An AS dilemma. (Poojo content)

[holbeck]

Out of the blue a work colleague has offered me cash for my 205.

 

Great you may say, well yes but the snag is what he wants to do with it.

 

He lives 50 miles from work and is intending to commute 100 miles a day in it because of OMG  50+MPG.

 

It has to be said that mechanically it's in good shape ( rounded off sump plug - which he knows about -  aside)

 

 

The thing is, whilst I have been happily pootling to and from work doing 150 miles per week at 50 / 60 mph on A roads. I can see that suddenly asking it to do a daily 100 mile motorway thrash is something else entirely.

[Tickman]

Is he likely to fight with the sump plug and do the necessary items or just run it into the ground?

 

Sell it to him to abuse and then buy it back when he has run it into the ground and spend twice what he paid for it trying to sort it into half decent shape.

 

Simple really!

 

John

[castros_bro]

A couple of years ago I used my 205 diesel for 6 months to commute  80 + mainly M3 miles and it did it without a problem BUT I'd owned it for a while before and knew it would need to be treated with a bit of care and would get owner applied additional repair + service checks.

[hairnet]

up to him what he does with it but if he thinks its up to it and you wanna sell it then

 

browse ebay now

[holbeck]

I just don't want it to be ragged into the ground and it all to be my fault if it goes wrong.

[dave21478]

Unless it says "Arnold Clark" above your door, sell it to him. What he does with it is up to him and you have no obligation to offer any kind of warranty. I assume your co-worker is a mentally competent adult? Then he needs to take responsability for his actions and not expect to be nannied through life.

 

I dont mean for that to sound harsh, but from his point of view buying a car from you is no different to buying a car from some random on ebay.

[holbeck]

Unless it says "Arnold Clark" above your door, sell it to him. What he does with it is up to him and you have no obligation to offer any kind of warranty. I assume your co-worker is a mentally competent adult? Then he needs to take responsability for his actions and not expect to be nannied through life.

 

I dont mean for that to sound harsh, but from his point of view buying a car from you is no different to buying a car from some random on ebay.

 

So true.

[Cavcraft]

Do you want to sell the car? Y/N

 

Has he offered you a good price? Y/N

 

Will it be your problem if he buys it and doesn't like commuting in it? Y/N

 

 

 

 

A good work mate would sell it to him, then buy something a bit faster that's also cheap to run and when the inevitable happens offer to take the 205 back in part-exchange for 1/3rd if what he bought it for against your new car.

[Bobthebeard]

Depends on his personality.

If he fusses over cars and washes/waxes/tinkers with it often it will break down. If he doesn't give a shit and just drives it regardless it will probably outlast him. Especially so if he never ever gives it a service.

A friend had one for 20 odd years and did fuck all in the way of maintaining it.

[The Moog]

Davewithnumbers is spot on. Unless he is going to complain loads, then dont. 

[garethj]

I think GarethJ did 100miles a day in diesel 205 for six months or so. 

 

Nearly, it was 75 miles a day for 18 months.  If it's on A roads then the 205 is a good choice, if he's doing motorways the 59bhp can get a bit dull and I found a Skoda 1.9Tdi with the 110bhp engine was much better, it even did more mpg.

[dieselassist]

...probably worth more to you/yourself, with the OMG mega MPG daily commuting figures...

 

...if hes buying an 'old' 205, n it goes wrong; how can it be your fault?? sold as seen surely ; he can moan about it when it does, n you can feign concern, n offer words of philosophy - but that's as far it goes...

 

its his choice in life what he does/which decision he makes; wether or not he should buy it/will like it, maintain it... about the only decision you need to make is whether or not you want to sell it/be without it in exchange for some hard currency 'in compensation' ...

[New POD]

Unless it says "Arnold Clark" above your door, sell it to him. What he does with it is up to him and you have no obligation to offer any kind of warranty. I assume your co-worker is a mentally competent adult? Then he needs to take responsability for his actions and not expect to be nannied through life.

 

I dont mean for that to sound harsh, but from his point of view buying a car from you is no different to buying a car from some random on ebay.

Based on a mate selling a cavalier SRI to a fat bloke in the stores at work, who ignored all basics like erm checking the oil level, and ignoring the engine warning lights. Who then demanded his money back after he blew the engine up, I'd suggest selling a car to someone at work is worse than being MR Clark himself.

 

That said, the same mate had a 5 door 205 TD, which he fitted GTi alloys to, wound up the boost, fiddled with the fuel pump, and drove 30 miles flat out to work and 30 miles flat out home. The one day he gave me a lift, he did 2 hand brake turns, took off on a hump back bridge, and hit 110 on the motorway. Once it got to 200K he offered it to me for £100. I turned it down, but looking back I should have bought it and flogged the wheels on the e of gay.

[Junkman]

Strangely none of my work colleagues ever offered cash for my cars.

[dieselassist]

...I bought a tested n 'one month's taxed' 93Suzuki swift gti (debadged n reg'd as a Suzuki swift 1300 on the reg form) for €450, ealy one morning from a workmate when I worked nights, production welding; he claimed it was his brother in laws....

...bonnet was welded shut to the front wing on the drivers side; bonnet hinge was fecked; hadn't been serviced/oil changed in a good while, I had a short moan n got a bit of a 'ribbing at work' from the other lads at work when I mentioned it; replaced the hinge, got on with my life ....n later relacing a clutch on it, bodging up the exhaust n selling it on for a profit...

[sierraman]

Out of the blue a work colleague has offered me cash for my 205.

 

Great you may say, well yes but the snag is what he wants to do with it.

 

He lives 50 miles from work and is intending to commute 100 miles a day in it because of OMG 50+MPG.

 

It has to be said that mechanically it's in good shape ( rounded off sump plug - which he knows about - aside)

 

 

The thing is, whilst I have been happily pootling to and from work doing 150 miles per week at 50 / 60 mph on A roads. I can see that suddenly asking it to do a daily 100 mile motorway thrash is something else entirely.

Fuck him, it's not your problem if he's chose to drive it to the moon and back every day. If the clutch goes in a few weeks he's done his money, there would be no come back. Same as if he bought it out the paper.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I wouldnt think twice about driving a 205 diesel 100 miles a day, its perfectly capable of that if its in decent nick and gets some maintenance.

[Jim Bell]

Theres plenty of worse places to be for 100 odd miles a day.

 

Let him have a drive of it. If he likes it, swap money for keys.  I'm guessing the price will be reasonable, and I doubt he'll make any complaints down the line.

 

Anyone with any sense knows you buy what you see at the bottom end of the market.  If he has no sense, charge him £100 more than you were going to to compensate for future complaints.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Do you like the car? If so, keep it. Surely he's not offering a pile for a 205 anyway?

If not, sell it to him. If you're worried that he can't look after it properly, sort the sump nut, give it s decent service and add £100 to the price. If he still wants it, at least you'll know that you did your bit to try and prolong its existence.

[Mr A Lawrence]

It all depends on wether said colleague is further up the management ladder than yow!!

 

Cos remember, shit rolls easier down hill!