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spoonz

spoonz

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Ive joined, £45 reduced from £145. www.carexchangeclub.com

Put my details up and pics of the car and see what I get offered. Just requested a swap with the owner of an Evo IV 320 for a weekend if he's interested.

What you lot think of the idea?

I appreciate you have to trust someone with your car but they have the same dillemma so it may be a case of making use of the feedback system after the initial leep of faith.
 
Not a chance, it will be treated like a hire car, as in thrashed all over the place, whats the deal with insurance and what happens if someone gets a speeding ticket.

Edit, also what if someone pinched a car, said they wanted to swap it for yours for the weekend, you end up with a knicked car and you never see yours again?
 
Yea right, great. Not.

'Hi owner of Ferrari 355 pictured on website. I drive a VW Golf, would you like to swap for the weekend'

'Hi owner of Golf. How does 'no' grab you'.

Smart way to drive every car you've ever wanted? Only if you own a car everyone on there will want to swap, and if you do, you've probably got the ability to drive any car you want anyway.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Not a chance, it will be treated like a hire car, as in thrashed all over the place, whats the deal with insurance and what happens if someone gets a speeding ticket.
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...not forgetting the fact that you're only likely to be able to drive cars similar to your own unless you're lucky.

"Yeah sure, i'd love to swap my V8 Vantage for your C200K for a week"

:/
 
Firestar_3x said:
Not a chance, it will be treated like a hire car, as in thrashed all over the place, whats the deal with insurance and what happens if someone gets a speeding ticket.
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Read the t&cs and hire exchange forms. Lots of info and ID taken before any exchange.

Completely agree with your point and the main reason I think this idea will probably not suceed, they sell it to you on the premise that these swappers are generally enthuiasts who have the same concerns as you.
 
[TW]Fox;10829525 said:
Yea right, great. Not.

'Hi owner of Ferrari 355 pictured on website. I drive a VW Golf, would you like to swap for the weekend'

'Hi owner of Golf. How does 'no' grab you'.

Smart way to drive every car you've ever wanted? Only if you own a car everyone on there will want to swap, and if you do, you've probably got the ability to drive any car you want anyway.
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A small amount of common sense should be applied when requesting exchanges, obviously.
 
spoonz said:
A small amount of common sense should be applied when requesting exchanges, obviously.
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So if you are only going to drive similar stuff why pay for membership? You drive what, a Golf R32? Mk5?

I guarantee that if you know what you are doing you could drive into ANY dealership of ANY half decent car that isn't something stupid like a Ferrari and drive away in it, on your own, for a play.

Without paying £45. Or arranging insurance. Or even paying for fuel. If I can do it I'm sure you can.
 
[TW]Fox;10829568 said:
So if you are only going to drive similar stuff why pay for membership? You drive what, a Golf R32? Mk5?

I guarantee that if you know what you are doing you could drive into ANY dealership of ANY half decent car that isn't something stupid like a Ferrari and drive away in it, on your own, for a play.

Without paying £45. Or arranging insurance. Or even paying for fuel. If I can do it I'm sure you can.
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Agreed, have done this before with Audi, but for a week?
 
markyp23 said:
What's the secret then?
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Take your driving licence and look/sound serious about buying. Discussing finance with them usually gets them hot.

But as Fox says if you turn up a Porsche dealership in a W Reg Punto and combats on your unlikely to be taken seriously.
 
markyp23 said:
What's the secret then?
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Turn up in a clean, well presented, smart half decent car of the type often owned by people who wish to upgrade to whatever they are selling. Then explain you are interested in changing it. Job done.

spoonz has an R32 Golf Mk5. Whatever I think about them, they are highish value performance cars. He won't look like a time waster if he turns up at, lets say, Audi and says he really loves his R32 but thinks its time for more space and a bit more pace, and was wondernig about an S4.

You wont get it for the weekend but an afternoon isn't particularly difficult.

Obviously if you turn up to Mercedes in a P reg Corsa and say 'alright mate? gizz us a drive in that S class, wont ya?' you'll be politely told the demonstrator is unavailable.

You just need to have something that makes them think you are credible - usually a smart car. I was wearing jeans and a hoody when I took out a 2007 Jaguar S-Type XS, for instance. Similarily, when I arrived at a Ford dealership in Cornwall a few years back in my old Mondeo (Which had the ST24 bodykit) and told the salesman I was interested in an ST220, he took one look out the window at what I had arrived in, chucked me the keys and told me to be back within a few hours. Probably becuase generally, people arriving in (What he thought was) an ST24 are usually credible ST220 customers (It happened that on this occasion I was strongly considering one).
 
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That site is trouble if you ask me

I drive a £900 Mondeo and I wouldn't lend it to anyone I didn't know, I've only let my parents drive it and a few mates with me in the passenger seat.
 
Lending my car out to people I don't know?

Not a chuff.

and for £45 they can take a running jump...off the nearest cliff.
 
Worst idea ever. Wide open for abuse and I just wouldn't trust anyone with my car, regardless of what they drive.
 
I turned up and took an S3 out in a K reg hyundai wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

It's not so much about what you drive as the attitude you express. If you look and talk like you can afford it, it's not a problem.
 
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