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Hello all you fellow RR'rs. The mini checkmate post got me thinking on this again. I know its a long-shot but does anyone on here know the whereabouts of 5GTT H490 VUS? Glacier White 1990 model that I sold in Surrey to a lad who worked at a Land Rover dealership in/near High Wycombe/Beaconsfield. I think the year was about 2003, definitely early noughties. I bought it in about 94 and I was the second owner and I think I sold it with about 94k on it. It was pretty much stock apart from a GT Tuning exhaust, strapped intercooler and a Bosch plastic recirc dump valve (OE Ford fitment at the time). I'd also sold it with a GT Tuning adjustable boost valve which I never got round to fitting. I'd stored it for a good 5 years as I had every intention of keeping it but a first house purchase needed a deposit so I had to sell! To this day I regret selling it as it was in such good condition and unmolested (still had the original orange indicator lenses and original rear parcel shelf!). I random rabbit-hole search in Instagram came up with a few pics and it looks like it's current owner is a guy called Scott Barlow. I've messaged him on there but to no avail. below are the few pics I found in the 'gram starting with the oldest with horrendous alloys and the latest looking like I'd just sold it albeit hit with the lows after my ownership. 
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Last Edit: Mar 24, 2023 8:00:33 GMT by daver555
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Hello all you fellow RR'rs. The mini checkmate post got me thinking on this again. I know its a long-shot but does anyone on here know the whereabouts of 5GTT H490 VUS? Glacier White 1990 model that I sold in Surrey to a lad who worked at a Land Rover dealership in/near High Wycombe/Beaconsfield. I think the year was about 2003, definitely early noughties. I bought it in about 94 and I was the second owner and I think I sold it with about 94k on it. It was pretty much stock apart from a GT Tuning exhaust, strapped intercooler and a Bosch plastic recirc dump valve (OE Ford fitment at the time). I'd also sold it with a GT Tuning adjustable boost valve which I never got round to fitting. I'd stored it for a good 5 years as I had every intention of keeping it but a first house purchase needed a deposit so I had to sell! To this day I regret selling it as it was in such good condition and unmolested (still had the original orange indicator lenses and original rear parcel shelf!). I random rabbit-hole search in Instagram came up with a few pics and it looks like it's current owner is a guy called Scott Barlow. I've messaged him on there but to no avail. below are the few pics I found in the 'gram starting with the oldest with horrendous alloys and the latest looking like I'd just sold it albeit hit with the lows after my ownership. Saw an R5GT Turbo on the telly and lead me to wonder what had happened to mine - and here it is! daver555, you weren't the second owner - that was me! I bought it at the car auctions on a visit back to Glasgow (hence the *US reg). I think it was only 3 months old when I bought it - It should have rung alarm bells! I don't think in those days Cat S and N etc was around. Anyway when I got it back from the auction I noticed that under the street lights the nearside (I think) wing and door was a slightly different shade from the rest of the car and the plastic wheel arch extension had a smooth finish rather than the grained surface on the other arches. There was a small paint run under the door lock as well as a brand new lower suspension arm in the boot! However it drove well and got me back down south no problem. However, after a while I found the carpet was getting wet and noticed a bit of paint bubbling (around the side repeater? - my memory is getting a big foggy these days!). As I was worried things may start getting worse, I traded it in at the Reading Renault dealer after about a year for a R19 16V - interestingly no MOT history showing up for that, so it looks like the 5 has outlived the 19 as it has recently been MOT'd. |
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