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I’m staggered.

Eh? You expect a test drive when buying by auction?

.....and it seems to be getting worse - I think I’m correct when I say more than 50% of the emails I receive haven’t the courtesy to say Hi, Hello, Good Morning/Afternoon, Please, Thank you, or Best Regards. Funnily enough most of those emails are from the “Last price?” or ‘ridiculous offer’ brigades.

I like the old ‘rope design’ edging in glazed terracotta but the Mrs prefers the ‘half moon’ type from Homebase.

It’s wrong but I originally heard this was the case over two decades ago - my guess is it’s always been the case.

It’s f***ed. That’s my first guess, hopefully I’m wrong. Low gearbox oil, or filthy gearbox oil & filter would be my second guess. My third, and final, guess would be at what price to advertise it on GumTree along with my £20 throw away phone from Asda.

Yes, I think just about every VAG of that vintage did it.

Very true in the case of actual buyers but how come the email arseholes don’t take a day off? If anything they’ve been busier than usual with their shit offers & idle email chitchat which you can see from the outset is going nowhere.

Nicely swerved, just like Pele!

I’ve never needed a card machine. Bank transfer or CASH. If you feel the need to accept the occasional card then simply generate a Paypal invoice for them to pay.

None of the “last price?” arseholes read an ad. Greedy c***s don’t read ads. Midnight email dreamers don’t read ads. I reckon about 10% of punters are actually serious. About half of that 10% don’t read adverts but they might buy anyway. The remaining 5% are those who read the adverts fully. As for videos I think about 50% of the last 5% actually watch them FULLY. Quite why so few of the general public fail to arm themselves with as much relevant information as possible, by simply reading the ad & watching a 3 to 4 minute video, is beyond me.

Punters don’t like cars with issues. Although money’s tight they get shitty arses at an honestly described problem child. I’ve got a Mazda with a rattly timing chain described 100% - all I’m getting is social misfits on the phone - yesterday I resorted to telling one of them to Fuck Off. The punters are that bad I’ve decided to chuck a few quid at it & sell it retail.

Cheap enough at that money. I’d give you the no. of my painter but he’d probably make it look worse.

At least the lights work.

Fuck knows where these inner city charging points are. I’ve been schlepping around Belgravia, Fitzrovia & Primrose Hill for the last week & didn’t notice a single charging point. Charging points along every street? Don’t hold your breath.

When we’ve all gone fully electric will that mean half of the streets in England will be a trip hazard with leads running from peoples houses to their cars? I can’t see them working out for anyone who hasn’t got a detached home with off-road parking or a London flat with underground parking. Perhaps I’m just naive.

Haven’t they all at some point had a bash at knocking out p/xs? They find they struggle selling when they try wiping £1500 across a dogshit 10 year old hatchback & they also get a wake up call at the true state of p/xs if their MOT tester isn’t on-side and the Workshop rapes the Sales Dept.

I wouldn’t worry about it, a van man buying an old ex-Royal Mail van won’t be interested. His motivation will be £££.

Do you have an appointment slot available sometime this afternoon? Can I bring my gimp mask & rubber pants with buttock opening so she can lash my arse ‘til it’s red raw?

G aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggg!!

Dead as a dead thing, except for a few daydreamers & time wasters to keep my blood pressure up.

I’ve got a VAG product that needed a front drivers door lock assembly, a £20 eBay gem works fine. However one of the rear doors has to be opened from inside first before it can be opened from the outside. It then works ok from the outside until the next time it is locked. Is this also the door lock assembly? This is also the car that I changed the key fob cover, during the 30 seconds the battery was out of the fob the fob electronics died resulting in a £100 bill. F***ing VWs, they’re great. Not.