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[alcyonecorporation]

Yay* stomach bug. 

[BorniteIdentity]

Busy arse day today - Friday I'm flat out anyway, and now trying to squeeze a car collection in this afternoon so as to not lose family time tomorrow afternoon with the kids.

 

The plan WAS to sell my w202 to 'Balbir from Heathrow' this morning and then use that money towards the new one.  However, being an internet buyer, he's all of a sudden gone quiet.  Surprise surprise.  Joke will be on him, as I'll re-advertise it for £295 at which stage he will immediately become keen again, and I'll either tell him to FRO or just waste a bit of his time by not turning up.

 

The new purchase is having it's MOT today so it comes with 13 months, so I'll be eagerly F5ing the DVLA website almost constantly.

[BorniteIdentity]

Busy arse day today - Friday I'm flat out anyway, and now trying to squeeze a car collection in this afternoon so as to not lose family time tomorrow afternoon with the kids.

 

The plan WAS to sell my w202 to 'Balbir from Heathrow' this morning and then use that money towards the new one.  However, being an internet buyer, he's all of a sudden gone quiet.  Surprise surprise.  Joke will be on him, as I'll re-advertise it for £295 at which stage he will immediately become keen again, and I'll either tell him to FRO or just waste a bit of his time by not turning up.

 

The new purchase is having it's MOT today so it comes with 13 months, so I'll be eagerly F5ing the DVLA website almost constantly.

 

Update - he's warmed up again, offering only £485 despite the call yesterday where I said explicitly that I wouldn't sell the car for that price - and that if he was to try again tomorrow I'd politely decline again and go back to work.

 

He said ok.

 

I said thanks for your interest.

 

He's now calling me constantly offering £535 - more than I would have taken tbh.  I'm leaving him to sweat it, because I still reckon he's a fucking messer.

[Parky]

You just know that even if you settle on £550 or whatever, when you actually meet to do the deal he'll "only have £350 with me mate, my Mums ill and my hamster needs an x-ray, both my sisters have just had babies and my council tax has gone up".

[BorniteIdentity]

You just know that even if you settle on £550 or whatever, when you actually meet to do the deal he'll "only have £350 with me mate, my Mums ill and my hamster needs an x-ray, both my sisters have just had babies and my council tax has gone up".

 

We went through a lot of this yesterday.

 

"Yeah but he's gotta tax the car innit".

Yes. They all require that old boy.

 

"And the last car bust the gearbox after a week innit".

Sorry to hear that, but it doesn't affect the value of this car.

 

"He's at uni aint got much money innit".

I've a cheaper car you can buy.

 

I've told the guys from work to come out when he arrives.  Not for solidarity or security, but because it's likely to be a right old laugh.

[BorniteIdentity]

We went through a lot of this yesterday.

 

"Yeah but he's gotta tax the car innit".

Yes. They all require that old boy.

 

"And the last car bust the gearbox after a week innit".

Sorry to hear that, but it doesn't affect the value of this car.

 

"He's at uni aint got much money innit".

I've a cheaper car you can buy.

 

I've told the guys from work to come out when he arrives.  Not for solidarity or security, but because it's likely to be a right old laugh.

 

This bloke is fantastic.

 

Remember - I said on the telephone yesterday that I wouldn't sell to him for less than £525.

 

 

"Spoke to my son he says £535".

 

 

then I told him if he's genuinely wanting the car, fine - but don't try and have another chip when you get here.   He says cool, what's the address? I ignore him as I'm balls deep in work atm.

 

 

"Can we pay £510 and the deal is done

 

 

I've told him to go away.  It's a shit tonne of grief over a cheap car, and he's lost it for the sake of £15.  Well bloody done.

 

I'm going to take some nice pictures on my MiL's gravel driveway, shine it up and stick it on ebay.  If anyone needs a benevolence vehicle for a while then I'd gladly stick it out on loaner.

 

Gr10 entertainment. 

[Rusty_Rocket]

Ugggghhhh, Bornite, I totally sympathise. Why do the cheap cars always attract the idiots?! (that is not a comment about the good people of this site BTW!) Parky is right of course. Even if you told him he could collect it for free, with a full tank of pez, he'd still not turn up at the right time/ ask you to deliver it to a random relative. How do these people get through life?!

The right buyer will turn up.

[Kiltox]

If you offered it for free he would ask you to pay him to take it away.

 

Cretins.

[bramz7]

It's part of the reason why I hate selling cars to the public.

I had a guy message me (presumably) offering a swap for the AX. All he said was 'ST150'.

 

I didn't reply.

 

Someone else offered £250.

 

I get the whole ' don't ask don't get ' mentality but get a grip.

 

I've had people in the past expect me to lower prices due to distance too. That's like me driving to a supermarket 100 miles away and blaming them for it.

[Guest Hooli]

Yay* stomach bug. 

 

 

Busy arse day today

 

 

Is it catching?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Bornite, yer man sounds like the worst kind of messer who doesn't even know what he wants himself (worse than the sort who does know, but doesn't see that its not achievable). He ain't gonna buy it at any price. Just tell him to FRO and block his number on your phone.

[BorniteIdentity]

Bornite, yer man sounds like the worst kind of messer who doesn't even know what he wants himself (worse than the sort who does know, but doesn't see that its not achievable). He ain't gonna buy it at any price. Just tell him to FRO and block his number on your phone.

Absolutely. He called 10 times in 13 minutes once I said ok thanks anyway.

 

Blocked.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ha!!!!! Nice work.

[scaryoldcortina]

Remember my nightmare customer with the fucked up focus? Yeah, her...

 

I got a call at half seven last night, she's driven the replacement focus into floodwater and hydraulic locked the engine. She rang again just now to say they've dragged it out of the river but it still won't start, can I come and have a look.

 

No, I can't. I'm putting a timing belt on a DCi engined clio right now and there are other jobs in the queue for people with who aren't a complete luckless nightmare.

[Pillock]

I'll go in your place, I can tell her exactly why her Ford Focus won't start after being in a river.

 

Or maybe she thinks you can just park it in a huge bag of rice and it'll work in the morning?

[scaryoldcortina]

She was hoping it had dried out, yes.

 

Thanks for the kind offer, I'll PM you her postcode and tell her you're on the way

[BorniteIdentity]

Genuinely, SoC, I would give her the runabout just like she did to you.

 

People eh? Tut.

[scaryoldcortina]

Oh she's getting that alright. Zero fucks given, no help available here unless she brings cash up front and waits until at least the middle of next week.

 

She rang again - new theory is that the battery is too flat to turn the engine (which is why it doesn't turn) and that a different battery would fix it...

 

Dropped herself in it though, I left a good battery on the car for her on the understanding that she would be returning the faulty one she'd just bought from a scrapyard and bringing mine back. Last time I asked she said she'd done that and would be returning mine next time she was passing but today (when I asked why she didn't just fit my battery back to the car to try it, even though it's not going to work...) she said she can't because my battery is still on her car and the "other one" won't charge.

 

I've added her current number to my spam list but it won't take her long to ring off another phone.

[Parky]

She is going to be delighted when this costs more than £20 to resolve isn't she!

[Parky]

Can you tell her she needs to get some friends to help her roll it onto its roof to allow the water to drain out of the engine - and then block her number?

[Timewaster]

You know it's going to be your fault as a "knowledgeable" friend at the flat roof pub or dole office said so.

Car must have been knackered for a bit of water to stop it etc. etc.

 

And her kids were in the car, Her kids!

I'm going to the local paper.

[stonedagain]

LMFAO!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Oh she's getting that alright. Zero fucks given, no help available here unless she brings cash up front and waits until at least the middle of next week.

 

She rang again - new theory is that the battery is too flat to turn the engine (which is why it doesn't turn) and that a different battery would fix it...

 

Dropped herself in it though, I left a good battery on the car for her on the understanding that she would be returning the faulty one she'd just bought from a scrapyard and bringing mine back. Last time I asked she said she'd done that and would be returning mine next time she was passing but today (when I asked why she didn't just fit my battery back to the car to try it, even though it's not going to work...) she said she can't because my battery is still on her car and the "other one" won't charge.

 

I've added her current number to my spam list but it won't take her long to ring off another phone.

The mechanic I farm out the complicated / can't be arsed DIYing jobs out to has no end of these sort of customers.

 

He's ended up with a few cars where the owner has said "do what it needs" then when he calls them to say "its ready, that'll be £££" they say just keep the car......which would be fine if half of them weren't puke stained powered by fairy dust zafiras.....even if he could manage to get the logbook off them he doesn't have time to be selling cars, space to store them and the market value isn't going to be anywhere near the money he's spent on parts plus his time.

 

I couldn't do the job......he's a nice fella and he charges comparatively little for his time too. I don't know how he hasn't become a grumpy cynical old bastard by now

 

 

 

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[twosmoke300]

Calls himself a mechanic and he’s not a grumpy cynical old bastard !

[HH-R]

Tell her that fire will dry it out nicely

[egg]

Calls himself a mechanic and he’s not a grumpy cynical old bastard !

Aye, or just that sad look behind the eyes!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Calls himself a mechanic and he’s not a grumpy cynical old bastard !

I Guess I'm only seeing one side of him.....I tend to drop the car down with the parts in the boot, leave him alone and let him call me when he's done.....turn up with cash and have a natter about bikes and dogs

 

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[PhilA]

As was:

 

To now:

 

Rebuilt the speedometer on my moped to look a bit more period fitting.

 

Phil

[Pillock]

I had one of those on my Raleigh Grifter?

Does the front screw off? And it has a weird hook thing that goes into the wheel bolt?

[PhilA]

Cheaper than that, it just pulls off. And yes, it has the strange hook thing in one of the spokes. The odometer assembly had no lubrication whatsoever so that got some silicone lubricant on the gears and bearings to try and make it last more than a few miles.

 

 

Phil