Sellers who advertise FSH, when it's nowhere near.

[Brookie.]

Personally a pet hate of mine.

Anyhow, I have another RS itch so was casually browsing as you do. Came across this car which is fairly close to me. From the ad (as usual) it sounded OK.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...up/page/1/postcode/ls55ey/radius/40?logcode=p

Gave him a quick call to ask some questions.


Me: 'Have the belts been done'.

Him: 'I'm sure they will have been'.

Me: 'What I mean is do you have proof of them being done'

Him: 'I don't know'.

Me: 'Can you check?'

He scurried off in a huff and came back and said:

Him: 'No, but the book is all stamped up'.

Me: 'With mention of the belts?'

Him: 'No, there are just four stamps'.

Me: 'Four stamps on a 9 year old car, that's not full service history is it?'

Him: 'Stop wasting my time' *CLICK*

He put the phone down on me. How is asking the history of a car wasting a sellers time? If anything he's wasting possible buyers time by advertising a car with FSH, when it's missing most of the service history and no proof of belts.

/Rant over.

 

[imprezaworks]

Lol i looked at a cup on autotrader yesterday, it wasnt that one though. I txt him and asked if the belt had been done as its a 53 plate with 60k on it. The response 'no its on the origional one and runs fine'. My reply 'okay then, will give it a miss but it does need to be done', he didnt reply lol. Tell a lie, it was on ebay.

 

[yellowbelly]

I think people tend to confuse 'documented' service history with 'full' service history.

 

[lemonnobby]

there are lots of idiots out there who think belts last forever