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Title: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: les.tansey on 17 October 2012, 00:38
Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from... particularly from a dealer?

Cheers; Les :wink:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Thom89 on 17 October 2012, 01:12
Thats a big YES! Unfortunately, where the motor trade is concerned, Brum is full of Rogues!
I speak with many years of experience in the trade.

Thom
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Seanl on 17 October 2012, 07:14
My sister in laws husband is Kurdish. He has alot of friends in Brum and regularly goes up there to get cars off them for pence! He then comes back down to Plymouth and sells them on. He always makes a decent profit, but I'd never buy a car from him!
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: ian_GTI on 17 October 2012, 07:15
Yes every car I've gone to see in brum has been a heap
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: les.tansey on 17 October 2012, 10:04
Cheers guys, thats a real shame the car i found 'appeared' to be just what I wanted at £500 below my budget :cry:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: lewis1641 on 17 October 2012, 10:09
surely this is rediculous! never but a car from birmingham, all the sh!tters end up there.

its true, not a single good car for sale in the entire city
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Rhyso on 17 October 2012, 10:13
I bought my Audi from a garage in Birmingham  :smiley:

Well, eventually I did  :laugh:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: les.tansey on 17 October 2012, 10:32
I know there will be loads of well looked after, legitimate examples, and don't mean to offend anyone. Just wanted to get a general overview for it's reputation as I am sure I've heared it mentioned a few times and just wanted to clarify. The car I've seen could be the best looked after car in the whole of brum for all I know... I just don't want to take any chances  :smiley:

Cheers, Les  :wink:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Wayne on 17 October 2012, 10:58
Lets be honest buying any car is a lottery no matter where you buy it from.

Buying from a dealer should also give you piece of mind but that is not always the case.
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: tigerj360 on 17 October 2012, 11:24
Buying from a dealer should also give you piece of mind but that is not always the case.

Wayne knows this best of all!  :laugh:





 :kiss:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Felton on 17 October 2012, 12:47
It also all depends on where abouts in brum not every where is that bad I've had a few from there as I only used to live about 5 mins away from there just certain places in the centre I would stay clear from
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: shaft69 on 17 October 2012, 22:17
My mates sells cars/dealer in solihull he ain't no rogue.
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: madmanmart on 17 October 2012, 22:28
Yeh its true, every cars ive viewed there is a heap.

Too many foreigners for a start...........
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: sharki786 on 17 October 2012, 23:39
lol you guys prob have been looking in the wrong area. not ALL cars are lemons down here. my inlaw bought a pile of poo & that was in dewsbury so your wrong. like wayne said it can happen anywhere. all the cars that are in my family have all been bought in birms & never had any issues! :whistle:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Diamond Hell on 18 October 2012, 08:30
Comedy responses on this thread from some people sounding like total idiots.

You go guys (http://www.northloop.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/thumb.gif)

Personally I'd try and avoid buying any car from much further north of Birmingham, but that's because they're generally rot-boxes because of the amount of salt on the roads.
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: les.tansey on 18 October 2012, 08:33
Comedy responses on this thread from some people sounding like total idiots.

You go guys (http://www.northloop.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/thumb.gif)

Personally I'd try and avoid buying any car from much further north of Birmingham, but that's because they're generally rot-boxes because of the amount of salt on the roads.

Never even considered that, good thinking  :wink:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: danny_p on 19 October 2012, 19:23
id never buy from birmingham.....

simply because  loads of brummies in the trade go to kingsland car auctions .......   ( kingsland car auctions is a big sale of end of life sheds )
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: Dolly on 20 October 2012, 10:34
i usually end up buying a car private based on the picture and how nice the estate looks  :laugh:

just living around 15 minutes from brum, i would avoid the used car sales pitches  :laugh:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: clipperjay on 20 October 2012, 10:51
I hate Brum accent one of my mates grates me when he starts to speak to me I wouldn’t buy a car just because he is a Northerner! right?
After all buying cars from foreigners got to be a bad idea right? 
Plus doing the checks on a car and owner, has to be the least priority in the lists of my, why I would or would not buy a car from an area right?
Dam you southerners have all the best cars!!!!  :angry: :tongue:
Title: Re: Is Birmingham a bad place to buy a car from?
Post by: 67buggers on 24 October 2012, 14:20
Buying cars from foreigners?!! What has where some one is from got to do with anything when comes to buying cars?