Show Us Your Motors!

crinkleshoes · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:28

MichaelAwkward said:
Yes, because your bank loan probably isn't secured against the vehicle. As far as VW or whoever you bought the car from is concerned, you paid cash in full. V5 isn't proof of ownership anyway (not sure why you need your GF's name on it??? NCB has nothing to do with who owns the car?).

That doesn't really matter though... the lease company will have, most likely, financed the purchase.

He is still the one paying the finance agreement.

Even if it was purchased with VW finance... VW will have been paid cash for the car as brand-marked finance companies are under-written by other finance companies. Even if they have their own finance arm... it will be a separate company to mitigate risk, so the finance arm doesn't kill the production arm if the economy goes bonkers and no-one can pay their agreement off.

Heck... a company car could be "your" pride and joy if you love the car and your skillset will have been what got you the car in lieu / on top of your salary.

Janesy B · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:32

aowc02 said:
nice ride - question

is it me or does the right side brake-disks look less rusty than the other? or is the camera playing tricks on me

Thanks. First pic was just after washing, second pic was after driving down to the roundabout and back to clear the brakes off.

MichaelAwkward · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:32

crinkleshoes said:
Heck... a company car could be "your" pride and joy if you love the car and your skillset will have been what got you the car in lieu / on top of your salary.

I'd find that just as odd tbh. The way I see it, it's no different to when people post pictures in here of cars that belong to their parents or complete strangers.

Not sure what the rest of your post was about.

crinkleshoes · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:34

MichaelAwkward said:
I'd find that just as odd tbh. Not sure what the rest of your post was about.

The rest of the post was... irregardless who has plumped up the lump sum... he's still the one paying for it...

MichaelAwkward · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:37

crinkleshoes said:
The rest of the post was... irregardless who has plumped up the lump sum... he's still the one paying for it...

Still don't know what you're on about. mjt asked how him using a bank loan to pay for a car was any different to aowc02 leasing. It's completely different as mjt now owns the car outright as it's probably an unsecured loan. How he pays that money back is irrelevant to that.

Hire purchase is obviously completely different and then he wouldn't own the car until he makes the final payment, but that's not the case here.

I don't see how the leasing company pays for the car has any relevance to any of this.

aowc02 · 2 Jun 2018 at 22:40

lets just move on shall we gents

Janesy B · 2 Jun 2018 at 23:30

Can you just post a picture of your car instead of nitpicking if someone can really call a lease car their pride and joy? Boring.

On Holiday · 2 Jun 2018 at 23:37

Diversion tactic.. Glad I decided to clean the car tomorrow rather than today!

MichaelAwkward · 2 Jun 2018 at 23:43

Janesy B said:
Can you just post a picture of your car instead of nitpicking if someone can really call a lease car their pride and joy? Boring.

Why bother posting this several hours after the conversation has ended? You're such a windup merchant. Obviously we can’t all be as riveting conversationalists as you.

I posted my car a few pages back. Don't blame me if people keep adding to the topic.

Janesy B · 2 Jun 2018 at 23:53

The difference between you saying it was odd at 10:25pm and me posting about it at 11:30pm is several hours?

You're the one getting wound up by someone using an idiom

MichaelAwkward · 2 Jun 2018 at 23:59

Janesy B said:
The difference between you saying it was odd at 10:25pm and me posting about it at 11:30pm is several hours?

You're the one getting wound up by someone using an idiom

Yeah I was frothing at the mouth because he dared to call a leased car his pride and joy. How dare he.

crinkleshoes · 3 Jun 2018 at 00:10

Yeyyyyyy... drunk arguments... can I join in?

Janesy B · 3 Jun 2018 at 00:11

Awkward by name, awkward by nature.

crinkleshoes · 3 Jun 2018 at 00:32

My name ain’t awkward... it’s just uneven!

Vita · 3 Jun 2018 at 01:26

Is it crinkle shoes, or crinkles hoes?

crinkleshoes · 3 Jun 2018 at 01:27

Dis86 · 3 Jun 2018 at 01:28

Vita said:
Is it crinkle shoes, or crinkles hoes?

Crinklesho ES. The spanish crinkle fo sho.

AETAaAS · 3 Jun 2018 at 05:39

WoodyUK said:
Diversion tactic.. Glad I decided to clean the car tomorrow rather than today!

Erk, it didn't distort the grill did it? Its tomorrow now, time to get feather plucking.

Joe T · 3 Jun 2018 at 10:19

Dav4 said:
What’s it like to park? They are huge the new Insignia estates. Nice colour as well first one I’ve seen that’s not black or white lol

I'm used to the Insignia Grand Sport (had two of them) and this one is 9cm longer, so a little harder but not much. Parking sensors and rear camera do the job nicely.

The colour suits the car well doesnt it? The bodykit helps as well of course.

Kristoph · 3 Jun 2018 at 15:26

Picked this up today, got the price down to £6350. Has 78k on it and full vw service history. Was convinced to steer away from E92 and went for something a little more sensible and within budget.

2009 2.0 GT TDI (140).

Front/rear parking sensors, nav/hdd, heated seats, unmarked vancouver alloys with pzero neros all round. Anything I should be aware of? Going to get it in for an inspection at a vw specialist near me to give some peace of mind before warranty is up.