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  1. Have you had the wheels repainted in BMW style "shadow-chrome"? thinking of same for my 400.
  2. Guilty Was my old nightfall blue S-SR, wrong place, wrong time. Driving home one evening crossing a complex traffic light junction and young lad coming towards me turned right (he wrongly thought he had a filter). He was so close when he turned that I only clipped his offside front corner but I was doing about 35-40. First I knew of it was sitting in the verge with airbags all gone off and a lot of smoke; not something I want to repeat. Felt sorry for the lad, just made a silly mistake with devestating consequences, fortunately nobody seriously injured, he admitted full liability. Had a hell of a battle with the insurer (the one with the dog!), gave no recognition of the fact it was an SR and paid low S value, I took it to the obbudsman who ruled in favour of the insurer, appealed it and won. Even so, I reckon I was still around £1,500 short but up until then it looked like I was going to be down £7k. Now have gap insurance on the 400, will go agreed value when I can. Gutted to have lost one on my watch, was a beautiful car... and a really nice seat!
  3. MOT Checker shows silver one is a NI car, I think it may have been serviced a bit late. Personally, I prefer that colour/interior/wheel combi to the other two but that's subjective, I don't thin teh above would put me off but I'd want it a bit cheaper than they're asking. £45k one looks excellent value, red interior seems to be a bit Marmite, though. £52k nice but looks pricey, obviously that reflects the v.low mileage but that's main dealer money. Amazes me how much difference it makes to price, whether it's done 3k miles per year or, as that one, less than 1k it's still pretty low mileage.
  4. Sub £40k 400: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403097402147 I love those option ten spoke alloys.
  5. Due a service and could do with a wheel refurb, £26-7k? Similar mileage manual S 2+2 with leather on PH for £31k
  6. Interesting, "475GT Sport" https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401275965606 Love the colour. "Kromotec" ? 🙄 Big money though.
  7. That might have cured me, I've been lusting after a C8 for a while but with a 0-60mph of 3.9s rather than the claimed 2.8s it doesn't seem quite so special.
  8. Agree, they should be good for twice that, had it been my car at the time, I'd have just ignored the MOT advisery. Problem comes when you're selling, MOT advisery's there for all to see and any buyer is going to be put off unless it's been done or priced accordingly. Evora N/A or S has solid discs ~£150/pair, 400 onwards have 2-piece; can't say I've noticed the difference.
  9. Don't know the cars but the black one looks very good value. I've commented before but the rear tyres look near the wear markers from the photos, @ ~£300 per corner for rears, it's worth checking. Also, mine had a MOT advisory for pitted discs coming up to 30k OTC, they were replaced before I got the car but you're looking at near to £3k for discs + pads all round, plus labour, and that's specialist parts supplier prices. The black one does look as though it's still on original discs. Even so, if you walked away with it for ~£49k with new discs, pads and tyres all round it wouldn't be too bad.
  10. Good luck if you are fussy about colour, I was desperate for yellow one both my searches (S then 400), probably spent a year looking overall and not one came up. I ended up with a black 400, far from my first colour choice but it ticked all the ther boxes. It's not that I dislike black cars, they look amazing when clean but they show the dirt so badly. Of the current ones on the market, I do like the look of the Silver one https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/16011392, love the wheels and the fact it doesn't have black pack but MOT checker suggest an NI import and I think when it was first advertised it showed a gap in the service history (unless I've confused it with another). That wouldn't completely put me off but not convinced the price reflects those issues. Love the Hilton Moss one for the same reasons but was beyond my budget @£57.5k, they've had that car at that price for months, though, might be prepared to do a deal. Red interior on this one https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401185681246 would probably be a no for me but, were I still looking, I might be prepared to overlook it. Autostrada one looks excellent value @£44.5k and 33k OTC is hardly starship. As I'm writing this, just had an email alert for a new ad on Ebay, yellow GT410 Sport: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235403426396 ...now, other than being ~£10k short of funds, that ticks all my boxes, somebody give it a good home please 😭
  11. Best colour combo! Looks like not much life left in the tyres, from the photo but difficult to be certain. Certainly looks good value.
  12. First sub £45k 400 (other than those with Cat marker)? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401085359159 Due a service and above average mileage but only two owners, seems teriffic value. Not so sure about this one, missing some service history and MOT history suggests NI car but low mileage, looks nice. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202312204947551 ...Nope, Junction 17 have dropped the IPS that @Jovver was looking at to £44,995 https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/15287549
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