[LordHefner]

Originally Posted by Duffy

For all the chat, it'd still help your case enormously to put up what you actually would accept for the car....

The guessing game is fun and all that, however.....

I wasn't too sure of what it was worth in the condition as I wasn't aware the cost of putting the bits correct... however I've how four offers from £3.5K to £6k as well as other asking for engines and panels or parts should I decide to break it.

Originally Posted by roberto

Yes it would im out by the way

Whoever buys it, it has the wrong front grill on so why not cut that out and get the bonnet up.
I have a brand new face-lift grill for sale the proper one.

Well aware of that as you kindly posted pictures for me the day I came back from the last person who told me the catch was seized and needed either the bonnet tearing open or the grill cutting out, I immediately went on a hunt for both parts... but whilst post request for these it also accoutred to me the time the car would need to be out of action to get it sorted and right now I'm having a great deal of repair work done after radiotherapy necrosis and off the road is not an option as I need to get about of my own accord.

If I need a grill once I decide how I'm going to deal with this then I'll be chasing for parts if there is someone who is about to help out but at the moment it's an uphill climb.

Originally Posted by ainarssems

Here is how I am looking at it, similar decent condition car without cat D is £8-9k, Cat D brings it down to £6k. Changing front end back to FL will take considerable amount of work and money and while the existing PF parts can be sold to recover some of the money they will be cheaper than FL parts and will take time to shift. As the car has wrong front end it makes you wonder what else has been done wrong repairing it and about quality of the repairs, since you cannot check much without opening the bonnet it's a risk as well so for me to be interested it would need to be in £4.5k range. You could probably get that that kind of money from breakers and possibly £5-6k on the e-bay as cat D from somebody who does not realize it's got wrong front end on the car if you choose not to disclose it.

I bought my D2 S8 8 years ago for £2.5k on e-bay when the decent similar ones were costing about £5k. It had been insurance write off in the past and it needed things doing and I only bought it while I was drunk, I did not even remember bidding on it, just discovered to my surprise the next day that I have won it, probably would not have bought it if I was sober, not that I regret buying it. In the end it was half the price of the decent one but previous insurance write off and with some issues, which brings me back to the £8-9k price for decent similar D3's and taking and drawing parallels to my D2 purchase if I take half of that brings me back to the same ~£4.5k price point for it.

To be honest I don't expect LordHefner to let it go that cheap but if it was offered around £4.5k I would be interested.

Thanks for shining the light on someone who's come from a similar experience. I like you have no regret in buying the car as the face lift of the car is something I didn't overly notice as I was looking specifically for the parts of the car that I did like, named the one piece grill the round fog lights and the rear LEDs... at the point whether they were right or wrong these were what stopped my buying a 2005 A8 or the slightly later... and even knowing the fog lights should be square I still wouldn't change them as I still like the round. Headlamps yeah those would be nice but the once I have worked fine in many thousand of Audi A8 owners all over the world, and the fact that they illuminated and do all that they should when they should is little bother either. I simply love the car for all that it is, yeah in perfect as should be would be better but as someone unknowing I've taken the car for how it drives, how it performs, how it handles, and that is what the car gives, there is little about it not to like. I just wished I was not in this situation of hopelessness or someone could help me, or buy the car so that I may carry out my priorities which is getting about without hassle.

Regards,

Mark.