Bit of a weird knock on the door today.

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ChrisCougarUK

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Sep 12, 2004
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I traded in my Cougar a few weeks ago at a car megastore and I believe the Cougar then went off to BCA auction from there. Last week I noticed it on Autotrader down in Harlow (I think) listed on an autotrader advert for £2150 :LOL:

Now this morning I get a knock on the door from some guy saying his brother had bought the car to add to his collection and he wondered if the cam belt had already been done. (Since it was a V6 I must have looked a bit confused to him). Told him it was chain driven and wished him well on his way :) Interestingly the blue Peugeot he turned up in is in background of one of the Autotrader pics for my car so he's clearly the trade seller just digging for history info etc. Probably on his way back from another car auction near me I guess.

Has anyone else had this kind of thing happen??
 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I was sold a Rover 216Si CVT by a trader in Uxbridge. It's a model of car that I know better than I know the back of my hand.

I did a full HPI on the thing before I bought it, and found that it had been to auction 3 times in the last two months. Each trader was buying the thing, realising they'd bought a pup, then flogging it on to someone else as stupid as they were. Hilarious.

It had a blown gearbox. It would move, (in '1st gear', if you like) but the hydraulics were shafted big time. The trader I bought it off paid roughly market for it at the time - £1100. He was so desperate that I took it off his hands for £300.

I slapped in a spare ZF CVT box that I had laying around and drove that car for a year.

Anyway, the point is that a lot of traders are speculators, looking for the quick buck on a car that they've just washed and waxed. But sometimes they do get caught out, especially when it's something unusual. I mailed him after I'd reworked the car, and from his replies he was furious that I'd managed to fix it. "Wait - I thought I'd conned you!" "Hah - in your face!"
 
phil robbo said:
I had Jehovas Witnesses knock on the door ... I told them to **** off
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A friend of mine answered the door to the BonJovi's Witnesses while he was jointing a half lamb. He had a cleaver in his hand and was wearing a bloodied apron. They didn't stay long.
 
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