it's a shed, and that I shouldn't go anywhere near it.
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Oh my :shock: I hope that's cheap :shock:
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Oh my :shock: I hope that's cheap :shock:
Yay! Somebody has finally helped me. What would you call cheap?
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That's a SHED don't go near it :roll:
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Oh my :shock: I hope that's cheap :shock:
Yay! Somebody has finally helped me. What would you call cheap?
I don't think I would want it in the slightest, so that lowers my max price :wink: What's the bidding up to at the moment?
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£155
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£155
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, OK, at the moment that's not too bad :wink: Personally, I ... no, I wouldn't want it :lol:
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Wrong answer! :lol:
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Pete,
It's an absolute heap... for that money you could fix the Series 3 and have a better end result.
Look... it is even fitted with an a-frame... must break down a lot
:-)
(Does that help ?)
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Tim, if you can turn this into a runner for £155 feel free! :D I would even make you tea/coffee/beer and feed you.
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Well, just think ... if you buy the Suzuki, you'll have less time to devote to your series III. Are you sure that's fixable though :shock:
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That sounds like a challenge !
Shame you live so far away :-(
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Are you sure that's fixable though
All Series Land Rovers are fixable! As Trigger once said, "I've had this brush all my life, it's only had 4 new handles and 6 new heads" :D
That sounds like a challenge !
Shame you live so far away
I have a sofa bed. :D
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Get another S3, at least you will have some spares for the other one if you get desperate :wink: :lol:
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Get another S3
For £155??? Then there's the issue of it needing to be on the drive, which will NOT keep SWMBO happy. At least with an SJ (that moves) I can use it and keep it at work.
Just over an hour to go now. :twisted:
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I say sod it, buy it and get it up to LQ and have some fun :D
These are great for off roading in, and cheap to maintain and repair, the series will wait just a while longer :lol:
ONE LIFE, LIVE IT :wink:
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Well ????
Did you get it?
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Don't do it Pete...
I've just read the description... you need to put a new clutch in it before you can even use it :shock:
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Clutch isn't a problem, remember where I work and what we use as fleet vehicles. Can be done in about 2 hours. :D
Fifteen minutes to go. Somebody keep me occupied with something...
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Buy it and plaster it with Mud Club stickers :lol:
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He'll need to Andy... the amount of rot in the bodyshell, it will fall off otherwise !
There are others on there Pete... just need a bit of engine TLC... much better condition
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Incidentally, aside from the fact that it is currently not "as one"... what's wrong with the Series ?
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I bottled it! Pat on the back for Pete. Still feeling like I've let myself down though.
The Series ideally needs a new chassis, other than that (and a set of springs), it just needs putting back together.
I have a good as new rear half chassis (including middle crossmember), but I don't really have the means to line it up properly. My welding is competent enough, just not able to line up two halves of chassis on a (once) grass drive.
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Well then.... I happen to know a man with a reasonable Series 3 chassis who would be happy to part with it for a lot less than £155 ;-)
Not a million miles from you either..
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I presume you know how to use PM. :D
C'mon, now you've got me excited. Don't tell me it's a 109" one either.
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Well done for not buying that heap.
You'll not regret it, especially when you see your SIII all spruced up! :D
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I would never be allowed to have a dismantled vehicle like that in the back garden.
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Now that I would allow - but it would never make it back through the house to the road once in one piece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :? :?
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:(biglaugh): :(biglaugh): :(biglaugh): :(biglaugh):
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the sj i bought for £30 was in miles better condition than that 1,well done for not buying it :lol:
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Here here, £155????
Ebay, the most expensive place in the world for complete s***e. Oh, hang on, it wasn't even complete!! :shock:
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Pete
Just found this thread,
obviously I've been paying attention guys, .................... :oops:
If you still want a rag top SJ410
one of the lad's that's coming with us to Langdale on Sunday has one sat on the drive with no T & T etc..., all the obvious extra's, mud, rust, holes everywhere, run's and rattles (occaisional'y) like a bag of knac$$rs.
So, if your'e still up for the challenge............ I'll introduce you.
The obligaratory fee will apply of course (either 10% of sale or a cup of coffee). Coffee will be great (85p, probably best end of deal)
Se ya at the weekend
Dave
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Weeeelllllll...
A would still like a rag top to play with while Thora the Series 3 is being sorted. But Thora might be sorted quicker than expected thanks to this thread. :D
I'll speak to y'all on Sunday. I'll buy you a coffee anyway. :D
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erm, might be a simple question, but if you dont realy want an SJ.... why on earth was you looking on eBay for one in the first place then :wink:
<have fun if you get one>
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Many moons ago, I wanted an SJ because I couldn't afford a Landie. Then my uncle sold me a Series 3. Turned out to be a lemon. :evil:
Still, I fell in love with Thora and vowed to get her back to health. My missus HATES me using her Disco off road, so I was looking for a toy to use until Thora is fixed. An SJ was/is ideal as they're cheap and we use them at LQ.
IF a usable one comes up at a sensible price, I'll still buy one. :D
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aahh, OK then, that makes sense...... :wink:
I will keep my eyes open for you and let you know if I see something
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Many moons ago, I wanted an SJ because I couldn't afford a Landie. Then my uncle sold me a Series 3. Turned out to be a lemon.
How could you possibly mistake a lemon for a Series 3 :roll: :wink:
I say ... forget the SJ and get on with the restoration! but then, it's easy to say, isn't it :lol:
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I say ... forget the SJ and get on with the restoration! but then, it's easy to say, isn't it :lol:
But I want to get muddy! :D
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I say ... forget the SJ and get on with the restoration! but then, it's easy to say, isn't it :lol:
But I want to get muddy! :D
Well, do what my children do ... find the nearest muddy puddle and jump in it as many times as possible :lol: Oh, and if you can't find a muddy puddle, make your own by filling a bucket with water from the outside tap and pouring it over the nearest mud :roll: :lol:
By the way, what is a "Langdale Quest Patrol Driver"?
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By the way, what is a "Langdale Quest Patrol Driver"?
Somebody who get's paid to drive around in mud telling other drivers what to do. :D
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But I want to get muddy!
then do what you have been doing...... use the wifes car!!! ahh but no, that is where all this started when she saw your avatar if I remember :roll:
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And the repair bills. :oops:
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Can you not "borrow" a LQ one?
Having seen them though, have thay got any mot's? :?
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Can you not "borrow" a LQ one?
Having seen them though, have thay got any mot's? :?
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Nice one, Julie! This thread now qualifies to be placed in the jokes section.
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Thought they hadn't. :lol:
Now.......................is that safe for the paying public :?:
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In terms of safety, they are VERY safe. Roll cages, reinforced floors and seat mountings blah blah. It's just things like faulty electrics and bad bodies that make them look bad.
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Imagine having to repair all the dints that they get from the way people drive them (saw one bloke, should I say, "gunning it", through a mud run, when we were last there)!
Best to leave them alone in that respect. :D
You could trailer one to somewhere, if there was a spare one available.
Where there's a will there's a way! :? :shock:
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Dints and scratches we can live with. It's broken springs, diffs, clutches etc that cause the problems.
And the idiots, as you saw, that gun it through mud and water. They then wonder why their engine won't run. We can tell straight away if it's a genuine mechanical problem or not, due to the amount of mud and water under the bonnet. They soon learn though when we just make them sit and wait while it all dries out. :D
I don't think borrowing one is an option, they are nearly always either in use, or being fixed. Plus I'd probably end up breaking one.
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They soon learn though when we just make them sit and wait while it all dries out.
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Hi Pete, here a suki for you.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=18283&item=4541194781&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
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You offering to pay, Colin? :D
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Pete
You have a PM
Dave
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Eerrrr..... just trying to help :(scared):
I'm skint anyway. :roll: