Lee
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and he sped off spinning the wheels the entire length of the road in a diesel Peugeot 106 5 door.
Was she screwed?
and he sped off spinning the wheels the entire length of the road in a diesel Peugeot 106 5 door.
So I had this white M4......
Was she screwed?
Easiest:
M4 to JF Group. Amazing. Literally guy looked at it for about 8 seconds. "Yeah. Deal". Done.
Worst:
So I had this white M4......
I have had a few bad ones
guy comes to look at my Altezza - spend an hour and a half between the test drive and going round it. Put it in the garage for him to jack it up and look underneath. He says '' The wee cars in some order. ill be back in 20 minutes. just scooting in to the house to lift the cash here and ill be back'' - 7 years later and still no sign of him lol
Spanish guy rings about my evo iv. He lives in Belfast and would get the train to Coleraine to meet me. He intends to buy one and take it back to Spain with him. the guy nearly crashed it twice as he clearly had never driven on the other side of the road or a right hand drive car before. I asked him to pull in and said I would drive from there on in before he wrecked it. Left him back off at the train station and away he went. Same craic. was going to organise the money and contact me. Never heard from him again but wasted an afternoon.
Sold my CLK a few months ago - Guy comes with his wife from Portadown to look at the car. leaves a deposit and says he will be back on Saturday to collect the car.
Sure enough Saturday comes and the guy gets a lift down from Portadown by his brother in law. I take him into the house and he gives me the money. I count it out and we are 2 grand short. Instantly he goes into panic mode patting his pockets and checking his jacket. Ballox ive left the rest in the cupboard at home
So he gets a lift home to Portadown and I have another car lined up to collect that afternoon with the money I am supposed to have. I end up driving to Bangor with a car transporter in tow to pay it on my credit card which gets declined for no apparent reason. An hour of phone calls later and payment is approved. I lift the guy from Portadown on the way home at Nutts corner which I have stopped at to buy a set of alloys for the new car. Long feckin day but all turned out ok. He got the CLK, I got my money and the wife got her new car with a nice set of wheels
@k20_chunky Great story! It's the simple things in life.
The next day I got a phone call from your man's mechanic, he was full of apologies, he couldn't believe what the guy had done. He ended up buying the car for his wife, even though she didn't need it, he couldn't get over the condition and the price.
Some of my experiences
The two hoods that named every made up mechanical part they could think of and told me it was done mate! needs a new superturbovalve mate!
The smart enough on first appearance guy that stood spitting on the drive then took me on a 60mph test drive thru the village and left doing a massive one wheel burnout
The guy that comes to view a car three times! to tell stories of one he owned leaves a deposit and is never seen again
The pro detailer lolz of this site once that views car with for his mate all good happy test drive cant fault it then takes a heart attack when you tell them its a cat d.....some detailer cant spot a car thats had the whole side and rear painted.
Another that views the car but just talks about his own car the whole time leaves deposit never seen again.
A fella i know had a go at wheeling dealing drunk buying of ebay etc but the buyings the easy part not the selling soon enough he had a load of cars lying about not selling and lost interest.Some of these cars where quite new or sought after but got abandoned in a field where grass grew up thru them and mice made themselves at home.They lay for years until a family member helped put them back on ebay most where taken away unviewed by transport companys but i remember a buyer from across the water arriving to drive back on the next boat the car wasnt even running he went bezerk hanging about all day waiting on repairs to be done but had to be sent away on a flight in the middle of the night as the car was beyond repair
A car i seen on here late one friday afternoon white ae86 import rang the guy raced up the motorway to coalisland left a deposit all good gets a text on the monday that the cars been destroyed wrote of by his drunk mate over the weekend it dawns on me this guys dodgy so arrange the deposit to be left with a business friend near him.
Never got the deposit and seen the car in ballymena at a cruise a couple of weeks later with some kid behind the wheel
I'd say the mechanic possibly talked sense to the original viewer and ended up "buying" it himself to save face!
theres 2 minutes of my life il never get back, would you take a drink now and again? whos the pro detailer?
Aye you're right, he said "pro".It wasn't me anyway lol