Shite deal-breaking selling points

[Station]

Recent addition's grand selling point was:

 

"Previous owner used to drive it to Devon"

 

Before that:

 

"Used to be owned by an elderly couple"

 

Rust bucket red MR2:

 

"Full service history to 2000 and bundles of receipts", which didn't explain the floorpan doily and previous owner's mission to remove everything to 'save weight'"

[Richard]

Dealbreakers for me are DVLA Select plate, alloy wheels- especially aftermarket, Alcantara anywhere in the car, aftermarket sunroof- especially Webasto, and Tupperware.

[hairnet]

selling for a mate

 

mint

 

runs lovely when warm

[Cavcraft]

'Well looked after, but lost service history when I moved house.'

[Guest]

any advert written by sumone who cunt even smell or wrtz in fkn txt spk.

[Spiny Norman]

Diesel.

[Rocket88]

"stunning"............"drives superb"...........usually in the same advert.

[Albert Ross]

Unique registration number.

[Guest]

any ad that's strap line is counteracted by the blurb.

i.e. ONE CAREFUL OWNER then in the text "in the last X years"

 

"Good condition for year" sounds like a caveat in itself.

[Cavcraft]

'Damage was done before I got it'. Fucking great, that makes all the difference now, doesn't it?

 

'My wife doesn't like it'. Fucking bollocks, you either got it to knock on for a few quid more or found out it's fucked.

[HillmanImp]

Been offered a P plate 1.3

Just failed test on three small holes in floor

 

+

=

 

 

Sadly was also plus this:

 

 

All good now though and on the road. No offence to the OP either, I bought an Lancia unseen WTF did I expect.

[Ross_K]

"Should pass MOT no problem"

 

"Lost V5 but have green slip"

 

"Just needs xyz to pass MOT"

 

"Priced to sell"

 

"Need to sell as I'm emigrating to Australia"

 

"Genuine reason for sale"/GRFS

 

"No dreamers"

 

Garages that say "selling on behalf of owner"

 

"1.3 on logbook"

[autofive]

"front wheel drive"

 

"very economical"

 

"life on mars car"

[R9UKE]

Anything with LPG.

 

"Will need nothing for MOT"

 

"Only have new keeper part of V5" - so the part where you say you've had it for a year is bollocks

 

"Top of the range" - when it's an LX

 

"Really economical, will do 35 MPG easy" - when talking about a 3.5 V6

[stuboy]

slight rattle...... pennys in a tin can.

[vulgalour]

"According to howmanyleft..."

"Could drive home" followed by "Battery not included in sale" or "Wheels not included in sale"

"Reg No. worth £..."

[skattrd]

"Corsa"

 

"xxxx spent modifying" .... "not quite finished"

[Pete-M]

Vauxhall or Rover if FWD.

 

Aftermarket sunroof.

 

Diesel.

 

Cheap tax band.

 

"Air conditioning removed to save weight".

[Lankytim]

Never been welded i.e it's full of filler.

[Guest]

Been offered a P plate 1.3

Just failed test on three small holes in floor

 

Sadly was also plus this:

 

 

All good now though and on the road. No offence to the OP either, I bought an Lancia unseen WTF did I expect.

 

No offence taken Scott Thats why I didn't ask silly money for it as I know the difference between MOT and personal standards! Scary though that the mot only ran out 2 months prev!

But fucking hell I never imagined it was that bad!!! I genuinely sat here and said out loud "fucking hell!!!"

Daft thing is unless you came with a grinder you wouldn't have seen that lot anyway, I thought what had been done had been done properly - look at all those invoices and the prices. Seems soemone was being fucked over!

Still I love the prevenance of it, that it belonged to the Motoring Ed of the Times who's obituary said his sole regret was getting only 149 out of the then new E type when he test drove it up the M1!

 

PM me your address as I've still got the A piller foot well cubby hole things here.

[Guest]

Been offered a P plate 1.3

Just failed test on three small holes in floor

 

Sadly was also plus this:

 

 

All good now though and on the road. No offence to the OP either, I bought an Lancia unseen WTF did I expect.

 

No offence taken Scott Thats why I didn't ask silly money for it as I know the difference between MOT and personal standards! Scary though that the mot only ran out 2 months prev!

But fucking hell I never imagined it was that bad!!! I genuinely sat here and said out loud "fucking hell!!!"

Daft thing is unless you came with a grinder you wouldn't have seen that lot anyway, I thought what had been done had been done properly - look at all those invoices and the prices. Seems soemone was being fucked over!

Still I love the prevenance of it, that it belonged to the Motoring Ed of the Times who's obituary said his sole regret was getting only 149 out of the then new E type when he test drove it up the M1!

 

PM me your address as I've still got the A piller foot well cubby hole things here.

[dollywobbler]

"Needs handbrake cable."

[Guest]

^ WALLOP!!! Back of the the net!

[Cavcraft]

The 'according to how many left' one is a cracker. That has to be the most annoying thing going at the moment, all those dead heads using it to try and inflate the price of some utter shit heap.

 

'Needs restore' pisses me right off, and other stupid/lazy typing.

[willswitchengage]

"Peogeut"

[Albert Ross]

^ Citreon

[Justin Case]

If I do not get the asking price I will scrap/banger race/set fire to/eat* it

 

 

* Alternative fates are also available

[Paul Dupart]

Starting price is what I'd get for it scrap!

[ayd]

any advert written by sumone who cunt even smell or wrtz in fkn txt spk.

this ^

 

and 'Will fly through an MOT no problem'

[Station]

"Offers"