Ford Ka Dilemma Good Riddance to bad Rubbarsh

[stephen01]

Tell her the costs of repair and the fact that you need the cash back as you've paid on a credit card and need to pay it off asap, obec youve got the cash, ask her to fuck the car off,

[outlaw118]

She's being a twat.

 

I'm not prepared to let the car go until i get the folding in my hand - it's  not like she hasn't got the money, she's just as tight as a ducks arse. - for instance, she texts Mrs_outlaw but not me as we're on different networks, wheras Mrs_Outlaw is on the same as her.

[Split_Pin]

I borrow money from my dad from time to time and always pay it back. That way if I need a tap again, it won't be a problem.

 

I would just sell it for a realistic price, deduct what she owes you and if that doesn't suit her, too bad.

 

You've been a damn good dad by sorting the car for her!

[outlaw118]

It's not my (step)daughters - she's got a 306!

 

It's a convoluted link, Mrs_Outlaw's friends mother, who's had a stroke, it's the daughter, madam's mate, who is being a PITA.

 

But agreed, Ma&Pa_Outlaw often sub me, and if either of my Stepkids needed owt i'd be the same. As long as the piss wasn't taken.

[Timewaster]

Accidently advertise it for £65 and put her phone number on the ad.

 

And maybe accidently describe it as a 2 door mk1 Escort while you are at it.

[Felly Magic]

Tell her if she doesn't stop being a mardy little bitch, small claims court her. A nice CCJ would go down well for her credit history

[outlaw118]

HOLY FRED RESURRECTION BATMAN!!!123!!!

 

POS Ka was eventually collected, and exactly £184 paid to me...nope, didn't even round it up to £185, let alone £200!! 

 

She brought her bloke with her, who reckoned that they will get £600 "all day long". I handed over the keys and the MoT certificate, and left them to it. 

 

Drove past her house yesterday (which is what reminded me to update!) and guess what's sitting there with a sign in the window @ £750 ono??!!??

 

That'd be 10 months left on the MoT then....

 

The day someone pays £750 for that, will be the day I run across Parliament Square in my pants shouting "I'm Spongebob Wetpants". 

 

twats.

[Pillock]

I'm considering slipping the owners fifty quid to park it around the corner for a week and pretend it's sold. See how much you panic.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Next time they need help with one of their vee-hicles, tell them you're washing your hair*

 

* I'm assuming you have no hair for this gag to work.

[outlaw118]

^^^ And you would be correct Mr Wogan, more on my chest than my head 

 

Fuck 'em it's not my problem any more, but I've learnt a lesson - I won't be doing her a favour again.

[Captain Furious]

Shite when you end up in a situation like that, it's why I pretty much don't do anything for anyone other than my closest trusted friends nowadays

 

I sold a car once, I didn't really want to sell it but this guy badgered the hell out of me to let him have it (pub deal, you know...) gave it him at rock bottom price (£400) because he was a 'mate'...

 

11 MONTHS later it fails it's MOT, on fairly catastrophic rust underneath. Now I'll be honest, I was surprised, because I'd owned this car since it was just over a year old and it had been maintained to bordering on OCD levels, above the surface it was minty fresh, regardless I offered to get the welding done and get the MOT on it for cost of parts. That wasn't good enough though, instead he wanted me to take the car back and give him a £200 refund (while meanwhile spreading it round to anyone who'd listen that I'd sold him a 'dodgy car')

 

In the end, after a bit of a heated confrontation one night and me informing him that a £200 refund wasn't happening under any circumstances, I have him £50 back for it, took it away the next day, got the welding done and an MOT the sold it for £300 on eBay. Prick

[sierraman]

I won't be held ransom by buyers that are basically in the market to scam all and sundry. The guys that bought it, if they were as professional as they made out they'd be keeping schtum about flogging it for £750. I blame Wheeler Dealers for this, you get half arsed idiots thinking they've found easy street flogging old bangers.

[smellypoo]

This kind of thing transcends just doing work on cars. Over the years I've lost count of the number of computers I've sorted out for various people (not at any cost mind, just to help out because it cost me nothing but time - how I undervalued myself back then) the amount of advice that I've given that was as clear as day, yet they'd still come back having cocked it up exactly the same way they did before (so it's usually nothing to do with the hardware itself, more to do with not using antivirus software and downloading crap 'freeware' or dodgy pirate software or dodgy websites) yet they'll never admit it - but oh, they need the computer working to get their coursework done on time etc. so it's super mega urgent so drop your stuff and help me pleeeeeeease. 

 

I remember once fixing a pc for a 'mate' who promptly sold it to someone else. They screwed it up, somehow it came back to me to get it fixed again, as though I was some kind of warranty. Amazingly I became the bad guy for turning it away. 

 

I have (since a good few years back) stopped doing this for anyone now (excluding my closest friends and immediate family who aren't that demanding), even with money on the table, it's just not worth the follow-on hassle. I know photographers, web designers, bakers, people with all manner of skills who deal with the same kind of crap. Ultimately, choose who you help carefully, dish out free advice if/when it's asked for by the people you're happy to help.  

 

I've learned over a rather long time that you cannot save all people from their own stupidity and as far as I know it would be attempting to defeat Darwin's theory of evolution to even try. 

 

TL:DR - some waffly rant about people being stupid. 

[rainagain]

This kind of thing transcends just doing work on cars. Over the years I've lost count of the number of computers I've sorted out for various people (not at any cost mind, just to help out because it cost me nothing but time - how I undervalued myself back then) the amount of advice that I've given that was as clear as day, yet they'd still come back having cocked it up exactly the same way they did before (so it's usually nothing to do with the hardware itself, more to do with not using antivirus software and downloading crap 'freeware' or dodgy pirate software or dodgy websites) yet they'll never admit it - but oh, they need the computer working to get their coursework done on time etc. so it's super mega urgent so drop your stuff and help me pleeeeeeease. 

 

It's funny how fixing someone's computer isn't really 'work'. I ended up getting caught up with this, you'd fix someone's computer and they'd tell their friend's friend and before you know it: "would you mind having a look at my brother's dog's next door neighbour's Granny's PC, because you made such a good job of mine". The worst were the ones where they'd drop it off to you, you'd spend a couple of nights sorting it and they'd collect it with just a "thanks I really appreciate this" but just not enough to manage to even get your some cheap beer or the ever appreciated "I'm so glad I know a computer geek", thanks for the insult. When windows Vista came along I stopped completely looking at PCs using the excuse of I don't know anything about Vista. They's a great Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert spends X hours sorting someone's PC and he then asks them to come round and spend X hours cleaning his house. As he knows how to fix PCs and he's assuming they know how to clean. What's even more funny about it is fixing a PC properly an not just re-imaging it its quite a skilled job hence the high hour rates PC world, etc charge.

 

TL:DR similar to what smellypoo said about people being stupid

[lisbon_road]

I once knew a man with an old Volvo 340.  It wasn't running well so we had a look at it.  The spark plugs were useless, with tips broken off and so on, which made me wonder how it ran at all.

 

I rummaged about and found some I'd taken out of my father's Montego which seemed to be about the right size.  I put them in and told him to get some more during the week - this was a Sunday and years ago nothing was open.

 

Saw him a few months later.  He said he'd just had the car serviced, and that the garage had told him that the spark plugs I'd put in weren't very good.

[purplebargeken]

Bollocks to helping them again with anything. Arseholes.