Yep.. got another one.
After an eventful night picking it up, i've got it home and cleaned it up (half arsed for now but it will do) and tidied a few bits up.
Long story short for last night, had a test drive and it was all good, happy with the car and the owner described what was wrong (side strips needed putting back on) so i was happy with that, got in it and got about 5mins from his house, heard an almighty knocking noise from the front passenger side.
Red faced, i turned to my brother and said "i've bought a duff car". Got onto the dual carriage way and it got worse, my brother told me to pull over, so i pulled up on to the grass verge, where we were met by this...
The guy had put new brakes on it yesterday, put 1 wheel bolt in and recieved a phone call from a friend, gone off and forgotten about it! So we were driving the car with 1 wheel bolt, hardly what you look out for when your buying a car.
Never the less, the guy came back, jacked the car up, removed the slightly bent wheel bolt and put 4 new ones in. Right, we're away then.
No....
The car had ran out of petrol, we had to push it 1/2 mile to a petrol station, where we filled it up, bumped it and got it back home safe. Apart from that short misfourtune, we got back ok and i'm very pleased with the car, apart from the chav items of course!
Splitter is too low, needs bimming and a MUCH shallower one going in its place. The M3 Mirrors and Lexus Lights will go, and the plates have gay England and GB signs on them, so they will be replace.
The wheels are shocking, need painting, so they are having a quick temp blast of silver tomorrow, and they can hold out until next month and i'll do them properly in a colour i like (to be decided).
After an eventful night picking it up, i've got it home and cleaned it up (half arsed for now but it will do) and tidied a few bits up.
Long story short for last night, had a test drive and it was all good, happy with the car and the owner described what was wrong (side strips needed putting back on) so i was happy with that, got in it and got about 5mins from his house, heard an almighty knocking noise from the front passenger side.
Red faced, i turned to my brother and said "i've bought a duff car". Got onto the dual carriage way and it got worse, my brother told me to pull over, so i pulled up on to the grass verge, where we were met by this...
The guy had put new brakes on it yesterday, put 1 wheel bolt in and recieved a phone call from a friend, gone off and forgotten about it! So we were driving the car with 1 wheel bolt, hardly what you look out for when your buying a car.
Never the less, the guy came back, jacked the car up, removed the slightly bent wheel bolt and put 4 new ones in. Right, we're away then.
No....
The car had ran out of petrol, we had to push it 1/2 mile to a petrol station, where we filled it up, bumped it and got it back home safe. Apart from that short misfourtune, we got back ok and i'm very pleased with the car, apart from the chav items of course!
Splitter is too low, needs bimming and a MUCH shallower one going in its place. The M3 Mirrors and Lexus Lights will go, and the plates have gay England and GB signs on them, so they will be replace.
The wheels are shocking, need painting, so they are having a quick temp blast of silver tomorrow, and they can hold out until next month and i'll do them properly in a colour i like (to be decided).
How much?
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