Sold Live Collection of Unsaleable car.

[sierraman]

I just run them then scrap them now. Means you have to keep it to the bitter end but hey ho. My current Mondeo I'll just run until the clutch goes or something then strip off anything worth keeping or saleable then frag the rest.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I hate selling cars as basically, I don't like people very much.

[lesapandre]

I bought a Citroen in the Midlands. When I got picked up from the station there were 3 people in the car and I was told the 'battery is flat' because 'the radio had been left on'. Oh yea I thought-  no sweat. We filled it up  without switching off at the garage and I dropped them off. Turns out the battery was completely f**d taking no charge when I tried it about an hour into the journey on a downhill section of the M1 - so knocked it into gear to restart.  Had to drive all the way to S. London without switching off...or a pee!  They obviously had had to bump the car to start it. It didn't need a story about the radio (it can't be 'left on') -all they needed to say bring a battery. Folks can be odd. I still have the car...

[lesapandre]

Once bought a nice low mileage Panda off a nice middle class guy in Highgate London...no house worth less than a couple of million upwards. Off we went in the car...had virtually no brakes after a mile or 2... so had to nurse it home. He would have known - people can be very odd when selling. I would never sell a cars without being able to feel it was at least safe or defects known. A less experienced buyer could easily have been killed

[BorniteIdentity]

I hate selling cars as basically, I don't like people very much.

Please. Never change. We like you just how you are, you miserable old bastard.

 

Xx

[SRi05]

These stories make me feel exhausted at the thought of selling a car again. I bought Cort16's Panda 100hp a couple of months ago and have been using it as a daily, but I've got a feeling the Merc will replace it with its luxurious waftiness. Which means I'll probably look to move it on in the near future. I can imagine the sort of Facebook buy and sell clientele it'll attract. Maybe I'll just keep it haha

[sierraman]

I hate selling cars as basically, I don't like people very much.

No I don't either. I'm not very tolerant of fools.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Hate hate hate selling cheap cars. There's a sweet spot over a certain value but sub £500 means dealing with some truly ghastly people.

 

The first sensible person who turns up on time with actual cash will generally get a decent discount off me because it means no more dealing with mongs.

 

High value stuff can be a mare too. A mate has had a succession of high performance cars over the years - he tends to buy a reasonable example, detail the shit out of it and sell after 6 months. He's always made money but he's always had to fend off people who clearly just want to have a go in an M3 or who are pretending to view so they can steal later

 

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[doubleyeller]

The thing is, I don't actually have a problem with people turning up with cash and saying "Take £Cheeky and I'll fuck off in it!" 

 

You can always say no. A few might be back with the HIAB under cover of darkness, but most are just hoping that you want rid of the thing, and are prepared to take the hit. Well, there have been occasions when that applied, so fair dos. 

 

No, what really pisses me off is the sort of twit who wants a £120 Rover to be in perfect condition. In fact, no he didn't, because I bet he didn't even have £20 to buy the car with. Tbh, to save me the horribly drawn-out misery of taking it to the scrappy, walking to the nearest bus stop in the driving rain, then catching a train, and then another bus home, he could have had it for free if he wasn't such a clanger! 

 

I got half my £120 in the end: 

[lesapandre]

I don't care about messy  buyers its the more intimidating one. Ebay buyers who phone at midnight - I kid you not - or the two or three guys who turn up after dark to collect a car the won. Can be a offputting. 

[SRi05]

You are now posting in an epic thread

[320touring]

Godspeed

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Good luck. Be careful bringing a non Volvo back across the Scots border.....

 

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[SRi05]

Plane leg over, armed with English notes as my Scottish monopoly money is INVALID, I board a bus, to get to a train station

[BorniteIdentity]

WARNING.

 

The new money is very shiny - which means it slips out of pockets very, very easily.  I don't want to meet a fully grown crying adult later on.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Are you buying a car for £20?

[BorniteIdentity]

Are you buying a car for £20?

 

Nobody else wanted it!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Nobody else wanted it!

Correction. I wanted it. I just can't have it.

 

However as it's making its way to Scotland and thus closer to me I will keep an eye out.....

 

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[SRi05]

So I've arrived at St Albans City Station. What's that? The next train I need is at St Albans Abbey Station. Tittyfuck. Thankfully it's a fiver in an uber

[SRi05]

400 miles later, I'm home. Was a pleasant enough drive until encountering a blizzard just past Carlisle and the motorway going down to a single lane with zero visibility, and my wipers almost stuck with ice. many poos shot out of my ani.

 

Just as well I was in a tank of a motor! Drove all the way up without a hiccup.

[BorniteIdentity]

Boom. What a hero!

 

I forgot that I still have the third key on my person, so will post it along.

 

Well done and thanks for being as cool as a coma.

[Rod/b]

Has it been de-gingered already?

[SRi05]

Boom. What a hero!

 

I forgot that I still have the third key on my person, so will post it along.

 

Well done and thanks for being as cool as a coma.

That would be good of you mate, cheers. And ditto, buying /selling cars is a whole lot more pleasurable when actual human beings are involved. Pleasure meeting you.

[lesapandre]

Thats a vintage Benz for you. Milemunching 400 and a blizzard.  Happy Mercing...

[dollywobbler]

Excellent.

[eddyramrod]

Result!

[chancer]

Epic! Well bought, hopefully see it kicking about Glasgow soon! Enjoy

[lesapandre]

400 miles later, I'm home. Was a pleasant enough drive until encountering a blizzard just past Carlisle and the motorway going down to a single lane with zero visibility, and my wipers almost stuck with ice. many poos shot out of my ani.

 

Just as well I was in a tank of a motor! Drove all the way up without a hiccup.

Run the garage washer under it to get off the salt and check for any corrosion starting. These do rust after a time