Unhappy purchaser!!!!!!!!! More texts!

[dieselnutjob]

exactlythe throttle body off the car that you sold is probably now swapped with a crap one off a mates/girlfriends/mums or his carcheaper to buy a whole car than the part he needscheaper still if he can pressurise you to take the car back with his crap part fittedI'd also guess he's sounding you out to see if it's worth making the journey back to start an argument about itignoring him probably sends the message that it's not worth it for himI'd say he's trying to probe for any lack of resolve from you

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just ignore him. He's a chancer!!

[Station]

^ Yeah, just ignore him, you've done well in avoiding any confrontation so far, the only real way of getting rid of him is just completely blanking him.Also, ridiculous claims of even -having a solicitor-, 'my solicitor', ffs!! Do they think you're stupid? So there's a solicitor somewhere who will work 60 quid an hour to recover a massive £300, and also court costs? It'd end up costing thousands on a case that they would never, ever win.

[warren t claim]

It's the throttle body that usually causes a problem on the old bubble shaped Micra, around £500 from a dealer. It's a lot of trouble to earn £100, (£300 - £70 tax - £130 scrap value).

It's the last of the mark 1 shape with a carb.

[Minimad5]

K10 micra,I had one of them a while back :)Replaced the headgasket and flushed the Rab + Matrix through (As it was bunged up with sludge)And it ran perfect .... basically they are cracking little cars :)Warren you have PM buddie

[Mr_Bo11ox]

As if any self-respecting 'solicitor' is gonna get involved in a dispute over a £200 snotter of a micra. He's not even courageous enough to ring you up!! The whole thing just smacks of ill-thought out dole-bludger half-arsed chancery. He might as well threaten to pump a load of ectoplasm through your letterbox. If you ignore him he'll quickly forget about it, when some other event happens to occupy his mind, such as when his pitbull shits on his living room carpet again.

[whitevanman]

he'll quickly forget about it, when some other event happens to occupy his mind, such as when his pitbull shits on his living room carpet again.

PMSL......

[Station]

Haha.

[Mr Lobster]

Any update on this seeing as we are after 'noon' now ?

[warren t claim]

No further contact as we have passed the deadline! I will keep you all posted......

[warren t claim]

The thing that bothers me most is that it's a great little car for the money. I should of kept it until it fell apart.

[messerschmitt owner]

I'm coming to the conclusion that the general public wants it for f*** all nowadays. They're so used to seeing progammes on telly with haggling, etc, that they think its a given.Mind you, I'm off to look at an estate tomorrow and if it is as good as it sounds, I'll be buying it with minimal haggling!

[warren t claim]

I'm coming to the conclusion that the general public wants it for f*** all nowadays. They're so used to seeing progammes on telly with haggling, etc, that they think its a given.Mind you, I'm off to look at an estate tomorrow and if it is as good as it sounds, I'll be buying it with minimal haggling!

I don't have a problem with haggling as long as it's done BEFORE money changing hands.

[AnthonyG]

No wonder people scrap or 'scrappage' cars with these wankers about - I'd rather give a £300 car away to a friend/relation than endure all this bollocks. It does seem to happen most at the sub £1000 level.In the USA you can 'donate' a car to a charity - the charity shoves in it an auction and at least gets scrap value - I could see that working here. IIRC in the States you can claim tax relief on the value of the car, but I'm not sure on that.My father had a rule.. he would never sell a car privately to someone he didn't know. I know selling to friends and family can have it's own problems, but we've been lucky in that regard.

[FredTransit]

Read through this, and it seems the fukwit has given up, having first tried to bully you into giving him the money back. I can't see him being trouble if he has to travel to harass you. Could be a scam though, as already said, fit some shite bits off your own car, get your money back = free bits....

[dieselnutjob]

glad I don't have to sell used cars for a livingmust be one of the most stressful jobs there is

[fiatdaft]

and folk wonder why people just scrappage the old car rather than trying to sell it for weeks for £300 then end up with a pile of grief from prospective buyers.scrappage ftw in most cases.

[messerschmitt owner]

it's bad enough selling a classic to supposedly sane people.Once I've sold the Z I'll spill some of the stories ...

[Volksy]

scrappage ftw in most cases.

If you want a new car....

[vicsmith]

Just because there are people like this about, it doesn`t mean all cars have to be carefully disposed of or sold to a blood relative, just try and avoid selling cars really cheap to the public, no-one will thank you for it and it puts cars within the reach of people who`ve just cashed a giro and mugged someone, and you`re then dealing with unbalanced, non-consequential people who have an extremely distorted view on life.That same £300 car tidied up and bullshitted a bit, maybe a couple of little jobs done instead of "well for £300 they can`t complain" (Wrong - they shouldn`t but they will) and the car could go up for £595, and at this level you get people who won`t touch £300 cars as they assume they must be fucked, they have to be a tiny bit proper as the money is probably saved from a couple of wage packets rather than the proceeds of petty crime/benefit fraud, and they can probably lay their hands on a couple of hundred pounds or so if a fault develops, so you`ll hear nothing about it.

[warren t claim]

You're right but there is only so much a Mk1 Micra can be sold for!

[Pete-M]

My E36. It's been advertised for a couple of weeks, honest ads describing the car as having had a bump in the past and needing a bit of paint and fettling on the n/s/r 1/4.I've given up trying to deal with the fucking wankers who've got in touch about it. Bloke rang today "So the damage, is it bigger than your fist? If so, it needs a whole new 1/4 panel, I'll give you £200."I rang him up and called him a cheeky fucking wanker.

[Cavcraft]

The money side of things definately makes a difference. It defies belief that people use every last penny to buy a car instead of being sensible and keeping at least a hundred quid a side for repairs or servicing.But then there's the flip side. The ones who do save money for a service and take their £200 Maestro to the local rip-off garage who tell them because there's a screw missing from the radio front and the o/s/f tyre is down to 3mm of tread that it's a danegrous death trap that needs £65,000's worth of work to be safe again.Then it'll go one of two ways: they'll either accept it was a gamble to buy an old car, take some bits off, cash the tax back and weigh it in thereby losing about 50p from what they've paid.Or they swallow too much shite from the television/gutter press, decide they want their money back and the seller is a criminal mastermind making millions and do what Warran's buyer did.Oh, and that's before their mum/nan/aunty calls you up and tells them you've ripped off their precious smackhead wanker of a daughter/son, how they actually took their kids in this deathtrap (uninsured of course) and how you could have killed them because the wheeltrim was loose.Cunts like this just make scrappage or the weighing in of perfectly good cars seem like a good idea because what's the point in taking endless shit off the oxygen thieves when you could weigh a car in for twenty less than you'd have got from some vacuous twat?

[Lankytim]

I've given up trying to deal with the fucking wankers who've got in touch about it. Bloke rang today "So the damage, is it bigger than your fist? If so, it needs a whole new 1/4 panel, I'll give you £200."

What if the car is being sold by Jeremy Beadle?

[Rusty Pelican]

On a lighter note the mechanic saying "it's a lemon" reminds me of a boatyard I worked in a few years ago.The resident engineer was always getting asked to look at other workers and residents cars.He would get them to lift the bonnet and start the car.He'd shut the bonnet say "it's fucked" then walk away.

Reminds me of when I worked in a garage when 18 , If a new customer came in after having there car fixed and asked " how is it " , His reply would always be " It will last the week out if you DONT use it , Otherwise theres no guarentee

[brammy777]

A mate of mine is currently trying to sell his first car, a 1.7 diesel Corsa C which has flashed up some fault code which may or may not be a fuel pump fault. It hasnt caused the car any problems, so he thinks it could be the fault in the control unit. Whatever, He cant afford to fix it so wants to sell for a cheaper than normal price. Is that fair? The mileage is only 23k. I thought it bore some relevance to this thread as he may get an annoyed buyer if the fault does turn out to be pretty severe. Remember, its not actually having any effect whatsoever at the moment, and Im fairly certain a fuel pump issue would....

[Cavcraft]

A mate of mine is currently trying to sell his first car, a 1.7 diesel Corsa C which has flashed up some fault code which may or may not be a fuel pump fault. It hasnt caused the car any problems, so he thinks it could be the fault in the control unit. Whatever, He cant afford to fix it so wants to sell for a cheaper than normal price. Is that fair? The mileage is only 23k. I thought it bore some relevance to this thread as he may get an annoyed buyer if the fault does turn out to be pretty severe. Remember, its not actually having any effect whatsoever at the moment, and Im fairly certain a fuel pump issue would....

Fault code reader and trip to the car auctions is the best result there.

[Minimad5]

It all comes down to the person you sell it too.There are people out there than can be abit "arg" , but do not kick off about problems that may arrise.But there are idiots out there, that think they can do & get what they want.So... No one can really say "YES" or "NO" about selling cars, and at what price.But i would presume, cheaper cars may get more attention from the wrong type of people.Saying that i could be totally wrong

[Rod/b]

I've given up trying to deal with the fucking wankers who've got in touch about it. Bloke rang today "So the damage, is it bigger than your fist? If so, it needs a whole new 1/4 panel, I'll give you £200."

What if the car is being sold by Jeremy Beadle?

I can see both points of view: on one hand he might be just have a valid point, but on the other hand could be really be taking the piss...

[Chris_W_Q4]

I had this kind of threatening nonsense, IN BLOCK CAPITALS from my ex's knuckledragger boyfriend regarding child maintainance.His comments were completely out of order, feck all to do with him and only sent when pissed and needed some extra cash..I would give the same advice that I sucessfully used with him :>Save all the texts in case you need them for future evidencethen>Block his number on your phone, stick it on a reject list so you never see it and don't dignify his efforts with a reply; he'll soon get bored and give up.You could also switch your voicemail off so you never have to hear the cunts voice (as I did) which is effective but a bit inconvenient for everyone else!