Buying a car

RaymondLin

I really hope you did buy a Focus 3 months ago and make a fool of us.

thumpingrug

9 hours and counting......

hywelg

Emp_Fab said:.

Today's the day though.....  it's 08:10.  I've got probably 10 hours....

https://countingdownto.com/?c=2540505

Do we believe you?


Hmmm, let me see.........

Nope 

ICBM

Just buy the green Seat. You’ll forget about how you don’t like the interior when you’re sitting in it and it’s pissing with rain outside, and you’re in a car not on a station platform.

RaymondLin

There’s a lady at work decided to change houses about a month ago, she’s already listed it, sold it, seen a few houses, first house got gazumped by someone but now the 5th or 7th has been accepted and now half way going through the searches.

All within 5 mile radius of work.

Why does a temporary car have so many criterias? 

jaytmon

Emp_Fab said:

There's also a silver MX-5 going....   but, as bloody always, the MOT history is littered with advisories for corrosion.

I need your helps!!!!!

Find me a car, under £6,000 (yeah, it's all changed), under 80,000 miles, NOT BLACK, under 2.3L, that isn't a Fiat or French....

There's an Auto Diesel Pug 308 going too.

I thought I could let this go, but it turns out I can't. The content of this thread/Emp's mind can be pretty much summed up by this post.

jaytmon

Some more suggestions:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/bmw/1-series/bmw-1-series-116i-2-0-sport-5dr/9792223

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/honda/civic/honda-civic-1-8-i-vtec-es-5dr/9818852  Wrong colour I know

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/seat/leon/seat-leon-1-6-tdi-cr-ecomotive-se-copa-5dr/9818862

And the winner:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/kit-cars/robin-hood/robin-hood-1989-2007build/9804487

TTony

Emp_Fab said:

There's an Auto Diesel Pug 308 going too.

Probably not for too long though.




Quite how an "Auto Diesel Pug" qualifies as sexy, fun or even interesting is beyond me. 

Oh, and that's forgetting the "isn't French" bit.

TTony

Emp_Fab said:

I need your helps!!!!!

If only you'd said.

40-odd  pages ago.

There must be someone on here who'd have had a sensible, rational (difficult, given your criteria), suggestion or three to make. 

RaymondLin

I small part of me really want to link this to PH and see their response.

But I just can’t figure out how someone says he doesn’t want French but like a Pug.

WTF.

SteveRobinson

jaytmon said:

Some more suggestions:

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/bmw/1-series/bmw-1-series-116i-2-0-sport-5dr/9792223

Only 41K on the clock and in Wales too!

Just needs some of these:

strtdv

Emp_Fab said:

I need your helps!!!!!

I'm not sure if there are any psychiatrists on the forum.

You certainly don't want a car or you would have bought one weeks ago.

Emp_Fab

@jaytmon Dude.....  my last car was a white 1 Series.  I'm not going to get an identical motor.  The Civic is black, the Seat is South Yorkshire !!!   C'mon man !!  You're wasting time here !!!  The clock is ticking !!

RaymondLin

Doesn’t want french cars removes what? 5% 
Now you remove black cars, that’s 20-30%.
limit it to 20miles of Swansea means you are losing a further 99%
then you take into account half of that radius is the sea so you knock another 50% off.

At best he is looking at 0.001% pool before any mileage, conditions criteria’s 

5 hrs left...

Majorscale

Emp_Fab said:

@jaytmon Dude.....  my last car was a white 1 Series.  I'm not going to get an identical motor.  The Civic is black, the Seat is South Yorkshire !!!   C'mon man !!  You're wasting time here !!!  The clock is ticking !!

Wow on so many levels.... 

jaytmon

Majorscale said:

Emp_Fab said:

@jaytmon Dude.....  my last car was a white 1 Series.  I'm not going to get an identical motor.  The Civic is black, the Seat is South Yorkshire !!!   C'mon man !!  You're wasting time here !!!  The clock is ticking !!

Wow on so many levels.... 

I know right!

apologies for the Yorkshire one tho, that’s pistonheads filter. Hang on, why am I apologising, I’ve just been infected with the insanity of this thread. Surely a car in Yorkshire makes perfect sense!! 

@Emp_Fab re the 1 series - if you need a stop gap car at least it’s something you know works? Also check out Corner Park garages, Swansea/Llantrisant. All their cars are pre-inspected and ready to drive away.

I think you should drop your budget by £1K per hour for the last 6 hours - make things far more interesting

DiscoStu

 Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?

Emp_Fab

Five hours left...  I've narrowed it down to...
All of them 

BigBearKris

Just get a monthly train ticket man...

RaymondLin

I’m not angry, at least not anymore, I have to say I’m laughing my ass off.

Its the only way to look at this. Lol

what a calamity.