*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

Real men are in and out with the deed done in 5 minutes

bear1 wrote: »

I agree, I was saying to the misses while he was gawking at it that I usually know I'm say max an hour that its the one for me. Complete ocd person he was, even had the cash all facing the same direction

I suppose it's sold anyway that the main thing have you decided what your replacing it with ? when is he collecting it ?

I hate when you sell one car and are stuck for a car when trying to buy the new one that's annoying. I shouldn't be too bad in the future as I can just use the parents car as a temp as that gets little use these days.

bear1 wrote: »

He collected it already. Haven't heard from him since so id say he made it
It will be replaced by a Passat 170 station wagon.
Just looking for the right spec and then get the loan in order.
Ah ill use the bus for now anyway so ill save something at least in regards to diesel costs

Should be a nice comfortable car. Nice to have a bit of power too. I wouldn't imagine there's many 170 bhp version here in Ireland not that I've ever looked.

4.5 hours?? What kind of car was it?

Autosport wrote: »

4.5 hours?? What kind of car was it?

You'd be forgiven for thinking that he was looking at 20 meganes or a few trucks or something, wouldn't ya?!

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Yeah, an hour usually has the deal done for me. Half an hour seeing if everything works, engine, service history etc, and teat drive. Then another 10 mins or so gawking at it and wondering if it's the right one. Last 20 mins or so on the nitty gritty with the dealer in the office, warranty, price, add ins etc.

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CIP4 wrote: »

I think I spent 5 hours checking the Megane after the focus I'm gone extremely cautious too much so. The dealer was in shock of how long I spent granted it was 3 meganes I was trying to pick the one I wanted but at the same time the vast majority of the time was spent on the one I bought. I drove one of them twice, one of them 3 times and the one I bought 4 times. It was great to be able to compare them as one only had 30k km and drove like new so it was nice to be able to compare the higher mileage ones to that one.

Worth nothing I know most of the lads including the owner of the garage so they just gave me all the keys and let me work away. Not sure you'd get away with it in other garages. But consideringbit was only one car bear was selling and not huge money I would not spend 4.5 hours looking at it 2 should be more than enough.

Good grief! 5 hours I'm still astonished reading that! I tend to see a car and normally if I bother going to view it I have already decided I'm buying it, it's just a case of what price in going to pay.

Tbh if I liked the car and it was from a dealer id be spending 30 minutes giving it s look over and trusting the dealership that it was a good car! I'd nearly spend more time on a cheaper car as the chances of getting a lemon are higher.

Maybe just me but I'd get bored after an hour, I can think of better ways to spend the 5 hours, could be that you had to fill it with diesel and test out the brakes and spin the tyres that it took so long!

166man wrote: »

Good grief! 5 hours I'm still astonished reading that! I tend to see a car and normally if I bother going to view it I have already decided I'm buying it, it's just a case of what price in going to pay.

Tbh if I liked the car and it was from a dealer id be spending 30 minutes giving it s look over and trusting the dealership that it was a good car! I'd nearly spend more time on a cheaper car as the chances of getting a lemon are higher.

Maybe just me but I'd get bored after an hour, I can think of better ways to spend the 5 hours, could be that you had to fill it with diesel and test out the brakes and spin the tyres that it took so long!

Ah I definitely wouldn't ever spend that long looking at a car again. It would have been sub 2 hours all in if there had only been one to look at and do the deal on. I mean I would traditionally spend between 30 mins to an hour with previous stuff I bought privately. Plus it was a sunny day and I was off work so wasn't in much of a rush and probably chatted to some of the lads there a bit excessively since I would kind of know them. Sure I made a day out of it :pac: as I said I would plan on sticking to the 30 mins to an hour in the future that was just a one of case.

The funny part is after all that when I showed up to collect it just over a week later they had lost the keys although they had warned me and gave me a temporary car infairness so I couldn't complain. Then they ordered a key from Renault France as they couldn't get in to code the key of any things then the lost keys showed up. I'd say I'm the only Megane owner the has 3 Renault key cards considering the price of them.

Supergurrier wrote: »

You could have me for free, i'd hide in the boot

/Surprise :eek:

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What are you hoping to replace the st with or have you decided something starting with b and ending with w is early talks are anything to go by

Speaking of the ST an absolutely gorgeous one passed me today, it was an orange colour and the sound of it "swoon"

SG you don't have to hide

If only yer man could see what his long viewing of the car has caused on Boards
Anyway for me it's a saga which has finally ended, in a way I'm also slightly, albeit very slightly sad that it's gone as it hasn't actually ever left me at the side of the road.
Just left me with suicidal bills
Last thing about the seller, he would be my contender for the worst buyer I've seen ever. He wasted my entire day and forced me to leave to wife and baby alone for the majority of the day. So that did piss me off.
Cash will be used as a deposit now but when I think of the loss I've suffered financially with the car my heart starts to ache.
Lesson learnt and all that.

bear1 wrote: »

Last thing about the seller, he would be my contender for the worst buyer I've seen ever.

Bear, you're drunk...go home :P