Cars with spurious claims in private ads

[ging84]

sure it goes a long way on £10 of red diesel

[cj2013]

sasquartch said:

The ones that I find ridiculous are ads that contain phrases like 'passionately maintained regardless of cost' yet also describe various supposedly easy and cheap to fix faults.

See lots of the like:

"Just needs a lamboor senser only £10 off ebay easy fix"


...and you're selling it cheap for the sake of the £10 easy fix?

[dreamcracker]

Car is in immaculate condition.....

and a few lines later it says.....

There is a small dent in the front wing and some minor scratches, but unless you are close up it doesn't show,

or there is a cracked headlamp, but as now up for sale not worth replacing it.

[cj2013]

Just seen this on a Cayenne ad:

[WarrenB]

A few that wind me up,

'£10 of petrol lasts me all week'. - Tells you nothing.

'All the extras' - Base spec car with optional electric windows.

'Best colour' - Horrible colour.

'FSH until 50k, serviced myself/by a local specialist since' - On a 170k car that hasn't seen so much of an oil change for 120k.

[cj2013]

WarrenB said:

'FSH until 50k, serviced myself/by a local specialist since' - On a 170k car that hasn't seen so much of an oil change for 120k.

tbf that can be trumped by something having "full history", and it hasn't been serviced for years "but it has all the history"

[RazerSauber]

"Real Head Turner" usually on a gloss black Skoda or something.

[Xcore]

“Future classic” fk off with your rover 214

[LHB]

'Pulls like a train' which is normally describing a PD engined MK4 Golf ffs

[donkmeister]

"Powerful muscle car" - as seen on the ad for a 170bhp 2.5 original Vectra estate...

170bhp wasn't bad back in 1990-something, but powerful? Muscle car?

I see a lot of ads where they claim the car was owned by someone famous, but the nearest I've seen to custard was an S600 or S65 that had a picture of the supposed former owner (Andrew Lloyd-Webber) stood next to it... I wouldn't buy a car because a famous person had formerly owned it, but if it's a car you would have bought anyway then I suppose it's an interesting sidenote.

[WarrenB]

'Used to be owned by [insert company here], so you know it's been looked after' - Said company was the first owner, 5 years ago, never been maintained by its current owner.

[Jules Sunley]

I still think 'maintained regardless of cost' is well overused as surely 'maintenance' is essential works - I'd prefer to see 'full main dealer service history' if that is what they are getting at.

[Lazadude]

WarrenB said:

'FSH until 50k, serviced myself/by a local specialist since' - On a 170k .

I've had a few cars like that, had them from new and whilst under warranty have been at the stealerships (good will, courtesy cars etc) but once out of warranty they get played with and the local specialist looks after them. I also do oil changes at half intervals which are my own services.

So you get 4 or 5 main dealer stamps, then you get specialist receipt, my oil receipt, specialist receipt, my receipt etc etc.

I'd have thought that shows way more care than some random full dealer history that may or may not replace the oil on a service, all done by a 16 year old trainee technician.

[xjay1337]

Jules Sunley said:

I still think 'maintained regardless of cost' is well overused as surely 'maintenance' is essential works - I'd prefer to see 'full main dealer service history' if that is what they are getting at.

Not really

To say maintained regardless of cost means that they put the best things on it, even if it's not necessarily "value" IE using genuine parts instead of random motor factor ones.

Also perhaps means that the owner has done some preventative maintenance.
For example , I have literally this morning picked up an upper coolant hose for my car from BMW. They are plastic and over time, the ends are susceptible to cracking meaning you get a massive water leak.
It was £28. I bought a replacement and will fit it over the next couple of days. Not because my current one is faulty but just because it's a known issue that I'm trying to prevent.

I don't think that a main dealer service history is all that. In Fact I hate main dealer service history. Rather see a nice thick stack of invoices from an enthusiast who does it himself.
Cars are not rocket science.

One of the best I have seen personally was a guy who I knew through the Scirocco owners page.
He was an OK guy, cheated on his Mrs so we stopped hanging out with him. (That's another story! )

Anyway, his car had something like 130k on it. Fair enough
Advert was fine, aside from one line .......I'm paraphrasing as I can't remember exactly now.
But it was something like "it's higher mileage which means it's going to be more reliable than a lower mileage car"

WHAT

Edited by xjay1337 on Thursday 7th November 14:27

[Justin Case]

'Previous titled owner' I believe Prince Philip has a number of titles.

[wjb]

"Too many mods to list"

[Muzzer79]

cj2013 said:

L

"Suttle"

[Jazoli]

LHB said:

'Pulls like a train' which is normally describing a PD engined MK4 Golf ffs

I hate this, it's on almost every single ad on FB Marketplace, so it makes lots of noise and accelerates really quite slowly? Sold!

[Shakermaker]

Jazoli said:

LHB said:

'Pulls like a train' which is normally describing a PD engined MK4 Golf ffs

I hate this, it's on almost every single ad on FB Marketplace, so it makes lots of noise and accelerates really quite slowly? Sold!

really clunky and jerky as it gets up steam and each carriage pulls away individually?

[arfursleep]

Drive Blind said:

pointless getting annoyed, i find them funny

the guy currently trading as

https://www.themodernclassiccarco.com/carsforsale....

always gives me a laugh. He's been through a few company names in his time. Would I ever buy a car off him? Hell no.

That's Sniff Petrol writing the blurb on those cars surely?