Red GS - Price drop
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GeoffCapes
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Yeah. You could say things are moving in the right direction. Meeting next week to firm things up.
Good work! You don't need to recolour the dash top - they're easy to remove and refit and there should be plenty of used black dash tops available.
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You don't drop from £32K (website) down to £25K (pistonheads) overnight do you?
GeoffCapes
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Will do. To be honest, I have my eye on another, but as this is literally a stones throw from me, I thought I'd take a look.
They have a lovely 512 TR in there, but it's a bit out of my price range!
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Will do. To be honest, I have my eye on another, but as this is literally a stones throw from me, I thought I'd take a look.
They have a lovely 512 TR in there, but it's a bit out of my price range!
Give me a clue - just in case its the same one as me!!!!
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It's Grigio? Does that help?
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Lol!
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The one littie thing with the red one for me is that I would have like to have seen red or black piping to break up the cream. WOuld matter it the dash was black but that is very, very cream inside....but as I say only a little thing and at that price and miles it feels a decent buy.
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Just got back from taking it for a little test drive.
One thing is for certain, I want a Cambiocorsa gearbox!
The car itself is nice, has a number of stone chips on the front, although they said that it would be addressed before the buyer picks it up.
As will the curbing of one of the alloys. There was also what looked like a scrape from a parking incident on the drivers front corner.
The paintwork as a whole needs a detail, that's for sure.
There's a fair amount of wear on both the driver and passenger seat, which considering it's only done 32k surprises me. My Alfa GT has done more than twice that and the seats are in much better condition.
I also imagine cream is a nightmare to keep clean, as dirty marks showed. But to be fair the sales guy has been using it. I'm sure it would be mint if you bought it.
Now to the much discussed dash board. The cream would drive me insane with the reflection on the windscreen! You can even see it with sunglasses on!
They did say they could cover that for me in black though if required. I would say it's a must!!!!
It's drives quite well, although I thought the steering was very light (are they all like that?), but as it's the first I've driven I've nothing to compare it with.
One thing that I was unsure about was on tick over the revs stayed flat as a pancake, however, it did sound like the engine was hunting a bit. Maybe I was imagining it.
In summary it's very well spec'd (Cost £74k new as it had lots of options). To get it how I would want it, it would need the paint work addressing, the alloy, the dash, a new battery (they had to boost it to start), that's before I put Larini's on it!
It's a fair car, at a honest price, but I'm not sure it's the one for me.
Attached are a few pics I took.
One thing is for certain, I want a Cambiocorsa gearbox!
The car itself is nice, has a number of stone chips on the front, although they said that it would be addressed before the buyer picks it up.
As will the curbing of one of the alloys. There was also what looked like a scrape from a parking incident on the drivers front corner.
The paintwork as a whole needs a detail, that's for sure.
There's a fair amount of wear on both the driver and passenger seat, which considering it's only done 32k surprises me. My Alfa GT has done more than twice that and the seats are in much better condition.
I also imagine cream is a nightmare to keep clean, as dirty marks showed. But to be fair the sales guy has been using it. I'm sure it would be mint if you bought it.
Now to the much discussed dash board. The cream would drive me insane with the reflection on the windscreen! You can even see it with sunglasses on!
They did say they could cover that for me in black though if required. I would say it's a must!!!!
It's drives quite well, although I thought the steering was very light (are they all like that?), but as it's the first I've driven I've nothing to compare it with.
One thing that I was unsure about was on tick over the revs stayed flat as a pancake, however, it did sound like the engine was hunting a bit. Maybe I was imagining it.
In summary it's very well spec'd (Cost £74k new as it had lots of options). To get it how I would want it, it would need the paint work addressing, the alloy, the dash, a new battery (they had to boost it to start), that's before I put Larini's on it!
It's a fair car, at a honest price, but I'm not sure it's the one for me.
Attached are a few pics I took.
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A good appraisal Geoff thanks; can see what you mean about the state of the seat for the mileage! Not too far gone to be resolved but you wouldn't want to leave it long.
Paintwork is easily resolved and I agree the dash is just going to bounce all the time. Hope it finds a home soon.
Paintwork is easily resolved and I agree the dash is just going to bounce all the time. Hope it finds a home soon.
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Light dash tops and rear shelf are always an issue with visibility, reflection due to the screen rake is not good. The points you mention are all solvable and sound minor. The seats can be cleaned and leather feed used to revitalize them. If the revs on tickover were flat, what do you mean it was hunting..?? CC Box is the one to go for, we mostly all agree on that..!! It looks a nice car and is priced well, if you can get a bit off for the niggles you have, or get it inspected at their cost maybe, that should put some doubt to rest..!!
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The rev counter remained flat, yet the engine didn't sound like it was 'steady' if that makes sense. It reminded me of my Fiesta I had when I was 17, when you started it up you pulled the choked out when the engine was cold, although the revs stayed stable it sounded a bit 'off'. Maybe it's me. I'd definitely get an inspection done. as they only offer a 3 month warranty.
Perhaps I'm being over critical? Although the red is very nice, I like a couple of the Grigio's which are up for sale more.
Still have more to look at though. Hopefully next week (work dependent).