My First Lambo - somebody help me........Damsel in Distress

[David A]

blindswelledrat said:

IM a little confused here.
Why have you lost your life savings?
From what I can gather all you need is a wheel nut that the seller has agreed to meet some of the cost towards (which incidentally he has absolutley no need to do)
You've spent the thread slagging this chap off for selling you a car which is fine bar this one nut.
In turn this chap seems to be a genuine seller, and overhelpful as his other feedback will attest, and yet you jump on this thread decying him becuase of one timy thing wrong with it.
Get real will you!!!

I think if you re-read the post, the car broke down and at that point she noticed the wheel was hanging off or loose. If it was known to be a lemon by the seller before selling then some anger is justified but ... unfortunately there is the strong lesson of buying a car second hand without a good mechanics inspection. Me I'm so damned wary I'm splashing out on a 2K warranty for the maser!

So lambolou - is the wheel nut the only problem or is the engine or gearbox or diff or what knacked as well?

Dave

[jdh1]

Hmmm...interesting. Good to see you're all so concerned. Can I just point out that if it was lovely blonde Lou's 'husband' who had come on here with a tale like that you'd have torn him to shreds...i.e buying a replica Lambo on ebay unseen for £15k from a bloke with lousy feedback. If I was someone in that position, I think I'd reason that I'd get a better hearing as a woman than a man...and I'd be right, wouldn't I.

You might as well be honest with him/her. Nobody's getting a shag! He/she wasn't ripped off. He/she did it all by themselves.

[wildoliver]

Any chance of a pic then?

Preferably with the big ends showing!

[hobo]

So people do actually but these things then ? Why ?

Lesson well & truelly learnt I'd say

As for what to do now....... my advice would be to save the £2k for repairs by not having them done & spend it of therapy for yourself/husband. As for the car, well, bonfire nights not far away.

Edited by hobo on Tuesday 12th September 09:22

[chrisx666]

jdh1 said:

Hmmm...interesting. Good to see you're all so concerned. Can I just point out that if it was lovely blonde Lou's 'husband' who had come on here with a tale like that you'd have torn him to shreds..

Just what I was thinking..

[Carrera2]

jdh1 said:

Hmmm...interesting. Good to see you're all so concerned. Can I just point out that if it was lovely blonde Lou's 'husband' who had come on here with a tale like that you'd have torn him to shreds...i.e buying a replica Lambo on ebay unseen for £15k from a bloke with lousy feedback. If I was someone in that position, I think I'd reason that I'd get a better hearing as a woman than a man...and I'd be right, wouldn't I.

You might as well be honest with him/her. Nobody's getting a shag! He/she wasn't ripped off. He/she did it all by themselves.

Perfect and very true.

[clubsport]

Exactly what I thought JDH....funny old world

[JEBLondon]

Sorry to sound unsympathetic but...

Who the hell spends their 15k lifesavings on a replica Lambo from eBay??? What the f**k??

Only solution is to stick it back on eBay as see if you can find another muppet to bail you out... There reallly is one born every minute..!!

[burriana]

I'm still trying to figure out how a wheel nut, or even the whole hub on a VW based kit car comes to £2k

[-DeaDLocK-]

burriana said:

I'm still trying to figure out how a wheel nut, or even the whole hub on a VW based kit car comes to £2k

Read the original post. She mentioned the car started smoking and the engine stopped, and couldn't be restarted. At this point she discovered the loose nut.

I am assuming the £2k is the cost to repair whatever it was that caused the failure.

And on the subject of what happened, lady or not, I am happy that the majority of responses on here have been in the vein of offering solutions and not slagging her off. The damage has been done, so I don't know why there is even a propensity by some people here to offer nothing constructive, regardless of the victim's gender.

[lambolou]

Thanks. am not bothering to even reply to the others.

[JEBLondon]

I'm sorry but this is all sounding a bit ridiculous (and fake)...

You are seriously saying that 15k represents your life savings and instead of putting aside something for a rainy day you decide to buy a replica supercar from the internet without having it inspected?? If true that is potentially the craziest thing I have heard. I can't believe anybody would really be that stupid.

By defition a replica is a basketcase of parts from different cars and probably a death trap even without engine problems. They should never be sold in the first place and don't even get me started on the people that buy them....

I genuine can't understand why you would do such a stupid thing in the first place. If you could comfortably afford it or this would be a 3rd/4th car then yes, but sounds like you've just learnt a very big lesson the hard way.

Save up until you can comfortably afford the real thing - otherwise stick to a Mondeo.

[nightmare]

JEBLondon said:

I'm sorry but this is all sounding a bit ridiculous (and fake)...

You are seriously saying that 15k represents your life savings and instead of putting aside something for a rainy day you decide to buy a replica supercar from the internet without having it inspected?? If true that is potentially the craziest thing I have heard. I can't believe anybody would really be that stupid.

By defition a replica is a basketcase of parts from different cars and probably a death trap even without engine problems. They should never be sold in the first place and don't even get me started on the people that buy them....

I genuine can't understand why you would do such a stupid thing in the first place. If you could comfortably afford it or this would be a 3rd/4th car then yes, but sounds like you've just learnt a very big lesson the hard way.

Save up until you can comfortably afford the real thing - otherwise stick to a Mondeo.

seriously mate. Pistonheads is becoming flooded with posts of this nature. I'm sure we all have varying opinions on the merits of a) replicas b) buying of ebay and c) buying without inspections. So what? Deciding in your infinite wisdom that this person is 'the supidest ever' doesn't help and doesn't contribute or offer asistance

If it's fake then it's the weirdest attention getter. "I own a McClaren F1" is one thing but "i bought a f**ked replica and feel gutted" is hardly great attention getting is it?

jees

[JEBLondon]

nightmare said:

JEBLondon said:

I'm sorry but this is all sounding a bit ridiculous (and fake)...

You are seriously saying that 15k represents your life savings and instead of putting aside something for a rainy day you decide to buy a replica supercar from the internet without having it inspected?? If true that is potentially the craziest thing I have heard. I can't believe anybody would really be that stupid.

By defition a replica is a basketcase of parts from different cars and probably a death trap even without engine problems. They should never be sold in the first place and don't even get me started on the people that buy them....

I genuine can't understand why you would do such a stupid thing in the first place. If you could comfortably afford it or this would be a 3rd/4th car then yes, but sounds like you've just learnt a very big lesson the hard way.

Save up until you can comfortably afford the real thing - otherwise stick to a Mondeo.

seriously mate. Pistonheads is becoming flooded with posts of this nature. I'm sure we all have varying opinions on the merits of a) replicas b) buying of ebay and c) buying without inspections. So what? Deciding in your infinite wisdom that this person is 'the supidest ever' doesn't help and doesn't contribute or offer asistance

If it's fake then it's the weirdest attention getter. "I own a McClaren F1" is one thing but "i bought a f**ked replica and feel gutted" is hardly great attention getting is it?

jees

Just saying it like I see it.

[stone]

JEBLondon said:

By defition a replica is a basketcase of parts from different cars and probably a death trap even without engine problems.

Are you serious? What are you basing this on?

[JEBLondon]

stone said:

JEBLondon said:

By defition a replica is a basketcase of parts from different cars and probably a death trap even without engine problems.

Are you serious? What are you basing this on?

Cars are built with specific tolerances (suspension, brakes, chassis weight, steering tolerance) etc and messing with these is not clever if you don't know what you're doing (a lot of these kits are sold as build your own). The replica may look nice and shiny but in a lot of cases there's a 10yr old MR2 underneath that was not built for this purpose.

Replicas are not the same thing as kit cars etc which are designed for the purpose. I'm surprised a lot of these are even road legal.

Buying these is sad in the first place but putting all your savings into one is just plain stupid.

[Mastiff]

Lou,

Don't listen to the knockers on here, some people have a little more time and money than they do manners. It is much better to regret something you've done than something you havn't.

I don't know a great deal about kits, but I've certainly seen worse. You may as well spend a few quid getting it to run right and enjoy it for a while.

Good luck.

[Carrera2]

Mastiff said:

Lou,

Don't listen to the knockers on here, some people have a little more time and money than they do manners.

Thats not really the case though. No-one's been rude as such, just airing their opinions on something posted publicly.

I thought she got off lightly to be honest.

[audior]

well look on the bright side, at least it looks as good as a real one, so spending a bit of £££s onit may not be such a bad thing

[audior]

well look on the bright side, at least it looks as good as a real one, so spending a bit of £££s onit may not be such a bad thing