talizman

iTrader: (1)

No win situation Pete.

If he says "good condition" or "very good condition" then as long as he can prove that in his opinion, the description was accurate, he is covered.

What you are looking for is statments of fact, and not opinion.

For example, "free from dents and scratches"..."immaculate alloys with NO kerbings"..."50p piece size rust patch on tailgate" etc etc.

All in all, too much hassle for my money, I'd bite the bullet and go see the thing if they are so rare and desirable!

Carl Davey

iTrader: (3)

I did say allegedly.

Cheers John, i sold the fridge last June so eight months all in.

nickwrxstiV2

Carl,

I live in Newcastle and spotted a car in London which ticked all of my boxes!

Basically I rang him up and told him that I couldn't travel such a long distance just to view the car. I asked him if I could get it RAC checked, he agreed and we made a date!! The RAC check was good, although there were a few points to consider. I used these points as a bargaining tool and managed to get the price down!

Flew down to London and picked it up!

Use the RAC as a bargaining tool, it's £200 very well spent in my eyes. The first car I looked at looked good, RAC said otherwise - left well alone. Without the £200 'wasted' I would have bought a sh!theap!!!!!

Tim W

iTrader: (1)

Too right...

I went with a friend to view an Sti 5 V Limited RA, that belonged to a former S'net member...We didn't really have much time to look at the car, and having had to meet at a mutually convinient location it wasn't exactly ideal for me to have a good look at the areas I wanted to look at. Anyway I drove the car and it felt ok, although there were a couple of bits that I felt needed investigation...

My idea was to return armed with another one of my friends (Pat the mapper) to have a closer look and interorgate the ecu on the move.

Unfortunately we couldn't arrange a time or place to do this that suited everyone (alarm bells should have started ringing) so my friend who was interested in the car, who was a member of the RAC, arranged for one of their inspections...car came back clean but in need of new pads and tyres (which we knew already) So a price was a greed and the car collected.

Within a day it was making a terrible din...I went over to have a look, and found that several things on the car had mysteriously 'changed' since I last saw it and the terrible din? The exhaust manifold was hanging off, attached by 3 out of the 6 nuts...which were halfway down the studs...fixed that, got Pat over, dead MAF and Lambda...it was a very sick puppy...a few weeks later a breather hose poped off and there was oil everywhere...into the garage it went, for a compression and leak down test...something was not well, the crank case was being pressurised...one engine strip later a badly scored bore was deemed to be the culprit, and it was clear that the engine had been opened up previously...

Anyway, going back to the RAC, they wouldn't honour they're inspection cover on the grounds that none of the items that failed (!) were part of their inspection process on the car!!! Which IMHO are the glaringly obvious parts to inspect (exhaust, MAF, Lambda, breathers etc...)