Traveling To Buy A Car
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how have you gone about the dynamics of buying an expensive car privately ?
even bank transactions take 3 days to clear ...........had this with the etype agreed the sale privately guy wired payment to bank and waited 3 days to clear
for a moment i was very rich nice lump sum in the bank and car in the garage .....went smoothly but i wouldn't have felt comfortable if it was me buying the car
I've driven from South Devon to Wrexham, Abingdon & East Sussex for the last 3 cars I've bought. All bought via PistonHeads and all unseen until collecting on the day.
As for selling, I sold my grandads Fabia to a dealer who flew down from Leeds to Exeter, we collected him from the airport, he viewed and bought the car and then drove it back. It was a year (or maybe 2 old) with under 1k miles on.
Sold my M3 to a dealer in Sussex who got the train down, bought the car and drove back.
As for selling, I sold my grandads Fabia to a dealer who flew down from Leeds to Exeter, we collected him from the airport, he viewed and bought the car and then drove it back. It was a year (or maybe 2 old) with under 1k miles on.
Sold my M3 to a dealer in Sussex who got the train down, bought the car and drove back.
This an interesting post . The question arises when looking at sales sites and having to input how far to view. With real exotics, totally beyond not only my budget, but my interest, I can appreciate’Nationwide’. Otherwise why be prepared to travel for a mainstream car? When working part time in the trade, admittedly south of The Border ( fewer corrosion problems?) we had a valeter / general gofer who had worked in Torquay. Thinking that cars were in better condition down there I quizzed him and he said the cars’ condition was exactly the same. So, no don’t travel far unless it’s seriously special.
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loskie said:
north/south make no difference to corrosion. It's the proximity to the sea that does.
Bulls
t.Everything from the north of Scotland is rotten. Dont care if its inland or next to the sea, its rotten. We salt the roads for what feels like 4 months of the year and it just eats everything.
Slow said:
loskie said:
north/south make no difference to corrosion. It's the proximity to the sea that does.
Bullst.Everything from the north of Scotland is rotten. Dont care if its inland or next to the sea, its rotten. We salt the roads for what feels like 4 months of the year and it just eats everything.
tter in the winter then throw it away come next year. Seems to be longer than just 4 months as well...Being PH I expect few here buy what is in stock at a local dealer as we are after specific cars and travel accordingly!
I once drove from Bedfordshire to Kent to look at a boring but economical Mondeo with a 2 litre 240bhp engine... Fortunately the dealer refused my first offer and I woke up in time to avoid making a second one. Whilst in the area I went on auto trader and found a less economical but more interesting car, went to see it and a little later had bought it. Cue V8 silliness in the Dartford tunnel...
I also went to view an S2000 down near Bournemouth whilst recovering from the flu... I slept the whole way down, did 5 minutes of inspecting, 5 minutes of bargaining and then as my Mrs transferred the funds realised I would then have to drive her old car all the way home whilst rather unwell. She had a brilliant time buzzing me with that S2000 warble but I really didn't enjoy that drive lol.
I once drove from Bedfordshire to Kent to look at a boring but economical Mondeo with a 2 litre 240bhp engine... Fortunately the dealer refused my first offer and I woke up in time to avoid making a second one. Whilst in the area I went on auto trader and found a less economical but more interesting car, went to see it and a little later had bought it. Cue V8 silliness in the Dartford tunnel...
I also went to view an S2000 down near Bournemouth whilst recovering from the flu... I slept the whole way down, did 5 minutes of inspecting, 5 minutes of bargaining and then as my Mrs transferred the funds realised I would then have to drive her old car all the way home whilst rather unwell. She had a brilliant time buzzing me with that S2000 warble but I really didn't enjoy that drive lol.
DBSV8 said:
how have you gone about the dynamics of buying an expensive car privately ?
even bank transactions take 3 days to clear ...........had this with the etype agreed the sale privately guy wired payment to bank and waited 3 days to clear
for a moment i was very rich nice lump sum in the bank and car in the garage .....went smoothly but i wouldn't have felt comfortable if it was me buying the car
A few years ago I would have said "pay for CHAPS instead of BACS", but with faster payments I've agreed a contract with the dealer, pulled out my laptop, logged into my online banking, made a free transfer and a few minutes later they've had the funds showing in their account and let me take the car. No idea on the implications for them if I was a fraudster but it seems to be pretty quick these days.even bank transactions take 3 days to clear ...........had this with the etype agreed the sale privately guy wired payment to bank and waited 3 days to clear
for a moment i was very rich nice lump sum in the bank and car in the garage .....went smoothly but i wouldn't have felt comfortable if it was me buying the car
Travelled from Leeds, West Yorkshire to Northampton on 2 trains costing £80 one way to buy a Fiesta ST I wanted to use as a track car. Thankfully the car was good and I drove it back.
Worst part was I'd just got over a bout of food poisoning and I wasn't sure my stomach would take the journey!!
Worst part was I'd just got over a bout of food poisoning and I wasn't sure my stomach would take the journey!!
lawrencec said:
I transport cars furthest i have delivered was lisbourn in Portugal
Thats the furthest I've gone. 3000 mile round trip to lisbon for my AX in my v70. Did it with a friend over a planned 5 days but turned out to be about a week. Kipping in an ax with another person is not the most fun ive ever had 😄Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff