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Offline sharman

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Buying advice req'd please
« on: 15 October 2008, 19:26 »
I currently have an 07 standard manual GTI and I've just left a deposit on another one at a car supermarket. It's a 56 gti with DSG with 18" monzas etc. It's costing me £500 to swap, I konw it's older, but better specced with DSG.
Anyway, I noticed the numberplates were from a ford garage, not motorpoint where the car was originally from by it's 1 owner! I rang the garage and was told that they had an insurance approved bodyshop.
I was told that the car was stolen/recovered after the keys were nicked from the household. It's had a new front bumper, windscreen, locks/keys.
Don't know what to do as the supermarket told me it was clean and accident free, hardly!!
I can get my deposit back, but should I make a fuss?
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Offline MAT ed30

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #1 on: 15 October 2008, 19:29 »
i would walk away as you know yours is ok so y swap.
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Offline R32UK

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #2 on: 15 October 2008, 19:33 »
I would string them up by their short and curleys for lying to you. If you really want the car.. ask for a straight swap  :smiley:

But personally I would stay well away :wink:
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Offline Hurdy

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #3 on: 15 October 2008, 19:39 »
Same here...walk away!

You could be letting yourself in for a world of trouble.

There are plenty more GTI's out there. :smiley:
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Offline Makaveli

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #4 on: 15 October 2008, 19:45 »
Walk away there are plenty more cars out there.

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Offline john_o

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #5 on: 15 October 2008, 19:55 »
agree with everyone else , only thing i would say is that if you really want it, to use it as a bargaining tool to get more off it / money going your way  :wink:
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Offline E30M3

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #6 on: 15 October 2008, 20:17 »
walk away :embarassed: from experience crash damaged GTi's are headaches, something always goes wrong ! reason i got rid of my mk5 Gti after a crash.
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Offline Emeye

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #7 on: 15 October 2008, 20:18 »
Don't touch it with a barge pole! Stolen recovered you're asking for all sorts of issues.

I bought an Audi A4 a few years ago that turned out to be Stolen recovered - the aircon was knackered, it cost £1k to sort it and the car was damaged underneath.

Luckily I managed to get the repair costs back, but I got rid as soon as I could.

Run away. Fast. :shocked:
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Offline SO8

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Re: Buying advice req'd please
« Reply #8 on: 15 October 2008, 20:26 »
Stick with what you have .... DSG may be nice but it isn't worth the potential grief you are looking at ! 
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Offline Saint Steve

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« Reply #9 on: 15 October 2008, 20:35 »
yes echo whats been said, plenty of other high spec DSG's about, well worth looking, for a better spec'd GTi.
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