Badie
New Member
I thought I would let people know of my disappointment at the car I went to view today.
I spoke to an independant dealer the other day who is advertising a 96 P reg 4.6 HSE in the Manchester area. He said in the advert the car is a credit to it's previous owner. I discussed the vehicle and he assured me it was mint, everything worked and I would not find a better one. It is advertised at £5000, which is not that cheap in my view.
However, drove the 200 miles today with a view to driving it back to sunny Scotland, based on his description of the car.
When I arrived to view the car it was nice enough on the outside, few scratches to be expected. I looked under the engine, to my surprise a lot of oil was evident. I set about trying to find where the oil was leaking from and discovered that the idle air control valve was broken and the multiplug and wiring was pushed out of the way to try and hide it. Drivers interior door panel had two holes in it and the interior light didn't work. This is just the things that stuck out to me, I never got into checking out the air suspension or any of the electrics.
Advert said full service history, a service was last carried out in November 2006.
I would have expected better from a used car dealer.
All in all a bit of a waste of a day and 400 miles.
If anyone can tell me of a really nice 4.6 HSE going with a mileage hopefully under 80000 I would appreciate it.
Rant over!!!
I spoke to an independant dealer the other day who is advertising a 96 P reg 4.6 HSE in the Manchester area. He said in the advert the car is a credit to it's previous owner. I discussed the vehicle and he assured me it was mint, everything worked and I would not find a better one. It is advertised at £5000, which is not that cheap in my view.
However, drove the 200 miles today with a view to driving it back to sunny Scotland, based on his description of the car.
When I arrived to view the car it was nice enough on the outside, few scratches to be expected. I looked under the engine, to my surprise a lot of oil was evident. I set about trying to find where the oil was leaking from and discovered that the idle air control valve was broken and the multiplug and wiring was pushed out of the way to try and hide it. Drivers interior door panel had two holes in it and the interior light didn't work. This is just the things that stuck out to me, I never got into checking out the air suspension or any of the electrics.
Advert said full service history, a service was last carried out in November 2006.
I would have expected better from a used car dealer.
All in all a bit of a waste of a day and 400 miles.
If anyone can tell me of a really nice 4.6 HSE going with a mileage hopefully under 80000 I would appreciate it.
Rant over!!!