Aggresive car seller

RobSun · 21st February 2020, 12:07

Yesterday a friend and neighbour asked me if I was busy and if not could I help. He is in the middle of moving house and had sold his car. The purchaser wanted to take delivery before its replacement is ready, so could I give him a lift to look at one he was considering buying to get him over the car less gap. He worked in the vehicle moving industry and has trade plates so he can insure and drive stuff immediately so it was a case of take him to look, if its OK he will drive it back.

Went to look at a Focus at a garage he knows for trade. It was junk with a failed water pump and water leaking at a massive rate. So desperate he found a Volvo V40 diesel with a Face Book seller. Off we went to look.

Looked ok in the flesh so asked to test it. Clouds of thick black smoke and no power. My advice was lets walk that's not worth even considering, going to need a lot of work to sort it out. Seller immediately got very aggressive nothing wrong with it, head gasket hasn't gone. We said who mentioned head gasket, it could be anything, he then started saying Turbos good nothing wrong with it. injectors ok if they weren't the engine light would be on. Told him he was a dick and didn't know much about cars, his reply I've got 18 here to sell ????

Jay (my mate) said ok calm down lets have a look under the bonnet and check it out in case it is something simple. He had already decided it wasn't coming with us but just get him clamed. Ok he says so Jay goes to open the bonnet. Seller aggressively says its not been started for a couple of weeks it only needs a service. Anyway the bonnet catch just comes away in jays hand pulling out the cable. He looks at it and says to me it looks like its been snipped to stop it opening, a clean cut no fraying. At that point seller walks off in a huff.

Found an Astra auto estate 10 mins later round the corner private sale. First to see it so he sold it to Jay and gave him the contacts of another guy who was coming over later so he can offer it to him when he's finished with it next week when his Nissan arrives, so it all ended well.

21st February 2020, 12:07	#1
RobSun Gets stuck in MGZTT Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Bradford Posts: 529 Thanks: 148 Thanked 256 Times in 138 Posts	Aggresive car seller Yesterday a friend and neighbour asked me if I was busy and if not could I help. He is in the middle of moving house and had sold his car. The purchaser wanted to take delivery before its replacement is ready, so could I give him a lift to look at one he was considering buying to get him over the car less gap. He worked in the vehicle moving industry and has trade plates so he can insure and drive stuff immediately so it was a case of take him to look, if its OK he will drive it back. Went to look at a Focus at a garage he knows for trade. It was junk with a failed water pump and water leaking at a massive rate. So desperate he found a Volvo V40 diesel with a Face Book seller. Off we went to look. Looked ok in the flesh so asked to test it. Clouds of thick black smoke and no power. My advice was lets walk that's not worth even considering, going to need a lot of work to sort it out. Seller immediately got very aggressive nothing wrong with it, head gasket hasn't gone. We said who mentioned head gasket, it could be anything, he then started saying Turbos good nothing wrong with it. injectors ok if they weren't the engine light would be on. Told him he was a dick and didn't know much about cars, his reply I've got 18 here to sell ???? Jay (my mate) said ok calm down lets have a look under the bonnet and check it out in case it is something simple. He had already decided it wasn't coming with us but just get him clamed. Ok he says so Jay goes to open the bonnet. Seller aggressively says its not been started for a couple of weeks it only needs a service. Anyway the bonnet catch just comes away in jays hand pulling out the cable. He looks at it and says to me it looks like its been snipped to stop it opening, a clean cut no fraying. At that point seller walks off in a huff. Found an Astra auto estate 10 mins later round the corner private sale. First to see it so he sold it to Jay and gave him the contacts of another guy who was coming over later so he can offer it to him when he's finished with it next week when his Nissan arrives, so it all ended well.