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There's sheds, and then there's sheds...

A neighbour had a Toyota Rav4 GXS up for sale for 750 quid with some tax and MOT. 128k miles.

Took a look as I quite fancied a shed for tooling around town in. It has a personalised numberplate so wasn't possible to tell its age at first. Turned out to be originally P-reg (1997?) Petrol, 2 litre engine,

3-door.

  • All 4 tyres need replacing.

  • It has had a prang on the nearside wing, at the front, enough to displace the headlight

  • Third gear crunches no matter how careful you are changing

  • Knocking sound from back turning round corners

  • Two different keys - ign barrel has been replaced following breakin and the original key is still needed to open the door and for the immobiliser

  • insurance group 21 (!)

Gave it a wide berth but hard to see how she can ask 750 quid for something that seems to me only fit for the crusher.

Comments?

Reply to
Mike Tomlinson
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Let the buyer beware

Reply to
James

because she can always take less for a good offer, but she cannot go up. The other thing is that there are plenty of folk about with more money than sense.

Reply to
Mrcheerful

Mike Tomlinson wrote: [snip]

Some people fool themselves first then hope to fool buyers. I wanted a small 4x4 for the farm last year. I saw many over several weekends but one that sticks in my mind was a Shogun Pinin. The seller described it was having 24,000 miles, and in "immaculate" condition. It was for sale locally so I made an appointment and turned up to see it. It didn't start well, even from a distance it waas possible to see that every panel was dented and scuffed. Even the roof was scratched and dented. I should have gone away but I decided to check out the interior.

Despite the owner telling me to my face that it had 24,000 miles on the clock, it actually had 240,000 miles on it. And the interior looked like someone had been using it as a public lavatory for the last ten years.

When he started it up, it sounded like marbles in a washing machine.

I left, wondering why they do it and who, in the end, buys this crap?

Reply to
Steve Firth

Perhaps the buyer gets the 750 quid?

Reply to
krak

Might be worth looking up the price of the private plate. Sometimes they're worth more than the vehicle!

Theo

Reply to
Theo Markettos

And sometimes a car may have what appears to be a desiable number but the logbook says "not transferable".

Reply to
Peter Hill

it is worth checking the fuel gauge: full tank 100 quid on a larger car. scrap is worth 200 per large car, send back the tax and flog some bits on ebay and you're in profit.

Reply to
Mrcheerful

In article , Theo Markettos writes

It wasn't being transferred, the seller intended to retain it and put the original plate back on.

Told her she'd probably do better on ebay.

Thanks for the replies guys.

Reply to
Mike Tomlinson

Which is quite a bit more than the cost of a short bit of wire to make fuel guage read max :)

Reply to
The Other Mike

Which is quite a bit more than the cost of a short bit of wire to make the fuel guage read max :)

Reply to
The Other Mike

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