webuyanycar experience..
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I sold my 306 on gumtree for £1100, wbac offered me £535.
Some of the comments here quite funny... oh fail lol failboat blah
Had tried to sell privately, but as Dolph said, the steering was not only dangerous, but totally unacceptable to any buyer. I had one guy totally freak when he experienced it.
Its possibly required a complete new steering column... and though with more research and work I could have raised it's value, it wasn't worth my time.
I wanted shot of it in the end as it was just taking up a parking space and rotting away in the rain (calipers siezing etc etc). Maybe I could have sold on the bay, but selling any car that has bad steering to anything but the trade is not a good idea, and something I don't want to get involved in.
How on earth it got through MOT I'll never know, with a warning saying 'steering slightly tight'.... it's bad enough to put a driver into a ditch or worse.
I'm happy to be shot of the shed, maybe a couple of hundred out of pocket... but it's a pile of junk out of my life.
ps: lol at the 'i would have bought it people', you buy cars without testing / seeing them ?
Had tried to sell privately, but as Dolph said, the steering was not only dangerous, but totally unacceptable to any buyer. I had one guy totally freak when he experienced it.
Its possibly required a complete new steering column... and though with more research and work I could have raised it's value, it wasn't worth my time.
I wanted shot of it in the end as it was just taking up a parking space and rotting away in the rain (calipers siezing etc etc). Maybe I could have sold on the bay, but selling any car that has bad steering to anything but the trade is not a good idea, and something I don't want to get involved in.
How on earth it got through MOT I'll never know, with a warning saying 'steering slightly tight'.... it's bad enough to put a driver into a ditch or worse.
I'm happy to be shot of the shed, maybe a couple of hundred out of pocket... but it's a pile of junk out of my life.
ps: lol at the 'i would have bought it people', you buy cars without testing / seeing them ?
my main hobby is making money, I do ok
Didn't do so well this time. As I said, even non-runners fetch more than £300.
Surely you expected these responses though, you've just told people you've had your pants pulled down by webuyanycar.com?
I don't make money selling old cars, not something I want to get involved in...
I just got shot of a car I was minutes away from scrapping.
No-one here can comment in detail on the deal as none of you had seen the car, it was a total nail...
I could have wasted hours trying to sell it, attending auction houses, making ads etc etc... but why bother for maybe a extra £100 and possibility of killing someone in the process
my main hobby is making money, I do ok
Aren't you the guy that bought a 2 year old Hyundai for the same price as a brand new one?
I think you need a new hobby.
If it's £250 and I can make a tidy profit on it by doing little other than delivering it to my local auction house, yes.
I don't buy it. I've had cars fail on steering being too loose (and too tight) in the past, when the driving experience was largely unaffected. If the car was as dangerous as you say, it would not have passed the MOT.
Sounds like you are looking for reasons to justify your decision, or your assessment of the steering being dangerous was incorrect.
Half way around lock steering would stick and you had to 'crack' it back to a straight line. I'm guessing they didn't test it fully.
Just to add to those saying 'well I sold a XYZ for ABC', what has that got to do with it. I sold a leather sofa for £500 last month, doesn't mean the car deal was bad.
You're more than welcome to research A Class steering problems, I think you'll find the problem is widespread and the achillies heal of these cars.
Wouldnt you need to decare non-functional steering ?, you'd have dealers and the public running away from the car. Or would you be happy killing someone ?
Making £200 by selling a dangerous car is making a profit (not a tidy one at that) at someone elses risk... not a very nice thing to do. At least it's now in the hands of someone who knows it's got a major fault, I pray they don't do that same... but I dont have to live with that
Advertising the car and describing the problem accurately would still have got you far more than £250. You've basically washed your hands of selling it so some poor mug might buy it at an auction. You can't take the moral high ground here.
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Nothing like that is declared at auction. The buyer won't know it has such a fault.
You say it has a new mot yet dangerous faults? ARe you reporting the test centre? Very bad for them to pass it?
Whoever buys it will realise the problem on the first corner, i wouldnt loose any sleep
