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When I started out years ago, my old man and the other old salty dogs were always telling me that 'people get out of motors for a reason' and it's rare they just fancy a change. If a car's in an auction and not on a forecourt then you need to be prepared for the occasional spanking. Obvious I know, but replies not far above always make me chuckle. If we're confessing the obvious, I've lurched a few dogs at WBAC. And a few of my missus' cars. Most memorable a 56 plate TT v6 DSG a few years ago as I hated the junk and they go wrong for fun like most of Germany's 'finest'. Nice car, but I was always shelling out on it with the usual issues. Anyway, sold it to WBAC. Happened to see it in BCA sale the next week. Two weeks later, the 'proud' new owner had tracked my missus down via facebook and was moaning about the speedo issue, lurchy gearbox etc. Could we help him track down the garages that may have done work on it and what had we done on it. I simply told him maybe don't buy from auctions next time as it's a big boys game. 'But it was cheap he said!'.

So you sell a car to WBAC, They transport it to BCA, They sell it on to a dealer, Great story... Unless your gripe was that the dealer is selling it for a lot more than what WBAC gave you hence the little quip of it's unlikely they repaired the faults. Well, it's most likely they have/will as it's not in any dealers interest to sell a car with a known problem as we are only going to get it back to repair them at a later date, then lend out a courtesy vehicle while it's being done. Kind of a no brainer to fix issues no? Nevertheless, thanks for popping by to tell us of your job.

This. Ragging around in a 20yr old Porsche is like a grenade with the pin pulled out? The poor old thing will probably end its days on an ‘over optimistic’ track day!

I wouldn’t have a friggin’ clue but I’d imagine with 99% of the punters on an old ‘price range’ 911 you wouldn’t want to spend a night out in the pub with them. Also I’d guess half of them wouldn’t be able to raise enough money for a round of drinks.

Had car licence for 29 years now Class 2 for 16 years Class 1 for 15 years and Motorbike for 13 years How's that for peacocking

Thank you!