How not to buy a car

[Janesy B]

It almost certainly wasn't - you dont do that then flog it for 1500 quid.

It will have been a conversion when new.

Of course, could have been used by a council or the government. There's a million believable reasons why the conversion was carried out but some people are happy in believing that it was carried out on a car over a decade old.

 

[Clarkey]

Probably was a ministerial car come to think of it, a car from a good British brand :/ Yep, I'm convinced the government are the only people bonkers enough to have done this.

 

[Moeks]

Having said that, I don't know what Rover 800s cost back then, but, I bet the price of the Rover added to the price of the conversion would cost about the same as a long wheel base Jag ...then again there isn't that much space in the back of a lwb X300 XJ ...that's some serious leg room in that Rover.

 

[Bill101]

Well I think I see Rover416i's next purchase.

And a user name change to R o v e r

 

[Sanchez]

I feel like phoning the number to insult his wife. Seeing as its a Phonesafe number, the police would have a hard time tracking it, too.

I doubt that it would cause too much of a problem. Isn't phone safe essentially to hide your number? I'd imagine it's just a forwarding service. Still, not that it matters. The network provider will probably only be able to track a withheld number if it was the last call made to that phone, so in all likelyhood the number is lost anyway.

His little comments at the bottom of the advert are sure to put anyone off buying that car surely?

 

[Fr0dders]

It was probably used by a local borough council for ferrying the mayor around. They like wasting large sums of money on tat like that.

and councils would want to be seen spending money on domestic rather than foreign cars, given that they are spending public money

Makes sense.

 

[Cuchulain]

Trying to picture the conversation he had with the police and how much of a time-wasting **** they considered him.

 

[antijoke]

Good luck getting the poilce to find out the number. I suspect they really just lol'd at him down the phone.

 

[Basher]

Trying to picture the conversation he had with the police and how much of a time-wasting **** they considered him.

Making a malicious or obscene call is a criminal offence. Why would they consider him a time waster?