I guess its any car sales persons worst nightmare,probably be good with a wash. tui moment.
skull,
May 23, 6:20am
At least he popped it into park & pulled the handbrake on when he got out of the car.
robotnik,
May 23, 6:32am
This will make it harder for rough looking people to get test drives without first cleaning up in Invers.
sifty,
May 23, 6:58am
Make them buy it. Oh, and bang them up in the clink with an enormous sex offender.
moparpete,
May 23, 7:53am
That is right.
If you break it. you`ve bought it!
kazbanz,
May 23, 8:21am
first question I had was-Why would a company let anyone go on a test drive un accompanied? Chances of getting money out of the scum--about zero. how do you "make em pay for it' No money and you can't exactly finance a wreck
gman35,
May 23, 8:32am
Bizarre action from those 3 guys (no answer, then just "got stuck") What the hell ? No mention of what exactly the dealer said to them but I guess very possibly a question of why they were there in the first place ? Either way , it's a Falcon with future seam rust issues in the making. The sand, let alone salt water immersion can't be great for either the mechanics or interior I would imagine.
mm12345,
May 23, 9:02am
I can't recall ever having a car dealer insist that I be accompanied on a test drive. In fact they seem to have been extra keen and almost insistent that I do take cars which I've only been vaguely interested in on an extended test drive ("pick up your wife from home/work, and take her for a decent run in it" etc). If I'm not interested in the car, I'll decline - no point wasting their time/effort - nor mine.
Last time I did this was only about a year ago. Has something changed?
mrfxit,
May 23, 9:42am
It's stuffed. Unless you can do this in a hurry.
The only way to recover that car as a saleable & insurable is to totally strip it & solution dip the body shell. Diff /motor/ gearbox /suspension & electrics will all have salt water contamination issues & the only way to fix the hardware is to strip/wash & relube the parts. Electrics will all need replacing including wiring harness's. All the upholstery including carpets & trims will need stripping./washing
Heres to hoping they didn't get any water in the engine while it was running.
gman35,
May 23, 11:06am
Yes mrfxit , I realise it is stuffed , would be uneconomical (for most cars this side of an "exotic") to do as you suggest , let alone a sub 20k Falc.
mrfxit,
May 23, 11:16am
Shame aye. $15K isn't simply pocket change to the average person.
kazbanz,
May 23, 2:07pm
Nothing has changed matey.In our case its an insurance requirement so our insurance is only $6k a year not 10k. In this case though alarm bells should have been ringing really loud in the salesmans head.
a.woodrow,
May 23, 4:09pm
Southland is a bit different to up your way Kaz, we are a bit more trusting. Also half the people buying cars around town are cashed up dairy farm workers and they ARE rough, but they are the ones with the readies $$. So not unusual at all to let them roadtest on their own. I heard from a supposed eyewitness that they deliberately aimed and drove it into the sea, not an accident as made out in the news.
richynuts,
May 23, 4:10pm
I thought a salesman would know better, he let a guy and his 2 mates take it for a drive. you can bet they are gonna get up to no good or at least they are all gonna have a drive of it.
cagivachick1,
May 23, 4:12pm
havnt ever had a salesman come with me yet, that included in a new lexus
mm12345,
May 23, 4:31pm
Is that $4k worth it in terms of saving vs time lost in the yard which might have been better spent doing something else? Serious question there - I'm not trying to take the p1ss. You're talking $75/week. If there's staff spending more than an hour or so a week on "test drives", then you're probably not ahead.
gunhand,
Jan 17, 2:46am
Ive only had one salesperson come with me on a TD and because of that and all the crap he spouted I certainly wasn't buying off them. If I was in a unfamiliar city then I would appreciate someone along but in my home town or other well known places to me, na, sorry. But that's me. Ive been to yard where 3 or 4 cars are out on drives, wonder how they would cope having to have any number of sales people available to go. And if they said "no, you have to wait in line", LOL, bye. Test ridden a few bikes as well , never had a sales person along for the ride either oddly enough, some very expensive bikes out there too.
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