26,000 mile BX!!
26,000 mile BX!!
Mark Smith
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1989 BX GTi 16 valve. Blanc Alpine. Completed the Citroen Classic Challenge Ecosse and 1337 miles without a hitch.
2000 XM VSX 2.1 td Auto. Rouge Magenta.
TGD saloon many years ago.
1990 Swift 'Corniche' 12/2 aka BXClub HQ.
Honda Firestorm. Gone, but not forgotten.
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Is it just me or is everything shit?
1989 BX GTi 16 valve. Blanc Alpine. Completed the Citroen Classic Challenge Ecosse and 1337 miles without a hitch.
2000 XM VSX 2.1 td Auto. Rouge Magenta.
TGD saloon many years ago.
1990 Swift 'Corniche' 12/2 aka BXClub HQ.
Honda Firestorm. Gone, but not forgotten.
2015 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC.
Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Very nice, but lhd and that price .
Mark
Mark
Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
I know this seller,a 'part time' dealer who visits France quite often.
2003 Saab 9-3.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
It is a bit optimistic on the price, but a lovely car though.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Low milers, bit of a prob as a Classic. If you use it its value evaporates. But what use is a car if you do not drive it? Not sure BX have reached that stage in Classic ownership. If that so where is the market for this car? Surely its worth more in France.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
When I had a 23,000 mile 16TGS auto, because I only paid £450 for it, I wasn't too worried about depreciation. In fact it gained value at the point I sold it at about 30,000 miles. But this, at over three grand, will be worth less and less as it gets used (as Thread Bear rightly observes!) and I can see it being hovering around the £1250 mark after a year's everyday use. Is it a fair days and holidays garaged classic? Not yet I suspect...
But what IS it worth? I'd say, as it probably doesn't need an awful lot of work, knock a grand off and it'll seem OK. Losing a grand over let's say a couple of years by using it doesn't seem so harsh then.
But what IS it worth? I'd say, as it probably doesn't need an awful lot of work, knock a grand off and it'll seem OK. Losing a grand over let's say a couple of years by using it doesn't seem so harsh then.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Yep, if he'd put it up for two and a half I'd say he was in with a chance.Philip Chidlow wrote: But what IS it worth? I'd say . . . knock a grand off and it'll seem OK.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
I like the price on this 26,000 mile BX. Mainly because I have a 17,000 mile BX in the garage, and have still to convince my missus it was a good idea to get it. Maybe this will!
If he actually sells it
If he actually sells it
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Looks like it does not even have matching tail lights, one green tint, the other smoke/clear? Now the green tinters must be worth a few squid.....
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
And the seller is mistaken in saying it "comes with tax until 31/05/2015".... Not anymore!
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Unless it's still on French plates.Philip Chidlow wrote:And the seller is mistaken in saying it "comes with tax until 31/05/2015".... Not anymore!
Mark Smith
Is it just me or is everything shit?
1989 BX GTi 16 valve. Blanc Alpine. Completed the Citroen Classic Challenge Ecosse and 1337 miles without a hitch.
2000 XM VSX 2.1 td Auto. Rouge Magenta.
TGD saloon many years ago.
1990 Swift 'Corniche' 12/2 aka BXClub HQ.
Honda Firestorm. Gone, but not forgotten.
2015 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC.
Is it just me or is everything shit?
1989 BX GTi 16 valve. Blanc Alpine. Completed the Citroen Classic Challenge Ecosse and 1337 miles without a hitch.
2000 XM VSX 2.1 td Auto. Rouge Magenta.
TGD saloon many years ago.
1990 Swift 'Corniche' 12/2 aka BXClub HQ.
Honda Firestorm. Gone, but not forgotten.
2015 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC.
Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Even low mileage motors can rot. All depends on how its been stored. Mollie, my BX being restored at Chevronics looked like crap with terrible paintwork but underneath was fantastic with hardly any rust showing anywhere on the body,pipes etc a tad crusty, you may all have seen the pictures. She must have been kept under cover all her life. Has this one? Mollie was a freebie but not a runner and will be an expensive but marvellous motor in the end.
I would really need to see this motor in the flesh before i bought it. And, there's bound to be things wrong with it. There always is.
Andy
I would really need to see this motor in the flesh before i bought it. And, there's bound to be things wrong with it. There always is.
Andy
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Undesirable model in lhd.... Nice example but it's not worth anywhere near that.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
The seller is not doing themselves any favours by saying the engine is 80bhp, 94bhp I think the later 16s. Pretty nippy with nothing but the driver in.
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Re: 26,000 mile BX!!
Actually the 80 figure is correct for th injection model! It (the 1.6) 'lost' 12 Hp or so when going injection......