Potential Buyer , advice needed urgently

[firefly]

Rob i live in Castleford bout 3 miles away, if your going to go look at it i can come with ya if ya like. i have had a 3.0L for near on 4 yrs now so i have a bit of an idea of the things you wanna be looking at let us know if your going and when and as long as im not working i'll meet, 1 thing i will add is if its the 1 i think it is its been for sale for quite a long time so im sure they are flexable with the price wink wink... also its used regular cos ive seen it about

[MattF]

It's probably about 60 - 70 miles away

Sorry. My cr@p geography kicking in again. I always think that place
is down South.

[RobOnBlackbird]

Rob i live in Castleford bout 3 miles away, if your going to go look at it i can come with ya if ya like. i have had a 3.0L for near on 4 yrs now so i have a bit of an idea of the things you wanna be looking at let us know if your going and when and as long as im not working i'll meet, 1 thing i will add is if its the 1 i think it is its been for sale for quite a long time so im sure they are flexable with the price wink wink... also its used regular cos ive seen it about

Wouldn't mind a second opinion, I'm going to leave the viewing until tomorrow, hoping to get to it between 12 and 1 pm if that's convenient. I've not rang him yet so I'll post here later when I have asked him a few more questions, I am going to tell him I suspect it may have overheating / head problems and will be testing it , see if that puts him off or if he owns up, if he insists its all fine or has receipts for a modified head I'll go ahead with the viewing at least.,

Thanks to all for the advice / replies

[stormforce]

Wouldn't mind a second opinion, I'm going to leave the viewing until tomorrow, hoping to get to it between 12 and 1 pm if that's convenient. I've not rang him yet so I'll post here later when I have asked him a few more questions, I am going to tell him I suspect it may have overheating / head problems and will be testing it , see if that puts him off or if he owns up, if he insists its all fine or has receipts for a modified head I'll go ahead with the viewing at least.,

Thanks to all for the advice / replies

good luck with it Rob

[RobOnBlackbird]

Just rang the bloke selling the Surf, and what do you know, it's had a new cylinder head about 6 months ago, the head was supplied by a local engineering firm in castleford ( Lockwoods I think he said ) for £600 and his "mate" fitted it for him. sounds a bit suspect to me as he says he's also fitted an extra electric fan with a manual over-ride switch , just in case ?. He's ringing back at 8.00 with the phone number of the firm that supplied the cylinder head so I can ask them if it's a modified one. He says it will stay on tickover for any length of time without any problems, but alarm bells are ringing now I think I should give this one a miss.

[stormforce]

Just rang the bloke selling the Surf, and what do you know, it's had a new cylinder head about 6 months ago, the head was supplied by a local engineering firm in castleford ( Lockwoods I think he said ) for £600 and his "mate" fitted it for him. sounds a bit suspect to me as he says he's also fitted an extra electric fan with a manual over-ride switch , just in case ?. He's ringing back at 8.00 with the phone number of the firm that supplied the cylinder head so I can ask them if it's a modified one. He says it will stay on tickover for any length of time without any problems, but alarm bells are ringing now I think I should give this one a miss.

Now if he said it was a Stevo's head then that would be a differant kettle of fish

[Nismo]

If you're not sure walk away.

[firefly]

Lockwood engineering are just about the specialists in castleford for new heads head testing etc, supplied me with a new head for a citroen i had top blokes. as long as its been fitted correctly then it should be ok, but i aint no expert, did actually see it being driven two days ago, looked quite nice, anyways theres loads of surfs out there good luck

[RobOnBlackbird]

Gave upon the red one after drawing the cash out of the bank on Friday , paid it back in Monday and then last night spotted one for sale on here , 3.0td , about 10 miles from me , so will be looking at that in the near future