Ford Mondeo Base - Sale aborted.

[egg]

If cars weren't such a saga to buy/sell/fix/break etc, this forum wouldn't be up to much!

 

I had a bit of this when I bought the GLX Mondy.  I did love the old boy when he got out the letter from 1996 saying he had paid off the finance (so no worries there, lol!), but he seemed oblivious to the rattling water pump....

[BorniteIdentity]

Sadly, I'm out.  It'd be a nice partner for the Sierra - but life's far too fucking short for some of this.  He wants me to bring £300 even though I can't have the car until next weekend, so what then?  He keeps the money and the car?  I leave a deposit and he drives around in the snow (which I'm incapable of surviving) until he's done with it? What if he bins it??!  

 

Trust's a two way street.  It's supposed to be simple.

 

• Drive car
• Agree price
• Drive off in car

 

I reckon he's a nice guy - and I reckon the car is, on balance, a decent proposition.  But I do enjoy people being transparent and straightforward (to the point of being blunt) as at least you know where you stand.

 

He's just played the trump card of "I've got other people waiting" so I'm going to let him sell it to one of them.

 

Although he can't, because they will no doubt want to drive it and drive off in it.

 

Saga. 

[sierraman]

Can't off hand remember if they are self adjusting. I would say so. I'll have a look tonight in a manual

 

What a fuck about. Does he want to sell it or not?

[Cavcraft]

 

He's just played the trump card of "I've got other people waiting" so I'm going to let him sell it to one of them.

 

 

 

One of my biggest pet hates, that. Just say 'let them buy it then' and walk away from the whole sorry episode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or be the better man and keep making new Gumtree accounts offering various amounts from £50-£130 and tell him you're doing him a favour each time. 

[oldcars]

I have just eaten one half of a twix, and could lick the other half. May offer a swap.

[BorniteIdentity]

Any message like that has to be sent in regional dialect, whilst convincing the owner you're the one doing THEM a favour.

 

Hundred fifty tonight tek it off yer ands.

[Parky]

Mike Brewer never has this shit does he?

[Kiltox]

Guy sounds like a fucking stroker

[Hertz]

Is he not willing to let you leave a £50 dipper then the balance on collection? 

 

Sounds like he's potless but still wants use of a free car, sod that. 

[Parky]

"I've just done a deal on an old Mondeo. I got this for just three 'andred pahnd, all I've gotta do is wait for a week until the bloke decides he's finished wiv it". And so began the shittest Wheeler Dealer episode ever....

[egg]

As I said to Dan by PM, either something is for sale or it isn't

 

Let him sweat until next weekend, and swoop if it is still there....

[egg]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/ford-mondeo-mk1/1286546623

 

Meanwhile, in Tonbridge is this boring bumper-ed over engine-d, wrong wheel-trimmed effort. At least on a Kent reg.

 

[fordperv]

So if you don't buy it, he just hands the cash back?

What is the purpose of him holding the money during the test drive?

 

In case it gets bumped maybe????

[BorniteIdentity]

Although, to counter that, what happens if he bumps MY car once I've bought it and he's still driving it?  Good luck trying to renegotiate that with the seller.  Or get your deposit back.

[sierraman]

Can't see him keeping the £300 and not giving you the car, quick way to end up with a black eye.

[Datsuncog]

What a fucking spunktrumpet.

 

I'm afraid I'd be walking away at this point too, as a potential buyer will basically have to resign their job and redesignate themselves as a full-time freelance Mondeo bASe negotiator if they're ever to be lucky enough to have this on their drive.

 

What lunacy may be required next? Character references required from your primary school headmaster? Sorry, no. Turn up, view, drive, cash, drive away. It's a fairly simple and well-established process which many of us here are familiar with.

 

And all for a lightly battered £300 car. That's some fuckabout.

 

I would propose "to sell one's Mondeo and still drive it" as an updated idiom on here for "have your cake and eat it".

[sierraman]

What a bell end.

[Felly Magic]

Fucking hell fire, this bloke sounds like a grade one windowlicking inbreed, It's a cheap car, you hand him the cash, sign the V5, jump in & drive off. I'd be calling him all sorts of names under the sun for being such a fucking cockwomblingfucknuggetyasshattyarsecrisping moron.

[greengartside]

What a fucking spunktrumpet.

 

I'm afraid I'd be walking away at this point too, as a potential buyer will basically have to resign their job and redesignate themselves as a full-time freelance Mondeo bASe negotiator if they're ever to be lucky enough to have this on their drive.

 

What lunacy may be required next? Character references required from your primary school headmaster? Sorry, no. Turn up, view, drive, cash, drive away. It's a fairly simple and well-established process which many of us here are familiar with.

 

And all for a lightly battered £300 car. That's some fuckabout.

 

I would propose "to sell one's Mondeo and still drive it" as an updated idiom on here for "have your cake and eat it".

 

I LOLZed hard at the character reference sentence!

 

Honestly though, what a cock womble of a seller. I would have thought a decent deposit and balance on kulektshun would have seen this hustling along the Cambridgeshire countryside with the new owner.

 

I have had this experience before myself, and it can be very frustrating/irritating/upsetting, especially if you've got your heart set on it. I'd be very pissed off it was me who was buying it, but then that's because I have an extremely short fuse and I fucking hate people.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Giant hairy fanny.

[BorniteIdentity]

Plot twist.  

 

I went to see it at 3pm.  The bloke seems sound enough, perhaps not as bright and erudite as some, but very pleasant.  I think he's had a gut full of gumtree buyers from some of the stuff he was saying about other enquiries.  

 

Right.  Driven it 10 miles.  It's mechanically bob on - no creaks groans or bumps.  The clutch IS high, but it will not slip under heavy load.  All gears engage well, especially if you're a bit more patient with it than normal. I would suggest that it will need doing at some stage, but not in the next year (especially if being used as a weekend car or whatever).  It feels very much like a cabled clutch.  I can't back that up with any knowhow, but it feels very light rather than a worn hydraulic clutch which often feels heavy AF.  If it's a summer '93 built car then I reckon we can say it's a cable.

 

Other than that, the negatives are trivial.  The temperature guage doesn't work.  I traced this to the temp sender in the engine bay having severed wires.  There's not a lot of heat coming out of the vents, so it's either a new thermostat or a flush out of any historic 'fixes'.

 

The engine is 'sharing' a bit of oil via the rocker gasket.  I wouldn't worry about it, in fact look at it as a bit of bonus rust protection.  TADTS.

 

Oh.  and it STINKS of dog.  It'll need £20 of kosovan cleaning to get anywhere close to clean.

 

As soon as our fellow AS friend gives me the thumbs up, it'll be bought and collected next weekend.  

[BorniteIdentity]

OH.  It's also got the original MONDEO branded mats all round, and the last keeper was in Upminster from memory.  Looks like it's been in Essex/East London from new until October.

[Vince70]

Brucie says Play your cards right and you could end up with a nice Mondeo

[mk2_craig]

Sounds alright that does. Be a crying shame after all this effort if the seller simply flogs it to some retard who doesn't give a shit what it is.

[fordperv]

Bloody hell they stuck that to the plinth well on the price is right

[egg]

Great news, well done Bornite for building the tension!

 

Fellow AS'er get it bought and let me keep my money in my pocket.

 

Got any more pics m9? (Engine bay/interior).

 

Defo go for a new stat. Or it could be the fun of the heater matrix (yay)...or the cable on the heater control...

[egg]

Pic sorted.

 

[Parky]

Upminster, know it well. Definitely an opportunity for a visit home to the Allen Ford Upminster dealership photo shoot!

[greengartside]

YES! I think the collective on here were sending the seller telepathic hatred and so he's relented.

 

This is the best outcome all round. Brilliant. 1994/10.

 

EDIT: In the spirit of the previous posts, this should be played on the trip home - just for shits and gigs.

 

[Mally]

Why are so many deals on here extended to the point that they never happen?

 

 

Sadly, I'm out.  

 

 

 

Saga. 

 

Have inserted the missing word in my post, hope it now makes more sense.