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Offline devito

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absolute con men the lot of them.
« on: 06 November 2010, 22:00 »
Hudersfield and leeds VW dealers are advertizing the same car at a price difference of  £600. I've been to see them both. Test drove it at Hudersfield today. It is a GTD on a 59 plate with 14k on the clock and 4 brand new tyres. Why the new tyres at that mileage you might ask?
Anyway i drove it out of the dealers and made a fuel stop just down the road. As the salesman went to pay i noticed a tiny split in the dash and the centre arm rest was really loose. We went on the motorway, as we reached about 60mph a shudder was felt throughout the car.
 To keep this short i wasn't gonna buy the car but was curious as to how it drove. However some poor unsuspecting gullable soul will buy this car. So why do these idiots think its good practice to sell dodgy cars of which this obviously was? And i can understand trying to sell it from 2 dealers but not at different prices on the same website( vw used car locator ).
 On the same site a GTD is advertized at warrington VW for a thousand pound less than it was at their dealers.It wasn't a mistake either as i found out on returning home and looking on the sight again after spending an hour trying to negotiate a thousand pound off at the dealers. d
 I didn't buy that either. It had an irish plate and a crooked sticker on the B pillar. Needless to say they phoned me the next morning and agrreed the extra money off. Although the car drove nice i couldn't risk it. Another dodgy dealer i suspect.
 BUYER BEWARE.
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #1 on: 06 November 2010, 22:05 »
Sickening.
Thanks for posting the warning.
Maybe you should inform VWCS of your findings. They need to clean-up some of their dealers IMO.
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #2 on: 06 November 2010, 22:12 »
Regional Variability. It's not new or big news.

Put the spec up and I bet it will have a couple more thousand added to the price for those in london and the SE.
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #3 on: 06 November 2010, 22:13 »
Bustards!
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« Reply #4 on: 06 November 2010, 23:45 »
I.E. First Service costs: Stafford = £208, Kent = £258.

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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #5 on: 07 November 2010, 07:01 »
Quote from: Agreeable Slick on 06 November 2010, 22:12
Regional Variability. It's not new or big news.

Put the spec up and I bet it will have a couple more thousand added to the price for those in london and the SE.

Yeah, but you guys down south get bigger salaries.
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #6 on: 07 November 2010, 10:08 »
Quote from: RickS on 07 November 2010, 07:01
Quote from: Agreeable Slick on 06 November 2010, 22:12
Regional Variability. It's not new or big news.

Put the spec up and I bet it will have a couple more thousand added to the price for those in london and the SE.

Yeah, but you guys down south get bigger salaries.
Only in the South East which is the centre of the Universe. In the South West the salaries are amongst the lowest in the UK yet housing & living costs are London-esque.  :cry:
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #7 on: 07 November 2010, 11:28 »
Quote from: Exonian on 07 November 2010, 10:08
Quote from: RickS on 07 November 2010, 07:01
Quote from: Agreeable Slick on 06 November 2010, 22:12
Regional Variability. It's not new or big news.

Put the spec up and I bet it will have a couple more thousand added to the price for those in london and the SE.

Yeah, but you guys down south get bigger salaries.
Only in the South East which is the centre of the Universe. In the South West the salaries are amongst the lowest in the UK yet housing & living costs are London-esque.  :cry:
That's because the rich south easterners are buying properties in the south west as weekend retreats, thus putting the prices beyond the reach of locals. This probably also has a knock on effect as far as car prices are concerned, no discount on your new GTI  :sad:
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #8 on: 07 November 2010, 11:28 »
Interestingly, on a slightly different (but similar vein) I had Darren stick me a bluetooth in yesterday (top jod too fella). However, when he was coding it he brought up an error on the VAG COM saying there was a problem with the inclinometer side of my alarm. Now I mentioned to the stealer in August that my Alarm LED was a bit temperamental so could they check it out. They said after the service there was nothing wrong with it and the whole system was fine.
In other words I've had a car for x months that could have been tilted and winched onto a truck without any alarm going off just because the useless **** of a dealer couldn't even read a code that one of the lads on this forum can!!!
Absolutely bloody useless. Are there any stealers out there who've vaguely got an idea how to fix these cars? - such incompetence was the main reason I left VW several years ago.
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Re: absolute con men the lot of them.
« Reply #9 on: 07 November 2010, 12:00 »
Quote from: RickS on 07 November 2010, 11:28
That's because the rich south easterners are buying properties in the south west as weekend retreats, thus putting the prices beyond the reach of locals. This probably also has a knock on effect as far as car prices are concerned, no discount on your new GTI  :sad:

It used to be and still is the North/South divide.
Now it is the East/West divide in the South.
Whatever next? :wink:
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