Red ph2 valver on the bay

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:23 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CITROEN-BX-GTI-16 ... 286.c0.m14

Not really worth good money with the repairs needed, but sounds ok mechanically. And obviously red valvers are driven by total legends

Post by **docchevron** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:49 am

Does that include drivers of red lookylikey P2's????

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:08 pm

Anyone had experience fixing...

...This nasty looking bit of rot? Is is a massively hard bit to do properly (Taking the screen out etc...) or is it easier than it looks?

Matt

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:22 pm

Although I am not a repairer, I believe (received wisdom if you like) that it is not a happy situation: a difficult repair...

Post by **docchevron** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:41 am

Easy enough to repair if
A: the screen is removed, and
B: you have a nice shiny secondhand pillar ready to go in.

Impossible to do properly with the screen in.

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:58 am

Okay, that's all I needed to know... Might be on the lookout for a project valver at the minute, that's all

Post by **docchevron** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:13 am

It's no great shakes to remove the screen if you have a hot wire TBH.

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:47 pm

If the car was a bit closer to home, I'd probably take a punt on it, but Bristol is a fair old trek for me at the minute, especially just to go and look at it...

And I really would want to see it first, unless it went for it's starting bid, which might just be worth the risk of buying blind!

Although a mint Black Phase 2 might be worth going to Bristol for

Post by **docchevron** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:21 pm

I could go have a look if you like?

And it'd be pointless coming to Bristol for a black valver, I'm pretty sure there aint any black valvers left in Bristol now.
I think I've owned / sold on / scrapped them all!

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:55 pm

It's worth buying blind for the starting bid, but anything over £400 I'd wanna have a look first.
Any running valver is worth £300 these days.

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:20 am

Well, thanks for the offer Doc, but I think this one came up a bit soon... another couple of weeks, and maybe, but there's the old cash-flow problem at the minute

Also, I would feel bad for wasting your time if I didn't win it.

I'd say that this one is probably £500 worth, with it being taxed and tested, but then you have to consider the rust, and everything else that might be wrong with it.

Post by **Tim Leech** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:52 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BX-16valve-16v-GT ... 911.c0.m14

Another one bites the dust, still has 11 months MOT if anyone has a spare engine?

jonathan_dyane · Post by **jonathan_dyane** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:23 pm

But for the fact that it would be an insurance nightmare, I'd be tempted to go for this and throw a diesel in...

Post by **Tim Leech** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:38 pm

Whata waste.

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:44 pm

£99 ain't worth it imho and he's got it on a private listing which means he'll either have his mates running the bidding up or there's something dodgy about it.