Weird things you have come across when buying(looking for) a car...

[greens_tuf]

Hey guys,

I'm sure there are alot of funny and weird things you have come across when buying a car, I thought we could share some stories and get a few laughs going...

I'll start with a story of an AU3 XR8, Manual, Meteorite, 75,000K's full Tickford package car that I went out to see (private sale). From the pics this car looked awesome... The guy was a middle aged driver, the car was tidy, he started it up and it sounded tough. I was sold within 10 seconds...

My mate calls me over to the front right guard, the gap from top to bottom was out by around 10mm, wtf, look at the other side and it was the same... Ok we took a look in the boot, the spare wheel was a stocker, I thought that all Tickfords came out with an alloy spare but anyway, there was surface rust and rub marks from where the boot lid was rubbing when it was closed.

Ok not good... Look inside at the dash, it doesn't even have a Tickford dash, now that is seriously *ed up. It has a forte dash or something from a Series 1 AU. Then we look in the engine bay, it has an AU3 XR8 engine and correct plates but the engine bay is flat black, not meteorite.

By this stage I was spooked and said to the bloke it was a nice car but I'll have to think about it...

I think it was an original AU3 XR8 involved in a front and rear-ender and someone did a cut and shut job on it and sold it at the auctions (thats where the owner bought it from).

Now that I look closer at engine bays, I notice that more and more modern Fords have black engine bays, this is a question for another discussion but why is this?

Anyway lets hear what other weird stuff is out there lol...

[Ibrox90]

I apologise in advance

Bought my XR8 recently.

In my hunt for a new car I was looking at XR6T, XR8 and SV6 and SS.

While looking at an XR6T (private sale) I checked my usual stuff whiel the oldman inspected the engine bay.

I was looking for rust, checking the exhaust for burning oil and the spare tyre tread.

lifted the liner and the board and tucked down the side of the spare was a rather large sex toy (and by rather large I mean HUGE)

The owners reaction "uuuhhh thats not mine I swear"

EDIT: More detail for the giggles

[greens_tuf]

Originally Posted by Ibrox90

I apologise in advance

Bought my XR8 recently.

In my hunt for a new car I was looking at XR6T, XR8 and SV6 and SS.

While looking at an XR6T (private sale) I checked my usual stuff whiel the oldman inspected the engine bay.

I was looking for rust, checking the exhaust for burning oil and the spare tyre tread.

lifted the liner and the board and tucked down the side of the spare was a rather large sex toy (and by rather large I mean HUGE)

Thats GOLD

[Kryton]

to save money on the production line.
youd be hard pressed to find any AU with a factory painted engine bay.

[auxr]

Originally Posted by davway

to save money on the production line.
youd be hard pressed to find any AU with a factory painted engine bay.

Nope - my AUXR8 has a nice red engine bay :

[SLO AU XR8]

Originally Posted by auxr

Nope - my AUXR8 has a nice red engine bay :

Same for me, It's B-Series you are less likely to find a painted bay, although some AU's got black

[LTDterri]

Originally Posted by SLO AU XR8

Same for me, It's B-Series you are less likely to find a painted bay, although some AU's got black

Sorry mate but my BA has a nice white engine bay to go with the outside.

[gocruzin]

Originally Posted by LTDterri

Sorry mate but my BA has a nice white engine bay to go with the outside.

White is a solid color cob my cobra has a white engine bay too

GT Cobra:My metallic BF has a painted engine bay too.

Is that metallic silver by any chance?
My Conquer bf ute has a black bay much to my disgust

[ILLaViTaR]

Originally Posted by LTDterri

Sorry mate but my BA has a nice white engine bay to go with the outside.

God that's 2 people who can't understand that "hard pressed" and "less likely" don't mean 0%/impossible.

[FORCED F6]

I just want to add this as it was hilarious for me and the boys;

It was about juts over a year ago when I was looking for a XR6 Turbo, seriously the cheapest one out there just so I can rip it all out and start a project car with a mate (intentions were to build a drag car strictly). Anyways this car was from QLD and called the guy up and we had agreed to $15k ( 04 model XR6T, had red stitching, sat nav, sunroof, AND 275,000kms).

When I was about to transfer the money he tells me to hold off as he sells it to some guy as he had offered him $17k and its sold... 2 days later, im sitting down have a coffee at my usual place and see this car drive past me in front of my eyes at 7pm, same plates and everything...

2 weeks later, I see it on carsales with the exact same photos as advertised from QLD but of course its the new owner advertising it and its only got 60,000km...

Wow, couldnt help myself so had to do the right thing and reported it asap, hate to see someone get burnt... But it was rather funny.

[Iggypoppin']

only real thing was the salesman talking me into N/A falcons and not turbos..
"extractors and a pod on an N/A falcon and you'll smoke a turbo mate!"

[Mark s]

Originally Posted by NJXR6

only real thing was the salesman talking me into N/A falcons and not turbos..
"extractors and a pod on an N/A falcon and you'll smoke a turbo mate!"

Yep had something along the same lines. Car salesman telling me there was no difference between the turbo and the N/A. I asked him what the turbo did and he said it made the car more econimical. Funny thing is he had no Turbo's in the yard that day and only XR6 N/A and a few 8's.



Years ago on Parramatta road we looked at a HZ for a friend. We asked the guy what sort of carby it has and his response was a Holley Thermojet. The VHT yellow painted heads almost had us on Yella Terra units.

[gocruzin]

with all au-bf falcons, solid color cars got painted engine bays. metallic cars got flat black. with the only exeption being gloss black cars they had flat black underhood

[Spitfire 6.2]

Originally Posted by gocruzin

with all au-bf falcons, solid color cars got painted engine bays. metallic cars got flat black. with the only exeption being gloss black cars they had flat black underhood

My metallic BF has a painted engine bay too.

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by gocruzin

with all au-bf falcons, solid color cars got painted engine bays. metallic cars got flat black. with the only exeption being gloss black cars they had flat black underhood

I remember we had an AU Fairmont in amaretto (metallic gold) that had a nice painted engine bay. My FG has sparkly blue on the outside, but matt dull blue under the hood. Territory has a white engine bay. Never seen a Falcon/Terri with a black engine bay before.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by greens_tuf

Hey guys,

I'm sure there are alot of funny and weird things you have come across when buying a car, I thought we could share some stories and get a few laughs going...

I'll start with a story of an AU3 XR8, Manual, Meteorite, 75,000K's full Tickford package car that I went out to see (private sale). From the pics this car looked awesome... The guy was a middle aged driver, the car was tidy, he started it up and it sounded tough. I was sold within 10 seconds...

My mate calls me over to the front right guard, the gap from top to bottom was out by around 10mm, wtf, look at the other side and it was the same... Ok we took a look in the boot, the spare wheel was a stocker, I thought that all Tickfords came out with an alloy spare but anyway, there was surface rust and rub marks from where the boot lid was rubbing when it was closed.

Ok not good... Look inside at the dash, it doesn't even have a Tickford dash, now that is seriously *ed up. It has a forte dash or something from a Series 1 AU. Then we look in the engine bay, it has an AU3 XR8 engine and correct plates but the engine bay is flat black, not meteorite.

By this stage I was spooked and said to the bloke it was a nice car but I'll have to think about it...

I think it was an original AU3 XR8 involved in a front and rear-ender and someone did a cut and shut job on it and sold it at the auctions (thats where the owner bought it from).

Now that I look closer at engine bays, I notice that more and more modern Fords have black engine bays, this is a question for another discussion but why is this?

Anyway lets hear what other weird stuff is out there lol...

Mine didn't come with an alloy spare and it also has a flat black engine bay. I believe it depends on which day of the week as to what color your engine bay is.

Monday to Wednesday - Body Colour
Thursday - Flat black
Friday - All the colours of the rainbow.

[b2tf]

Originally Posted by Peuty

Mine didn't come with an alloy spare and it also has a flat black engine bay. I believe it depends on which day of the week as to what color your engine bay is.

Monday to Wednesday - Body Colour
Thursday - Flat black
Friday - All the colours of the rainbow.

Yours actually did come from factory with the toy in the spare well though didnt it?

[big-e]

That was an extra box you had to tick.

[Smoke Pursuit]

None of the Later AU's had spare alloys standard, and most were matt black under the bonnet.

As for the cluster its probably an ex highway patrol with pursuit dash.

[Mr Brooksy]

Not something that I found while looking for a car... but I wish I was looking at the time. My Dad had a wealthy school friend who was married to a bank manager (or stock broker or something). This bloke cheated on her and moved in with his new woman in Londan. All the usual court stuff regarding divorces and it was decided that he would get like a third or half the estate, but he wanted and got the car, a Black M something BMW (sorry cant remember the details as it was a few years ago now).

Anyway, it turned out that he couldn't store the car or ship it to Britan or anything. So he asked his now Ex wife to sell the car and send him the money.

Apparently she sold it for either $5000 or $500 (think it was the latter) and sent him the money as asked. He didnt like it much... and took her to court. It got thrown out of court, but some lucky bugger scored an almost new BMW M... for almost nothing!

[Springfield_Johny]

Originally Posted by Mr Brooksy

Not something that I found while looking for a car... but I wish I was looking at the time. My Dad had a wealthy school friend who was married to a bank manager (or stock broker or something). This bloke cheated on her and moved in with his new woman in Londan. All the usual court stuff regarding divorces and it was decided that he would get like a third or half the estate, but he wanted and got the car, a Black M something BMW (sorry cant remember the details as it was a few years ago now).

Anyway, it turned out that he couldn't store the car or ship it to Britan or anything. So he asked his now Ex wife to sell the car and send him the money.

Apparently she sold it for either $5000 or $500 (think it was the latter) and sent him the money as asked. He didnt like it much... and took her to court. It got thrown out of court, but some lucky bugger scored an almost new BMW M... for almost nothing!

I think this is an urban myth, I remember being told about it in the 80's. I also think that the courts would decide that the wife had done the wrong thing and cheated him out of money.

[Mr Brooksy]

Originally Posted by johnandjus

I think this is an urban myth, I remember being told about it in the 80's. I also think that the courts would decide that the wife had done the wrong thing and cheated him out of money.

I have heard a similar story that is folk law. But like I said, the chick was my Dad's school mate. Sorry not an urban myth this one.

[gocruzin]

I never get those type of deals :(

[Ibrox90]

Originally Posted by gocruzin

I never get those type of deals :(

if were offered a bmw m5 for $500 are you saying you would take it, id be suss


WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR ENGINE BAY, BACK ON TOPIC

[XR6_190]

My XR6 (Oct 05 build) has a silver engine bay, and my old AUII futura (Sept 01 build) had a blue engine bay, both were the same colour as the exterior. Also the Futura came with an alloy spare (and it was an EX gov't car, so i doubt they would of spent the cash on something that isn't a necessity)

[Fev]

enough with the engine bays - someone already said the Au's got black - BA^ got painted. MORE FUNNY STORIES!

[bdave351]

Many years back looking at a V8 XD.........asked they guy if it really had a LSD so he said yeah I will show ya and proceeded to do donuts on his front grass.

Highly amusing, but not really a good selling point for his general treatment of cars!

[calais]

Looking for a crappy paddockbasher a few years back for some meadow motorkhana, found a beaten up datto 200B in some blokes front yard with for sale painted down the front fender, bloke wanted $200. Asked him to fire it up, sure enough it ran fairly well, then proceeded to catch fire right there and then. Saved me $200...........and cost that guy his front lawn.

[Fev]

Well its the best way of letting you make sure its an LSD :P

[cosmo20btt]

Originally Posted by Fev

Well its the best way of letting you make sure its an LSD :P

Maybe the guy thought he asking if he on Lsd ? LOL