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[TW]Fox;18978660 said:
I've been on the hunt for a Honda Africa Twin and am getting sick of adverts saying 1 owner, then later on going to say that "I've had it for a year then the guy before me had it for 7 years" so that would make it TWO owner then?
Cant people just be honest in car/bike ad's rather than me having either investigate or just dismiss straight away
[TW]Fox;18978347 said:Oh a 600 yard dual carriageway, to well over 100mph
But the M3 had a failing head gasket didnt it?
You mean that Dual carriage way where you told us 100MPH couldn't be done whilst stopping for the end, yet I showed you video proof of 100-0 being done in around half?
[TW]Fox;18978524 said:
I don't see the big concern with the figure I advertise the car for, I've stated many times that I'm in no rush and I'm just dipping my toes, yet you continue to bring this price thing up.
This is the thing, you're like a dog with a bone, except you feel the need to take it way over the top, twist the truth by mis-quoting and quoting out of context and then moan or get defensive every time someone takes a difference stance to you or disappear without comment when you're made to look like an idiot, waiting to find someone else's back you can ride back into the argument on.
I wonder if your constant digs around me having friends for all situations stems from you having none? Were you bullied at school, is that why you feel the need to come across as such a see you next Tuesday on internet forums?
Good luck with that, I stopped posting in Motors for these very reasons - it was fun for about two pages, but it's just become tedious now.
To be fair, i can see why you advertised it for more than you're likely to get - on the off chance someone does buy it for that price. There's no harm in doing it if you're not desperate to get rid of it and you know yourself that it is overpriced.
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Is that a mirror?
Damn, rumbled.
It's nothing to do with you always having a 'mate who does that' regardless of whether the topic is rebuilding an Austin Princess or breeding Wallabies.
Yes, and as I tell you every time, belonging to a local motoring forum, competing at a fairly large, regular local Autotest event and living in a small place in general creates lots of friends, usually involved in motoring in some way as two of the above are centred around it.
It's not rocket science - It's amazing how dumb you can act when it works in your favour for an argument.
It's not rocket science - It's amazing how dumb you can act when it works in your favour for an argument.
No, but if you put it up too high then you simply put everyone off.
The concept of advertising for £4250 when you want £4k but might take £3.9k is well known.
But sticking a 2.5k car up for 3.5k (The fact somebody else appears to now be offering a 54 plate with 40k miles and the belts done by a main dealer lends further credence to the idea that its massively overpriced) just means most potential buyers will assume the owner is a dreamer and the car is out of budget. People with £3.5k to spend wont want to touch Mikes and people with £2.5k to spend wont think there is a hope in hells chance of knocking a grand off the price of a £3.5k car.
BTW, i'm still a bit confused as to why you're getting rid of it? I thought you wanted a B road car - which the Clio does perfectly? It'll also drive in town just fine, but it's the long motorway journeys where it could become tiresome - of which i understand there are very few of on the IOW!
I don't understand why you'd own it for 2 months, spend loads of money on it and then just get rid of it, even though it's exactly the thing you wanted 2 months ago.
I don't understand why you'd own it for 2 months, spend loads of money on it and then just get rid of it, even though it's exactly the thing you wanted 2 months ago.
Because there is quite clearly something more to all this than him suddenly realising its crap, as is usually the case with these threads, hence them always getting so long.
He honestly thinks its us not him - no other poster on this forum generates such huge threads though...
[TW]Fox;18979000 said:
To be fair, it's his time - if he wants to waste it trying to get more for his car that he can realistically get, fine. I'm not really interested in this. I'm more interested in why he wants to get rid of it after just 2 months of owning it, even though he was hellbent on buying one before.
Where did that vicious hey-maker come from!? There might be some fight left him yet!
DIY cambelt change not went to plan?
I can't really see this being a possibility, as something like this would show up the moment the perspective buyer started the car.
The only thing i can think of is that it's got something fairly terminal wrong with it, that would cost hundreds/thousands to fix, but that isn't immediately obvious to a buyer.
There is nothing wrong with the car, if there was I'd be in a rush to sell it, and wouldn't have been autotesting in it today.
The car is a dream on perfect road surfaces, but it is a pain on **** roads - something which we have an abundance of over here.
The decision to sell is a 50/50 split, as I like the car when I want to have some fun, it's just crap at being a normal car.
The car is a dream on perfect road surfaces, but it is a pain on **** roads - something which we have an abundance of over here.
The decision to sell is a 50/50 split, as I like the car when I want to have some fun, it's just crap at being a normal car.
I didn't find the 182 to be problematic on crap roads - the ride is quite compliant for a 'sporting' car, helped by the reasonably small wheels.
When you are in normal car mode it is simply a Renault Clio - I disliked it because of this but it was hardly crap at being a normal car.
When you are in normal car mode it is simply a Renault Clio - I disliked it because of this but it was hardly crap at being a normal car.
Thats the odd thing - its what he already has. He has a Focus 1.6 for normal stuff and a Clio for when he wants to go for a hoon. Infact in the multiple 10+ page threads we've had before he was at pains to explain that the 'second car' was purely for fun and purely for thrashing around.
Just makes no sense, but then again, it never does.