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syncropaddy wrote:

jed the spread wrote:
You cant be to precious if you are going to use a Syncro properly

jed

Cooper wrote:

jed the spread wrote:Its how your going to use one Cooper. I was out with some mates today and we had three vans between us with an estimated value of £45,000+. A couple of the comments over the CB's were,

"Jesus you just hit the side of that tree" the reply was, "yeh I though I felt something"

CRUNCH!!!! "what was that?, Ahhh its OK he just reversed into a tree"

One thing you didnt hear is, could we swing past a petrol station as we could do with some fuel

You cant be to precious if you are going to use a Syncro properly

jed

Im not looking for a pristine vw. Im looking for a mechanically sound and good body work. I dont mind if it has scrapes dings or dents as log as it isnt a sive and plates welded everywhere. I actually want a vw that looks a bit beaten up!:)

What?

Cooper wrote: I wasnt making a dig at you. I was just stating in general how can you trust someone elses weld. As i have seen some terrible ones. Well i have been taught by a very very good welder. I can tig weld ,mig weld, spot weld. There the ones im good at. i have fabricated new door skins. Floor framework for my old camper.

At the risk of being patronising...OK, so what's the problem with a van that needs a bit of bodywork doing? If you've made door skins before then something like a lower skin repair to a sliding door shouldn't be a big deal. If you're as skilled as you make out for your modest years then you'd have bought a van and be halfway to having it finished for the summer by now. Then again being taught and actually doing the job is another kettle of fish entirely.

Cooper wrote: Im not looking for a pristine vw. Im looking for a mechanically sound and good body work. I dont mind if it has scrapes dings or dents as log as it isnt a sive and plates welded everywhere. I actually want a vw that looks a bit beaten up!:)

Mine's not a sieve or plates everywhere...warty, scarred and with stress incontinence maybe

You can't have "good bodywork" and "beaten up", they are mutually exclusive terms!

I can do the work but i dont want to. I want one that i can just get in and drive. And not worry about it for 6months. Bodywork wise.

My thinking of good body work must then differ from yours. To me beaten up and a rust bucket that needs alot of welding which has had plates everywhere are two very different thins.

Beaten up is dings scrapes dents generaly looking tatty. But not rusty or patched everywhere. And i know that is possible.

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showD ... abNumber=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

a nice panel van, fresh paint though...
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showD ... abNumber=2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showD ... abNumber=2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

two syncros on this link too, ex army, with TUV. i'd be looking at these two if i didnt have one already
http://www.kfz-deutsch.at/index.php?opt ... &Itemid=53" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thankyou.

I am still really set on rhd tho.

Cooper wrote:
I am still really set on rhd tho.

Has anyone shipped a vw from south africa to the uk?

Ive been trying to look up companies on the net but most dont ship from there.

Does anyone know how much it would cost?

Priceless!























Clueless...

I dont need criticism!
Id like to know from people who have done this.

Have you priced up a syncro in SA?? they are never cheaper than here... shipping container is about 1500 quid and then you'll have to add import duty... VAT etc etc....
Are you going to go look at it before buying?? thats another 1500 quid...

Loads of vans have been suggested to you. a lot closer to home...

toomanytoys wrote:Have you priced up a syncro in SA?? they are never cheaper than here... shipping container is about 1500 quid and then you'll have to add import duty... VAT etc etc....
Are you going to go look at it before buying?? thats another 1500 quid...

Loads of vans have been suggested to you. a lot closer to home...

They are cheaper to buy.

Lots have been suggested but there all LHD.
I really want a RHD. The only places are here which arnt many or aus or sa.

its cost prohibitive to bring one (or anything) back.
criticism is due to you changing your mind all the time, thoughts dont have to be typed out. you say you will get a lhd, even say your getting one, then me or others post them up and then you say you only want rhd people are willing to help you, but you need to make up your mind a bit better. Just be prepared for a long wait for a white hooker (haha meant right hooker )

If i didnt know better.i would by now,think this is all a very big wind up