Tried to buy a V6 sport. I've just got to share this. Ebay purchase, knocking engine and timing belts removed. Sounded a challenge for a spare evening!!

Bought and agreed a price for seller to deliver, he had use of a trailer too.
Supposed to arrive midday today.
11am I get a message saying battery is flat, can't get in. Did I want a refund.
I explained that the drivers door should open without a battery.
Apparently the key lock didn't operate the door lock.
I suggested that they break the drivers window as I have many spares.
12.30 I contact to see how loading is going.
I am told the car has fallen whilst loading and is now on its roof!!
Did I want a refund!?
I said that as they clearly wanted to get rid of it, load it on the trailer and I would negotiate a price for spares when I saw it

I thought I was being very fair although I don't believe for a minute the story was true.

When I next looked at my messages I had been given a refund!!

Guy won't now communicate or tell me what really happened and I have no project car having wasted a day sitting around.
There are some odd bods around.

Just thought I'd share!!!

Ebay can be a funny place indeed! And when something dodgy goes on they (Ebay) never actually do anything about it...
 
I had a similar disappointment on Saturday Andy.

We were looking at getting a small car from our eldest daughter who has just passed her test. The wife found a 2011 Ford Ka for sale in Twickenham for about 1/2 the price of the same car being sold locally. So she tells the seller that we're coming now, don't sell it and we'll pay cash when we get there later in the afternoon. We'll on route, the wife tells the seller that we're on our way, and gives him an ETA. The seller responded 20 minutes later saying that is wife has decided not to sell it. Thankfully we were only 40 miles from home, so simply turned round. I had paid for an HPI check before we set off, and fed the 2 younger daughters a McDonald's breakfast, we wouldn't have bought had we not headed of London.:mad: We actually bought the original car (Fiat 500:eek:) we looked at. Annoyingly the Ka we were going to bye, turned up for sale again later on Saturday afternoon, now £500 more expensive in a different part of London, being sold by someone else.

It's bloody annoying. A deal is a deal, or it was in the past.:mad:

Wasn't there a gunpoint robbery of £10,000 cash or more not a week ago with a young couple arriving at an address and ringing to say we are here with cash for the car: only for vehicles to turn up, block them in, bash the guy about and point a gun at the girlfriend with the cash in her lap? Do people never learn?
 
Dumped a bottle of Redex, should be a little nicer for the MOT

I remember using Redex on my 2000 XEi 1.8 auto petrol and also an older Cavalier 1.6 that were averagely good on the mpg beforehand and the mpg plummeted after using the stuff? Not so much of a plummet for the freelander but the Cavalier went from doing over 600 per tank to around 475 miles per tank post brexit (oooops sorry) Redex I mean. Someone said something about carbon deposits being burnt off might have had something to do with it? It was really annoying with the Cavalier... as it used to reach Switzerland or Skye on one tank...
 
Wasn't today but these few days combined.

New tyres toyo proxes cf2 sv
New iridium spark plugs
New cyl 2 and 4 coils
New k&n filter (I see no difference whatsoever)
New rocker cover and replaced all bolts with a2 stainless
New camshaft oil seas, right side for now left side when I do the timing belt
New coolant reservoir
Philips whitevision ultra h7 fow low beam
4300k LEDs for high beam
All w5w are now osram LEDs 4000k
Speakers are now Alpine S-S65C
New gearbox real leather gaiter
B1W Dashcam fitted

Replaced the duct taped passenger mirror with a nice powerfolded one from scrappy coco.
Removed and sold the roof bars, not needed.
Removed and put for sale the chromed side steps, not needed.

This weekend will be busy like a bee, replacing the whole dashboard as some apes worked on it, broke it and it's making sounds.
I like this petrol engine, seems like less things to go wrong on it, head gasket aside which has been done properly may many miles ago.

How many miles done post head gasket being sorted? Is it drinking coolant at all any more? Who did the HG job?
 
A big week on LZ then. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
The MOT for tomorrow is off.:eek:
The offside front caliper has seized solid. :mad:
Unfortunately some moron in the past has split the dust cover, which has allowed water to corrode the piston so much, I actually can't move it at all.:confused:

I've ordered a replacement, which will be here on Tuesday, so I'll book it for the MOT later in the week.
I must pop over to have a gander at this latest project of yours before you move it on.
Please do, as once it's got 12 months MOT, I'll be putting it up for sale. I'll do some pictures of it before she goes though. ;)
 
Fitted the new suspension links at the back, reattached back hubs with 2x camber bolts per side, fitted new wheel cylinders (still to make brake pipes from hoses to wheel cylinders), stripped the calipers, greased the slides, painted the calipers, painted the new drums and the bells on the new drilled and grooved front discs.
 
Used the Freelander to pull a couple of rotten old cars out of a field on a friend's land so that the scrappy can fetch them. The Geolanders work very well in mud. Had to abuse the clutch a bit more than I liked but pulled them out no bother. Feel like I have justified having a 4x4 now!
 

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