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Post by Peter-E36 » Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:52 am

I flew from Dublin to East Midlands airport, took a bus, a train, and a car to get to my Z4 and then drove it across England and Wales to get a ferry home.

Totally worth it! Got exactly what I wanted rather than settling for crap examples that were closer.
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Post by Das882 » Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:40 am

Bodyboarder wrote: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:29 pm ..... but if the cars a dog then it’s an absolute waste of time /money . Too many times I’ve driven 100’s of miles to see ‘mint ‘ cars that turn out to be complete turkeys . Never again !

Op ..... drive it to me if you’re confident in the car and I’ll buy it :D
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Post by Bodyboarder » Thu Jun 28, 2018 8:03 am

Pm’d :thumbsup:

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Post by Bottom » Thu Jun 28, 2018 1:43 pm

I went from Ft William to Manchester for a lovely MX5, also sold said MX5 to a chap from London who flew up to Glasgow Airport, I drove down to him and he gave me a bag of cash before driving back to London in it. Lots of High Res photos and videos were exchanged first though.

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Post by gurkin1234 » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:29 pm

I bought my coupe in Edinburgh.

I live in Kent.

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Post by brillomaster » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:58 pm

sheesh I think the furthest I've travelled from my home town of leamington to buy cars are Stockport, Glastonbury and Norwich. perhaps if I bought something really specialised I'd travel further, but at that point I'd say you were committed to buying the car - no way I'd travel further if there was any chance I'd be driving home empty handed.

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Post by IRD » Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:53 pm

I live near Lincoln. New E89 bought recently from Cheltenham previous E85 bought from Alston in Cumbria. I have bought from all over the country over the years. Great fun and part of the pleasure of getting a new car. Often we have stayed for a few days if the car was located in a holiday area. Also have had some wasted journeys but that is par for the course.

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Post by SpiketheBike » Thu Aug 23, 2018 11:48 pm

Never realised you had roads in the NE of Scotland now. :o You got electricity too? :poke: :P
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Post by RustyZ4 » Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:46 am

I have travelled to buy cars too, one BMW I bought in Germany, my Zed I bought in Oxford (I am in Kent), I suppose you are technically at the far reaches of the country, so therefore geographically restricting your numbers of potential buyers, but, if someone is interested they will travel
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Post by Frankie169 » Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:33 am

I sold my ZZR1400 to a guy who lived in the North of Scotland, sent him loads of photos, spoke to him on the phone for an hour and he was sold on it, 3 days later I picked him up from Bristol airport and he rode it home, great way for him to bond with the bike, by the time he got back he was a very happy guy, that was 6 years ago and still in touch with him, think its a case of do your research, speak to the guy and if you trust him go and see it what ever the distance if its the right car, it would be a brave or foolish person who would misrepresent the condition of his car to someone who's taken all the trouble to travel to see it.
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