Dream on .....

Selling off one (or bits :o) of your XM collection, or perhaps searching for those elusive headlight washer covers? This is the place to do it.
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Dream on .....

Post by nirgunapa » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:21 pm

High mileage 2.5 with totally unrealistic price for both car and number plate, especially after listing faults and 'can't afford to repair it anymore'!

Sorry no picture - only one is of the bloomin' number plate! :?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1995-CITROEN-XM-2 ... 1|294%3A50
Colin

1992 XM Prestige
1999 Skoda Felicia - the wife's new drive
1959 Commer Cob - SORN
1952 Riley RMA - retirement project

2001 Volvo S80 - for sale soon

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Re: Dream on .....

Post by mouseflakes » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:33 pm

Also trying to justify a £2000 price tag for the car alone because of the blasted 'scrappage sheme'. :x

Speaking of which - I imagine we'll be losing quite a few nice XMs to that confounded scheme. :x :x
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1978 R30 TS - resting up
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Re: Dream on .....

Post by Dean » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:45 pm

Yes what a joke, ive been looking at the private plates of late and i have just checked and you can get M11 XMD for £249 all in and on the car, and he wants 2k for M1 XMD????? i know which i would have!!!! and the car!! no thankyou, it sounds like a proper hound.

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Post by Peter.N. » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:56 pm

Going to be dissapointed isn't he. :lol:
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Re: Dream on .....

Post by nirgunapa » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:11 pm

mouseflakes wrote:Speaking of which - I imagine we'll be losing quite a few nice XMs to that confounded scheme. :x :x
No mention of Citroens but there is very little being published on what is being scrapped.

http://www.petrolheads.co.uk/news/defau ... ryId=19961 :(
Colin

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1999 Skoda Felicia - the wife's new drive
1959 Commer Cob - SORN
1952 Riley RMA - retirement project

2001 Volvo S80 - for sale soon

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Post by andmcit » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:33 pm

:roll: :shock: :roll: :shock: :roll: :shock: What a saddo.

Is this seller the actual new definition of optimist?
The facts seem to have passed him by with the scrappage scheme too. :?

One of the better private plates I've ever seen was on a "typical hairdresser car"
(can't recall what exactly now, maybe an original Audi Coupe or Suzuki Vitara)
with the number H1YYA with appropriate dizzy blonde driving it... :lol: :lol:

No use mind for an Xm unless you're into karate!

or the white Roller Shadow with MAR1 and white ribbons etc etc
= very cheesy!!

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Re: Dream on .....

Post by mouseflakes » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:09 am

I thought the switch to the modern registration number format would be the end of personalised number plates, until I saw 'LE55 TAX' on a Bentley! :D
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Re: Dream on .....

Post by bitonthesidexm » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:49 am

I wonder what drugs he's doing these days????????????????
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Re: Dream on .....

Post by Jan-hendrik » Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:43 pm

In Japan, license plates, called 'number plates' here, are never collected, nor do they remain on the vehicle when it changes ownership. The plates are returned to the legal authority, the 'Land Transportation Authority', who scrap them.
So no nonsense of paying premium prices for a registration number.
There is a way in recent years though to personalize your plates.

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The characters at the top show the prefecture or the district where the vehicle is registered. Here this is Hiroshima, 2 characters
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The only available option is the 4 digital numbers, xx - xx.
For my XM I chose 12-12, my wife's birthday :D .
Due to the size of the vehicle and the engine displacement it fits in the category '3' for taxation purposes. This number is shown after the characters 'Hiroshima' as shown above. Category '3' vehicles have been registered with a simple '3', '33' and '31', '32', '34', '341' and other combinations starting with '3' to cope with the deluge of new registrations.
The request for the combination 12-12 could be accommodated by a computer generated '3xx' number and an available hiragana syllabary prefix of which there are 40.
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Re: Dream on .....

Post by Richard » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:03 pm

Tim, the Donate page on your website doesn't load.

When it's sorted, let me know

Richard

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