Buying an Impreza Hawkeye, blind, from Scotland...
Discussion
Kitchski said:
Well, we've all got different ways of doing things. Struck me that some people seem to be enjoying a laugh at someone else's misfortune, that's all.
You win some, you lose some. Pretty sure S100ooo00110110oo01100111oneoneoneoneHP has won more than he's lost.
I think you could've made your point without references to Audi TDI drivers and Coldplay. I'm not prepared to use a friend or devalue that friendship to demonstrate how your stereotype may be wrong or to further a discussion on the Internet. You win some, you lose some. Pretty sure S100ooo00110110oo01100111oneoneoneoneHP has won more than he's lost.
I like your Citroen threads, I was unaware of the 180bhp C4 and 307 Feline. I looked at buying a BX GT years ago and if a dealer who had presented and priced their late green BX GTi better I may have enquired. Remembering an epic Citroen road trip sent me heading off to eBay, but £3400 for a low mileage 'future classic' Xantia with shiny wheel trims had me quickly shutting that tab.
Many of us have a slight addiction to perusing eBay. I saw a TVR, probably a wedge, possibly an S, on eBay a few weeks ago that had work done at your garage. It's a TVR it will need more work, just as any other car will. You obviously love cars, it would be a shame if some needless lazy stereotyping in an Internet discussion detracted from your passion for cars or your business.
How many people pedalling a leased or company Audi TDi or similar during the week have a TVR for weekend jollies and/or man maths investment vehicles?
Just as S100HP has the odd hit when it comes to his car purchase escapades, Coldplay have had the odd decent tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Kcg_8gK30
With this Impreza S100HP has worked out where to draw the line.
carinaman said:
I think you could've made your point without references to Audi TDI drivers and Coldplay. I'm not prepared to use a friend or devalue that friendship to demonstrate how your stereotype may be wrong or to further a discussion on the Internet.
I like your Citroen threads, I was unaware of the 180bhp C4 and 307 Feline. I looked at buying a BX GT years ago and if a dealer who had presented and priced their late green BX GTi better I may have enquired. Remembering an epic Citroen road trip sent me heading off to eBay, but £3400 for a low mileage 'future classic' Xantia with shiny wheel trims had me quickly shutting that tab.
Many of us have a slight addiction to perusing eBay. I saw a TVR, probably a wedge, possibly an S, on eBay a few weeks ago that had work done at your garage. It's a TVR it will need more work, just as any other car will. You obviously love cars, it would be a shame if some needless lazy stereotyping in an Internet discussion detracted from your passion for cars or your business.
How many people pedalling a leased or company Audi TDi or similar during the week have a TVR for weekend jollies and/or man maths investment vehicles?
Just as S100HP has the odd hit when it comes to his car purchase escapades, Coldplay have had the odd decent tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Kcg_8gK30
With this Impreza S100HP has worked out where to draw the line.
I think you've taken what I wrote a bit too literally there, but to discuss it further is just going to derail his thread more than it already is, so if that's what you want to think, I won't contest your opinion.I like your Citroen threads, I was unaware of the 180bhp C4 and 307 Feline. I looked at buying a BX GT years ago and if a dealer who had presented and priced their late green BX GTi better I may have enquired. Remembering an epic Citroen road trip sent me heading off to eBay, but £3400 for a low mileage 'future classic' Xantia with shiny wheel trims had me quickly shutting that tab.
Many of us have a slight addiction to perusing eBay. I saw a TVR, probably a wedge, possibly an S, on eBay a few weeks ago that had work done at your garage. It's a TVR it will need more work, just as any other car will. You obviously love cars, it would be a shame if some needless lazy stereotyping in an Internet discussion detracted from your passion for cars or your business.
How many people pedalling a leased or company Audi TDi or similar during the week have a TVR for weekend jollies and/or man maths investment vehicles?
Just as S100HP has the odd hit when it comes to his car purchase escapades, Coldplay have had the odd decent tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Kcg_8gK30
With this Impreza S100HP has worked out where to draw the line.
No worries Kitchski, I like the Citroen stuff you do and it's worth reading, It's entertaining and informative. I daresay if the Internet was around when I was younger I may have got into a similar scrapes as S100HP does, instead my serial lemon buying was limited to a pool of colleagues and friends.
The first post about buying this Impreza has 'what an idiot' in it. So it starts like a Top Gear misadventure, or a Wheeler Dealers programme. I just think the thread could've ended without attacks against others. You've defended your mate S100HP, and I've taken umbrage at a serial Audi owner I know being stereotyped.
The first post about buying this Impreza has 'what an idiot' in it. So it starts like a Top Gear misadventure, or a Wheeler Dealers programme. I just think the thread could've ended without attacks against others. You've defended your mate S100HP, and I've taken umbrage at a serial Audi owner I know being stereotyped.
TheJimi said:
For me, I'm definitely not enjoying laughing at him. If anything I'm utterly bewildered at his logic but I'm not laughing at someone losing money they can't afford to lose.
I take offence to this comment. You don't know me and you don't know my financial situation. Yes a loss of over a grand in a short period is going to hurt, it would hurt anyone, but it's not going to put me on the streets. Is it because I don't have a flashy car on the drive you think I can't afford anything better? Have you thought that maybe I just like playing with older cars, or that I just don't like having too much money tied up in them? To recap, I took a punt on a car from a dealer in Scotland. I trusted the guy that the car was in a better state than it was. It arrived and it was ropey. I fixed the glaring issues so I could use it. Once I used it a bit I decided that I didn't actually like the car. I am now advertising the car/selling to WBAC. If I had liked the car then there wouldn't be such a loss, because I'd be using it and fixing bits as I went.
Kitchski is right. I'll do it again (although probably not from Scotland). I might lose a grand or so on this one but I've had wins elsewhere, and do you know what? my grand loss is probably less than most people spend on renting their car for 6 months.
Edited by S100HP on Tuesday 14th August 15:35
There's no 'attack' on others, it's just piss-taking!
Simon's a f
king whelp, I can tell you that. He wears lycra by choice, and enjoys the kind of prostate-prodding only afforded by twin fixed-wheel transport. Buys a Volvo estate car that wants to be an off-roader, but would struggle to proceed through anything more than sheep st, and runs winter tyres because "Winter is coming".
In fking Hampshire.
Coldplay are well pants, by the way
Simon's a f
king whelp, I can tell you that. He wears lycra by choice, and enjoys the kind of prostate-prodding only afforded by twin fixed-wheel transport. Buys a Volvo estate car that wants to be an off-roader, but would struggle to proceed through anything more than sheep st, and runs winter tyres because "Winter is coming". In f
king Hampshire.Coldplay are well pants, by the way
S100HP said:
TheJimi said:
For me, I'm definitely not enjoying laughing at him. If anything I'm utterly bewildered at his logic but I'm not laughing at someone losing money they can't afford to lose.
I take offence to this comment. You don't know me and you don't know my financial situation. Yes a loss of over a grand in a short period is going to hurt, it would hurt anyone, but it's not going to put me on the streets. Is it because I don't have a flashy car on the drive you think I can't afford anything better? Have you thought that maybe I just like playing with older cars, or that I just don't like having too much money tied up in them? I didn’t presume to know you, or indeed your financial circumstances, nor did I presume that you can’t afford better based on what you buy. On the last point there, I’d say there’s a difference between being able to afford an item and being able to afford to LOSE money.
Quite a distinct difference, actually.
I apologise if I’ve gotten you wrong, and if my assumption that you can’t afford to lose a couple of grand is incorrect, but don’t put words in my mouth. So I’m wrong, and you CAN afford to shrug off a couple of grand in loss, cool
Having said that, if you are true to your word and do something similar all over again, then you’re a bigger fool than I thought you were and any sympathy I had for you has just evaporated.
Shame it's not worked out with this one, it happens and sometimes it's just part and parcel of buying cars at this level. Done it myself, flights to London to buy something that an owners forum branded 'mint' and upon arrival you soon realise it was deemed mint by the Guide Dog Owners Forum but sometimes it's part of the fun, sometimes it's chalked up as a poor decision that you'll never repeat... at least until the next bottle gets open along with a new browsing window and eBay.
Buying blind is brave, it's one thing to travel 500 miles to be met with a bit of a disappointment but to have paid and then have it arrive on the doorstep, that's a beaver man than me but these days travelling miles to buy cars is wearing thin... so I tend not to or I ask a local to have a look, at least suss it out and give an opinion before I hit the button.
On which note, plenty of us up here who I sure would have had a look over it in advance though I guess that it could have gone the same way, we all see things through different eyes after all and clearly us Scots have cars where the plastic bits hold the rusty buts together so maybe the standards are different to the south... though incidentally, one of the rustiest piles of crap I've had the misfortune of viewing was a South London car. Made the others I'd viewed up here look like concours grade.
Hope you get it sorted and if WBAC kick it hard, which they will as they really don't want that sort of stuff... try the specialist buyers at the other end if the market.
Buying blind is brave, it's one thing to travel 500 miles to be met with a bit of a disappointment but to have paid and then have it arrive on the doorstep, that's a beaver man than me but these days travelling miles to buy cars is wearing thin... so I tend not to or I ask a local to have a look, at least suss it out and give an opinion before I hit the button.
On which note, plenty of us up here who I sure would have had a look over it in advance though I guess that it could have gone the same way, we all see things through different eyes after all and clearly us Scots have cars where the plastic bits hold the rusty buts together so maybe the standards are different to the south... though incidentally, one of the rustiest piles of crap I've had the misfortune of viewing was a South London car. Made the others I'd viewed up here look like concours grade.
Hope you get it sorted and if WBAC kick it hard, which they will as they really don't want that sort of stuff... try the specialist buyers at the other end if the market.
Sa Calobra said:
S100HP said:
Finally got the car over to WBAC, only to find out there is finance against it from the dealer. Sale aborted till cleared. FFS.
How did that happen?!Edited by S100HP on Sunday 9th September 12:19
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