Well if you changed the lights back to the originals Mike you would get around £250 back if you sold them on here, they are sort after, the lettering can be taken off and put some new lettering back on correctly, just check when the 06 plate car was first registered, if it was before march 1st 2006 the it will qualify for the cheaper tax bracket which i think its about £250 ish per year but if its after that date you are looking at £465 ish a year something to bare in mind

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Colour coordination is a mod which may effect the premium.... ie repair costs slightly increased... RRS gone
Audi SQ5...Gone Audi Q7 S-Line 240 3.0TDI Gone
Audi A6 Allroad Sport 270 3.0TDI

Mike_C wrote:

The headlights are different too??

No

Standard pre 2010 units  RRS gone
Audi SQ5...Gone Audi Q7 S-Line 240 3.0TDI Gone
Audi A6 Allroad Sport 270 3.0TDI

Ady 555 wrote:

Well if you changed the lights back to the originals Mike you would get around £250 back if you sold them on here, they are sort after, the lettering can be taken off and put some new lettering back on correctly, just check when the 06 plate car was first registered, if it was before march 1st 2006 the it will qualify for the cheaper tax bracket which i think its about £250 ish per year but if its after that date you are looking at £465 ish a year something to bare in mind

Crikey, that's quite a difference - will definitely check that out!

The light sounds good, I couldn't care less what the lights look like unless the ones it has give a better/brighter headlight in which case I'd keep them as you can never have too bright lights IMO!!

Didn't realise the difference in tax was so much either - I was looking at a couple of 07-reg models too but think I won't bother now!!  - Range Rover Sport 4.4 V8 HSE G4 Challenge vehicle (FOR SALE)
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OK, neither the silver nor the blue car have had the cambelts changed, both quoting they need doing at 105,000 miles (the blue one also mentioned 7 years). Do most people change them at 7 years or wait until the mileage?

Next service on the silver one is due at 90k, so could just get it done then I guess?

Blue car was registered April 2006, so attracts the higher car tax - that's a big PITA, one of the reasons I am reducing the fleet is to reduce running costs, that isn't gonna help!!

There's another one that I have found, lower mileage than the silver car (although I'm not keen on black cars generally) but reasonable price. Only thing is it doesn't have that "cherished" look about it, more just a car that;s been used daily but the wife and kids rather than looked after meticulously. But then, perhaps the lower mileage is more important?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/3769861.htm

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7 years or 105000 whichever comes first, its a must I would steer clear of a family taxi, i'm guessing it will be full of marks dings and scratch's not to mention what the interior must look like. Sorry mike it looks like i'm throwing alot of negitives at you but just speaking from experience

Ady 555 wrote:

7 years or 105000 whichever comes first, its a must I would steer clear of a family taxi, i'm guessing it will be full of marks dings and scratch's not to mention what the interior must look like. Sorry mike it looks like i'm throwing alot of negitives at you but just speaking from experience

Have a look see what you think, your idea of immaculate might be different to his point out the up and coming expenses and see if he is prepared to budge on price to cover these, no harm in looking, ask him if he has any problems with you having your own HPI report doing.

Thanks Ady. If I aimed for £17,500, would that be fair?

I must admit at this point, I have also seen a local FFRR that has caught my eye - would be a (minimum) £4k saving over the RRS's I'm looking at, and the EMAPS figures suggest a remapped 3.0 Td6 would have virtally identical bhp/Nm figures as a remapped TDV6. This is the car in question: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201213459157797

EMAPS figures:

Diesel Engines

Engine ECU
3.0 TD6 Bosch DDE4.0
174 --> 235bhp
390 --> 500Nm

2.7 TDV6 Siemens
190 --> 230bhp
440 --> 510Nm

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Sorry Mike, i can't comment on the FF i'm guessing that the FF will be much heavier than the sport so it will need a bit more humf to put it on par with the sport performance wise.

Thanks Ady! The FFRR is only 10 miles from me so off to look at that tonight.

In some ways I like the FFRR - the split tailgate is really handy for so many things, for instance - but then being a young chap without 2 kids and a dog, I don't really need a car quite that large - and the sportier, err, Sport, appeals! But then is quite a bit more money.

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Hi Mike,

Keep us updated on your search.

I have a Cairns Blue 07 with Ivory that I am still thinking of selling, as I can't bear the thought of my wife using it as the 'family car' (I've kept them out so far!).

It's obviously the higher tax bracket but it may be an option for you down the line if you can't find one a bit cheaper.

Andy

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Mike_C wrote:

How much would you be looking at for it Andy, and what's the mileage?