The curse of selling your car
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Put the Chimaera up for sale this morning, decided to go out for a run tonight and drivers door not popping open, looks like the solenoid has gone but luckily a cheap and easy fix.
Last car I sold water pump went on test drive and then radiator gave up 5 yards from my house when new owner drove away.
The one before that had a puncture the day after my advert went live
The one before that it was the water pump that gave up the ghost
Makes you wonder really :-)
Last car I sold water pump went on test drive and then radiator gave up 5 yards from my house when new owner drove away.
The one before that had a puncture the day after my advert went live
The one before that it was the water pump that gave up the ghost
Makes you wonder really :-)
Selling my clio R27 at the moment, had someone come to view it tonight and literally as I turn onto my street the check airbag light comes on. Was cursing the car to hell and back but a quick google and some fiddling about with wires under the seat and all was right again. Fecking french electrics!
I listed my car for sale in December 2011 and a week into advertising it somebody drove into the side - 7k repair bill....
I re-listed it for sale 8 weeks ago and somebody had driven into the back of it within 2 weeks....
Now I'm stuck waiting for it to be repaired and have been for weeks with the third party refusing to talk to their insurance company...so now I'm stuck waiting for 90 days for the default £3k repair payment to be made leaving me driving around with the back bumper/diffuser insert hanging off...
I re-listed it for sale 8 weeks ago and somebody had driven into the back of it within 2 weeks....
Now I'm stuck waiting for it to be repaired and have been for weeks with the third party refusing to talk to their insurance company...so now I'm stuck waiting for 90 days for the default £3k repair payment to be made leaving me driving around with the back bumper/diffuser insert hanging off...
I put an old S13 through the car wash en-route to taking it to a buyer, left the radio on and the aerial bent.
I sold my old Mondeo to a mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, slowly expired over the six months he had it. Electric windows failed, PAS failed, then water pump failed. He scrapped it in the end.
I sold my old Escort to another mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, the engine blew up a couple of months after he got it.
I sold my old Probe to yet another mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, the HG went a few months after I sold it.
Funny how all other non-Ford cars I've sold to mates have continued to soldier on fine!
I sold my old Mondeo to a mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, slowly expired over the six months he had it. Electric windows failed, PAS failed, then water pump failed. He scrapped it in the end.
I sold my old Escort to another mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, the engine blew up a couple of months after he got it.
I sold my old Probe to yet another mate, that despite being in full working order when I sold it, the HG went a few months after I sold it.
Funny how all other non-Ford cars I've sold to mates have continued to soldier on fine!
Waved goodbye to the Z3 today. The guy asked me to fix the loose doorcard. Duly picked up the plastic clips from BMW, replaced them all, put the doorcard back on, checked it, all good. The buyer turned up tonight, opened the door & two of the clips pinged off.
He said don't worry about it. Good lad. TBF it's a good car, hope that was the bad luck out of the way.
He said don't worry about it. Good lad. TBF it's a good car, hope that was the bad luck out of the way.
my old 1994 RR V8 SE Softdash was a sensational machine. It was over 10 years old when I bought it and looked like it had just rolled out the gates at Solihull. It had stacks of servicevhistory and had been greatly loved with receipts for over£10k. It gave me 14 months of 100% reliable and serene wafting. Everything on it worked at all times..heated electric seats, cruise control, sunroof, air-con, cd changer, heated front screen. It was sensational...then first guy who came to see it, the car decided to develop a catastrophic coolant leak mid test drive. Cue me running off to borrow some water from one of the local farms. The guy didn't buy, which I was pretty glad about as it turned out he wanted a donor vehicle to make a shortened 'bobtail' off roader. It would have been sacrilege to cannibalise such a well loved machine. The car behaved itself (unfortunately in retrospect) when the next chap looked at it and he snapped it up. I really, really wish I had kept it..
December 2011 and my 2003 honda accord was my pride and joy with not one fault. Loads spent on it, coilovers (on its arse), subtle bodykit, nice wheels. had it for 4 1/2 years and decided to sell it in February. I wanted to pay credit card off and buy a fast older hatch.
My car must have overheard me talking about selling it because i swear it didnt want to be sold......
Driving into local Morrisons car park and hit random patch of black ice, approaching the corner into carpark (it was after a thaw). Proceeded to head towards kerb and oncoming car and pulled handbrake to avoid hitting kerb head on and damaging sump. Hit curb side on with both o/s wheels....buckling them. Got them semi fixed (couldnt get buckle out completely). Spent £65 on full wheel alignment.
Then 2 weeks later just before christmas i was late for work and back end stepped out on a large sweeping roundabout..corrected it but had to avoid car in opposite lane...hit kerb avoiding. Mega damage to wheel. Straightened but thought that i would knock a couple of hundred off price of car to compensate for damaged wheels.
FRIDAY 13th January i was involved in motorway pile up. Car in front emergency stopped and i just managed to stop about a midges bawhair from bumper. Then got smacked at 60mph by megane which rammed me into car i just missed and wrote off the car and put me in hospital! Sad end to a lovely car but was sad that it didnt go to a good home!
Got car back f.o.c from insurance company and sold the parts.
Telling you, the car had feelings!
My car must have overheard me talking about selling it because i swear it didnt want to be sold......
Driving into local Morrisons car park and hit random patch of black ice, approaching the corner into carpark (it was after a thaw). Proceeded to head towards kerb and oncoming car and pulled handbrake to avoid hitting kerb head on and damaging sump. Hit curb side on with both o/s wheels....buckling them. Got them semi fixed (couldnt get buckle out completely). Spent £65 on full wheel alignment.
Then 2 weeks later just before christmas i was late for work and back end stepped out on a large sweeping roundabout..corrected it but had to avoid car in opposite lane...hit kerb avoiding. Mega damage to wheel. Straightened but thought that i would knock a couple of hundred off price of car to compensate for damaged wheels.
FRIDAY 13th January i was involved in motorway pile up. Car in front emergency stopped and i just managed to stop about a midges bawhair from bumper. Then got smacked at 60mph by megane which rammed me into car i just missed and wrote off the car and put me in hospital! Sad end to a lovely car but was sad that it didnt go to a good home!
Got car back f.o.c from insurance company and sold the parts.
Telling you, the car had feelings!
Put my S14A 200sx up for sale, service on the Friday, advertised it on the Saturday, lad test drove it on the Sunday, he phoned to say he couldn't get insured on it Monday morning, Monday evening the car dropped two inlet valves, smashing number 3 piston and damaging the block beyond repair, car was 5 years old with 51k on it, Nissan had no ansew as to why this had happened and why the damage was so severe.
Sold my 325i to a nice bloke who promptly called me 1/2 hour later to say the gearbox had dumped all its oil out (in 9 years had never had an issue with the box) & now had no drive 
Had to tow him back to my house & give him the money for his train ticket home.
Took it to a gearbox specilist who then bought the car off me broken for more than i sold it for in the first place!
Went to look at an m3 a few years ago & while looking around the car my focus spat a lump of rear coil spring at me
Had to tow him back to my house & give him the money for his train ticket home.
Took it to a gearbox specilist who then bought the car off me broken for more than i sold it for in the first place!
Went to look at an m3 a few years ago & while looking around the car my focus spat a lump of rear coil spring at me
Sold a Discovery to a chap who made me take it to a specialist in Coventry who prepared them for the Camel Trophy etc. I've never seen a man put a car through so many tests to check if it is a good'un. An hour or so later he declared it was right at the price and so she went. Two weeks later the new owner phoned asking for a contribution towards a new gearbox. You can guess the reply.
My old MX5, roof had leaks when I bought it, solved it by re-seating and sealing the window seals, leak free for 9 months. I had a guy driving 3 hours or so from Wales to come view & buy if he liked it on the weekend, that week was VERY wet. I went to the car 2 days before he was coming just to give it a last minute check, and to my horror the window seals had started leaking again, but at such a rate that the driver footwell was like a swimming pool!
I spent 8 hours drying the car out and resealing the roof! The water getting in around the window also leaked into the door and causes the central locking to go mental, but this didn't happen until the test drive! (Locking and unlocking really fast, sounded like a machine gun, went on for 30 seconds!) I looked at the bloke afterwards, and in my most honest voice I said "...It's never done that before" turns out he was in electronics, so it wasn't an issue for him, so he bought it anyway
I spent 8 hours drying the car out and resealing the roof! The water getting in around the window also leaked into the door and causes the central locking to go mental, but this didn't happen until the test drive! (Locking and unlocking really fast, sounded like a machine gun, went on for 30 seconds!) I looked at the bloke afterwards, and in my most honest voice I said "...It's never done that before" turns out he was in electronics, so it wasn't an issue for him, so he bought it anyway
ewan221 said:
Put the Chimaera up for sale this morning, decided to go out for a run tonight and drivers door not popping open, looks like the solenoid has gone but luckily a cheap and easy fix.
Last car I sold water pump went on test drive and then radiator gave up 5 yards from my house when new owner drove away.
The one before that had a puncture the day after my advert went live
The one before that it was the water pump that gave up the ghost
Makes you wonder really :-)
Next time you consider selling your car... just do it... don't put it off by a few days.Last car I sold water pump went on test drive and then radiator gave up 5 yards from my house when new owner drove away.
The one before that had a puncture the day after my advert went live
The one before that it was the water pump that gave up the ghost
Makes you wonder really :-)
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