Anyone got a car they aren't using?

[anonymous-user]

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[Duke of Kidderminster]

sure, here's the keys so knock yourself out. i'm sure you'll return it back to me

[G7orge]

anonymous said:

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Probably just easier to rent a car if its only for a short period?

[loskie]

is your car purchase from a dealer? If so they should fill the void.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

can you not ask the dealer to provide you with a demo to cover the delay in the delivery especially as it is due to a recall. You might find that they are sympathetic to an approach like this

[loskie]

is dealership failing to fulfil the contract?

[Muzzer79]

With the greatest of respect, you’re a random off the internet.

Do you really think someone is going to lend you their car?

And if they do trust you, it’ll be for less than £100 a week?

Odd thread...

[loskie]

I think you need to take the supplying dealer to task over this. They are completely ripping the pi55 out of you

[TTmonkey]

He’s a bit of a rascal for asking.

[CAPP0]

Muzzer79 said:

With the greatest of respect, you’re a random off the internet.

Do you really think someone is going to lend you their car?

And if they do trust you, it’ll be for less than £100 a week?

Odd thread...

I know for a personal fact that people will lend a car to "a random off the internet". It could be an valuable car, or someone might have Granny's Kia Picanto sitting around now that she's hung up her driving gloves but they haven't got round to selling it yet.

Over the years I've both done, and received, favours of varying value from and for said randoms. You pretty quickly get a feel for who's genuine and who's not; sure, you could get burnt but there are a lot more genuine people than rascals on the web. You, and me, for starters, eh?

[davek_964]

Your timing sucks a bit. I have barely used my Cayenne for the last 6 months, but decided at the start of this week to start using it more since summer has come to an end.

Do you have any idea of how long you need a car for? I might be able to live without mine for a few weeks, but much longer than that and it would get a tad inconvenient. (And you'd need to make sure you had proper insurance).

I am very local to you which helps.

[davek_964]

I've PM'd you.

Don't worry - my per mile charge is very reasonable.

[CAPP0]

@Dizzee, we ended up in a similar situation a couple of years back, I found a 1.6 Golf on FB, about 2 miles away, we paid £500 for it and it was so good we ended up keeping it for about 18 months as a tip/dog car. In the end I sold it for £650 I viewed it, paid and collected all on the same day. Might be another option?

[CAPP0]

anonymous said:

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I hope you find something - it's a great feeling having a very cheap car that you can do what you like with and not worry about in the slightest, and altho obv there is the possibility of problems, I think modern cars are much less prone to it than stuff from the 80s etc. Plus you can google the solution to just about anything now!

[LunarOne]

CAPP0 said:

@Dizzee, we ended up in a similar situation a couple of years back, I found a 1.6 Golf on FB, about 2 miles away, we paid £500 for it and it was so good we ended up keeping it for about 18 months as a tip/dog car. In the end I sold it for £650 I viewed it, paid and collected all on the same day. Might be another option?

Many years ago mum managed to hole the engine in her classic (E30) 318i. My sister and I decided to get her something to tide her over until we found a permanent car, and I found a local E36 318i model for £1500. Only it was much better than we expected and it became the permanent car which she kept it for 8 years and it sailed through every MOT without fail. We eventually sold it for £800, so that was money well spent!

[davek_964]

Sounds a bit poor on Ford's part - good luck with the search for a new car.

I've got quite enthusiastic about the Cayenne in the last few days. New battery should arrive today or tomorrow, new mats should arrive in a few days, got some touch up paint coming (need to get rid of a 10p piece sized bubbling on the rear wheel arch). I even stuck some conditioner on the leather this morning which is the first time since I bought it in 2013!

And finally got around to clearing the service reminder warning. Didn't actually service it mind you...........

[LunarOne]

Ahh, you've changed your name!! Shame, I quite liked Dizeee. Did you find out what the recall is about?