Where are all the Panda 4x4 Crosses?

[Gad-Westy]

I'll not go too deep into the back story to this but I'm trying to find a panda 4x4 fairly urgently and not having much luck.

I'm after a twinair cross with the winter pack. There seem to be so few kicking about at the moment and those that are inevitably end up being the other end of the country. I'm prepared to travel within reason but I can't easily drive 6 hours on a hunch. Just don't have the time. I'm trying not to spend too much. Certainly sub £10k. Everytime I find something suitable, it's sold already! So the reason for my post is simply to ask if anyone knows of one that is being moved on. Maybe your's, a friends, another forum that I'm not a member off?

Been scouring PH, autotrader, ebay, gumtree, motors, facebook etc.

[Richyboy]

There's only one on autotrader, super low miles in Northallerton.

[Gad-Westy]

Richyboy said:

There's only one on autotrader, super low miles in Northallerton.

The red one? Not a cross and above my budget unfortunately.

[WelshRich]

Seem to be a few in budget - I’d go for yellow myself (I’ve had an itch to get another since I sold mine and was window shopping just earlier today)

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?advertisin...

[Gad-Westy]

I think the two yellow ones are the only two with the winter pack of those. Unfortunately both are about 5 hours away. Yellow might be a stumbling block too. I quite like it. Other half not so much.

To be honest I’ve exhausted autotrader etc so whilst I appreciate the input I’m probably more looking for ones that are advertised in more obscure places. I shall keep scouring though.

Frustratingly there were two cars that would have been perfect advertised last week. Both sold before I could get anywhere near them. Popular cars at this time of year it seems!

[MajorMantra]

Couldn't hurt to join the UK Panda 4x4 Facebook group if you haven't already, might find someone looking to sell.

[Gad-Westy]

MajorMantra said:

Couldn't hurt to join the UK Panda 4x4 Facebook group if you haven't already, might find someone looking to sell.

Yeah. I'm signed up. Cheers.

To update a little. I became aware of a yellow cross awaiting prep at a local Evans Halshaw dealer so went to look at it today. Car looks great. Right spec. Good history etc. Not able to drive it yet but I was happy to agree a deal in principle and leave a deposit. But then I started facing the hard sell on tyre insurances, dent cover, extended warranty etc. The fact that the 3 months standard warranty covers only things up to £500 and that a £100 dianostic fee comes out of that, is this stuff even legal?). And worst of all, a £99 admin fee which I was told was non-negotiable and was to cover basic checks on the car like insurance write off status, outstanding finance etc. Honestly, what a joke! I'm fine with dealers pushing their other products, I know that is where their margins are but the admin fee really gets me wound up as in effect you simply cannot buy the car for the price that it's advertised at and in most industries that is illegal. I was very positive about the car initially and that spiel just made it all feel shady so I walked away and said I'd let them know.

Now that I'm back home and have read a little more about EH, the general advice seems to be that you should treat the car as a private purchase as EH will worm their way out of any of their obligations. I'm not doing that without driving the car first but I guess it might still be an option but right now it's all leaving a very sour taste and frankly I'd rather spend my money elsewhere.