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Feb 24, 2016 21:18:35 GMT
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Parts are silly money. Few examples of normal wear and tear parts: Lower ball joint - £182 including vat Damper - £570 Front brake pads - £175 Fuel pump - £439 Sod that for a game of skittles as my nan would say. Don't know about the front pads, but the front caliper rebuild kits are shared with a Ford... The Rolls just needs two sets as it runs a pair of calipers per disc.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:00:42 GMT
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I'm tempted from time to time on getting one My old boss had one and the biggest problems are rust the braking system and vandalism If you want to run one on a budget then your better off buying a 10k one that someone has spent thousands on So it's much easier to keep tip top If you buy a 3 grand running project it's never going to be finished and you will never stop throwing money at it
Great car to drive it just wafts along very soft but you never get bored with pulling out of a side road with your foot flat to the floor smoking the tyres (more like one tyre) not something you see everyday
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adam73bgt
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Silver Shadow on a budget ? adam73bgt
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Feb 24, 2016 22:18:06 GMT
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I've been guilty of occasionally searching ebay for them, don't quite have the money, space or skills to take one on just yet though :/
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Carsie
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Feb 24, 2016 23:30:53 GMT
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This is a great thread Last year I turned up to where my Jag was being stored and the guy was busy parking a Silver Shadow 2 before throwing a white sheet over it." Well that's one car I would swop my Jag for" say's I....engaging mouth before brain lol! It has been a brilliant, fun, interesting and fascinating year. I never thought I would own a Rolls, my memories are of a certain Lady McGregor of McGregor hatchcover fames (shipping) who lived locally and had a chauffeur driven black S1 Reg. 747 MVK and of snooping around the Jaguar/Rolls Dealership of Rossleighs Newcastle on Tyne when I was a lad and seeing the new Silver Shadow 2 under a sheet in the upstairs showroom. As I write my Silver Shadow is parked outside and when I go upstairs to bed I'll take a peep outside the window and quietly pinch myself lol! So to answer the question- "can you do it on the cheap"? Well I guess you can do whatever you want. If you've got £3-£4k to burn then there'll be a cheap Shadow out there that you can float around in until it goes pop and then you can weigh in what's left and balance up your credit card and triumphantly announce "Hell! I owned a Rolls Royce!" If you want to go Rolls + cheap running then for sure stick a diesel in it (there's one for sale -see Pistonheads Rolls Bentley Section) but you're kinda missing the whole Rolls "thing" in my book. When you distill it all down, a Rolls is just like any other car albeit fantastically, achronistically, over engineered and they rust like curse word! RichRolls has it to a T (geddit? T Series.) where you want to be in your head if you fancy running one out of your back pocket; I absolutely love how he’s approaching it and the Range Rover back end is really (cough cough) interesting….. and he is absolutely right in the parts/application approach to rebuild. My approach? …..well perhaps a little further down the line because I paid mid teens for mine with the knowledge that the veneer and the lower front wings needed attention but the mileage was relatively low. I’m not banking on making a fortune I’m just an enthusiast enjoying my own private ego centric moment of fame. I drove into Cambridge recently, it was a beautiful winter’s day, cold but with shining sun. I parked up outside Kings College and treated myself to a coffee and just watched as the tourists and passer by’s commenting, fawning and photographing themselves with the Rolls. They didn’t know it was mine (good!) but the pleasure I got from seeing everyone’s pleasure and delight was definitely worthwhile. I think the Jag would have got the same attention but maybe not the same accolades. When I was growing up I was really fortunate in my background and so Dad had a Mk10, my neighbours had an Austin Westminster, another an Aston and I regularly rode in an Armstrong Siddeley so maybe the Rolls is a return to the norm for me and why I love it so much ( I did say that right? Lol!) there is something in experiencing its gentle serenity, it’s cool aplomb that does have to be experienced; it’s like a mature whiskey- for sure – drink too much and you’ll have a hum digger of a hangover but sipped, savoured and imbued with all of the marketing Bullplop that make you pay the price and you will be intoxicated. So…in conclusion….as my elderly Mother would say…” Son…treat yourself- it’s hyocynths for the soul” Enjoy
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Buy one and drop a modern diesel in and then should be a decent daily. BMW 2.5tds engine or something When the early Silver Shadows became Escort money I looked into that - I reckoned a GM v8 diesel woulld have mated up nicely with the GM400 box they already had in them.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:47:51 GMT
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Last Edit: Feb 25, 2016 19:48:33 GMT by Paul Y
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Feb 25, 2016 19:54:44 GMT
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I wanted a Roller really badly about 15 years ago. don't know why, just something that caught my fancy and started looking at all sorts of things, problem was for the £10K I had at the time they were all a bit pants. So I bought a 1988 Bentley Turbo R. Can honestly say that it was the best £10K I have ever spent. Parked it anywhere, got in everywhere and was a hit with the ladies..... But it was a pig. A pig wearing Lipstick but a pig all the same. And it wasn't very fast! Kept it for 6 months and sold it for £10K so probably lost £10K in the 6 months I had it but I have more that £10K's worth of memories... P.
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Ryannn
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Feb 26, 2016 14:53:13 GMT
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My Grandad worked for Rolls Royce for a long time back in the 60s - 90s. He wouldnt own any car that wasnt Japanese. Says something about the cars.
I'd love to waft to work in a rolls but the cost of parts and maintenance is crippling with my civic.
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flynn1
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Feb 26, 2016 19:34:04 GMT
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bloody hell, Quetin Wilson, what a creepy fella.
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Feb 28, 2016 13:05:33 GMT
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Parts are silly money. Few examples of normal wear and tear parts: Lower ball joint - £182 including vat Damper - £570 Front brake pads - £175 Fuel pump - £439 Sod that for a game of skittles as my nan would say. Is that from ecp or the Dealer?
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Feb 28, 2016 14:18:03 GMT
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That damper price certainly sounds like the cost someone I know was quoted by a R-R dealer about 10 years ago. Rather amusingly, the lady behind the parts desk instead recommended that he went to Harvey Bailey for an uprated set rather than buying them from the dealer. IIRC, instead he rebuilt all the dampers with thicker oil to uprate them.
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Feb 28, 2016 22:00:52 GMT
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Parts are silly money. Few examples of normal wear and tear parts: Lower ball joint - £182 including vat Damper - £570 Front brake pads - £175 Fuel pump - £439 Sod that for a game of skittles as my nan would say. Is that from ecp or the Dealer? Flying Spares
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2001 vauxhall corsa 1972 VW Beetle 1986 Ford Capri Laser1999 BMW E36 323i Touring 1991 Volvo 940 estate 2002 Mazda 323f 2.0 sport 2016 Mercedes Sprinter 1999 nissan almera 1.4 1995 lexus gs300 1995 lexus ls400 1975 bmw 1602 fiat punto 2003 ford fiesta something else...
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Feb 29, 2016 11:38:03 GMT
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Feb 29, 2016 12:20:22 GMT
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That is so wrong!! I love it!
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