The grumpy thread

[Guest]

I've worked out that I've spent about 16 of the last 24 hours completely asleep.

[Cavcraft]

people selling cars on autotrader where the price is advertised as £999 but it is actually £3599...

Apparantly that's because the cheaper cars go to the top of the page. Bloody annoying like you say.

[messerschmitt owner]

people selling cars on autotrader where the price is advertised as £999 but it is actually £3599...

Apparantly that's because the cheaper cars go to the top of the page. Bloody annoying like you say.

here's a good example!THIS IS A PETROL 5 Door Estate,Blue THE PRICE IS,!! £1399 !!,!! £1399 !!!,NOT 139 PETROL,SPORTS SE, Petrol, Manual, Full Service History, … and there was me looking specifically for a diseasel estate!F***** W*****rs - don't waste my time cos I don't want to be looking at your car!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

people selling cars on autotrader where the price is advertised as £999 but it is actually £3599...

This is very annoying. It's not just cars, some of those property websites have people listing rent as £1 per month so they come top of the list and putting the real rent in the description. I had to start entering a minimum amount in to cut them out. And don't get me started on people listing rooms in house shares as a one bedroom flat.

[Rusty Pelican]

WD40 shifts underseal from hair , then you need some pritty good shampoo to shift that as it stinks

[Minimad5]

I removed it with abit of Swarfega and cheap Tesco shampoo !Head hurts a little thou'

[Minimad5]

Does anyone know a nice cheap place that i could stay for a week or two ?Wish i was driving ... and in the Rebel, would be so much easier to drive and camp anywere

[pogweasel]

YMCA??

[Minimad5]

lol. No thanks Pog.

[warren t claim]

Is that you Pog? Second from the left? In your work gear?

[shite_meister]

Is that you Pog? on the right with the arseless leather chaps? In your work gear?

*Edited for accuracy

[Tayne]

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[Cavcraft]

'Cars, Cops & Criminals' on Sky. VOSA Nazis have clampdown and 5,000 of the mini Hitlers descend on a car park near an auction, tap people's wheel nuts with hammers and check sidelight bulb viscosity.Then, JACKPOT! Eva Braun spots a Transit recovery truck and guess what: it's a D reg one with H reg parts on it!Fuck me, it MUST be a ringer and have been used in multiple vehicle identity thefts and car fraud all round Britain.I mean it's not like someone's taken a 24 year old fucking van and got some bits off one fucking newer to smarten it up a bit is it?I hope the drivers gets 27 years hard labour and then is tortured to death and then burnt at the stake. Good on the silly officious bint for nearly overflowing with FANNY BATTER at the spotting of this henious crime.Edit: ILLEGAL NUMBER PLATES KILL MILLIONS EVERY YEAR.

[warren t claim]

Is that you Pog? on the right with the arseless leather chaps? In your work gear?

*Edited for accuracy

Pog doesn't like wearing leather chaps, just chaps wearing leather!

[Pete-M]

The succession of fucking idiots who've so far tried to buy the 318is.Last night, girl rings and asks about the car, I tell her ok and she says she'll bring her boyfriend along. Give her the address and when I get home there she is, with boyfriend and his mate who I'm pretty sure is a legendary car body bodger. I've seen him somewhere, and I have a feeling he had a big tub of filler when I did see him.Girl "Oh, it's damaged", Me "Yeah, it says that in the advert, that's why it's cheap"Her b/f "It's top money for one of those, I can get a new shape one for less"Me "Oh, can you? For a grand? Can you get me 10? I'll have them tonight, in fact, tell me where they are and I'll send a transporter"HBF "You're not negotiable on the price then?"Me "Not very, a small chip, maybe, but I sense you're gonna try and make an offer that includes me buying a whole new 1/4 panel and getting BMW to fit it for you."HBF "I can get a new shape...."Me "Well, go get me a new shape one with this mileage, and I'll give you this one, and a grand for it."HBF "Mileage isn't a problem on these, 200k wouldn't worry me on a BMW"Me "So you can drive this for 140k with no worries then, cheap isn't it?"B/f's mate "It's had paintwork"Me "You've got filler on your shoes, mate..."HBF "I'll give you £300"Me "Very generous, but you'll need more than that to buy my car"HBF "I'm wasting my time"Me "Yes. Good bye."Today bloke rings up "Hi mate, you want a large, quick estate? Would you be interested in a Mitsubishi FTO? It owes me £2k. I'll do you a swap.."Tonight an e-mail "Hi mate, will you take £700 cash tomorrow? I'm a genuine bidder..."FUCKING WANKERS THE LOT OF 'EM.

[Cavcraft]

I'm in currently dealing with what appears to be an unbelievable attempted scam by a car seller. More details as/when but the fucking cheek of this cunt really has to be seen to be believed, you think you're wise to most cons but this takes the biscuit for me, it really does.

[mk1_4dr]

Ooo, Billy, do tell....

[Cavcraft]

Can't say too much until confirmation of what I suspect arrives.

It involves a potentially cheeky twat, a car, a potential lie (a surprising one, I'll give him that) about finance and them SRSLY trying it on.

If this pans out as I'm sure it will someone is going to have their arse handed to them on a diamond encrusted gold platter with a hefty smattering of PWNAGE.

I have a trump card or two to play yet, currently just enjoying the wait.

[AnthonyG]

I hear you PeteM. Again, anybody know where all these E46 coupes are for £800? If you ever do find out Pete, let us know and I'll have a couple!Plus being pedantic, 'new shape' means E92!Also what is it about FTOs and f**kwits?

[Guest]

I hear you PeteM. Again, anybody know where all these E46 coupes are for £800? If you ever do find out Pete, let us know and I'll have a couple!Plus being pedantic, 'new shape' means E92!Also what is it about FTOs and f**kwits?

Anthony, I think it's a running joke about the E46s for £800. I've seen seriously rear ended ones go for more than that. I think Pete was using it to point out the extent of twatishness displayed by his punter. And then I erm, sort of ran with it.

[pogweasel]

Tourists. London. Tourists in London.

[Guest]

Tourists. London. Tourists in London.

That reminded me of a Mr Tourette sign.

[Cavcraft]

Hyperthetical longwinded situation:Person 'A' advertises car.Person 'B' enquires about car, asks if a swap is possible.Person 'A' agrees in principle.Person 'B' comes down, both cars inspected, swap done, all happy.Fast forward less than 48hrs:Person 'B' makes contact, tells person 'A' the car he ( swapped is on finance because an acquaintence took a loan against it so he will have to come and swap it back again.Person 'A smells a rat. Makes some enquiries, calls person 'B' back and says no record of finance against car.Person 'B' changes mind about finance company, gets increasingly desperate to get old car back.Person 'A' phones the next company, they have no record of any finance agreement.Person 'B' gets back again, when can he collect his car back?Person 'B' calls finance company again. Still no record of any finance against it BUT...person 'B' seemingly has applied for a loan against another vehicle. Oddly enough the same make/model that he has just got from person 'A'.At this stage the strong stench of the Pied Piper's followers is eminent. Things don't add up. Would a company loan money to someone that doesn't own the item they leant the money against?Why have the company got no record of this? Why does it come up finance clear?Why would that company who take paperwork as collatarol(sp) not actually take the paperwork at all? And still remain absolutely adamant they and anyone else are NOT owed money on it?Person 'A' seems to be holding all the cards as person 'B' may appear to be lying.Person 'B' seems to be flapping, tells entirely different story to finance company.Person 'A' locks car in garage other side of town, contemplates legal enquiries.A cynical person might think that a) it's a scam: money only borrowed against one vehicle the moment they get it so they can make an excuse and return it or they decided they didn't like the swapped vehicle so are trying to bullshit their way out of it. Why lie about your own vehicle being on finance to get it back?To be continued...

[pogweasel]

Clever* bears!Aquire car, immediately get it on some kind of log-book loan fiasco, swap it back again leaving the innocent party with no car, while they a have a car and the cash...

[Guest]

That makes no sense whatsoever.Do you think the 'finance company' is street patois for 'Ard Frank who breaks legs and wants the car back because Person B can't keep up the repayments?Do you want to lend my revolver? Just clean it up and bung us £5 for the spent slugs.

[darkfour]

How about this scenario. Person B buys a car and finds out that it's a duff and needs some expensive parts replaced. He see's person A has one of the same model for sale and offers to swap another different car.The swap takes place and Person B takes the car home from Person A, removes the parts he needs and swaps in the broken parts and then tells Person A he needs to swap the back the cars back for some reason.

[Cavcraft]

Clever* bears!

 

Aquire car, immediately get it on some kind of log-book loan fiasco, swap it back again leaving the innocent party with no car, while they a have a car and the cash...

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Luckily, if this is the case, the plan appears to have been foiled.

 

Another potential scenario is that person 'B' conisdered the car he now has to be worth more money than the one he swapped. More value=bigger loan.

But maybe the finance company wouldn't borrow money against it because person 'B' doesn't hold the full V5 yet? Maybe person 'B' is getting desperate for money?

 

Wat: it would make sense to me mucker. Possible of course that Dave The Knife had lent person 'B' the money against it. But if that were the case Dave probably wouldn't be too worried what he took as collatoral and is (I'd have thought) unlikely to get away with a loan against the motor as he'd have to take ownership of the V5 and almost certainly would take it before he lent anything.

 

If hyperthetical person 'B' is pulling a fast one he's either lacking in brain power or blatantly hard faced.

 

Incidentally person 'B' might just have dropped himself in it by stating something a finance company will suggest is wholly untrue.

[Minimad5]

Aye darkfour could be onto something there !Good detective work too Cav'

[Cavcraft]

How about this scenario. Person B buys a car and finds out that it's a duff and needs some expensive parts replaced. He see's person A has one of the same model for sale and offers to swap another different car.The swap takes place and Person B takes the car home from Person A, removes the parts he needs and swaps in the broken parts and then tells Person A he needs to swap the back the cars back for some reason.

Certainly a possibility, and a bloody good thought, but due to the nature of the swap a little less likely than other scenarios.

[FredTransit]

I would go with the log book loan or loan shark.....