Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
So he let them talk him out more the refund? How disappointing.
New car disaster!
- Thread starter rogerzilla
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I tried to push the wall while parking (walls disagreed with my intentions) twice during my 10 years of driving career ... but parking help is always welcome. All my previous cars had none.Had one 22 years on my car.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
My wife has reversed mine into a pole, and her car into a wall, and she's got 360 cameras (since 2012 on hers). Slow speed, and no damage fortunately ! We play 'park the car dead centre' in one go when reversing into spaces on hers !
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
It not her fault if continental drift causes things to move.
Mine excuses are the darkness. It was 6pm some time in winter and 1am (in this case season doesn't matter) and both places without any lighting (moon neither). The unlucky car in both cases was with countless previous owners and this was easily proven by myriad of scratches/dents/cracks. So a crack and a scratch added by me simply fitted the overall picture.
P.S. both times neither wall was harmed.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I service our car myself. We bought it new in Oct 2016, and by July 2107 it told us the service was due. We contacted the local Main Dealer who supplied the car and (we already suspected the answer) they confirmed that the car rolled off the production line in India during July 2016. They said "bring it in and we'll reset it" to which I replied "Is it just pressing the clutch, brake and left stalk, if it is I'll save your time and my travel?" They were a bit surprised but confirmed it. Strangely it's never come on since - If we ever tried to trade it in they'd probably say it has no service history
Speaking of which, it seems many (shady?). used-car sellers now advertise cars as having Full Service Histories, but when you ask to view one, they state that data protection laws prevent you from seeing it.
As an addendum, when the service light came on in July 2106, we were away from home and anxious in case the car went into limp-home mode, so we went to a main dealer local to where we were at the time. A helpful tech tried to reset it (using the method described above) but was unsuccessful. We realised after we were successful a week later that when he tried, the door of the car was open because it was a scorching hot day!
On the subject of full service history, accepting this is just one example...
When I traded a former car in, they inevitably asked service history ?
I told them I do my own so it's only part, then asked, what difference would it make yo your offer if it was full ?
Oh, you'd get another 2 or 300 pounds he replied
So I said...so it's missing roughly 4,5 or 6 stamps which may have cost me 5 or 600 pounds at least...so I'm better off not worrying about maintaining the stamps in the book and DIYing it.
Well yes...was the wry reply.
Full service stamps in the book favour the dealer, not the owner .
Fastpedaller
Über Member
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
When I sold my rustbucket A class to webuyanycar for the princely sun of £350 or something I took along all my servicing records, neatly organised in reverse chronological order, from which I'd removed all personal info. It was a filing work of art. I'd spent about an hour getting it all nicely organised.
The woman looked at my stack of documentation, grabbed the most recent MoT off the top and said "that's all I need". I was rather crestfallen.
Admittedly that MoT was quite a hefty piece of documentation as it had a War and Peace length list of advisories.
The woman looked at my stack of documentation, grabbed the most recent MoT off the top and said "that's all I need". I was rather crestfallen.
Admittedly that MoT was quite a hefty piece of documentation as it had a War and Peace length list of advisories.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
That does indeed sound like a dodgy move. All they need to do is redact personal info. Easily done with a sharp knife.
But as said elsewhere so much of it is electronicalised these days.
I sold a car at auction about a decade ago. I'd recently got a new lease car so didn't have an opportunity to trade in. I'd carefully arranged the service and repair receipts (rummaging through some boxes to make sure I found them all) in the folder with the service book and manuals, and put the folder in the glove box. After it sold and I got the sale report, I noticed it said "no history"! Seems they didn't bother looking. I'm not sure what else you're supposed to do, plaster the dash in post its with arrows pointing to the glove box "service history here"? 🤷♂️
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
I keep a spreadsheet of the full service history, including every bulb, new washers for the sump plug (I bet the dealers rarely replace them) etc - but no fancy stamp
You can probably get medication for that
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
I'll shortly be advertising my car - I looked at marketplace and ebay for identical cars to mineand they were listed for between £3k - £4.5k. WBAC offered be £1850. I wouldn't use them unless I was desperate.
When it comes to service history, if someone has taken the time to document a load of service items then I assume they've done it. The sort of person to skip servicing I imagine is also the sort not to bother with made up paperwork
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
They (webuyanycar) may be poor value but they are very efficient. The £350 they were offering was very simple and zero hassle so worth it to me. Just drove less than a mile there, gave them the keys, walked home, and the money was in my account within a couple of hours. ULEZ was about to come into force which would have meant paying each time I drove it.
