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wingco

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Great news.

After months of messing about with all sorts of rubbish I'm back in the market for a 44'. Having had most models in the past I have decided this time to go for a Turbo.
I have searched all the usual spots but just wondered if there is any one on here thinking of selling but have not advertised anywhere just yet.

Cheers
Simon
 
Rich Salmons has an M758 250 for sale for about £3,500 I believe. Thatd be my first port of call...
 
That looks like a bargain! - if the car is in good order, don't let the mileage scare you (says the man with 169k & counting...)
 
The car is not in good order, needs work to the bottom of the wings and sills - may be getting that done shortly.

Drives and stops great though.

I would let it go for less tham £3k in current condition.

Havent had it long but have put a bit of work in to it since I have had including rebuilding the front calipers, discs, bypass valve, temp sensor, tyres etc etc.

Rich

P.S The grey car went as soon as advertised, may be too cheap?? Missing it, although never been sentimental about a car before.
 
ORIGINAL: edh

That looks like a bargain! - if the car is in good order, don't let the mileage scare you (says the man with 169k & counting...)
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169 pah!!! Come back when you have another 55K on there!!
 
ORIGINAL: DavidL

ORIGINAL: edh

That looks like a bargain! - if the car is in good order, don't let the mileage scare you (says the man with 169k & counting...)
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169 pah!!! Come back when you have another 55K on there!!
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Give me about 8 years...[;)] It has a pretty hard life for a 169k car - not many other models would be up to a Silverstone track evening on Tuesday night [:D]
 
You may be right.
Mine is only where it is as the first owner clocked up 100K in 3 years so actually only 125 in the last 16.
Not too bad.
 
Dear wingco,

Don't know how much you're looking to spend, but I have a 1990 944 Turbo, 100,000 miles with a bomb-proof Service History - OPC (7), Paragon(2), Charles Ivey(7), Parr(7) and latterly Northway(2). 25 stamps in the book. I also have a 993 and so was thinking of selling the 944T next year, but might be tempted now at the right price. It's Panther Black with Linen leather. I would describe it as an 'original, unmolested example' down to the OE overmats. Or to regurgitate an over used phrase - everything works - including the digital clock (and of course the aircon) which does NOT need a re-gas as it works perfectly....! I'm in Hampshire.

Tried to e-mail you through the PCGB Forum, but kept getting 'Delivery Failures' to your registered e-mail address. If interested, send me an e-mail.
 
ORIGINAL: edh

ORIGINAL: DavidL

ORIGINAL: edh

That looks like a bargain! - if the car is in good order, don't let the mileage scare you (says the man with 169k & counting...)
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169 pah!!! Come back when you have another 55K on there!!
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Give me about 8 years...[;)] It has a pretty hard life for a 169k car - not many other models would be up to a Silverstone track evening on Tuesday night [:D]
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I wish I hadn't said that now [:(] (headgasket failure at Cadwell on Tuesday morning)
 
I know a few people have said that 944s don't like being left standing, so a car with high miles shouldn't be of major concern since things will go in their own course. I know PH said one of the best 944s he drove had 290k on it. Yes it had new bushes on etc. (but which 944 will have mint original bushes now?) but it felt very tight.
 
No car benefits from being left stood. Id take all talk about higher mileage cars being superior to low mileage cars with a pinch of salt. In fact: its rubbish. A 35,000 miles car will be so much better than a 135,000 miles car in every respect.
 
'Tis true, but what are the chances of finding a 35k 944 ;).

I think maybe the point some people are getting at is that the maintenance of a car matters a little more than mileage (to a point). I know my last Peugeot 306 GTi-6was in better condition in drive and looks to quite a few others with only 50,000 miles (I will admit, the previous owner (and I) did change near enough all of the suspension, and the seats were in shockingly good condition for a car where the seats are notorious for wearing badly (which oddly weren't worn (Maybe they were replaced, who knows?).
 
ORIGINAL: 944 man

No car benefits from being left stood. Id take all talk about higher mileage cars being superior to low mileage cars with a pinch of salt. In fact: its rubbish. A 35,000 miles car will be so much better than a 135,000 miles car in every respect.
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Sorry can't agree at all with that and it certainly isn't rubbish.
You are making far too sweeping a statement for cars this age, but this has been done to death so many times.

If a 35K car has done 1750 miles a year from a climate controlled garage with correct services then it will be lovely. Far more likely is that it has done very little and will need heaps of work to be used daily - everything rubber, clutch, brakes the list goes on.

At 135K on a 20 yr old car ( a 2 yr old car would be very different) then its still a low mileage car but has had some exercise. It could still be lovely or horrible but I'd still have this one if that's all the info I had.

As with all things you'd look at everything else before choosing but it is far, far from a foregone conclusion that the lowest mileage car will be the best.
I'd rather have the 997 with 35K than 135 but it just doesn't hold for old vehicles.
 
You are free to agree or disagree as you please David. My opinion is based on approaching twenty years of experience with these cars, rather than some oft-repeated nonesense that I read on a forum, though.

By the way; youve already altered 'my' position/argument in order to disagree. Older and higher mileage cars are not better in any way: the cars simply keep going, making them a reasonable proposition. That a high mileage car (usually with the addendum 'used every day') is better, is rubbish of the highest order.
 
ORIGINAL: 944 man

That a high mileage car (usually with the addendum 'used every day') is better, is rubbish of the highest order.
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The assumption that the low mileage car is automatically the better choice is rubbish of a similar magnitude. There is no automatic choice on cars of this age.

Oddly my views are based on my experiences - funny that.
 
well depends how they have been stored, looked after and driven.

drive it 30k miles in a year put it away wet in a damp garage and leave it - it will be junk in 15 years but still low mileage.

There are some beautiful high mileage cars out there and some dogs,

Tony
 
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