206,172 Cup,focus,X5
Grab A Cuppa and Have Read of my last 24hrs !!!!
Right where do i start:S
Ill try and keep this as short as possible.
On saturday I sold my MINT WRX
as she was gettin a bit expensive to run, so after looking for a cup of some sort for the last month or so i came across one on autotrader. ticked all the boxes ,Pictures looked mint what I its defo what I wanted, saying 63k in the add , MOT till oct and tax till end of may, Happy days i thought
:evil:
Problem was it was in Bradford, im in Torquay , 5.5hrs drive each way, cut a long story short i got my self and my wife on the mega bus from exeter £26 each suppoes to £140 each on th etrain , managed to get a lift to exeter from a friend for 8am yesterday morning , again happy days
7.5hrs later we arrive in leeds, 10miles away from bradford, all the time ive been texting and speaking to the seller, telling me I want be disapionted and car is "mint " ( you might see where this thread is going )
Got on a short train ride to bradford station where he said he would meet us outside in a transit van
Got outside and there was a tranny van waiting for me and the wife to take us to the new toy.
knocked on the window , he wound it down and i said "STEVE" he said yes "im the one for the car mate " ( van stank of weed !!! ) get in he said lalalalala , normal.
2 minutes of small talk pass by when he turns to me and says the padlock is in the passanger door, padlock is in the passanger door ????, confused i asked why would i need a padlock, he said for the side door as it doesnt lock !!!!!!
***** ALARM BELLS ******
Why would i need to lock the door mate Im not buying this transit ive come to buy a car , as soon as i said that my phone rings, answer it and its "STEVE" saying im outside the train station in my transit still waiting for you .
Very kindly pot head dropped me back of to the station after a couple minutes of laughing about it , nice block TBH for him to pick up the chap he was originally waiting for and for me and the wife to jump in with the real "STEVE", what he forgot to say was that he was in a connect !!!! idiot ,anyway after alot of laughing i jump in the back and wife jumps in the front
3 miles down the road he pulls into an industial estate ,postcode BD10 8Sx, friars ind est if anyone knows it ??
As we pull up i see the car , its looked cleanish in dull light as the sun was heading down it was to dark imo to see a car properly , but in my head im thinking about the pictures that were in the autotrader add by. I get out and start scanning the car over.
Lets go back a few paragraphs where he replied to my text sayin " what is the body work like ? any dinks, dents , scratches or rust ?? " replied with "no scratches dinks car mint" &" mint mate " ( ill let the pictures do the talking there tbh )
So where was I........
Checked the millage and it said 68,900 on the clock and has been advertied as 63k !
Front tyres are down to 1.7mm
Ripple on front bonnet , looks like someone has closed the bonnet on some tools !
Scratch on rear bumper
Window washers dont work
looks now like its been cleaned with a freaking sand ! swirl marks for fun
all wheels are kurbed, the photos must of been taken when the car was days old . lol
Now Im in the middle of bradford with my wife who i forgot to mention is pregnent looking at this car that is "MINT "
I told my self I have to buy this thing otherwise we are going to die here in the ind est next to this car if I dont buy it. lol
Chap gave me the folder with the docs's in it, looked at the MOT and it runs out 2 morrow WTF !!, not Oct like the add stats, so i say WTF is going on mate, again cut a long stroy short, he give me back £40 back for the MOT saying it will fly through !!! again im thinking f**k off mate, waiting for his mates to jump out and rob me of my dollar ive got for him.
Next thing he says that the V5 is still in the post from his son who sent it away and he is the trader ? and told me that he would send the V5 to me.
Foolishly I hand him over the 2k minus £40 for the MOT , but what u gotta remember I was in a right situation with where i was at 5oClock in the middle of bradford with my pregnent wife , so it was just my ticket out of there TBH.
After about 5 mins of f**king around he literally got into his van and shot off !!!! now all this time the engine had been running and sounded ...............OK , the best thing i could say.
Just up the road there was a morrisons garage and i had to fill up with fuel, so I pulled out of the ind est to be greated with the mother of rummbles from under the car. like a bang bang bang !!, i think its the exhaust TBh after closer inspection and as i pull away the whole car judders , as i got out at morrisons to fill up ,the engine was alot louder now, and i mean alot louder than 10mins ago in the ind est !!!
so i thought this is mental ill phone him......................... IT DIDNT EVEN RING !!!!! straight through to answer phone, face in hands i was f**king pissed right of now, knowing ive just had my pants pulled down by "STEVE " no surname , no address , no reg number of his connect, no receipt , f**king nothing !!!
Phoned him 4-6 for time and nothing .
Just about to cry
i thought f**k it , its mine now, i think ?? if the V5 turns up so went to pop my sat nav on to show me the way home. WHATS THAT , THE 12v SOCKET DOESNT WORK !!! ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and the sat navs internal battery is f**ked **** KILL ME KNOW ****
Rush hour middle of bradford somewhere , loads of massive roundabout , loads of traffice light , im cuttin across lanes like a piss head
The wifes phone had ran out of battery as we intended to use the megabus plug sockets but they didnt work and i was down to 30% on my samsung note 2 witch would last 2 minutes if your lucky, so with using google maps for seconds to save the battery ( as i didnt even know if the car was going to make it home i wanted to save some battery for that call to the RAC !! ) I some how got my self onto the M62 and then M6 to follow the road home, and sat back at 70mph as i wanted to nurse the car home as i really thought the engine was gonna go bang on me
This story isnt over im affraid, go make another cuppa lol
RIGHT....................
its 9:40pm now im on the M5 southbound Between J2-3 cruisin at a steady 70-75 and see this bmw marked police car with lights on come race right up my arse then pull next to me, i look over thinking WTF and he point for me to pull over so he pulls in front and i just follow him, no less than 10secs later i see another set of blue flashing lights come racing up my arse, its another copper in a marked X5 !!
now me and the wife are like wtf , being escorted in to service station my 2 tarffic cops with lights flashing is not good and i defo wasnt speding. would seem a bit ott even if i was speeding TBH
We all get out and he comes over and basically tell me there is a marker on this car as it has been involved in a burglary. F U C K O F F !!!!!!! this day can not get any worse.
Said i didnt have insurance as well , but cleared that up as i had got insurance the night before for the drive back, showed him the email THANK FOOK , I asked him how he saw me as i defo didnt see him, recons he was on the otherside of the motorway driving north and his rear camera picked up my plate up , bearing in mind it was pitch black with him doing 70mph+ and me doing the same on opposite sides of the road , WOW fare play , there cameras must be s**t hot. after about 20mins of telling him how i just had my pants pulled down by a bloke called " STEVE " he then had a call on his radio that sounded pretty crazy, shouting a screaming and then he said cheers for insurance details and they both got into there cars and shot of. leaving me and the wife just stood there looking around a dark service station car park
.
Got back in the car and headed home, bloody long day yesterday
I couldnt make this up if i tried could I
Anyway, i took some pics today of the car to see what im playing with. as its defo going to be a from rags to riches car as im defo in to deep now.
I know i know i should of walked away when i saw the car but please fellas u have to understand the situation i was in
The add was on autotrader as well, cant link it as its now been removed !!
"STEVE " seemed like a really nice bloke as well, maybe im just to bloody easy blag, but its not like im a novice with cars , i build RS turbo engines for a living PMSL < again be nice to me.
The banging i hear when i pull away must be the exhaust as its all over the place , the centre clamp is not even done up , its just floating up and down the pipe , pics show that the rear backbox rubber mount is defo gone and im suspect to thinking the bottom engine mount has gone adding to the bang bang noise, when grabbing the engine should these engine move much??
I think that this car has not been looked after at all ( no s**t sherlock ) i know , i know , why am i saying that i hear u all shout
The oil filter has rust on it and god know how long its been on there, oil on the dip stick is pretty black and stinks. but im thinking do i drop the oil and put fresh in to just find that the engine is f**ked, sounds like a proper tractor on the top end, i dont mind if i have to rip the engine out and rebuild it but i bought this car for a daily as the wife is preggers and dont want to spend money on the car to get it on the road.
I love clean engine bays as it says alot about the driver so having this clio is killing me , ill post a pic up of my old fiest turbo
Anyway HI Im Ben from Torquay:rasp:
Right where do i start:S
Ill try and keep this as short as possible.
On saturday I sold my MINT WRX
as she was gettin a bit expensive to run, so after looking for a cup of some sort for the last month or so i came across one on autotrader. ticked all the boxes ,Pictures looked mint what I its defo what I wanted, saying 63k in the add , MOT till oct and tax till end of may, Happy days i thought
:evil:
Problem was it was in Bradford, im in Torquay , 5.5hrs drive each way, cut a long story short i got my self and my wife on the mega bus from exeter £26 each suppoes to £140 each on th etrain , managed to get a lift to exeter from a friend for 8am yesterday morning , again happy days
7.5hrs later we arrive in leeds, 10miles away from bradford, all the time ive been texting and speaking to the seller, telling me I want be disapionted and car is "mint " ( you might see where this thread is going )
Got on a short train ride to bradford station where he said he would meet us outside in a transit van
Got outside and there was a tranny van waiting for me and the wife to take us to the new toy.
knocked on the window , he wound it down and i said "STEVE" he said yes "im the one for the car mate " ( van stank of weed !!! ) get in he said lalalalala , normal.
2 minutes of small talk pass by when he turns to me and says the padlock is in the passanger door, padlock is in the passanger door ????, confused i asked why would i need a padlock, he said for the side door as it doesnt lock !!!!!!
***** ALARM BELLS ******
Why would i need to lock the door mate Im not buying this transit ive come to buy a car , as soon as i said that my phone rings, answer it and its "STEVE" saying im outside the train station in my transit still waiting for you .
Very kindly pot head dropped me back of to the station after a couple minutes of laughing about it , nice block TBH for him to pick up the chap he was originally waiting for and for me and the wife to jump in with the real "STEVE", what he forgot to say was that he was in a connect !!!! idiot ,anyway after alot of laughing i jump in the back and wife jumps in the front
3 miles down the road he pulls into an industial estate ,postcode BD10 8Sx, friars ind est if anyone knows it ??
As we pull up i see the car , its looked cleanish in dull light as the sun was heading down it was to dark imo to see a car properly , but in my head im thinking about the pictures that were in the autotrader add by. I get out and start scanning the car over.
Lets go back a few paragraphs where he replied to my text sayin " what is the body work like ? any dinks, dents , scratches or rust ?? " replied with "no scratches dinks car mint" &" mint mate " ( ill let the pictures do the talking there tbh )
So where was I........
Checked the millage and it said 68,900 on the clock and has been advertied as 63k !
Front tyres are down to 1.7mm
Ripple on front bonnet , looks like someone has closed the bonnet on some tools !
Scratch on rear bumper
Window washers dont work
looks now like its been cleaned with a freaking sand ! swirl marks for fun
all wheels are kurbed, the photos must of been taken when the car was days old . lol
Now Im in the middle of bradford with my wife who i forgot to mention is pregnent looking at this car that is "MINT "
I told my self I have to buy this thing otherwise we are going to die here in the ind est next to this car if I dont buy it. lol
Chap gave me the folder with the docs's in it, looked at the MOT and it runs out 2 morrow WTF !!, not Oct like the add stats, so i say WTF is going on mate, again cut a long stroy short, he give me back £40 back for the MOT saying it will fly through !!! again im thinking f**k off mate, waiting for his mates to jump out and rob me of my dollar ive got for him.
Next thing he says that the V5 is still in the post from his son who sent it away and he is the trader ? and told me that he would send the V5 to me.
Foolishly I hand him over the 2k minus £40 for the MOT , but what u gotta remember I was in a right situation with where i was at 5oClock in the middle of bradford with my pregnent wife , so it was just my ticket out of there TBH.
After about 5 mins of f**king around he literally got into his van and shot off !!!! now all this time the engine had been running and sounded ...............OK , the best thing i could say.
Just up the road there was a morrisons garage and i had to fill up with fuel, so I pulled out of the ind est to be greated with the mother of rummbles from under the car. like a bang bang bang !!, i think its the exhaust TBh after closer inspection and as i pull away the whole car judders , as i got out at morrisons to fill up ,the engine was alot louder now, and i mean alot louder than 10mins ago in the ind est !!!
so i thought this is mental ill phone him......................... IT DIDNT EVEN RING !!!!! straight through to answer phone, face in hands i was f**king pissed right of now, knowing ive just had my pants pulled down by "STEVE " no surname , no address , no reg number of his connect, no receipt , f**king nothing !!!
Phoned him 4-6 for time and nothing .
Just about to cry
i thought f**k it , its mine now, i think ?? if the V5 turns up so went to pop my sat nav on to show me the way home. WHATS THAT , THE 12v SOCKET DOESNT WORK !!! ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and the sat navs internal battery is f**ked **** KILL ME KNOW ****Rush hour middle of bradford somewhere , loads of massive roundabout , loads of traffice light , im cuttin across lanes like a piss head
The wifes phone had ran out of battery as we intended to use the megabus plug sockets but they didnt work and i was down to 30% on my samsung note 2 witch would last 2 minutes if your lucky, so with using google maps for seconds to save the battery ( as i didnt even know if the car was going to make it home i wanted to save some battery for that call to the RAC !! ) I some how got my self onto the M62 and then M6 to follow the road home, and sat back at 70mph as i wanted to nurse the car home as i really thought the engine was gonna go bang on me
This story isnt over im affraid, go make another cuppa lol
RIGHT....................
its 9:40pm now im on the M5 southbound Between J2-3 cruisin at a steady 70-75 and see this bmw marked police car with lights on come race right up my arse then pull next to me, i look over thinking WTF and he point for me to pull over so he pulls in front and i just follow him, no less than 10secs later i see another set of blue flashing lights come racing up my arse, its another copper in a marked X5 !!
now me and the wife are like wtf , being escorted in to service station my 2 tarffic cops with lights flashing is not good and i defo wasnt speding. would seem a bit ott even if i was speeding TBH
We all get out and he comes over and basically tell me there is a marker on this car as it has been involved in a burglary. F U C K O F F !!!!!!! this day can not get any worse.
Said i didnt have insurance as well , but cleared that up as i had got insurance the night before for the drive back, showed him the email THANK FOOK , I asked him how he saw me as i defo didnt see him, recons he was on the otherside of the motorway driving north and his rear camera picked up my plate up , bearing in mind it was pitch black with him doing 70mph+ and me doing the same on opposite sides of the road , WOW fare play , there cameras must be s**t hot. after about 20mins of telling him how i just had my pants pulled down by a bloke called " STEVE " he then had a call on his radio that sounded pretty crazy, shouting a screaming and then he said cheers for insurance details and they both got into there cars and shot of. leaving me and the wife just stood there looking around a dark service station car park
.
Got back in the car and headed home, bloody long day yesterday
I couldnt make this up if i tried could I
Anyway, i took some pics today of the car to see what im playing with. as its defo going to be a from rags to riches car as im defo in to deep now.
I know i know i should of walked away when i saw the car but please fellas u have to understand the situation i was in
The add was on autotrader as well, cant link it as its now been removed !!
"STEVE " seemed like a really nice bloke as well, maybe im just to bloody easy blag, but its not like im a novice with cars , i build RS turbo engines for a living PMSL < again be nice to me.
The banging i hear when i pull away must be the exhaust as its all over the place , the centre clamp is not even done up , its just floating up and down the pipe , pics show that the rear backbox rubber mount is defo gone and im suspect to thinking the bottom engine mount has gone adding to the bang bang noise, when grabbing the engine should these engine move much??
I think that this car has not been looked after at all ( no s**t sherlock ) i know , i know , why am i saying that i hear u all shout
The oil filter has rust on it and god know how long its been on there, oil on the dip stick is pretty black and stinks. but im thinking do i drop the oil and put fresh in to just find that the engine is f**ked, sounds like a proper tractor on the top end, i dont mind if i have to rip the engine out and rebuild it but i bought this car for a daily as the wife is preggers and dont want to spend money on the car to get it on the road.
I love clean engine bays as it says alot about the driver so having this clio is killing me , ill post a pic up of my old fiest turbo
Anyway HI Im Ben from Torquay:rasp:
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