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fazza
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2nd Dec 08 at 22:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
travelled 400mile round trip to pick up my calibra turbo
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Pretty much as far as it takes tbh.

My Corsa came from Wimbledon, 1st Ibiza from Reading, Clio from somewhere near Brighton and the 2nd Ibiza from Mingham
Mike
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Originally posted by andy1868
depends on what car it was, if you're looking at fairly rare cars then you're going to have to be prepared to travel.

when i was looking in may/june i couldn't find any decent UK DC2s around my area so i had arranged to look at afew afew hours travel down south, would have meant a full day out driving and looking at cars but desperate times call for desperate measures.

fortunately one came up for sale in liverpool afew days before i was due to go looking at the others and it was perfect. the rest is history.


My brother was looking at Audi A3's a while back, they all seemed to be around Hudersfield way but they all come up at different times. The amount of times we drove an hour and half over that way to look at 1 car was stupid. The money he spent travelling could've give him probably another £500 towards a local car
1_Litre_Porsche_Beater
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i did a 200 mile round trip for my bro's bmw, then another 400 odd miles to deliver it to him as a surprise from my parents. i can imagine it being very annoying doing a long trip to view a car and its not what you expected.

[Edited on 02-12-2008 by 1_Litre_Porsche_Beater]
deano87
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I'd be prepared to travel 50 miles to a private sale and 100 miles to a garage.
ShePs
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quote:
Originally posted by 1_Litre_Porsche_Beater
i did a 200 mile round trip for my bro's bmw, then another 400 odd miles to deliver it to him as a surprise from my parents. i can imagine it being very annoying doing a long trip to view a car and its not what you expected.

[Edited on 02-12-2008 by 1_Litre_Porsche_Beater]


another good point, thats 1 thing wots putting me off. A car I had seen wud be a 400 mile trip
fazza
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just make sure you get loads recent pictures off the guy selling and have a long chat to them about the car. as others said depends what car u want as to whether or not its worth travelling for.

i travveled as couldnt find a cally T anywhere this far south
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lol when i went to get my first euro c i flew up to scotland and then rive back about 380 miles.
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about 20 miles each way was the furthest, and 2 miles for the last one,
1_Litre_Porsche_Beater
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As fazza said get the seller to e-mail you as many in detail photo's as possible. Im extremly fussy as i am a valeter and have bad ocd i won't buy a car unless its immaculate, i normally ask for pics of the footwell so you get an idea of what condition the interior is in and close ups of wheels and bumpers. Im sad i know
ShePs
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quote:
Originally posted by fazza
just make sure you get loads recent pictures off the guy selling and have a long chat to them about the car. as others said depends what car u want as to whether or not its worth travelling for.

i travveled as couldnt find a cally T anywhere this far south


Im only after a facelift corsa 1.8SRI so not realy rare, however there is never any for sale local to me. The 1 I had seen was trade in a garage
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i went from swansea to tamworth which was about 300 miles round trip and i dident even buy the car my dad wernt to happy to say the least
it was a saxo and a bag of crap
Mark B
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glasgow to boston in lincolnshire (Sp)
gez bay
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from wales to monte carlo!! awsome trip

didnt buy a car tho. lol

[Edited on 02-12-2008 by gez c16b]
sand-eel
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about a 500 mile round trip for ma beemer.
Arctic_Monkey
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650 mile round trip the other week to get the impreza, Glasgow to Peterborough and back
ChrisBoom
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First corsa was under a mile away

Second one was a 400 mile round trip
All Torque
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Milton Keynes to Harrowgate, Yorkshire.
rustyarchs
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umm flew from edinburgh down to london drove for about 10 mile that took a few hours,stayed in a hotel overnight then left the next morning, but i refused to drive it so technically a passenger

all that for a mini
dan-sport
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280miles round trip, wolverhampton to hertfordshire for my current corsa
Mobby
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Corsa_Sport21
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Me and my mate went from Fife to Canvey Island(Essex) for a Nova.Dunno how may miles but im sure it was just under 1000 theyr and back.Went down in a tranny mini-bus with a trailer and took about 9hrs to get theyr then abit more to get back up.What a journey tho and a great laugh.All fuelled by Redbull and some George W.BUSH.

The Nova was a GSI with an XE and it was bought from an insurance write-off yard and turned out to be worse than the pics made out.Itl be a minter when hes finished with it tho.
Robin
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Northampton to Welshpool and back twice for my Nova, however far that is.
Robin
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Oh, and Northampton to Dartford for my Cavalier
spikedjack
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i travelled a round trip of 350 miles for some seats before

about 100 ish for a car

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