Why do people use hash tags outside of twitter? #pointless

I find it annoying. Some people from work put the hash tags in every thing, texts, emails. I should really put this on the what annoys you thread.

I can understand why he's annoyed, it does come across as a generalisation of Bradford, which is annoying too. Btw I'm not from Bradford, but get it enough coming from Liverpool. :-)

It's surprising how poor condition a car can get into in 6 years! I'd still class that as relatively new. My 2nd car is a 13 year old lupo and it's in excellent condition.

His intention before looking at it was, if the rest of the car wasn't terrible, to lose the dpf and egr, clean out the inlet manifold, do the cambelt and just run it into the ground doing the Sheffield to Leeds motorway commute. He's not too fussy about the looks of his cars but nobody wants a six year old car that's already got serious rust problems.

Let's see there was a car with a new mot but the brakes were metal to metal at the front, there was a passat described as a genuine 95k but had obviously been clocked did a mot check on the phone and 3 months earlier it said 178k! Plus it had the taxi holes in the dash but the vendor swore on his kids lives that it was never a taxi lol

That's just the last 2 I saw lol.

Bradford is the most dodgiest place to buy a car followed by Leeds. If you haven't been to the back street sellers you won't believe me but it is honestly that bad

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What a load of ill-informed nonsense has been written in this thread!

I lived in Bradford for 30yrs and now live in Guiseley literally 100yds from the Leeds/Bradford boundary.

If you buy high mileage cut-priced heaps from fenced compounds up mud tracks in any city, you get the junk you deserve. To single out Bradford in this regard is just stupid!

"No time wasters or tyre kickers"

What a load of ill-informed nonsense has been written in this thread!

I lived in Bradford for 30yrs and now live in Guiseley literally 100yds from the Leeds/Bradford boundary.

If you buy high mileage cut-priced heaps from fenced compounds up mud tracks in any city, you get the junk you deserve. To single out Bradford in this regard is just stupid!

Well said , you get what you pay for!

Looks like a dump! The car and Infinity Motors....Infinity?! ha!!!

Not Bradford (never been so I can't comment)

Edited 24 February, 201313 yr by Leon-y-k

If it's not too dear, I do need a new wheelie bin.................

What a heap. Not sellable in my eyes. Only good thing about it is the injector recall has been carried out. Haha.

I've never been to exotic Bradford before

I know really just love this picture :p

should have gave them a real cheeky offer, most of the probs wouldnt take that much to sort, a good clean up and service and it might have been ok?

should have gave them a real cheeky offer, most of the probs wouldnt take that much to sort, a good clean up and service and it might have been ok?

Just get a load of people on here to go view it and walk away in disgust then slip in the £2k offer

Bradford is a hole. After dropping the wife off there and picking her up from uni for the best part of 2 years i genuinely feared for my safety.

A friend went to buy a HPI clear car from there. He HPI'd it himself and it came back as a cat D. Also, i believe Bradford has the highest number of uninsured drivers on the road compared to any other UK city. That gives me some idea of what they think of their cars.

Ive never bought a second hand car from a dealership in Leeds (only new ones) but ive looked around plenty. To be fair the new car supermarkets out there are the biggest crooks Ive seen. I struggle to find a straight car in them which hasnt seen paint or been touched up. Maybe im just a bit more anal about car condition than other normal people.

Bradford is a hole. After dropping the wife off there and picking her up from uni for the best part of 2 years i genuinely feared for my safety.

Bradford does have a hole - the dopey council decided to demolish half the city centre to redevelop just before the banking crash in 2008!

That said, it seems to me you are either a total wimp or have some sort of irrational fear! You need to stop reading the gutter press.

I went to uni there for 4 yrs - number of times attacked or mugged - zero

After going to uni I moved to Bradford and lived there for 30yrs - number of times attacked or mugged - zero

SWMBO was born and raised in Bradford, both our kids born, raised, schooled in Bradford- number of times attacked or mugged - zero

Number of friends and family attacked or mugged in Bradford over my 42yrs association with the city - zero.

How many times were you or your wife attacked or mugged in her 2 yrs?

BTW - if you want to know what part of Bradford - just look at my user name

Bradford has some rough areas but name me one UK city that doesn't.

For the record and to keep vaguely on topic, the number of cars I have bought in Bradford - 13 (including 2 Octavias), only 1 new. Number of dogs? 1 - the first one I bought 'cos I didn't know what I was doing.

Edited 25 February, 201313 yr by eccleshill

I've never been mugged or attacked in Leeds either, doesnt mean its a great place to live . In fact the wife was vebally abused almost daily by the muslim/sikh contingent who seemed to think it was ok to call/shout her from over the road and call her barbie doll (along with some other not so polite stuff.) This wasnt the minority either, it was different people almost daily.

I guess there are good and bad bits to ever city though :love:

Why does it have to move on to people?

I've been going to leeds and Bradford for years and I have never had any problems with the people that live there, they are in fact friendly. All I was implying is the number of dodgy back street dealers, I've never brought a car costing over 3k so most of my dealings have been with the cheaper dealers.

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Regardless of the location of the City this comment says it all for me

If you buy high mileage cut-priced heaps from fenced compounds up mud tracks in any city

If that doesn't make you want to run away nothing will

The disparaging remarks about Bradford aside, it's interesting to see.

Weird to think that's only a year younger than my own car. Either the owner was a complete tool, or devastated by things out of their control. Sad either way.

Either the owner was a complete tool, or devastated by things out of their control. Sad either way.

Oh I don't know, to some of us the car is just a work horse and we don't have time to be endlessly cleaning and polishing it, just run it into the ground and get rid. Although I do admit the demise does seem to have come a bit early for that one, even by my heavy handed experience (I think some of the faults may be from being stood for some time).

Rusty sills on the pre-facelift Octavia is more common than you think, especially on a car that isn't cleaned each week.

The gas pressure sensor failing is also a common fault on early MkII diesels. The symptom of a duff sensor? The EML light and/or DPF light.

The boot seal and rear washer pipe are again well documented weaknesses. The symptom? A wet boot.

It's a three grand car, and that's before negotiation. It'll be a good few years yet before scabby sills lead to an MOT failure.

A pressure sensor is £75 and 10 minutes on VCDS.

Fixing the rear washer pipe is a tie-wrap, some super glue and an hours worth of fiddling.

I haven't seen the car but the OP has so I'm happy to take his word for it in that most would be wise to avoid, but this could be a cheap car for someone who doesn't mind a bit of graft over a couple of weekends.

I've been to yorkshire and a lot of the roads (especially the countryside) are so rough, and I thought the roads in the midlands were bad..I'd expect the cars up in yoirkshire to wear out quicker..

No warranty (you get one by law anyway for 6 months)

That's simply not true.

It's a three grand car, and that's before negotiation. It'll be a good few years yet before scabby sills lead to an MOT failure.

I guess, and if it were an older car, it wouldn't be a show stopper for me necessarily, but I can't accept it on a car that's been on the road for less than six years. It's just too suspect.

A pressure sensor is £75 and 10 minutes on VCDS.

True, but especially on a neglected car like this, I'd rather just put the £75 quid towards removing the DPF and mapping out the sensor. I've got my G450 mapped out.

Also - what is the deal with it taking five minutes of revving the other car before it would jump start? I've never seen that before.

I wouldn't rule out it having been water damaged, given the mouldy boot floor, mould inside the cd multichanger compartment, moisture in the light clusters, mould in the engine bay and the rusty sills. The interior was a bit tatty in the front at least, but it was difficult to appraise it really, as it was soaking with upholstery shampoo. Maybe the starting problem is indicative of water damage too?

High mileage car and DPF knackered, is that not a contradiction in terms, I thought they needed to be well driven to keep the running smooth.

The up shot is that some dodgy Bradford local is selling this car that they acquired from somewhere, I guess an auction after said flood damage or even higher mileage than displayed being sold on fleabay from a back street dodgy scrap yard.

So as you have already said Nick P, you had a nice day out, got your dinner bought for you and you were educated in the back street areas of Bradford too, keep looking as there are hundreds of cars out there.

Revving the other car spins the alternator faster so I imagine would give a boost charge for the flat battery?