FOOLS RUSH IN - QUATTROPORTE

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So you've thrown 2.5k away plus 2.5k for the rear cradle fitting and then diagnostics...ABS etc.. £6k down... Never a good idea to buy one unseen esp a cheap one... .Steep learning curve! Hope you can set fire to it!
 

philw696

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Thanks Chaps but the last one I did MY06 on a 07 plate took over a week of my life working some serious hours.
If the car has been around the British coastline it will be a mess.
I ended up re bushing the suspension new springs and brakes all around.
 

lateralsteve

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Hi Gp79, I admire your tenacity, I've done too much of this kind of stuff in the past I no longer have an appetite for it.... When I lived in Switzerland in the nineties I removed and rebuilt a Lancia Integrale engine/box with just a ratchet strap and a lock up garage, that's a piece of my life I'll never get back.
 

philw696

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Agree with the statement of
That's a piece of your life you won't get back as that's what I thought doing the one I did.
Horrendous job is badly corroded having to cut and grind plus drilling out the bushes etc.
I know why the dealer quoted £26,000 to sort the car I did.
 

Phil the Brit

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Wow, Phil the Brit - Meaouw! I bought it because it seemed fun, I don't have Maserati posters in my lonely bedroom like you, I have a life and like to do lots of things (like racing my formula ford car). Have you tried diversifying? You may take to train spotting, lots of numbers and types of engine, what's not to like?

No sensible person buys this type of car without doing basic checks. You should, at the very least had an expert look at it before buying. There are a lot of bad "performance" cars out there and I was just saying that with your cavalier attitude you will catch a big cold one day. Worse still however is that something important will or might break/fall off while you are doing 70 on the motorway. I just hope I am not along side you when it happens.
FYI most of my cars are in my avatar including Ferraris and Maseratis and I have extensively raced and rallied for most of my adult life in some very nice machinery. I hope you progress to better formula cars one day but always make sure they are safe to race. Never cut corners on a race car
I am sorry to hear your bedroom is lonely, you'll find your Maserati posters if you look on Ebay.
 

Andyk

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He did front and rear on a QP recently if memory serves me correctly.
Thanks Chaps but the last one I did MY06 on a 07 plate took over a week of my life working some serious hours.
If the car has been around the British coastline it will be a mess.
I ended up re bushing the suspension new springs and brakes all around.

Didn't you do this one Phil...?

 

Gp79

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philw696

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Very similar to the one I did and strangely from Yorkshire too.
Maybe don't buy one from up north.
 

GeoffCapes

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That's madness, to spend nearly 12k on it then sell it for 11k less than a year later! I'd be keeping that until the replacement subframe has rotted out again!

And not to spend 50 quid a wheel to get the alloys refurbed!
 

Phil the Brit

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Well I guess lateralsteve has probably joined for the shortest time ever on the forum. He only appeared on this particular thread and although he is still lurking on here (he was on here yesterday afternoon) he has not posted anything.
Maybe he is now on the Citroen forum moaning about his new C6 purchase.
Perhaps he'll be back to sell off the bits of his Quattroporte, he'll probably get his money back if he only paid 2 1/2K for it.
............Or maybe he is just another troll and the car doesn't exist?
 

zagatoes30

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I do have a strange attraction to the Citroen C6, fortunately medication is keeping it under control