Thread: Defenders on "Car Sales."

Originally Posted by tact

So far the broker handling my vehicle seems to have done well. His bill was more than $1000 less than the agreed quote. And the advice I got was not to bother with cleaning any special cleaning on the Malaysian side as there was a good chance that AQIS would ask it be done over in Oz anyway. So be it.

Estimate given for cleaning is $300-$400 - which seems in the ballpark based on your experience.

Sorry this has been something of a thread hijack. But to round off the sidetrack and close it off: cleaning for AQIS ended up costing $286. all done and vehicle released. Nice!

And a pic to bring us back on topic:
Cant wait to get back behind the wheel of this....when it has NSW plates on it!

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Gents,

I'm going to inspect this on the weekend We've taken a wrong turn

Current asking price is laughable in my opinion, I was thinking about 43 would be a reasonable offer given the condition of the interior probably wouldn't go over 46 if pushed by the dealer. Suerly given this time of year they want to get rid of it quicksmart.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Jake93

Gents,

I'm going to inspect this on the weekend We've taken a wrong turn

Current asking price is laughable in my opinion, I was thinking about 43 would be a reasonable offer given the condition of the interior probably wouldn't go over 46 if pushed by the dealer. Suerly given this time of year they want to get rid of it quicksmart.

Thoughts?

So I had a look this morning.. condition was less than desirable, some worrying potential issues.. oh well. back to the search!

Originally Posted by Jake93

So I had a look this morning.. condition was less than desirable, some worrying potential issues.. oh well. back to the search!

Any chance u could share what those potential issues were? I'm wanting a Puma at some point in the future and would be interested to know what to look for.....

Originally Posted by Jake93

Gents,

I'm going to inspect this on the weekend We've taken a wrong turn

Current asking price is laughable in my opinion, I was thinking about 43 would be a reasonable offer given the condition of the interior probably wouldn't go over 46 if pushed by the dealer. Suerly given this time of year they want to get rid of it quicksmart.

Thoughts?

I bought my 90 from them December last year, Paid 46k for it,

Originally Posted by Robmacca

Any chance u could share what those potential issues were? I'm wanting a Puma at some point in the future and would be interested to know what to look for.....

Look elsewhere bud, I'd suggest looking at the front diff and the bolts in the engine bay in the photos they have up of it for a general indication of condition. every bolt on the exterior was rusted, there was even surface corrosion on the aluminium on the grille.

Honestly, It looks like the car had been drowned on a beach up past the windows (I have absolutely no evidence of this) however I pulled up the front mats and they were completely soaking wet, kept pulling up the mats further and found pockets of brown sand and dirt in the corners of the metal, all still soaking wet with a musty smell. Same story with the mats in the back, filthy and soaking wet.

The chrome on the headrest was even rusted and I'm not talking surface rust, I am talking full blown swollen rust to the point where you couldn't even adjust it, same for the seat mechs so I couldn't look in the engine box to see if that was also full of **** which I suspected it was. Tyres were also unroadworthy - not sure how a dealer is even allowed to sell a car with unroadworthy tyres?

Didn't even bother talking to the dealer when he came over to have a chat, by that stage I was completely lost for words. They did a good job of coating the dash in Armor All though

behind the front barPhoto 10-6-17, 9 38 29 am.jpg


unroadworthy tyresPhoto 10-6-17, 9 38 43 am.jpg

It could be a good project for someone, however unfortunately I'm not in the market for a $53,000 project.

I've got no plans on buying one now, but sometime down the track - maybe.... I just thought if there was some spots that were not quite obvious, then it would be good to know where to look, but by this one those photos would have been an easy one to see the issues and walk away from. For me, the price is way too high to start with and I probably wouldn't of even gone to look at it.

Maybe u should have told the dealers your thoughts

Originally Posted by Jake93

Look elsewhere bud, I'd suggest looking at the front diff and the bolts in the engine bay in the photos they have up of it for a general indication of condition. every bolt on the exterior was rusted, there was even surface corrosion on the aluminium on the grille.

Honestly, It looks like the car had been drowned on a beach up past the windows (I have absolutely no evidence of this) however I pulled up the front mats and they were completely soaking wet, kept pulling up the mats further and found pockets of brown sand and dirt in the corners of the metal, all still soaking wet with a musty smell. Same story with the mats in the back, filthy and soaking wet.

The chrome on the headrest was even rusted and I'm not talking surface rust, I am talking full blown swollen rust to the point where you couldn't even adjust it, same for the seat mechs so I couldn't look in the engine box to see if that was also full of **** which I suspected it was. Tyres were also unroadworthy - not sure how a dealer is even allowed to sell a car with unroadworthy tyres?

Didn't even bother talking to the dealer when he came over to have a chat, by that stage I was completely lost for words. They did a good job of coating the dash in Armor All though

behind the front barPhoto 10-6-17, 9 38 29 am.jpg


unroadworthy tyresPhoto 10-6-17, 9 38 43 am.jpg

It could be a good project for someone, however unfortunately I'm not in the market for a $53,000 project.

Surely this guy is just taking the ****?

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/burl...110/1151366343