Spent the day yesterday travelling around looking for a 197. First one was a white cup, on paper looked ok, 1 owner etc. Got there and it smelled of dog inside. Had a look in the back and there were loads of scratch marks on all the plastics where it had obviously been jumping up. This coupled with scratches on the dash etc, and the garage described it as being 'nice inside'.
Belts hadn't been done, and they quoted £30 parts, and whatever the labour.
Next one, red, one owner. Nice from the outside bar the scuffed alloys and stone chips. No service history! Apparently couldn't find the book, and it wasn't something they were going to look into.
Next garage, the chap had already sold it the previous week and not bothered to remove it.
After that was one in Albi blue, pulling onto the forecourt looked nice. Whats that, massive dent and scuff in the rear passenger corner. Big enough to break the clips an the other side so the bumper was out of alignment. Rear light cracked. Had been key'd down the one side and across the bonnet, worn tyres and brakes. Another one that had also had a dog living in there.
Worse of all these were all at garages and they were asking strong money!
Tried ringing two private sellers and no one answered, so after that I gave up for the day
I'm only judging these cars by my own standards, I was amazing at how poorly some people look after their car!
Belts hadn't been done, and they quoted £30 parts, and whatever the labour.
Next one, red, one owner. Nice from the outside bar the scuffed alloys and stone chips. No service history! Apparently couldn't find the book, and it wasn't something they were going to look into.
Next garage, the chap had already sold it the previous week and not bothered to remove it.
After that was one in Albi blue, pulling onto the forecourt looked nice. Whats that, massive dent and scuff in the rear passenger corner. Big enough to break the clips an the other side so the bumper was out of alignment. Rear light cracked. Had been key'd down the one side and across the bonnet, worn tyres and brakes. Another one that had also had a dog living in there.
Worse of all these were all at garages and they were asking strong money!
Tried ringing two private sellers and no one answered, so after that I gave up for the day
I'm only judging these cars by my own standards, I was amazing at how poorly some people look after their car!