Just viewed a RHD RS2...
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:02 pm
I Just viewed a Nogaro Blue RHD RS2 with the Alcantara interior etc etc...
What a waste of time!
I feel totally let down by the owner.
I arrived 5 minutes early to find he had taken the car out to warm it up. Not a great start. When he returned I started to look over the car in detail.
There is overspray behind all 4 wheels on suspension components and behind the front bumper (which is cracked in 2 places).
The accelerator pedal was broken and living in the Drivers door pocket, surely this can't cost more than £20-30 to replace! Not the best way to sell a car.
The O.S.F wheel was in the boot and the spare was on the car (which he admitted to swapping over just before I came) due I can only guess to kerbing etc. The rest of the tyres were "cheap and nasty" to use the owners words.
One of the most alarming things was that there was no power below 4,000rpm, and I don't mean there was some and it was just turbo lag, I mean there really was no power (my Golf Gti 8V goes faster that this!). Whats more is the boost took an age to build up, even when the engine was already above 4,000rpm. I could put my foot to the floor and wait atleast 1 1/2 - 2 seconds before anything happened. When the power did come it wasn't that much... I'd estimate 250 tops... certainley no where near 315. For a car having covered 125,000 miles, it drove more like 250,000...
The other major problem was that it changed direction when the power came on. When you were just driving it nicely, there was the occasional clonk from the N.S.F suspension but it drove in a straight line. However as soon as the power came on (eventually!), the car started to turn left. Not just a slight pull but a "change in lanes" type change in direction.
The owner would only say so much about the car until you approached certain areas, at which point he would say "Oh yeah its always done that" or "Audi told me they all pull to the left"...
After looking around at the car fully and taking into account that the car is RHD and the problems it has, I offered the sum of £8,000 which is way below the £12,500 asking price but as I told the owner, it has so many things which need putting right, it will take thousands to make it a "nice car". He said "thanks for wasting an hour of my time" and we went our seperate ways. I feel very much that he has wasted my time rather than the other way around.
Yours disgruntled...
I felt that I should report so anyone else looking knows what to expect from this car and owner.
MG
What a waste of time!
I feel totally let down by the owner.
I arrived 5 minutes early to find he had taken the car out to warm it up. Not a great start. When he returned I started to look over the car in detail.
There is overspray behind all 4 wheels on suspension components and behind the front bumper (which is cracked in 2 places).
The accelerator pedal was broken and living in the Drivers door pocket, surely this can't cost more than £20-30 to replace! Not the best way to sell a car.
The O.S.F wheel was in the boot and the spare was on the car (which he admitted to swapping over just before I came) due I can only guess to kerbing etc. The rest of the tyres were "cheap and nasty" to use the owners words.
One of the most alarming things was that there was no power below 4,000rpm, and I don't mean there was some and it was just turbo lag, I mean there really was no power (my Golf Gti 8V goes faster that this!). Whats more is the boost took an age to build up, even when the engine was already above 4,000rpm. I could put my foot to the floor and wait atleast 1 1/2 - 2 seconds before anything happened. When the power did come it wasn't that much... I'd estimate 250 tops... certainley no where near 315. For a car having covered 125,000 miles, it drove more like 250,000...
The other major problem was that it changed direction when the power came on. When you were just driving it nicely, there was the occasional clonk from the N.S.F suspension but it drove in a straight line. However as soon as the power came on (eventually!), the car started to turn left. Not just a slight pull but a "change in lanes" type change in direction.
The owner would only say so much about the car until you approached certain areas, at which point he would say "Oh yeah its always done that" or "Audi told me they all pull to the left"...
After looking around at the car fully and taking into account that the car is RHD and the problems it has, I offered the sum of £8,000 which is way below the £12,500 asking price but as I told the owner, it has so many things which need putting right, it will take thousands to make it a "nice car". He said "thanks for wasting an hour of my time" and we went our seperate ways. I feel very much that he has wasted my time rather than the other way around.
Yours disgruntled...
I felt that I should report so anyone else looking knows what to expect from this car and owner.
MG
"They all do that......."
