Just seen this car on the way home

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vickster

Squire
I saw a yellow one for sale near here about 3 years ago, just before I bought my yellow Mini. It was originally £4995. I watched it drop down to £3995 over about 6 months, It was tempting, but it was one of those with a darkened glass roof (non opening), and the seller was the same one who's selling the Cooper S in this thread's opening post. There's something about a whole glass roof on a car that puts me off and the seller is quite aggressive with some potential customers. I remember asking him about the yellow Fiat's glass roof. "Does it open" or something like that I asked. His reply was something along the lines of "does it look like it does"! Mmm, that fellow definitely needs to brush up on his sales technique! 🤔
If you don't like a glass roof, don't have one :scratch:

If that dealer is a tosser, why do you even go there...doesn't sound like you'd ever buy a car from him so why waste your (and his) time :scratch:
It sounds like he clearly doesn't like you (and others), so why engage?!
 
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Accy cyclist

Accy cyclist

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It sounds like he clearly doesn't like you (and others), so why engage?!
Maybe we like winding him up. He was mentioned on the local f/book page the other month. Someone had bought a car off him that went kaput after a few months. Loads posted about him being a 'con man' and being aggressive. I saw him in the local Tesco the other day, wearing his usual 'muscle man' vest:rolleyes:. We left about the same time. He'd parked his massive 4x4 in the disabled parking section, even though he doesn't have a blue badge and doesn't seem to have a visible disability.:rolleyes:
 

JtB

Prepare a way for the Lord
Location
North Hampshire
How come I'm the only one I know, who like you in the 1960's had tonsillitis, had them taken out after the first bout of it? Others of the time say they had it a few times, but theirs weren't surgically removed? 🤔
I was going down with tonsillitis all the time and I think that pink medicine (that nobody else seems to remember) might have been penicillin. I had my tonsils removed at the age of 10.

My wife (who’s Spanish) had hers removed as a child under local anaesthetic in a dentist type chair. There’s no way I’d have let anyone touch my tonsils while I was still awake. :stop:
 
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Accy cyclist

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
I was going down with tonsillitis all the time and I think that pink medicine (that nobody else seems to remember) might have been penicillin. I had my tonsils removed at the age of 10.

My wife (who’s Spanish) had hers removed as a child under local anaesthetic in a dentist type chair. There’s no way I’d have let anyone touch my tonsils while I was still awake. :stop:
Yes and it was full of sugar of I remember rightly. No wonder we had bad teeth in those days.:rolleyes: As for local anaesthetics I had 2 attempt operations at reconnecting my retina, both sadly failed. I had my eye prised open and could see the needles, sutures etc coming at me!!:ohmy: :laugh:
 

vickster

Squire
xx( That colour reminds me of a foul tasting medicine I used to have to take as a child (in the 60’s) whenever I had tonsillitis.
Or gaviscon…
 
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Not really, it’s just sometimes the gains are not worth the efforts in completing the sale, and putting up with chancers that think they’re on wheeler dealers
I can't remember having any issues like that in all the cars I've sold, in fact the Cooper S I sold a couple of weeks ago the guy left a deposit of £200 & agreed to collect at the weekend. He ran on the Saturday to check Sunday was okay, then rung Sunday to say his wife's cars head gasket had gone, so couldn't afford to buy the Mini. He wasn't expecting his deposit back, but I refunded it him apart from the £20 the advert had cost, I then sold it again 3 days later for £100 more. For a potential £500 gain I'd give it a go, but to me £500 is a lot of money, maybe it's not for you, but each to there own.
 

tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
Years ago, there was a bit of an eccentric character locally who drove a pink Porsche 924. Children used to laugh at him but I suppose he never lost his car in a car park.
 

CharlesF

Guru
Location
Glasgow
I can't remember having any issues like that in all the cars I've sold, in fact the Cooper S I sold a couple of weeks ago the guy left a deposit of £200 & agreed to collect at the weekend. He ran on the Saturday to check Sunday was okay, then rung Sunday to say his wife's cars head gasket had gone, so couldn't afford to buy the Mini. He wasn't expecting his deposit back, but I refunded it him apart from the £20 the advert had cost, I then sold it again 3 days later for £100 more. For a potential £500 gain I'd give it a go, but to me £500 is a lot of money, maybe it's not for you, but each to there own.
I reckon you need to coach @Accy cyclist in how to sell a car privately while avoiding the many pitfalls.

How to prepare the car, write a compelling advert, dealing with tyre-kickers, and so on. You’ll know seeing as how successful you are at selling cars.

I tried once and decided “never again”!
 

Cerdic

Senior Member
Yes and I'm not in a hurry to get the Fiat as silly me only went and put £20 of diesel in the Mini the other day, so I want to burn it up before part exchanging it!!;) Being a tight wad in some ways If it was petrol I'd siphon it off and stick it in the Fiat.:whistle: I bet that old git who got pissed the other year and threatened me (he gets pissed every night):rolleyes: will have something derogatory to say about the Fiat, like he did with my Mini when he said "ninety odd thousand miles ffs!!" when I told him how many miles it'd done, after I'd bought it. He's had his little grey box on wheels (some non descript' 'economical' boring Vauxhall:tired:) since I moved here 5 years ago. It hardly moves as he guards 'his' parking space obsessively.:rolleyes:

Oh dear, a Vauxhall. Possibly the least reliable brand on our fleet of 30,000 vehicles…
 

Cerdic

Senior Member
Fiat 500s are great little fun cars. As stylish urban runabouts they can‘t be beat. People only tend to be disappointed when they expect something else from the car. They are not great load-luggers or long distance motorway cars, for example. But then, neither is a VW Up or Hyundai I10 for example!

My wife is on her third 500. She commutes about 44 miles a day, mostly through traffic, and gets 53/54 mpg. We’ve only had a couple of minor issues over the years, but make sure you fit good wipers from Bosch or similar as cheap ones judder horribly!
 
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