Extended Test Drives
Discussion
MrBarry123 said:
Rawwr said:
I can't understand why anyone would refuse you anything.
OP - it's a Golf R estate. It's a quick and practical small estate car. It'll do everything your 320d currently does whilst being faster, but will use more fuel doing so.
limpsfield said:
Achieves the same objective. Metal out the door - I think a 2 hour unaccompanied test drive is more than enough. This bloke is never going to buy a car, like a lot on here.
Yes that's right, i've never bought a new car for me or my wife car and i rollerskate everywhere 
SpeckledJim said:
He's gently suggesting you are awkward and fussy and haughty and rude, and that, faced with the clearly golden opportunity to welcome you as a customer, he might think twice.
Not all deals are good deals.
I was nothing but polite and normal to the salesman, people on here will get replies in the tone in which they comment. Not all deals are good deals.
Edited by SpeckledJim on Thursday 13th July 15:29
limpsfield said:
Achieves the same objective. Metal out the door - I think a 2 hour unaccompanied test drive is more than enough. This bloke is never going to buy a car, like a lot on here.
I wouldn't necessarily say that as I feel I'm in a similar position. I'm considering an MX5 or GT86 to replace one of my cars, but it's on the basis that the car is a long term keeper so the car needs to be the right one for me - i'm not going to find this out in a short test drive.I don't need to change my car, I want to *IF* the new car is the right one. I've got lucky before and bought similar with no test drive and really gelled with the car but that was a limited run of cars so I didn't have much choice - for a car without that limited window of opportunity I won't take that gamble.
M-SportMatt said:
I think most people with helpful posts have had pretty decent replies if you read back, those just arguing for fun or having a pop or being plain insulting, then i'm not really interested in them.
Fear not. I type this quite happily thinking about all the waiters who have served you your food over the years 
Rawwr said:
Fear not. I type this quite happily thinking about all the waiters who have served you your food over the years
Again another bizarre comment on a thread about test drives, you wouldn't have the first clue how i treat customer facing staff when i dine out, not a clue. Really, either say something remotely useful about test drives that isn't an opinion, as I didn't ask for those, or do us a favour and start your own thread to make your banal comments.limpsfield said:
sjg said:
Maybe I'm spectacularly unfussy, I didn't test drive my last two cars. They've both been fine. How bad would dash illumination have to be to put you off?
Me too. Last two cars, bought undriven. It is just a car. I would not like to be a car salesman. At the same time through work I was trying to sell a 30 grand bit of kit and the customer wanted a loaner to try. I said no - he said you wouldn't buy a 30 grand car without testing it! Errr...I just did!
This thread is hilarious!!
It's driving a f
king golf 
what do you expect?
Testing it out in the commute and going shopping?? Jesus, I've heard it all.
Take the two hour drive with your mummy and daddy and the kids and see what it's like.
What could honestly be so bad about a Golf that you couldn't tell from a 2 hour test drive? Bizarre.
I'll pretend that I didn't even read the part where you take speakers home for the weekend
I Might swing Apple on the way home and ask to borrow an ipad for the weekend to make sure my nan can unlock it and that my girlfriend thinks the colour matches my skin.
It's driving a f
king golf what do you expect?Testing it out in the commute and going shopping?? Jesus, I've heard it all.
Take the two hour drive with your mummy and daddy and the kids and see what it's like.
What could honestly be so bad about a Golf that you couldn't tell from a 2 hour test drive? Bizarre.
I'll pretend that I didn't even read the part where you take speakers home for the weekend
I Might swing Apple on the way home and ask to borrow an ipad for the weekend to make sure my nan can unlock it and that my girlfriend thinks the colour matches my skin.
when I bought my wife a new car in March, the dealer lent me an identical brand new one for a week. It only had 4.6 miles on it too- fresh off a truck I guess.
we didn't discuss our audio buying habits though.
I did lay down a fully refundable £100 deposit on a new one, as I borrowed his for a week. I know, I know, its a bit flash of me, but that's how I roll.
Car was £33k incidentally.
we didn't discuss our audio buying habits though.
I did lay down a fully refundable £100 deposit on a new one, as I borrowed his for a week. I know, I know, its a bit flash of me, but that's how I roll.
Car was £33k incidentally.
austinsmirk said:
when I bought my wife a new car in March, the dealer lent me an identical brand new one for a week. It only had 4.6 miles on it too- fresh off a truck I guess.
we didn't discuss our audio buying habits though.
I did lay down a fully refundable £100 deposit on a new one, as I borrowed his for a week. I know, I know, its a bit flash of me, but that's how I roll.
Car was £33k incidentally.
A week, what a liberty! You should have done a lap of the car park, and been grateful at that.we didn't discuss our audio buying habits though.
I did lay down a fully refundable £100 deposit on a new one, as I borrowed his for a week. I know, I know, its a bit flash of me, but that's how I roll.
Car was £33k incidentally.
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