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Bellamy06

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Hello there. I'm looking at a lovely evo8 this weekend. I don't know much about them I'm afraid I come from the fwd world of Vauxhall and ford :/ don't hate me. The car as far as I can make out is a fq320 and is imo perfect for me.
Anyway fingers crossed for this weekend!
 
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welcome to the site mate, have you any links or more info on the car coz ive read a few threads over the last few days about cars not being wot they really are :sad::sad::sad:
 
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Afraid no links mate as it's come to me through one of mydads mates before it's been advertised anywhere. Both myself and my dad work in the motor trade so I won't be buying a ringer of any sorts. Would you care to emphasise what sort of problems people have been having? Milage being clocked etc??
 
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Afraid no links mate as it's come to me through one of mydads mates before it's been advertised anywhere. Both myself and my dad work in the motor trade so I won't be buying a ringer of any sorts. Would you care to emphasise what sort of problems people have been having? Milage being clocked etc??

just a thread i woz reading here is the quote below..................

"The car has been crashed. Has had a full front end respray. Its had new wings, bonnet, bumper. The masking tape line can be seen in the engine bay, and the laquer has been joined (very badly) on the pillar. The front end is pretty immaculate for a 30k mile car. It has 1 or 2 stone chips.

The guy has had it for 6 weeks, and is desperate to get rid, but tries to play it cool, and pretends that he 'isnt arsed if it doesnt sell. F**k it, ill keep it then'.

The car is HPI clear, but it looks like the previous owner has had a smash, paid to have it repaired and resprayed, and then sold it to this lad.

Got very aggressive when my dad pointed out that it had seen paint. He said "If you are gonna just gonna pick faults with the car I wont sell. Stop wasting my f***ing time".

Then when we said we would keep looking, he dropped the price to 11k, and even offered to take my fiesta in PX.

I think he has realised that he has bought a nail. My guess is that its twisted, and drives badly, and wants to get shut of it.

The car has odd tyres... diagonally It has missed a service aswell. The lad knows nothing about evos"
 
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Oh dear that's not at all good to hear/ see.
This sort of problem can happen no matter what car you go for though? Or is it particularly bad with evos lately?
 
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Oh dear that's not at all good to hear/ see.
This sort of problem can happen no matter what car you go for though? Or is it particularly bad with evos lately?

just a one off i hope mate but i woz only reading the thread recently
 
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Oh dear that's not at all good to hear/ see.
This sort of problem can happen no matter what car you go for though? Or is it particularly bad with evos lately?

Regards to crash damage there is loads of crash damage evos out there due to the nature of the car mate

same as any popular performance wagon !

I also know the thread Geoff is on about and that is one of many mate

Geoff your being very helpful recently ......you angling for a mod spot :razz:

Oh I want in on the flagsquad.co.uk its not a one man effort master jedi :razz:
 
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Regards to crash damage there is loads of crash damage evos out there due to the nature of the car mate

same as any popular performance wagon !

I also know the thread Geoff is on about and that is one of many mate

Geoff your being very helpful recently ......you angling for a mod spot :razz:

Oh I want in on the flagsquad.co.uk its not a one man effort master jedi :razz:

who me a mod :whistling::whistling::whistling: ide ban the lot of you in days :whistling::whistling::whistling::):):):)
its nice to be helpfull jonny you know the flagsquad code mate :wub::wub::wub:
 
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I see well I'll be looking round it more so than I would have been anyway! Both me and my dad have bodyshop experience so spotting any sort of wrong in regards to the bodywork will be fine. Im more worried about it being a ringer or clocked etc or stamped up with service history and it's not all there if you know what I mean?
 
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I see well I'll be looking round it more so than I would have been anyway! Both me and my dad have bodyshop experience so spotting any sort of wrong in regards to the bodywork will be fine. Im more worried about it being a ringer or clocked etc or stamped up with service history and it's not all there if you know what I mean?

true dat mate :razz:

Geoff I have taken the oath and sworn to abide by the code of the brotherhood :razz::wub::razz::ninja:
 
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I see well I'll be looking round it more so than I would have been anyway! Both me and my dad have bodyshop experience so spotting any sort of wrong in regards to the bodywork will be fine. Im more worried about it being a ringer or clocked etc or stamped up with service history and it's not all there if you know what I mean?

find out who serviced it the last few times and tell us then ring them up asking if the car had any issues :)
 
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Ring them up to see if it even has been serviced. I have heard of a few cars lately that have been stamped up with stolen dealer stamps!! But I'll certainly ask for your guys opinions before I go any further with it as it isn't the sort of car I want to be taking any risks with!
 
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Ring them up to see if it even has been serviced. I have heard of a few cars lately that have been stamped up with stolen dealer stamps!! But I'll certainly ask for your guys opinions before I go any further with it as it isn't the sort of car I want to be taking any risks with!

Good mind set mate keep that in mind, when you look at everyone its a dear investment and worth taking time over :)

i looked at about 20 evos before I got mine :)
 
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Haha. Hopefully I won't have to look at 20 though! I know this bloke won't purposefully mug me or my dad off but there could be something on the car that we will notice that he wouldn't have seen!
 
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