Ben's clearout. mostly volvo. Updated 17/03/11

[ben711200]

**all changed 17/03/11**

Evening!

It's all change at Ben towers and there's one loser in the whole situation.. My Volvo 240, the coolest car I've ever owned and poured all of my money in to has to leave me soon. When it's MOTd, I intend on swapping it for a Perodua Nippa (God, I think I would actually consider that swap. I must be losing it) Wangled a way to keep it, but I do need to sell some stuff ;D



Banded steels sold.

Early 244/245 round headlamp sold.


Mk2 Astra/Day-Woo! Lanos strut inserts.
Brand new in tatty boxes. Made by KYB, their part number 665036
Great for buying and then never using for shortening the strut housings of your Volvo 240 £20 for the pair.



Single 5.5x14 et20 Volvo steel with good 185/70/14. I think its a Michelin.


£10

And a single Volvo alloy from what (I think) a Volvo 240 Torslanda. Little bit of kerbing, feckloads of brakedust and the most inappropriate brand new tyre evAr. It's got a brand new budget 185/14 commercial tyre on it. Somebody with a van that uses that size tyre would find it most useful at a tenner. They could then weigh the wheel in or whatever.



Brand new genuine Volvo cam belt, pair of alternator belts and PAS pump belt. This lot came to about £30 from Volvo. I figured I may as well use genuine belts because I know the quality is good and I was being a bit of a tart and wanted them to say 'Volvo' rather than Halfords. All to suit Volvo redblocks, obviously £15 posted


Under dash spindle mount radio cage thingy in plastic. This was with my Dyane. I assume it's not actually Citroen though. Much more pleasant and inkeeping than wedging a modern Kenwood or something into your retro. £8 posted




Stuff can be posted at cost though my favourite courier is the RR Pony Express. Anyone who calls 'dibs' on anything will immediately be moved to the back of their respective queue. Reply here or PM please.

cheers

Ben

[B-8-D]

superbargain set of bandeds here!!

sad to hear you have to get rid of the 240 buddy.. but id just like to say that these wheels need to find there way onto that by the new owner.....

glwts
si

[Mystery Machine]

Did I just read all that right? Volvo going??

I need to get some sleep, I'll check this thread again tomorrow, confident that I was right all along and it was just a bad dream. I've decided that Cava does bad things to your mind and I am never drinking it again if it's making me think that Ben would sell his Volvo (or change his name back to Ben7194673929456748839300458567784949030495857)

Ben, I'll be calling you tomorrow to tell you about this random dream I had that you were thinking of selling the Volvo.

I know, it's ridiculous isn't it!!!

[ben711200]

I tried calling you today on unrelated matters, Bruce, but your phone must have been dead what with it having been made by Apple ;D

Cava does do bad things. It's the bubbles

[enoford105e]

Nice banded steels mate...have you had tyres on them though as the well section looks too far inboard for tyres to fit

[ben711200]

I bought them with tyres fitted but had them removed to refurb and sell on the tyres becaause they weren't a size I'd use. The tyre place I use only commented on coolness rather than difficulty so I assume they aren't too problematic.

They have been on a car too, though I don't remember who's there's a pic floating about somewhere...

[karlos01]

this is the 3rd time these wheels have come up for sale - once bought by someone on volvo owners, now for 2nd time on here i think.

and

3rd time i cant afford them FFS!!!

guess its never meant to be

[karlos01]

unless you keep the 240 and i can offer you a b230ft with turbo and injection for swaps or even an m90 gearbox..........

[kevfromwales]

quick tech bump here - karlos - do you know if the m90 gearbox is fitted to diesel 960's, or is it just the petrol ones??

maybe I should buy ben's volvo wheels, then it'd be an excuse to buy a volvo to fit them!

[ben711200]

Hup for sunday afternoon

[meltedcheese]

Hi Ben,

Do you still have your banded steels up for sale? My 740 is crying out for a set!

Would you be willing to post them?

[kevfromwales]

I'll be seeing ben this weekend, and I'll be passing chester on the way home, so if you can pop over sunday night and snag the wheels, there's a free ride home for them if that helps ben make a sale

or if you can't make sunday night, they can wait in my barn at abergele for you to pick up

HTH - kev

[meltedcheese]

Kev, if that is ok by Ben that would be amazing!

The collector for my Merc is coming this weekend so that will free up the money for the wheels without the Mrs knowing

I may have to collect the following weekend at the latest though, is that ok by you both?

Can bring cash or do a Paypal transaction if all is ok?!

Chris

[ben711200]

Paypal is fine, Chris. Cheers for tat hauling, Kev ;D

I'll send you both PMs after I've finished valentines day-ing it up

[meltedcheese]

If it's ok I put the pp through as soon as I get money sat morn!
Chris

[ben711200]

Check your PMs

[ben711200]

bandeds provisionally sold. meltedcheese and KFW, you both have PMs

Bump for the rest of it.

[mr zombie]

if your willing to post the round 244 headlight to doncaster i'll take it off your hands

[ben711200]

PM on its way, Mr Z

[ben711200]

Bump! Bandeds have gone North with tat hauling hero, KFW and Headlamp was only posted yesterday by my good lady, not Friday unfortunately as it was something of a chaotic weekend, but it is deffo on it's way Mr Zombie

Strut inserts and standard Volvo steels still in my way..