Sold a very nice primera to a guy yesterday and he called me 15 mins later for help. Said he 'dented it' and can I come out and help him. I got there, and couldn't believe what I saw. He had lost it on a roundabout, and was sitting on an electrical transformer with the front end ripped off. Total write off, with the guy sitting inside and live wires everywhere. Poor young guy wanted to know how much it would cost to 'fix the bumper'. 30 mins earlier, he had declined insurance at the bank when he was drawing out the money. Said he would do it when he gets home. He never made it unfortunately.
intrade,
Dec 14, 6:29am
geesus crist what a idi$t. if you kneo you got no insurance you drive carfully that will now cost him 5 year worth of labour to pay all the bills plus walking in the future.
johnf_456,
Dec 14, 6:47am
Hell
kcc55a,
Dec 14, 7:19am
Some people should never drive.
3tomany,
Dec 14, 7:28am
well you will have to take him back to the bank so he can get more cash and sell him another car and insist he insures it over the phone before he leaves the yard lol we had a family freind that did the same thing ,he got nick named fintel for ever after
stabi360,
Dec 14, 7:29am
i know a guy got a porche 928 wrote it off 3 weeks later not insured 5 years later got a brand new harley that night less than 100ks later slid into a car no insurance patched harleyhad 2 more offs before hitting4x4 completely destroying harley again still no insurance got the porche and harley side bye side in garage
crzyhrse,
Dec 14, 8:07am
Some people just shouldn't be driving.
johnf_456,
Dec 14, 9:04am
Yup its more our safety that we have to share the road with them.
net_oz,
Dec 14, 9:10am
Oh man, you sold him a lemon. Shame on you.
smac,
Dec 14, 9:27am
What worries me more is they're out there, breeding.
tigra,
Dec 14, 9:30am
Seem to recall a few years ago theguys who sold off Paradise.net managed to write off their Ferrari within a day or 3.
tgray,
Dec 14, 9:38am
I was concerned at his driving skills (or lack of) on the test drive. Thank god I went with him. He had just arrived from the Ukraine and apparently drive on the other side there. I repeatedly asked him if he was alright to drive home and warned him to take care due to the wet conditions. He told me and the police that he took the roundabout at 50k's per hour and lost it. He was very lucky he wasn't fried to death in the car, as he knocked out the power supply to Pt Chev. Insane.
male_timaru,
Dec 14, 10:04am
Remember my non-AMG 'AMG Diamante' (lol's at the debates over whether it was or not on here hahaha)
Anyhow . Similar thing happened within 30 minutes guy who bought it had (somehow) managed to reverse into a wall causing it to need a rear quarter section cut out, welded repair and repaint - luckily he HAD insured himself but i am sure the insurance company were "oh my god, not so quickly!" when the call came in 2 hours later lol
bought a dereg donor car a while back and picked it up with a car trailer about 400km away. i picked it up and 20 mins later lost it and wrote off my good car and then was stuck with an identical car dereged though. want to put a plaque on the new power pole saying that i had kindly donated it (at a cost of 8 grand) if ya hit a pole do it during the day when the linesman dont get time and a half. my fault though. no insurance
chevcamaro,
Dec 14, 12:04pm
one wet night out west towed the sameguy 3 times , all differant cars and no insurance.
elect70,
Dec 14, 12:16pm
I looked at buying an EtypeFHC that had rolled5 miles from dealers yard & was up for tender ,seems soon as he had it on open road had put the boot into it looked like he had left wheels in the gravel verge . Took panelbeater to look at it butwould have needed new roof & bonnet, too much for me. Then there was the story of the boy whodid bigsmoke up ontyre coforecourt on brand new tyres , & was back in for new set .
cocabowla,
Dec 14, 12:20pm
there was a guy in the late 80's who bought a honda 900 ( i think ) from a dealer, left the shop pulling a big wheelie and lost control the bike plowed through a shop front window less than 100m away. he was sitting on his backside at this stage . lol
richynuts,
Dec 14, 4:10pm
That was sofunny!
pup2,
Dec 14, 4:17pm
lol he should have stopped when he kept stalling it. Nothing a bit of duct tape can't fix lol
intrade,
Dec 14, 4:19pm
that guy could not even ride a moped if you ask me.
kazbanz,
Dec 14, 4:29pm
Actually ---a then good mate of mine bought himself a sparkling newK4 gixxxer thou from Haldanes a couple of years back -they used to be in Mt eden rd and the first 8 feet of the road is painted green for a bus lane. He pulled outa Haldanes pleased as punch on a damp day gave it a bit of throttle and BAM he was sitting on his backside with his bike damaged with less than 50 METERS on the clock. .
davedave,
Dec 14, 4:36pm
I had a lady hire a car off me, while her car bought from the factory in Germany (a VW beetle) in the 70's (from memory) was in to have repairs from being rear-ended. She had only ever driven the one car, but until the previous day, had never had an accident. She drove out of our forecourt, round the corner and wrote my rental off! Must of been off our site for less than 60 seconds. Bugger!
trogedon,
Dec 14, 4:41pm
In 1990 I sold my Kawasaki GPZ550 (wished I??
trogedon,
Dec 14, 4:44pm
I test rode a GPZ600 (a really mint one) for my then girlfriend. I got both wheels off the ground on a speed bump and nearly crashed it. Whew!
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