AS in the community: Cannock Motor Auctions

[dollywobbler]

I'm on my way. Just grabbing a charge at Telford.

[Pillock]

Usual quality present

 

[Six-cylinder]

I wish I was there but I needed to work today.

[SiC]

Good job I didn't go. Looks like something i'd bid on and get that look from the wife, that only wives can pull.

[Pillock]

My god that's a crap photo. Clio has a jaunty angled passenger window.

 

Other highlights include the Audi A3 that ate it's own turbo in the carpark about ten minutes after sale, and a Vectra where every panel had been brillo padded.

 

Btw - if a Phaeton has a non functioning entertainment unit, is that expensive? And the double glazing?

[chaseracer]

Well,im on the lookout for something in lhd but i doubt Cannock will provide...

 

There's a place on the A513 just outside Lichfield that used to specialise in LHD.

[dollywobbler]

I was doing really well today, until a Mercedes proved popular.

[Brodders]

Who won the auction game in the end?

[Sloth in a bowl]

I did, i will put up a full report sometime soon. Busy watching le man's 24 right now.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Ok the grand Autoshite Auction game results.

 

A full scan of the catalog will follow.

The categories where:

1. Louie the learner - 1400cc or less

2. George the giffer - at least 4 doors and an autobox

3. Harry's clearing house - has a tow bar or van or pickup

4. Nearly new Nigel - 06 plate or newer

5. Pot luck Paula - any car in the lot

6. Executive Elliot - Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Saab, Volvo or Jaguar

7. Breeding Brenda - 5 door estate or MPV

 

 

Chaseracer

1. Lot 106 - Hyundai Getz - £200

2. Lot 57 - Volvo V70 - £900

3. Lot 127 - Renault Master - £2300 - Excellent choice for carrying the Getz home, not so good for the auction game

4. Lot 112 - Vauxhall Astra - £650 - Ex Taxi

5. Lot 119 - Renault Laguna - £300 - poor Paula

6. Lot 513 - Saab 9-5 - £275 - Mega cool, mega fucked

7. Lot 508 - Citreon Picasso - £170 - a 'popular' choice for Brenda

Total - £4795

 

Dollywobbler

1. Lot 27 - Kia Picanto - £175

2. Lot 505 - Hyundai Matrix - £250 - 'Styling' by Pininfarina!!?? WTF it must have been a school experience kid on a drugs bender

3. Lot 120 - VW Passat - £175 - 230k miles under its wheels

4. Lot 509 - Vauxhall Vectra - £410 - Tattier than a very tatty thing

5. Lot 109 - Rover 75 - £275 - Paula will be traveling in comfort

6. Lot 65 - Merc C class - £1550

7. Lot 125 - Renault Kangoo - £300

Total - £3135

 

Pillock

1. Lot 36 - Corsa - £275

2. Lot 44 - Espace - £400

3. Lot 42 - Nissan Almera - £275

4. Lot 117 - Chevy Kalos - £500

5. Lot 501 - Fiesta (no MoT) - £200 + £200 penalty

6. Lot 519 - Saab 9-3 - £575

7. Lot 14 - Galaxy - £190

Total - £2615

 

Mrs Pillock - Cat

1. Lot 510 - Honda Jazz - £250 - When did these suddenly become sub £400 cheap?

2. Lot 44 - Espace - £400

3. Lot 14 - Galaxy - £190

4. Lot 39 - Citroen C8 - £475

5. Lot 117 - Chevy Kalos - £500

6. Lot 30 - Merc A160 - £200

7. Lot 508 - Citreon Picasso - £170 - a 'popular' choice for Brenda

Total £2085

 

Sloth in a Bowl

1. Lot 124 - Reggie Clio - £220

2. Lot 505 - Hyundai Matrix - £250

3. Lot 120 - VW Passat - £175

4. Lot 117 - Chevy Kalos - £500

5. Lot 16 - Ford Focus - £140

6. Lot 30 - Merc A160 - £200

7. Lot 508 - Citreon Picasso - £170

Total £1655

 

 

Best Possible combo

1. Lot 27 - Kia Picanto - £175 - selected by Dollywobbler

2. Lot 21 - Skoda Octavia - £175

3. Lot 120 - VW Passat - £175 - selected by Dollywobbler, Sloth

4. Lot 29 - Citreon C5 - £150 - No suspension hydraulics and left a trail of fluid

5. Lot 15 - Vauxhall Vectra - £90

6. Lot 30 - Merc A160 - £200 - selected by Cat and Sloth

7. Lot 508 - Citreon Picasso - £170 - selected by chaseracer, cat and Sloth

Total £1135

[dollywobbler]

That bloody Merc cost me a great deal! I was offered the chance to substitute in a rusty Beemer, but that didn't feel fair. I took my medicine like a man. A man who's crap at valuing cars.

[chaseracer]

I did as well as usual - even by avoiding any Mercedes entanglements!

[Pillock]

I was beaten by the wife. As usual. She can make me breakfast as compensation.

[Lord Sterling]

Lol, wish I'd been there but with 2 hire cars at mine because: work and hire place only open 'til 12:00 I wouldn't have made it. Plus I'm not eating as regularly at the moment (Ramadan) for the next couple of weeks. New auction game looks great!

 

Will be there next month hopefully if I'm not in Turkey.

[dollywobbler]

Not eating regularly? You don't HAVE to eat a death burger you know.

[Sloth in a bowl]

Auction catalog scan time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pillock]

I wonder if the availability of online MOT checks has harmed sale prices?

Example - lot 15, the ninety quid Vectra. MOT had three days to run when it went through the shed of despair, running a check shows it needs brake pads, discs and hoses, the sills are buggered, and hardly any of the lights work.

 

There's an 05 plate Fiesta that is out of MOT that comes back with similar tales of woe. 

[SiC]

Wow. There was loads of interesting stuff in that one. Good job I didn't go.

Espace 4, Saab galore, s80, xj8 and Jeep v8 bi-fuel. I'd ended up with one of them for sure!

 

A premium barge Autoshitters delight.

[Pillock]

You understand that they are all dogshit, yeah? The three Saabs especially reminded me of last-dog-in-the-pound and whilst the 3.0D Estate sounded nice, it sounded awful - every pulley in the engine bay was singing away.

 

Jeep came round twice to bump the price up, and the Espace looked like the local ASBO School had used it as a combined detention room and sticky sweet storeroom.

[SiC]

That's what the wife said the last time I went to Cannock. I just kept reminding her that these aren't sale ready cars and a lot of these will be on a forecourt next week after a quick clean.

[SiC]

A 3.0D v6 Saab has the god awful isuzu lump (exact same engine in a Renault Vel Satis & espace). So even if it was running sweet, it'd blow up soon anyway.

 

But still would like to have a go in one some time. For £275, its almost worth a shot to see how long it'll last.

[Sloth in a bowl]

A 3.0D v6 Saab has the god awful isuzu lump (exact same engine in a Renault Vel Satis & espace). So even if it was running sweet, it'd blow up soon anyway.

 

But still would like to have a go in one some time. For £275, its almost worth a shot to see how long it'll last.

 

 

To the exit of the carpark given the noise it was making, which is still further than the turbo on lot 55 went before dying.

 

For luxury barging then the Jag XJ looked very nice, though it had comedy instructions on making the rear doors open written in biro on one of the manuals. A child lock 'issue'.

[chaseracer]

Right then, shiters - high time we did this again.  And this time, Dollywobbler's going to buy* a car!

 

Saturday 24th Sept; 9.30ish at the Trucker's Rest on the A5, 10.45 at the Shed of Disappointment.

[dollywobbler]

That does rely on the rather optimistic view that I won't buy a car in the intervening two weeks...

[chaseracer]

If you do, consider the size of the appreciative* crowd you can show it off to!

[SiC]

Who is volunteering to bring the toolkit for when it fails to make it past the burger van?

 

Don't forget that you need £100 cash to give the chap next to the auctioneer for when the hammer drops. I didn't know this when I went last time and all the cash machines nearby were broken or empty. (It probably was for the best to be honest)

[Pillock]

I shall check with the family. Daughter went out a got a job, quite inconsiderately, because it requires a lift there and back. So it might just be me unless by some miracle a rural bus service is operational at 7am on a Saturday.

 

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[andy18s]

I'll try get along as it'll be my last

.........maybe

[Junkman]

The Granadaland Greenhouse Gassers® should be able to do a bit of The Climate improvement.

[chaseracer]

I'll try get along as it'll be my last

.........maybe

 

The 'like' above is for you being there, Andy, not for it being your last!