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FREE Car scams - lucky escape - one with a happy ending @ 2am today!
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Car scams - lucky escape - one with a happy ending @ 2am today!
Looking for my 25 year old son’s 1st car:
- Budged 1.5 to 2.5k if really stretched
- Choices of a Suzuki Swift, MX5 .... or as recommended by a friend a Fiat 100HP
Yesterday was pointed in the direction of an 07 Suzuki Swift 1.6 sport, private sale, 2 owners with 17k on the clock in what I thought was Portsmouth.... en route from Kent @ 4pm find it’s Plymouth, Cornwall
Told it’s being sold for a ‘very old 90 year family friend who’s now in a home’ by a couple of traders in a very swanky house. (Basically the impossible to check scenario)
The regular full service history comes down to in 2016, previous in 2013 & others, no pads left on front, really rusty underneath & despite a healthy engine, there wasn’t something right with the steering & gearbox.... basically a bag of shite spanners
Shiney shiney... tried negotiating but wanted almost full ask, thinking I’d take it as come so far... think again bro.
So, @ 10:30pm on the way home I phone up another private seller with a Fiat 100HP who I’d been chatting to. 6 owner car, bought as a temporary measure while his Maserati was off the road... new tyres, new exhaust, new brakes, new cambelt, new service, new shock absorbers, tracking... list just went on & on. Oh... did I mention there’s no dents nor scratches!!!!
So... @ 1am we had a test drive, by 2am deal was done & my 25 yr old son, who passed his test @ 18 & hasn’t really driven a car since had a 2 min refresher with me then drove the 2 hours home in the pouring rain... shi$$ing himself was an understatement but not a single moan... I crawled into bed @ 5am, work @ 9
Thanks Jim for recommendation https://www.evo.co.uk/fiat/panda/100hp
Conclusion, proved again & again: BUY ON CONDITION, SEEN & SUBSTANTIATED
- Budged 1.5 to 2.5k if really stretched
- Choices of a Suzuki Swift, MX5 .... or as recommended by a friend a Fiat 100HP
Yesterday was pointed in the direction of an 07 Suzuki Swift 1.6 sport, private sale, 2 owners with 17k on the clock in what I thought was Portsmouth.... en route from Kent @ 4pm find it’s Plymouth, Cornwall
Told it’s being sold for a ‘very old 90 year family friend who’s now in a home’ by a couple of traders in a very swanky house. (Basically the impossible to check scenario)
The regular full service history comes down to in 2016, previous in 2013 & others, no pads left on front, really rusty underneath & despite a healthy engine, there wasn’t something right with the steering & gearbox.... basically a bag of shite spanners
Shiney shiney... tried negotiating but wanted almost full ask, thinking I’d take it as come so far... think again bro.
So, @ 10:30pm on the way home I phone up another private seller with a Fiat 100HP who I’d been chatting to. 6 owner car, bought as a temporary measure while his Maserati was off the road... new tyres, new exhaust, new brakes, new cambelt, new service, new shock absorbers, tracking... list just went on & on. Oh... did I mention there’s no dents nor scratches!!!!
So... @ 1am we had a test drive, by 2am deal was done & my 25 yr old son, who passed his test @ 18 & hasn’t really driven a car since had a 2 min refresher with me then drove the 2 hours home in the pouring rain... shi$$ing himself was an understatement but not a single moan... I crawled into bed @ 5am, work @ 9
Thanks Jim for recommendation https://www.evo.co.uk/fiat/panda/100hp
Conclusion, proved again & again: BUY ON CONDITION, SEEN & SUBSTANTIATED
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Wtf would show someone their car for sale at 1am
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- Jembo
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Car scams - lucky escape - one with a happy ending @ 2am today!
... yes I know!!!! He was still at work & by chance getting home @ midnight. Thought I’d ask for a peek & u know opportunities (& 2 hour cost e/w of going back) may vanish
The planets just aligned... & took a little persuading... I think saying I had cash helped
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That's a bloody long day
Guess to the seller a sale is a sale.
Good luck with the car Jem and to your lad great underrated car the 100hp.
Guess to the seller a sale is a sale.
Good luck with the car Jem and to your lad great underrated car the 100hp.
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Fiat was in Southampton, technically on the way back from a 17k ‘minter suzuki’
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Congrats on the Fiat, although must say I did not spot any scam in your story. Did anyone attempt to get money for nothing from you?
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Other BMW is a 2016 C650 Sport scooter-beast
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The scam was Traders initially posing as private sellers, luring people to view a shiney & good looking car - a service history of 17k - 2 owner - 90 year old previous owner who was now in a home so story couldn’t be validated.Cees Klumper wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2019 12:25 pm Congrats on the Fiat, although must say I did not spot any scam in your story. Did anyone attempt to get money for nothing from you?
Looking underneath looked like it had been dropped in the harbour & there were quite a few mechanical things that were bloody awful for a 17k car.
If a Trader sells a car privately, they have no liability & normally a tactic for cars which are pants
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Pair of dodgy so n so's hiding their faces Gem and get that number plate cleaned. Looks clean though
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... not my job there to scrub up...
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Looks good, I bet he's really happy - can't beat that first car feeling
Faces hidden but not the reflections!
Faces hidden but not the reflections!
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Great thread OP.
I couldn't wait to get my 1st car, but a year later I couldn't wait to get rid of it!
I couldn't wait to get my 1st car, but a year later I couldn't wait to get rid of it!
Coupes because stunning!
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Gone - Montego Blue
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Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
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Car scams - lucky escape - one with a happy ending @ 2am today!
I neglected to add he got his licence at 18 when I sorted an intensive course & only drove once in between when he was needed on a magazine photo shoot.
So, technically, after 7 years he had to get in a car @ 2am in the morning, take a 2 min refresher crash course from dad & drive 2 hours home in the pouring rain... at night.
No pressure, not one single moan
My one single bit of dad advice for the first 6 months... if in any doubt, don’t, wait 5 seconds & reevaluate, then start process again
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Got to love a little panda with healthy heart.
Car scams - lucky escape - one with a happy ending @ 2am today!
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