Another bargain!

[Gary406]

sell it as it is

[sirwiggum]

sell it as it is

Bit of isopon and a new tyre and it'll fly through an MOT.

Just haven't got the time

[FarmerPug]

the 205:
'i kept the pictures to the drivers side because the other side is in shite.
mondeo:
'dent in boot is small and easy to fix bigger dents elsewhere which im trying to distract you all from, cheap fix though'
306:
'good clead car for the year' right clead is a new one, and goo tyres, are they melting?

the mantas honest, and cheap, but its not a ford capri.

mg:
fast car if compared to a metro automatic.
mapped to the bag, meaning its been remapped so much the engine is as strong as a tesco shopping bag.
and new tyars all round, what are these tyar devices.
good going ole yoke if it is why is it for sale, and why is the only picture taken of the rear of the car in a car park beside some litter.


anyhow heres one of them people with bad eyesight, they have even taken a picture to show us how bad their eyesight is.
http://belfast.gumtree.com/belfast/48/73383248.html
poor person cant make out wheather their car is a golf, peugeot, or a vauxhall.

as for that blue pug let me sell it gumtree NI style:
Small car park ding, should pull out cheap, and fill nicely with a bit of isopon, got my girlfriend pregnant and havent got the time.

[steve_earwig]

anyhow heres one of them people with bad eyesight, they have even taken a picture to show us how bad their eyesight is.
http://belfast.gumtree.com/belfast/48/73383248.html
poor person cant make out wheather their car is a golf, peugeot, or a vauxhall.

Can't you see it's a sax0lf?

[Welly]

I actually sold my old KLE500 with the old "not much for an MOT", at the time I was busily getting everything ready and cramming a transit van with all my worldly goods to have time to do it.

So you were actually being honest in saying you were 'too busy' and it 'didn't need much' for the MOT - I commend you Sir

[FarmerPug]

they perhaps have put it on gumtree for somone to reassure them it it indeed a saxo
i could offer to do a swap for it, when they ask what car you have being gumtree do the obligatory well its NOT a ford, vauxhall, renault, alfa romeo, civic, R32 or GTI.
As for payment, its not going to be maestro, checque, paypal or direct debit.

Isnt gumtree NI a strange site.

[sirwiggum]

As for payment, its not going to be maestro

An Austin Maestro perhaps?

What do we think of selling a car with known flaws?

- I once tried to sell a car with a blowing exhaust and a dented door, I mentioned these in the ad (and a fair reduced market price) and received no calls.

- I relisted the car with photos of the dent, but didn't mention it or the exhaust. Got a few calls, someone came out and bought it that day there and then, wasn't worried at all about the dent or exhaust but "liked the colour"

OR should I have said something like "- Usual shopping trolley dings for a 10 year old car" and left it at that?

Selling a car is the closest I reckon I'll ever be to being an estate agent, wondering whether to be creatively truthful.

[lozz]

sell it as it is

that car is sitting in Broadbents salvage yard,
they have another 5 of them iirc

[Gary406]

ye i got the image from ebay whilst browsing through the 406 section

[lozz]

ye i got the image from ebay whilst browsing through the 406 section

lol,

there the most expensive people in the north-west for parts

ring them for a price on something and listen to them get the yellow pages out so they can pick a page number as the price

[FarmerPug]

my uncle asked me to sell his ford transit a 1999 smiley 2.5 direct injection non turbo slowest machine in the world but a lovable old yoke. Anyhow i tried to sell it in the ads for free as '1999 ford transit, slider door broke, body work reasonable. Mechanically perfect £800o.n.o' i got no calls. So i decided to repair it.
Them smiley transits have got rare all of a sudden this was 2 years ago and trying to get the door was a nightmare, but i got one, and the roller so the door was fixed, i then put a radio into it bt spec vans had none. The inside was cleaned. and any dents were isoponed out, the rusty wheel arches were fixed, and i even resprayed it badly i admit there was bits of dust. But anyhow it sold just before the rust on the wheel arches came back.
Wheeler dealers doesnt make sense, factor in the cost of eds labour and not one car has made money.

[lozz]

my uncle asked me to sell his ford transit a 1999 smiley 2.5 direct injection non turbo slowest machine in the world but a lovable old yoke. Anyhow i tried to sell it in the ads for free as '1999 ford transit, slider door broke, body work reasonable. Mechanically perfect £800o.n.o' i got no calls. So i decided to repair it.
Them smiley transits have got rare all of a sudden this was 2 years ago and trying to get the door was a nightmare, but i got one, and the roller so the door was fixed, i then put a radio into it bt spec vans had none. The inside was cleaned. and any dents were isoponed out, the rusty wheel arches were fixed, and i even resprayed it badly i admit there was bits of dust. But anyhow it sold just before the rust on the wheel arches came back.
Wheeler dealers doesnt make sense, factor in the cost of eds labour and not one car has made money.

ive got a Smiley face transit sat here mate carnt give it away for love nor money
crackin engine in it too think its a Perkins lump ,

[sirwiggum]

Ford Escort vans are also now rare and worth a hell of a lot of money!

It's amazing what a bit of a fix up can do. I once got offered a ZX estate 1.9TD for nothing. Ended up as a spare car not being used a lot. Just cleaned it, polished it, new wheeltrims, new numberplates and fresh oil and got the best part of £800 for it!

[plod]

Manta looks like an "Exclusive"
£3000 all day long if it's as good as he makes out

[FarmerPug]

im confused why smiley transits are so hard to sell i was expecting buyers to be tripping over eachother at the gate but it was really hard to shift, i got no calls when i tried it first, and a few when i fixed it and put it up on gumtree.
Some say the smiley transit is the only good thing ford ever made (not me) but it was loud, slow, not poweful, very uneconomical ie 18mpg, and averagley reliable.