Buying a car

steveledzep

Clean bill of health on the most recent mot, what's the problem ?  Get it bought man !  (nice car btw)

PC_Dave

stickyfiddle said:

RaymondLin said:

He’s not going to buy that, it’s about 200miles away in London.

Half a day's round trip? I've gone further than that for bloody guitars!!

I rode a 600 mile round trip from Devon to Essex and back to pick up a new motorbike - because it was the ideal bike, with all the bits and extras I wanted.

People like you and me travel for the things they really want.... 

celentium

Go on Emp, go get her

steveledzep

I live about 20 miles from Emp, near Swansea.  My last six cars I've collected from Wolverhampton, Southport, Mansfield, Wrexham, Milton Keynes and Wickford.  It's all part of the fun of buying 

celentium

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

Emp_Fab

celentium said:

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

What?!!

RaymondLin

celentium said:

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

There is only 1 green one on AT, unless he is looking on another platform.

steveledzep

Emp_Fab said:

celentium said:

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

What?!!

Doesn't matter.  My current Lexus RX had outstanding finance on it when I collected it from Wolverhampton.  I knew all about it, I witnessed the dealer go on his computer and pay it off, he printed me a confirmation too.

TimmyO

Emp_Fab said:

Have you thought about a Veloster Drew ?  Nice with an automatic box.....  'speshly in green....

If that car was a person it'd be guy in the office who wears the Bart Simpson tie because he's "a character" 

I didn't think this could get any more surreal but if that's the holy grail this has all been about then well - I'm lost for words 

TimmyO

TTony said:

RaymondLin said:

He’s not going to buy that, it’s about 200miles away in London.

Surely one of us would drive it to Wales for him?

Just to get this thread over with ...

Or just buy it while he ponders lol 

thumpingrug

looks a bit French to me.

SouthpawMark

Looks like it has been in the sun a lot. Make sure you check every panel for uniform greenness. 

Octafish

TimmyO said:

Emp_Fab said:

Have you thought about a Veloster Drew ?  Nice with an automatic box.....  'speshly in green....

If that car was a person it'd be guy in the office who wears the Bart Simpson tie because he's "a character" 

I didn't think this could get any more surreal but if that's the holy grail this has all been about then well - I'm lost for words 

Yep looks pretty awful, just how massive are those headlights! It's a bit wacky (rather French/old school Citroen even) in that it has two doors one side, but only one on the other.

HerrMetal

For me, alloys a bit scuffed up, tyres all look different makes and some I don't recognise so budget for/negotiate on that.  Obviously needs checking in the flesh and proper test drive. Presume it is called Kermit.

ICBM

Emp_Fab said:

I'm looking at the MOT history now.....  a couple of things that may or may not be important;  No advisories on the most recent MOT (just done), but the previous on in 2018 has (among trivial items like a bulb and a nail in a tyre etc) 

• Nearside Front Inner Road wheel with a slightly distorted bead rim (4.2.A.1a)
• Nearside Rear tyre stepped

and the one before that in 2017

• Nearside Rear tyre mishapen

Suspension & geometry isn't my forte, but would anyone with better knowledge than me care to advise if this looks dodgy ?
...because, of course, I'm imagining an incident where it's been slammed sideways into a kerb and the whole left side suspension is bent out of alignment.

Irrelevant since whatever it was had been fixed by the most recent MOT. MOT testing is getting stricter so it can’t be anything that was missed this time.

Kilgore

celentium said:

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

No, it's the cloned one.

JerkMoans

Kilgore said:

celentium said:

Is it the one with outstanding finance on the car ?

No, it's the cloned one.

Some cut & shut ringer.  That’s been clocked  

Octafish

I assume someone's been having a laugh on the Veloster wiki entry...

"The Hyundai HND-3 concept was the third sport compact concept car styled by Kim Jong-Un at Hyundai's Design and Technical Center at Pyeongyang"

From... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Veloster

Emp_Fab

It's either that one......  or I hold on for a yellow one.....  I can't decide which is the better colour....

Nitefly

Yellow.