buying a car from a possiable driving school

poggy

hi all,

was looking at a car online and gave the seller a call, got the usualy story of low millage due to second family car that he used to go to work down the road, however i seen a L plate on it an a second look, so i google the number and got a driving school back.

It is a small hatchback for someone for a first car which would be perfect for a driving school.

It may well be a second familly car but now im supecious, and wondering would you walk away?

EPM

Any doubts, walk away.

El Guapo!

If it was a driving school car then why wasnt he up front about it. He has started off being dishonest so what else may he be hiding? If it was me I'd walk away.

poggy

cheers lads thats what i was thinking just wanted to check

C4Kid

if it was me I'd probably walk away from a driving school car, one can only imagine the abuse it's probably recevied.

Kind of like buying a rental car.

bazz26

Condition of the clutch, brakes, gearbox and bodywork would be what I'd be looking at closely on an ex-driving school car. Of course the fact that he wasn't honest up front about the car's history would make me walk away.

Del2005

poggy wrote: »

hi all,

was looking at a car online and gave the seller a call, got the usualy story of low millage due to second family car that he used to go to work down the road, however i seen a L plate on it an a second look, so i google the number and got a driving school back.

It is a small hatchback for someone for a first car which would be perfect for a driving school.

It may well be a second familly car but now im supecious, and wondering would you walk away?

A lot of driving schools give out L plates to their pupils for free advertising, the fact that it has L plates from a driving school wouldn't worry me. If it had the pyramid on the roof I'd be worried.

It'll only cost the price of a 2nd call to be certain.

Blue Punto

maybe im picking this story up wrong

But am I reading this differently to anyone else that has posted above me



My wife's car had an L plate on it for years and printed on that was the driving schhol she got the L plates from which was NAAS DRIVING ACADEMY

Her car was never used as a driving school

dharn

can someone explain ..i googled number.. how does that work if i google my number i dont get much info about my car !!

but43r

dharn wrote: »

can someone explain ..i googled number.. how does that work if i google my number i dont get much info about my car !!

He googled the phone number of the seller...

Prettyfireworks

dharn wrote: »

can someone explain ..i googled number.. how does that work if i google my number i dont get much info about my car !!

I think he means he googled the phone number that he rang, not the reg of the car! OP correct me if im wrong!

+1 to the people saying walk away!

dharn

googling phone numbers for ireland does not seem to work either i dident think reverse directory was possible in ireland

12 element

It does work, the person would have to have used there number on a website or advertisement before. It's nothing to do with directories.

mondeo

I'd say being an ex driving school car the clutch has been ridden harder then a Thai whore!.. You know well the gears had probably been grinded to bits. Wheels have probably seen more curbs then pedestrians. Oh I would not touch it. Common sense really:)

dharn

clutch has been ridden harder then a Thai whore!....love that

poggy

Prettyfireworks wrote: »

I think he means he googled the phone number that he rang, not the reg of the car! OP correct me if im wrong!

+1 to the people saying walk away!

yep exactly, i goggled the sellers number and he runs a school of driving, so not just a normal person with L plates

-Corkie-

12 element wrote: »

It does work, the person would have to have used there number on a website or advertisement before. It's nothing to do with directories.

Thats true but I googled my own number and nothing shows up even though I have ads on donedeal atm.

12 element

-Corkie- wrote: »

Thats true but I googled my own number and nothing shows up even though I have ads on donedeal atm.

Sometimes it takes google awhile to crawl the site, have they been up for long? Did you add a space after the "08*" part of the number?

Reloc8

God, run don't walk away from that.