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Flukester

Flukester

Flukester

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Thought I'd share my experience with these guys.

I know they are just a middleman so take a cut in your motors value before selling on to dealers / traders, but they drive a very hard bargain and are not stupid

This was a last ditch attempt to sell a old V Reg A Class A170 Avantgarde, which was in below average / poor condition.

- 130k miles
- all corners scraped
- tired interior
- all body panels with dings / scratches
- A Class 'knocking' suspension
- No service history
- new MOT

and the potential deal breaker for me

- over tight steering from some kind of steering column problem (common on these cars). The steering squeaked and 'stuck' on certain positions of lock.


Anyway, I turned up at some hole in the wall office after website had said £750 value (which I doubted very much). He comes out and looks over car....noting all the visible damage. Then what I was dreading, he asks for test drive.

Next up I'm in his pokey office and he starts to work his devaluing magic :). Fair play he did say if the car was perfect, it would have been sold to a dealer for £900, but the problem was the steering, most would run a mile.

After tons and tons of haggling I walked with £300 (and a £50 admin fee to take from that). He said if steering had been perfect he would have given over £500.

Not happy, but even so a small improvement on the next option to shift the car, which was scrapping.


Moral of the story, they do indeed buy any car, but you won't be getting much, though better than scrap heap.
 
wbac do serve a purpose though... they allow you to get rid of shed cars in a instant, without having to spend time struggling to sell.

I was disappointed I didnt get the wbac dance from salesman, I should have demanded it for that money lol
 
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 ?
 
Dogbreath said:
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?
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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
 
Lopéz said:
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.
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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.
 
Joshy said:
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.
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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
 
Joshy said:
HAHA :D.

I take it that you don't work for a living then?
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Some people have well paid jobs, plus I'm far too lazy to be faffing around trying to sell a really tired motor... life is too short.

I only posted to share experience on WBAC, they are a ok place to deal with if you want a quick and easy disposal of a car
 
[TW]Fox;17499645 said:
It's not two days work to flog a nail with an mot an ebay
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TBH I wouldnt even want the car associated with my ebay account.....

Like I've said, no-one can comment on a car they have never seen. I could have made a couple of hundred more with some effort, but I don't have the time / willpower or energy to be playing arthur daily with a old car.

Some of you here would try to get every penny, fair play... I didn't and went the WBAC route, jobs a good'un
 
Joshy said:
Err, what do you think WBAC are going to do?

Fix it? Dismantle it for parts and safely dispose of it?

No, They are going to bung it directly into the nearest ***** auction house with no reserve and laugh all the way to the bank, just like I would have done. At least I'd have had a go at trying to fix it ;).
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I don't care what they do with it, I don't have any interest in playing 'get a good deal' which a old pile of tat... it's gone, I have a little cash for a nice meal or something. It's win win (and zero effort)
 
Wicksta said:
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.
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I bought a 2 year old hyundai on finance yeah... a new hyundai on finance would have been more money though.

It's amazing how people fail to compare like for like... I get a buy 1 free 1 on a bunch of bananas at tesco today, maybe today was a day to try the same deal on a car :)
 
Joshy said:
You get paid £250+ per hour (15 minutes taking pictures, 15 minutes writing an ebay add and around 30 minutes for dealing with potential buyers on the phone and sorting out the paperwork when a buyer turns up)?

I'm impressed.
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What I earn a hour is not up for discussion, however... I have a very busy life and don't want to mess about on ebay with motors.

Not only does it not interest me, the small amount extra I could get does not justify the tedium of the extra work involved.

People run their lives different ways... I'm currently working over 80hrs a week and I don't want to worry about squeezing extra money from a bag of bolts and the work involved in doing so.

Maybe you have free time to devote on these things... I don't, though I enjoy abit of banter here on my day off :)
 
Wicksta said:
You seem to bring it up in quite a lot of threads though.
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Yep, as everyone harps on with figures of cash in some delusion that it's the crown jewels or something.

Money though having a set value means different things to different people, £250 is not something I'm going to faff about with, and with no guarantee of reward.

You guys crack me up :), but thats why I love the motors forum. Full of 'if I was you' comments, without knowing either the facts, or my situation.

Advice is good don't get me wrong, but nothing said here makes me think differently about my choices with the car.

Maybe the guys here who so want my car with it's fake steering problem can find a local auction in this area and buy it like you said you would... good luck with corners though
 
Joshy said:
Am I the only person who is seeing remnants of the I10 fail thread here? Flukester throws money down the drain because he "Couldn't be bothered" looking for a better deal. Stop trying to justify the fail.
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Fail can only truly be judged when you know the facts. No-one except me know them.

I have money for no effort, I certainly dont have to justify it to anyone here, but it's fun trying to :)

There is no fail in this thread really, except for some of the comments like

'I would have bought it for that'

or

'your steering problem doesnt exist' (I mean wtf)
 
Wicksta said:
Actually you crack me up with your fail threads. :)

I loved your typical style in the OP of saying "I got £300 minus £50 admin fee". You got £250 mate. Then the usual willy waving of "Oh I can afford to lose hundreds because I'm loaded", it's like reading the same book again.

Selling a car to We Buy Any Car would actually cost me more time and money that selling a car on eBay, I'd have to take it somewhere and then wait for some guy to have a look around it rather than someone just turning up at my home and handing some cash over.
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Cost me 15mins, thats how I like to sell cars that was about to be towed to scrap heap for crushing

I havn't lost anything, but gained a extra parking space :)
 
Signing out for a while to let the smack fu continue

If anyone else wants to buy the car with looking at it, If you go back approx 48hrs in your time machine you can try and make me a offer.

No tyre kickers
 
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