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And should anyone wish for a fine example, I can only suggest you search out my old car
Obviously I know the spread and I can honestly say, hand on heart there really isn't a lot of difference between retail and trade in. It's a very fair price.Edited by LaurasOtherHalf on Sunday 10th November 18:59
LaurasOtherHalf said:
And should anyone wish for a fine example, I can only point you to the above link Obviously I know the spread and I can honestly say, hand on heart there really isn't a lot of difference between retail and trade in. It's a very fair price.
It doesn’t show its mileage & it’s a credit to your ownership/care - no wonder the dealer was prepared to buy it so happily! The advert probably doesn’t do the condition of the justice. Obviously I know the spread and I can honestly say, hand on heart there really isn't a lot of difference between retail and trade in. It's a very fair price.
**UPDATE**
So I officially sold this car in September of last year and a few weeks ago I checked on the dealership selling it (as I regularly did) and low and behold it was gone. There is a reason for the occasional checking up and it wasn't just because I missed it.
As described in the thread, I sold it to a very professional trader. He offered a great price (way more than the best price innits) and a good grand more than I was offered part exchange-even after I unintentionally strung him along a bit as I didn't strictly didn't need to sell it and didn't want to get rid before taking my old man to Spa for the F1.
Anyways, a few weeks after he bought the car I gave me a call on the mobile. Pleasantries out of the way he remarked he was having a bit of trouble with the car.
There had been a number of enquires on the vehicle, usual questions answered, it's fantastic condition explained, perfect and full service history etc. In fact he had in fact had conditional offers to buy the car three times. The condition?
"I'll take it as long as it's not got the reg PX16 XXX, that car's all over the internet being ragged senseless on track"
Now full disclosure, I'd told the buyer I'd taken it on track. It had a 'ring sticker on the back so I wasn't hiding it. My thoughts are you can't use these car's performance safely on the road unless your thing is repeated traffic light grand prix so if you want to enjoy them safely it's the only way.
The troubling thing was this kept happening to the seller. As this is the only thread I've ever made on the car I can only surmise it's this thread they are talking about.
Personally I thought this was all a bit unfair. I did wonder if it was the usual "dreamer" situation, you know, the type of people who can probably stretch to the buying price of the car but secretly know they can't afford it or really live with it.
So they convince themselves they're going to buy one, post all over the internet about buying one, become some sort of forum expert on buying one (having never done anything more than a 5 min test drive and bother the car salesmen) but basically do anything BUT buy one and find any excuse NOT to buy one. You know the sort, they most likely won't have bought one yet and will end up in a fully warranted Skoda that will keep the Mrs happy all the while trying to convince everyone how much better their VRS is than a Type-R.
Another month or so would go on and I'd get another phone call, it still wan't shifting. The seller was as incredulous as I was, we both couldn't understand the logic in it.
The last I heard, apparently the car was now mentioned on a Type-R or Honda owner's forum as a bad 'un. The seller asked if I knew about the forum but as PH is the only car forum I'm a regular user of I didn't have a clue. I found it all a bit depressing to be honest. The sad thing was the specialist had sold a number of these Type-Rs and as I detailed before, he was blown away by this one. It was in his words the single best example he'd driven-he couldn't believe it was standard, so well the engine pulled (it was as all my cars are).
I even went back and edited the photos on this thread of the car on it's original number plate. I wasn't asked to do that but I felt it ran with my personal plate on it and that was it's history. I also deleted the link to the dealer's website on this thread. The dealer was keen to impress he didn't want to hide the car's history any more than I was and if asked he would fully disclose it's last owner took it on track but I felt he was being a bit shafted by this thread.
But it now looks like it has sold, it's no longer listed on the dealer's inventory anyway. I hope the new owner is enjoying the car as much as I did-to be honest I did consider just buying the car back when the dealer was getting the problems with it-I'd have had it back in a heartbeat but knew it would very much sit unused in the garage.
Good luck to whoever's got PX16 LNY, it's a cracker.
So I officially sold this car in September of last year and a few weeks ago I checked on the dealership selling it (as I regularly did) and low and behold it was gone. There is a reason for the occasional checking up and it wasn't just because I missed it.
As described in the thread, I sold it to a very professional trader. He offered a great price (way more than the best price innits) and a good grand more than I was offered part exchange-even after I unintentionally strung him along a bit as I didn't strictly didn't need to sell it and didn't want to get rid before taking my old man to Spa for the F1.
Anyways, a few weeks after he bought the car I gave me a call on the mobile. Pleasantries out of the way he remarked he was having a bit of trouble with the car.
There had been a number of enquires on the vehicle, usual questions answered, it's fantastic condition explained, perfect and full service history etc. In fact he had in fact had conditional offers to buy the car three times. The condition?
"I'll take it as long as it's not got the reg PX16 XXX, that car's all over the internet being ragged senseless on track"
Now full disclosure, I'd told the buyer I'd taken it on track. It had a 'ring sticker on the back so I wasn't hiding it. My thoughts are you can't use these car's performance safely on the road unless your thing is repeated traffic light grand prix so if you want to enjoy them safely it's the only way.
The troubling thing was this kept happening to the seller. As this is the only thread I've ever made on the car I can only surmise it's this thread they are talking about.
Personally I thought this was all a bit unfair. I did wonder if it was the usual "dreamer" situation, you know, the type of people who can probably stretch to the buying price of the car but secretly know they can't afford it or really live with it.
So they convince themselves they're going to buy one, post all over the internet about buying one, become some sort of forum expert on buying one (having never done anything more than a 5 min test drive and bother the car salesmen) but basically do anything BUT buy one and find any excuse NOT to buy one. You know the sort, they most likely won't have bought one yet and will end up in a fully warranted Skoda that will keep the Mrs happy all the while trying to convince everyone how much better their VRS is than a Type-R.
Another month or so would go on and I'd get another phone call, it still wan't shifting. The seller was as incredulous as I was, we both couldn't understand the logic in it.
The last I heard, apparently the car was now mentioned on a Type-R or Honda owner's forum as a bad 'un. The seller asked if I knew about the forum but as PH is the only car forum I'm a regular user of I didn't have a clue. I found it all a bit depressing to be honest. The sad thing was the specialist had sold a number of these Type-Rs and as I detailed before, he was blown away by this one. It was in his words the single best example he'd driven-he couldn't believe it was standard, so well the engine pulled (it was as all my cars are).
I even went back and edited the photos on this thread of the car on it's original number plate. I wasn't asked to do that but I felt it ran with my personal plate on it and that was it's history. I also deleted the link to the dealer's website on this thread. The dealer was keen to impress he didn't want to hide the car's history any more than I was and if asked he would fully disclose it's last owner took it on track but I felt he was being a bit shafted by this thread.
But it now looks like it has sold, it's no longer listed on the dealer's inventory anyway. I hope the new owner is enjoying the car as much as I did-to be honest I did consider just buying the car back when the dealer was getting the problems with it-I'd have had it back in a heartbeat but knew it would very much sit unused in the garage.
Good luck to whoever's got PX16 LNY, it's a cracker.
Indeed a strange situation but I fear it's more MrBarry's explanation that's realistic. Niche cars attract nutters.
Quite a few of my "special" cars have had one of these threads about them, I've always thought (as an enthusiast owner) it would be a buzz to find out all the details about a car's previous life so have always hoped for a future owner to get in touch-or if nothing else read something like this thread and think "wow my car's done a lot of cool stuff!".
Sadly, it just seems like it's a stick to beat someone with. I had a PH'r email me about the car when I had it up for sale on here. All the big chat about how he was a cash buyer (like I take weekly payments), ready to buy the right car, usual questions but one in particular was has the car ever been on track? I emailed him the first page of this thread.
Never heard from him again.
Quite a few of my "special" cars have had one of these threads about them, I've always thought (as an enthusiast owner) it would be a buzz to find out all the details about a car's previous life so have always hoped for a future owner to get in touch-or if nothing else read something like this thread and think "wow my car's done a lot of cool stuff!".
Sadly, it just seems like it's a stick to beat someone with. I had a PH'r email me about the car when I had it up for sale on here. All the big chat about how he was a cash buyer (like I take weekly payments), ready to buy the right car, usual questions but one in particular was has the car ever been on track? I emailed him the first page of this thread.
Never heard from him again.
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