P38 possible busted engine - whats it worth?

**Grumbles** · 22nd February 2010, 01:26 PM

Not just a theory Rovercare. It works in practice but it does depend on how desperate the seller is to move the car on or to get the money. I did the same thing with a house once. I made a silly offer but also added the proviso that my offer reduced by $500 every day it wasn't accepted. The seller accepted my reducing offer 24 hours later. I got a bargain.

**willem** · 22nd February 2010, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

That's the problem with selling mine. The engine has been top-hatted, heads worked, HC pistons, fully balanced, high torque cam, etc. - all at some expense last year.

What's it worth? Probably very little unless I can find the right buyer.

G'day Ron,

Your car is worth most to you. You've put the effort and money in to getting it right, and now it goes well. Its on LPG and so is relatively economical. None of these things attract a good figure when you sell it, but they are worth a lot to you.

Don't make the mistake (again?) of selling your car just when you get it right. I've driven it. Its a good car.

Willem

**Hoges** · 22nd February 2010, 03:38 PM

whats it worth?
ah ha ...a profound question.
The response is "To whom?"
Work from there... !

**101RRS** · 22nd February 2010, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Grumbles

Not just a theory Rovercare. It works in practice but it does depend on how desperate the seller is to move the car on or to get the money. I did the same thing with a house once. I made a silly offer but also added the proviso that my offer reduced by $500 every day it wasn't accepted. The seller accepted my reducing offer 24 hours later. I got a bargain.

Depends on who you are dealing with - me I would have told you to get knotted - irrespective of what you are selling or buying there is always another buyer as long as the asking price is appropriate.

I sold my 100,000km disco a few years back - wanted $9k - listed at $9.5K as everyone knows they want to knock the seller down a bit - lots of offers at around $6K including the guy who bought it in the end for $9.2K all knocked back with no counter offers - patience is a virtue - the problem for the seller is if you have to sell something quick then the rules change a bit.

Garry

**andrew e** · 22nd February 2010, 05:54 PM

I know from customers that TR spares offer under 2k max for a non running or overheating p38.

I bought a 97 HSE last year which had a top rebuild and alot of new parts (it didnt help the liner moving). I paid the equivilant of 3.5k. It was Imaculate, and i should not have parted it out.

I have engines available if you want to push this option, send me a pm.

Andy

**PaulP38a** · 23rd February 2010, 11:44 PM

Agree with most of the above. I paid a fair bit more than $7.5k for my '99 4.0 a year and a bit ago, then did the head gaskets a few months ago. I knew it was coming when I bought it too, as it had been with every Rangie/Rover V8 I've bought in the past 20 years

Add to that, my current Rangie was bruised and battered, bad respray job on the bonnet and passenger doors, lived near a beach, had non-stock suspension bits and diff ratios, oversized tyres, some unlabelled switches on the dash that make the car go in a straight line

, a couple of niggling fault codes... and then the EAS compressor **** itself less than 2 weeks after I bought it.

Was it worth it? You betcha

I'm a P38A sicko!

TR Spares can keep my old/drowned one. I wish them well in getting the silly prices they were asking for my soggy Gen III's, Bilsteins and Cooper ST's. Wonder if they ever sold/parted the hydrualic'd engine?

Cheers, Paul.

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