Car viewings / purchases that go wrong...

[martinjs]

Turning round whilst enjoying the cold coke, I notice petrol runing out of the bottom of the car and across the forecourt.
John

I was waiting for you to say......'it caught fire and the petrol station exploded'

[Rocco]

Cambelt snappings counts? Or is only bad luck?

Once upon a time.... nearly one year ago one Spaniard went to Ireland... thinking to return with a ricer ,when in the middle of the night ,in a different country while snowing outside the car stopped suddenly

The rest is story

[Colesy]

I bought a cabriolet on ebay with a "blown head gasket", black leather recaro interior and RS2 replica front end!

I clicked the buy it now at ~£600 but failed to notice the text stating that the front seats had been "retrimmed" since the photos were taken!!

Went down to collect and the slightly worn Recaros had been retrimmed by a "blind person" - to quote the for sale thread I had on here. They were pretty much ruined, which made profit from the deal a slim chance. Fortunately the blown head gasket turned out to be a stuck thermostat, so an easy fix.

[AndyP]

Too bad that episode put you off and the coupe went to a breakers. It looked good and seemded to be a rare(ish) colour.

The VIN plate and the VIN stamped into the edge of the scuttle could have been quickly matched when the @r$ehole viewed the coupe.

That photo of the cracked cam belt is going into my cam belt post(s). Yikes.

Live and learn? Yup. I add "Too soon old, too late smart".

Dave F.

I forgot the bit about the car having a small engine fire which had melted the battery and all he acid had run into the passenger footwell. When the breaker tried to jack it up to start stripping it, the jack went straight through the floor

If it could have be saved we would have done, trust me it, was f**ked.