What is the most you have purchased a car for blind?

[stuboy]

i bought a yugo 45 from a bloke back in the 90's i worked with, never see it, agreed to buy it with light rear damage, collected it with the plan too run it, got too my friends saying his niece looking for a car too learn in, they paid me double, i got too use it, and teach her too drive..  

[brownnova]

I actually think it’s more astonishing I actually looked at my Yugo 45 and still bought it 😂

[EyesWeldedShut]

£999 for a Porsche 924 off eBay back in 2004/2005 - seller looked solid online and so was the car offline. Lasted a few years as my wife's daily driver but, eventually, tinworm killed it.

[LightBulbFun]

10 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I actually think it’s more astonishing I actually looked at my Yugo 45 and still bought it 😂

that could be a whole other thread on its own, cars you *did* see before purchasing, but still bought regardless LOL

[loserone]

£22k for the Duster, though Mrs L1 had seen it and it was brand new.  We had established that we couldn't get our three child seats across the back and I called up and transferred the money 😂

 

Other than that, it's £3500 for the Legacy I bought from @kinkersaab, and a plethora of shite off here for a grand or less, like the Merc e320d from Mr Fowler Snr, the w124 from HMC, the kia pride from DodgyTom, etc. Etc.

[loserone]

7 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

Never bought anything blind.

I feel like I'm missing out now🥺

You absolutely are.  Please take the opportunity to buy something from the for sale section and have a nice day out at some point this year, it's highly recommended.

[robt100]

Probably £750 for my Ford Capri on ebay back in 2007. Was quite pricey for one back then, and had been off the road for 10years and had no MOT! The guy bought it over on a trailer, swore at me for nearly getting stuck on a muddy drive, dumped the car (After we helped push the whole lot on the drive) and drove off.....

Car was decent though! All it needed was some new rear brake cylinders and flew through the MOT👍

[Split_Pin]

Do we count buying from here?

If not then I bought an £1100 Cavalier from ebay blind. It turned out to be exactly as described, almost completely rust free and had many new parts. It transpired that the guy I bought it from used my You Tube buyers guide to know what to look for. Can't have been too bad 😂

Bought a Megane for £160 from Ebay, was a bit nervous about that one but it turned out to be a brilliant car.

I bought my 75 blind during Covid from Marketplace. I did recognise it from being parked at Duncan the Rover whisperers bit from a couple of years previous and the owner had shared all his repairs of the well-known 75 issues on the FB pages. He gave me a virtual tour via a Whatsapp call, delivered it to me and I paid the full asking price. Top fella. 5 years I've had it now, an absolutely fantastic car.

If AS does count then I've bought all my shite based on threads and advert descriptions on here, never spent more than I could afford to lose so it's always been fun! I think I'm up to 14 cars now from Shite for Sale.

[DirtyDaily]

Glad my idiocy has inspired a new thread of similar idiocy. I'm still no.1 idiot though right?

[Wibble]

£9.5k on a Yeti. Every one we found was sold before we could get to it. Found ours on the Skoda website before it was processed and put on Autotrader. I did get a walk around video before and it was all good. Approved used, so not too big a gamble at the time.

[Rave]

The most I've ever spent on a car is 1600 quid, in 2012, from the somewhat infamous Carswithnoreserve on ebay in Reading. Hammer price was £1510 or something but their small print said they'd guarantee an MOT for 90 quid on top so of course I said yes to that and after paying ~ 10 quid to ride a HST from Clapham Jn to Reading I drove off in a 7 year old 200bhp fast Ford which did me brilliantly for 20k+ miles. It's still sat on my drive outside as I got fed up with <30mpg, but at some point I'll fix its leaky exhaust and hopefully gain some Old Ford Tax to cut my losses.

In the many years since I bought an ex-demo top of the line mountain bike for £2730, then got fed up with it and sold it 3 years later for £1250 in order to finance its replacement for £2000. In terms of how the replacement is better at ripping down mountains this was entirely sensible since that's my hobby, but jeez.

MTBs don't cost owt to tax and insure mind.

[PhilA]

Current Jag. $800

Paid the guy and he delivered it after a glance at it from across the street doing about 40mph.

[dozeydustman]

£1500 on eBay for my second Scimitar. Drove from NW Kent to King’s Lynn to get it and it threw an end on way back just north of the Dartford Crossing.

[sporty-shite]

The most expensive? Mrs S 's Clio, but that doesn't really count seeing as it was brand new. Hadn't seen it, but it was obvious what we were getting. 

Probably the most risky was taking a train to Southampton to buy a £4500 Alfa 156 Sportwagon. I hadn't seen it, but had spoken to the seller by phone and established he was a decent guy. Probably the biggest risk was carrying £4500 cash on the London underground! 

[bunglebus]

I have never bought a car without looking at it first!

There have been a few I would have got my fingers burnt on too, like the Beetle with the chassis number ground off.

I would buy through here though as there seems to be an policy of openness and honesty.

Anyone got a scruffy but sound Morris Minor they're flogging?

[Supernaut]

This, from @Six-cylinder himself!

I have spent more on cars before, but have viewed them at least.

In the case of the 323i, I was in Stirling, asked what the advertised shiters discount would be, then when I got a reply, I replied back "I'll get the train to Milton Keynes next Friday!"

It's been all over the UK in my hands. It's been to Wales, back to the Midlands, the Isle of Skye, the NC500. It's going to tick over 190k miles on the tank of petrol I put in it yesterday.

[JMotor]

Most of the cars I buy are bought blind. At the amounts I was paying it didn't matter anyway. 

Until I bought this.

Over 6 thousand miles away. Had the importers photos and word that it wasn't a shit heap.

Ends up being the most reliable car I've owned so far.

[Rustybullethole]

Define blind.

Have never paid up front, deposit or otherwise though am failing to recall walking away from any automotive turd. Instead after a cursory glance (only spend more time looking if i feel its overpriced amd wants some haggling ammo) hand over a (paltry) sum of cash and see if or makes it home. 

Id like to think i've perfected this great skill in assessing both prey and gamekeeper from afar before pouncing link a deft leopard .

In truth I buy with my heart and can't be arsed. 

Being a bottom feeder in the market means Im always buying the grenades with the pin pre pulled. Also there's not a lot to lose when bridge money makes back most of the purchase price. 

[riek]

9 hours ago, DirtyDaily said:

Glad my idiocy has inspired a new thread of similar idiocy. I'm still no.1 idiot though right?

I keep threatening to buy an e39 M5, and through collecting cars is a possibility so I might end up running you close....

[andy18s]

1500 for an 84 Xr4i off eBay and the seller delivered it too.

Turned out to be a good buy as it had a full stainless exhaust,along with a set of Revolution Rfx 5 spoke wheels.Probably the best looking wheels imo ...

[neil1971]

I'm pretty risk averse, my only one is this which was on eBay from a now defunct company called Autoquake in 2008, paid £2695 or thereabouts, it was well listed with lots of detailed photos including a very minor scrape that it had, so only unseen in the sense that I hadn't seen it in the metal. The car was 200 miles away from me so I paid a bit extra to have it delivered and it was driven down from Yorkshire to Essex. It was exactly as described, I had eight years and 125,000 miles of hassle free motoring from it.

In short - buy your next car unseen from Bradford and it'll be fine 🏁

[Shite Ron]

This off eBay, £4,500 is a lot for a tightwad like me but it looked good in the pictures and is exactly as I expected so   no regrets.

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Two years ago, advertised on Facebook Marketplace, Freelander 1.8 K-series petrol for £1100,sent my trusty recovery man to collect with the cash,  no mot, no history and just the V5 green slip.

A lot more than I would have usually paid, although it was a  50th Anniversary model which don't come up for sale very often and there was a very good video of it and pictures of all the welding repairs needed.

It was as described in the advert and thankfully no sign of  impending head gasket problems. Still yet to do anything with it apart from starting the engine and moving it back and forth, hope to commence repairs this Spring.

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

18 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

never spent more than I could afford to lose

First rule of both gambling and living the Autoshite lifestyle right there?

[castros_bro]

Mum left  me £10k so Dad said "you;ll be able to buy a decent car now" - so bought an unseen semi derelict house in Iberia -  Dad said he wish he'd done that.

[J-T]

About £7,300 for this in an eBay auction. I’d gradually watched it get reduced from a £10k advert and he then listed it as an auction with a daft end time. It was worth every penny and one of the few cars I’ve made on when sold 

[derskine]

£5.5k for the Capri, drove it about 500 miles back. Didn't skip a beat except one of the headlights not working, which wasn't great fun but hardly a big problem in the grand scheme of things.

 

Turned out to be a good buy!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

7 hours ago, Shite Ron said:

This off eBay, £4,500 is a lot for a tightwad like me but it looked good in the pictures and is exactly as I expected so   no regrets.

You win the thread. Love that.

[straightSix]

Spent 13k on my Trev. Got Ceri off here to pick it up. Very fucking nervy poking the outriggers for the first time

 

[bangernomics]

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