Thread: Tyre kicking gone to a whole new level !

Richard you have my complete understanding

I nearly punched two blokes clean in the face who came to look at my Disco. One person said they wanted it fully detailed before they bought it because it was a little "shabby" inside. Sorry dude but find me another pre-MA disco that is this well preserved (no rips or tears on the seats, stains, holes, burn marks, screw holes, scratches) and I will be to BUCKLEY'S! If you want it detailed, get it detailed yourself! For all the thousands I've spent its still a very good deal.

The other's buying criteria was not how many kms, condition, servicing, off road work, recent repairs etc but.... wait for it.... "is it possible to sleep in it?" HA! Stop wasting my time please.

Another rang up and said "Hi, I'm from interstate and I'll offer you $x (it was half the asking price), so do I get on a plane or not?"... my reply... "No need to, bye".

I wont sell a car again, trade in, couldn't deal with the crap

swmbo's faithful bubble laser went up for sale cheap after it had given her at least 10yrs faithful service. 400000km but everything is still as it left the factory.
A pair of hillbillies turn up (stained shirt too small, tracksuit pants also too small, you get the picture) in this old Honda clunker.
Laser had some issues big and small so I walked him round it pointing them out. It was unregistered. I stressed to him the clutch was in bad shape & wouldn't hold out for long (I could drive it all day no problem even at full throttle, but someone only had to get it hot and before long it would slip and shudder and wouldn't come good till it cooled down) and the CVs were starting to complain. He had no idea. She at least knew how to dip the oil, check the coolant and tap for rust (I'll give it that much this old laser was still pure metal after all those years).
So we go for a drive.

We lived on a bit of a hill. He pulls out the drive and turns up the hill riding the clutch pretty heavily, I winced a bit and sucked thru my teeth.
It's about 30m to the corner and gets steeper as you go. He goes for 2nd.
4000rpm and working that clutch like an RM125. I'm having kittens now. Any second there'll be a bushfire and we'll be going back the way we came. He's not gonna buy the thing after all this and it won't be driveable anymore to boot. We make the crest, he short shifts it into third and ride em cowboy again.
We turn around at the next intersection and I point out the CVs clattering like maltesers down the aisle. He raises his eybrows and shakes his head "can't hear a thing". I steal a sideways glance and sigh.
We do a hot lap past our house with the little laser at full noise, the clutch is beginning to pout a bit, we get to the next intersection and I say listen carefully for the CVs again. Nope missed it again.

So, we get back and he parks it. He haggles $100 or so off the price and says yep we'll take it, be back in 1/2hr. Yeh right says me.
Sure enough back he comes with big wad of folding stuff and the pair of plates off his other junker under his arm. He pays, screws them on and off they go with another big handful (footfull?) of revs and a smell like bad feet.
Phew, it survived.

"Hi, I'm from interstate and I'll offer you $x (it was half the asking price), so do I get on a plane or not?"... my reply... "No need to, bye".

Got that on Sunday afternoon...

I had an email from a chap in SA willing to get on a plane and drive it back home..he offered me $9500 max ..he reckoned due to his costs of flight ticket/rego transfer/stamp duty etc he couldn't offer me anymore...plus he said he was looking for a younger model with the bosch kit at that price anyway ..but liked the alloy wheels !

I hate selling cars privately..no chance of me trading anyway..will be leaving Oz soon !!

At least You're getting some nibbles, must go check on the phone number in my ad, maybe Yass is too far for the ferals to drive.........
Good luck with it mate, she deserves a good home.
Regards,
Tote

Sound like typical scrappies. I see them at auctions, old Jap 4 tonners, blowing smoke, sagged on one side, holes in the deck, owners dressed in tatty bib & brace overalls and a blue singlet, boots without laces and a greasy towelling hat. Go up to pay after the auction and whilst the yuppie buyers are on their mobiles arguing with the bank about why their credit card has been refused, the scrappies are pulling out wads of cash and passing thousands over the counter. Saw one pass $15000+ over at an auction one day, no trouble at all.

seen a couple of classics come through the yard since i started, worst ones are fitters, picky as hell

great 2003 landcruiser turbodiesel wagon, full history and looks a million dollars, just let down a lil by 167,000km...... fitter jumps in, takes it for a spin and says "bit of a clunk in the back end"...... now i've driven it around town, done a couple of hundred k's on the highway in it, and i know damn well it doesnt clunk, but at least he's not stupid..... "but hey, you expect something after 160,000km"

another joker whinges about $49990 for a 04 landcruiser kakadu V8 with "high" 134,000km, everything short of a sahara..... simply flicked him the local rag, told him if he didnt like it, go buy the one with 150,000km for $61k..... said i'd even chuck in the car kit and UHF if he wanted to pay $61k we had.....

biggest stunners are the tossers who want $5k hiluxes and oldschool holden 1 tonners...... cheapest damn car on the lot is an AU wagon with 80,000km on it..... do they seriously think they're gonna find a tonner out the back?

I had a guy email me a few years back when I was selling a Defender. Offered me nearly $10K less than my asking price. His email said something like "...mate redbook says it is only worth $X so that's all I can offer you...". Two weeks later it was sold and I emailed him back to let him know that it went for the full advertised price. At least he was good enough to email back to congratulate me.

Some good stories in there
Now I know why I "Trade" vehicles

Cheers,
Ron