NOT HAPPY

[matty325]

I HAVE JUST LOST OUT ON MY 325 TOURING.
THE GARAGE HAS JUST TOLD ME THE CAR WENT IN FOR A NEW MOT
AND WAS BENT (LOOKS LIKE THE OLD OWNER LIKED TO GO OFF ROAD).

SO TIME TO START LOOKING AGAIN.

[e36boy]

Unlucky mate, especially as a good one is hard to find, Hope you find a nice clean one.

[matty325]

thanks it was a clean one only 78000 miles full leather with fsh

but cant let you get you down there's more out there.

[e36boy]

Sure you'll find one, im not looking forward to the searching for a clean sport, I'll be well chuffed when i eventually get one though.

[stuartgallafant]

at least you'll make some money selling it for parts. and you'll have an endless supply of spares for your new one?!

[fowler]

i will have the leather if its a good price

[stuartgallafant]

get in there fowler!!

[matty325]

sorry mates but it was the car i was going to buy, and the garage was putting 12 months mot on it before i picked it up. when they found the problems with it.

[cecotto147]

Mate, i feeel for you. I just bought a diamond schwarz 325 tourer which only needed a bit of welding for the mot.

After the whole of the passenger footwell disappeared in a pile of brown metal and 5 seconds of light tapping stood up and walked off for a breather!

Caught my sleeve on the gutter trim which came off and found it had had a whole front left hand side right up to rear wheel arch fitted evidenced by double skin under gutter moulding.

Carpet out and found kinks in the transmission tunnel and a torn weld at the bulkhead end.

Pillar trims off and found bird poo welding at the roof level where the side had been welded on at the windscreen pillar and the door pillar.

Nice cut and shut.

Car wasn't MOT'd again!

Looked immaculate on the outside, underneath was a nightmare amd a dangerous one at that.

[Cloggy Saint]

I had a similar experience with a corolla gt many years ago, it hurts! Luckily it sounds as if Matty325 never actually bought the offending vehicle.

[matty325]

no got out just in time.

[stE30]

I had a similar experience with a corolla gt many years ago, it hurts! Luckily it sounds as if Matty325 never actually bought the offending vehicle.

...me too with a Lancia Delta!
gutted but thenin my case it was my own fault for not looking properly in the first place !
i was young and i had made my mind up before i even saw the heap!

Matty imho you are lucky!
at least the garage have told you that it`s f**ked! that`s quite reasonable these days!

[gareth]

my little bro bought a polo coupe gt a while ago (even though i told him to avoid a car with one very suspiciously rusty side) and at mot time it needed a new n/s sill. when we pulled the old one off, we found a whole heap of fibreglass, a sill panel welded over the old flattened sill and a corrugated floorpan!!! the n/s sill had been pushed against the transmission tunnel at some point!

upon closer inspection, the roof was wrinkly, the B pillar could be flexed by hand etc etc etc...

lucky it only cost £150 really

[Rosc0PColtrane]

There's a silver tourer for sale near street somerset for 1k. Drove past it Yesterday