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more pics...same car,,,same seller ?!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220909390775?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220909390775?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
Well looking at it the dealers names are not the same and there is an extra 200miles on the clock, perhaps the one dealer has forgot to cancel their add after selling it
google both post codes and they are just round the corner from each, one street runs into the other, partners or same dealer two sites?
Was already posted in the EBAY Listings thread.
N/S rear quarter looks a bit off colour.
Looks like it was originally BLACK going by the engine bay pic.
N/S rear quarter looks a bit off colour.
Looks like it was originally BLACK going by the engine bay pic.
MOT until November 2012... Which suggests the MOT had expired, and the dealer has put it through their own testing station.
Not that that's a bad thing - I'm not saying they're dodgy as I don't know them - but in my experience that car probably has the cheapest new tyres on the planet on it, (the tread pattern is very sharp in the second advert - does anyone recognise it?)
Not overly sold on the paintjob, but I've seen worse. Assuming it checked out, I'd have it if it wasn't an auto.
Not that that's a bad thing - I'm not saying they're dodgy as I don't know them - but in my experience that car probably has the cheapest new tyres on the planet on it, (the tread pattern is very sharp in the second advert - does anyone recognise it?)
Not overly sold on the paintjob, but I've seen worse. Assuming it checked out, I'd have it if it wasn't an auto.
Or it was some other colour originally but they treated the engine bay at the same time as yellow would get filthy very quickly. Look at the inside edge at the top of the wings. Does it look to you as though they were removed from the car for spraying? Very sharp demarcation of colour there.
Looks no different to all the colour-change paint jobs I've seen on Cougars. Bonnet would be removed and painted on both sides off the car. Wings masked up to the lip inside the engine bay (as seen in the ebay pic), engine and bay completely masked so no paint enters inside.
If the job is done properly, all door shuts would be painted with weather seals removed. Bonded glass removed to avoid any masking overlaps which could show the original paint on the edges (especially the rear quarter windows). All doors removed and de-trimmed so that they can be painted on both sides.
That would set you back about £2k or more.
If the engine bay was to be painted, that would mean engine/gearbox out plus many other small components. This would potentially double the cost so it's often left alone.
Many thanks for that - It wasn't until I looked again that I realised what a pain it would be to do the engine bay unless it was a full tear-down. In which case, no doubt you're right - it was Ebony originally.
What a ball-ache to respray one though! Purely by coincidence, by brother-in-law has just taken in a Cougar V6 as part-ex today. It's in MG-Rover's gorgeous Nightfire Red... and black under the bonnet. The original paint code on the plate was Ebony and the DETR search shows the colour change. Come to think of it, if I was looking for a car to respray, I'd probably choose a black one for this reason, even if the prep was harder, (which I don't think it would be).
What a ball-ache to respray one though! Purely by coincidence, by brother-in-law has just taken in a Cougar V6 as part-ex today. It's in MG-Rover's gorgeous Nightfire Red... and black under the bonnet. The original paint code on the plate was Ebony and the DETR search shows the colour change. Come to think of it, if I was looking for a car to respray, I'd probably choose a black one for this reason, even if the prep was harder, (which I don't think it would be).
There seems to be quite a discrepancy in the shades of eyeball-searing yellow between the nearside door and the rear quarter...
There was one at a garage in Hemel _ but we think that was a proper red as it had the square number plate.
I quite like it actually! Although you're right quince99, the door does look different in more than one picture....
Wiki tells me that (the very pretty) red was only available on the Continent. Was the car you saw in Hemel a left-hooker?
An ex-member of the forum had an OEM red Cougar which was RHD and was original down to the 15" US standard fit alloys.
There are/were photos of it on here somewhere.
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Thanks for the post no. correction.
It was that colour when he bought it.
'PU' is a Chelmsford reg. suffix so it could be a 'factory' car which for one reason or another was put through the LHD/RHD 'swap' process. Although why they would retain the 15" alloys is beyond me.