Just spent a couple of hours going to check out a car a niece bought sight unseen.    She was to collect it on Monday.   Traded in her 2015 car she has not had that long for a 2016 Audi A1 1.4 TSI manual. S-line.  So looks great on the vid. Paint to be prepped. Wheels are refurbed.  MOT no advisories.  £30 VED.  All that jazz.  Too expensive, not enough for her car but she is happy.  Even paying for 12 month warranty, paint protection !!!!  6 year old car.     2015 first registered Jan 2016. PDI Nov 2015.   So MOT history is bad. Suspension, steering, brakes, tyres  Car well abused by 3 years old.  Service history incomplete.     Then she gets told they offered too much on her car which has not got a full service history.  So more finance to pay.   They are having a laugh since neither does the one they are selling that came in from an Auction.. there is a history, just not showing all done as need be.   So we will see later what they come up with after the manager is involved because as usual the salesperson has moved location in the last week.  

Edited 26 May, 20224 yr by roottoot

35 minutes ago, roottoot said:

Just spent a couple of hours going to check out a car a niece bought sight unseen.    She was to collect it on Monday.   Traded in her 2015 car she has not had that long for a 2016 Audi A1 1.4 TSI manual. S-line.  So looks great on the vid. Paint to be prepped. Wheels are refurbed.  MOT no advisories.  £30 VED.  All that jazz.  Too expensive, not enough for her car but she is happy.  Even paying for 12 month warranty, paint protection !!!!  6 year old car.     2015 first registered Jan 2016. PDI Nov 2015.   So MOT history is bad. Suspension, steering, brakes, tyres  Car well abused by 3 years old.  Service history incomplete.     Then she gets told they offered too much on her car which has not got a full service history.  So more finance to pay.   They are having a laugh since neither does the one they are selling that came in from an Auction.. there is a history, just not showing all done as need be.   So we will see later what they come up with after the manager is involved because as usual the salesperson has moved location in the last week.  

Is it too late to cancel the deal? especially as they are now moving the goalposts. I rather suspect she will be better off with the old car back.

They have never seen the old car but then Scotland's biggest car group sold her that with Stop/Start not functioning because of a duff battery which obviously they did not want to replace with the correct one.

 

If they do not adjust the price in her favour then no deal. They can spin on it.

She paid £99 on a card.

 

At least it got important work done, and new discs are on it recently and some budget tyres. 

Car prepped for sale and under bonnet shows as genuine for a car that had been used and sat about during lockdown,

no attempt at a 'kerbside motors' splash of dash flash.

 

Note when First Registered in January 2016 the 'In transit' gets reset to 0 miles. 

179  miles done before then.  

 

 

Edited 26 May, 20224 yr by roottoot

Is she going ahead with the deal @roottoot, hopefully with an adjusted price?

@EnterNameYes sadly.  Against all my advice.   

Someone who might or might not have been the manager called her (edit)  and offered to cross her palm with a couple of hundred quid cash money.

 

That will be a wee side deal out of their commission no doubt which does not mess up the finance agreement and the accounts before the end of the month.

It will be on a nod and a wink to a blind man.  No income tax, no VAT no HMRC.   

 

Her uncle has a big mouth though so the car better be an A1 A1 and fixed promptly if not. 

 

Her

 

Edited 30 May, 20224 yr by roottoot

Hopefully the car will be fine and you'll have a happy niece.