Oh aye, a great laugh when we start picking faults in jayvee's potential new purchase.


I went to Northern Ireland on Wednesday to view a car, the vendor had a two hour drive to meet me at the ferry terminal and when I started picking faults and said I wasn't interested he was furious and started kicking off. I had been told the car was 100% original and untouched, sadly it had been painted along both sides, dents and dings in the two back doors, suspension lowered and fitted with a manual gearbox. We had discussed on the phone exactly what I was looking for and he gave me all the right answers and that was why I went to view, but as soon as I saw it I was very unhappy.

Ha ha, me bad and he left with his tail between his legs

Good luck tomorrow!

Il be mucho jealous if u buy it. Thats the colour i wanted, and its only along the road. Pity i couldnt get hold of the seller

Hi Dave, if I don't buy it I will give you all the help I can. Thanks for your input.

Sadly I couldn't meet with jayvee this morning due to work commitments at the last minute but hopefully Richard has managed to catch up with him.

I did... Though awaiting the final outcome as I needed to head off. Car comes up clean in VCDS with the exception of 2 parking sensors. Some oil around the engine, which is either a gasket on the cover or just overspill. Drove OK, gearbox was decently smooth.

Body work and interior trim needs some TLC, but on the whole, nothing too bad with the exception of one of the chrome bumber trim clips having broke, but not sure how much work that is to fix (as a result, the chrom trim sticks out).

only point of any concern is that the brakes are poor.. as in from 80 to 0, no ABS, just feeling very spongy.. but both rears really need done, so not sure if that's the problem, or if they just need bled.

Had a text from Jayvee... Looks like the t/belt may not have been done.. Conincidental that it's been sat with 79k miles on for a few months? So maybe £800+ to put everything right, but what else has he skimped on?

Thanks so much for your input and effort. I think I will price a belt job and deduct it from the previous figure and maybe bid again. However I will not be brokenhearted if the bid is not accepted.