Gary406 wrote:bloody hell
my set was on ebay for a week at £85 and no buyers

Yes... and coupé interiors go for even more. Fact is that here modifying a car is much more rare than it is in UK, apart from those ugly body mods to clios and similar.
Working on a car is generally mechanic-only stuff. The mentality is very different. Noone thinks of selling a car in pieces, they all bring them to the scrapper. And since this mentality is so radicated, many good pieces just go wasted in the bin. The result is that there is far less market for those products, less availability and more costs.
Also cars here are much more expensive. What you pay for a good 406 I pay for one without an engine (if I can find one), for example.
Also buying old used cars is much rarer. The transition tax for my 406 was around 400 punds for example, thus the used old car market ik killed: the tax is based on the power only and not on the age!
Also, a car is considered to be high-mileage at 80k miles, very high at 120k miles, and too high to be bought at 150k miles, close to his death.
Why? Because most people pay mechanics to do the stupid work on them and they make you pay much more than necessary ecen if not needed.
Moreover, most 120k miles car have passed two or three times from a dealer, and 90% of the dealers modify the mileage... so a 120k miles car is probably a 200k one.
This is because out MOT is every two years and there is no control whatsoever on the mileage, no records. Also most mechanics will offer you to pay 10 to 20% less if without receipt, avoiding taxes. So there is no proof of mileages most of the time.
Believe me, tax evasion is a plague here, is it calculated that annual tax evasion amounts to
at least 250
billion pounds...
sorry for the long paper, I needed to say it!

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