Cars with spurious claims in private ads
Discussion
Like other PHers, I tend to look at for sale adverts as some sort of strange hobby, when I'm not even looking for a car.
What tends to get my goat is when you read an advert with ridiculous claims in it. On things like Facebook it's too easy to challenge/correct, but in reality there's no real point in doing so as you'll likely just get abuse for making a correction (even if it's helpful).
I noticed this one yesterday, which seems to be claiming that a 15 year old 2.0TD Rover can comfortably do ~100mpg ("£10 gives you just over 177 miles").
(Well, technically it's based on who you get your diesel from, I guess)
I see these all the time and it bothers me that someone would buy said car, complain when it actually does 77 miles from the tenner, and then they've basically been hoodwinked (albeit due to their own naivety, but not too sure if the sellers put themselves in a legal situation by making false claims).
Sometimes it's just things like "fully specced out" and it's a mid-spec model, stuff like that.
Am I alone, or does anyone else get annoyed by them?
What tends to get my goat is when you read an advert with ridiculous claims in it. On things like Facebook it's too easy to challenge/correct, but in reality there's no real point in doing so as you'll likely just get abuse for making a correction (even if it's helpful).
I noticed this one yesterday, which seems to be claiming that a 15 year old 2.0TD Rover can comfortably do ~100mpg ("£10 gives you just over 177 miles").
(Well, technically it's based on who you get your diesel from, I guess)
I see these all the time and it bothers me that someone would buy said car, complain when it actually does 77 miles from the tenner, and then they've basically been hoodwinked (albeit due to their own naivety, but not too sure if the sellers put themselves in a legal situation by making false claims).
Sometimes it's just things like "fully specced out" and it's a mid-spec model, stuff like that.
Am I alone, or does anyone else get annoyed by them?
I did also think "these cars are hard to come by as they hardly ever get scrapped" was a bit contradictory.
From what I recall, they sold shed loads of 200s, 25s and ZRs and you don't see them any more, so I assume they're going somewhere!
I was looking at a few cheap hot hatches of late, and the trick of sticking Abarth badges on any and every non-abarth FIAT was lost by a few claims that the cars were actually "Abarth special editions"
From what I recall, they sold shed loads of 200s, 25s and ZRs and you don't see them any more, so I assume they're going somewhere!
I was looking at a few cheap hot hatches of late, and the trick of sticking Abarth badges on any and every non-abarth FIAT was lost by a few claims that the cars were actually "Abarth special editions"
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?
Flumpo said:
Super rare, exclusive 5 speed manual...
Late 90s Jaguar XJ, also describes as fully loaded, cloth seats.
There is one currently for sale on autotrader, but then have only gone with ‘rare’.
"Fully loaded" is another on the modern cliche bingo - I see it all the time on ads for cars that are mid-spec.Late 90s Jaguar XJ, also describes as fully loaded, cloth seats.
There is one currently for sale on autotrader, but then have only gone with ‘rare’.
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