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Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Yeh, go for it with the Cruiser!
The master cylinder and electric booster costs £3000. It now needs the suspension changed out, but I've got the springs but it needs new shocks. Now also needs new brakes all around, two new batteries, air-con, and service and MOT. Probably the best part of £6000 spent on it. Would I be pouring money into a 22 year old black hole? Bought new in Sept 1998.
 

Martin Holden

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Trade
Location
Cheltenham
The master cylinder and electric booster costs £3000. It now needs the suspension changed out, but I've got the springs but it needs new shocks. Now also needs new brakes all around, two new batteries, air-con, and service and MOT. Probably the best part of £6000 spent on it. Would I be pouring money into a 20 year old black hole?
Ah! See your dilemma. Unless you want to use it for the next 10 years then it isn’t worth the cost to do it up.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
Ah! See your dilemma. Unless you want to use it for the next 10 years then it isn’t worth the cost to do it up.
That's been my view so far. However if you look at it another way, it is about a single year's depreciation, maybe less, on a £60,000 Defender or Disco5 or nine month's lease cost. So if it lasts two years with not much more being spent on it, and considering the tax benefit of repairs, it still may be worth it. Then there's 22mpg to count against it. So if I travel 10,000 miles, it will have consumed about 1100 litres more fuel than my Honda for the same miles, which will cost an extra £1500 in fuel near enough, or £1300 more than the Volvo.
Hmm!.....
 
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Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
The master cylinder and electric booster costs £3000. It now needs the suspension changed out, but I've got the springs but it needs new shocks. Now also needs new brakes all around, two new batteries, air-con, and service and MOT. Probably the best part of £6000 spent on it. Would I be pouring money into a 22 year old black hole? Bought new in Sept 1998.

It’s worth nothing when it’s doing nothing. Would you spend £6k to buy a good one?
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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