Ok,
I have to post this up. It really needs to be told in person but I'm relaxing after today and smelling the good food my Honey is cooking for me right now and figured I would post up about crazy used car salesman.
Yesterday while in Charlotte we stopped to look at the 1st of 3 rigs for the day. It was the most expensive comming in at 10.9K for the asking price. Deirdre pulled the CARFAX and it showed that it was in MD, NY, and PA for its entire life all the way up until August of this year. Sure seems like a lot of owners for a car that only has 114K miles. In the pics we could see it had been repainted so we were skeptical to begin with.
We pull in and it is a little Alley way with a bunch of LUXURY cars, porches, Mercedes, etc. All the ones that look like they are expesensive but really aren't worth much of anything. So we pull to the back and take a peek. Most certainly repainted and in a small wreck. Not even a good job. No fading in what so ever and the lights wouldn't line up. The front tire was flat and the tires were absolutely bald. I crawled under the car and it looked very black. Wow no rust one would think...haha yeah right. They had sprayed an underliner under the entire thing. Every bolt nook and cranny was covering up rust. How do I know..becuase everything was pitted and bad. The exhaust looked like it was about to rot thru. So we go to get a key and try to start it up. Battery connection was frayed and wouldn't start becuase of a bad ground. Started it up finally after the alarm system went haywire.
Now starts the stereotypical used car sales adventure. We take off and it actually seems ok. The heater was on full blast and I was hot and I went to turn it off. Switch broke off and flew to the ground...He continues to tell us this is a SUPER Solid car with the lowest miles he has ever seen. Excellent shape drives true and straight. As he finished the sentence I test him and let go of the wheel and we almost veer off the highway into a barrier. To try and hide all of the recent flubs in the past 1/4 mile of road he says the stereo systems that come in these are awesome...IT NEVER TURNS ON. Then he continues to say the one speaker that did work the other day was awesome. Then we see a really bad wreck that just happened and he freaked otu like a little kid and was staring and saying how crazy that was. I said people die every day and it happens...the mood changed quickly. We go on and he says how rare the cars are and how solid they are and how I would never find one like this. I told him we are looking at 2 others within 3 miles of here today and he shut up quick. It was about the end of our ride at that time. Near the end I asked about the seats as he said on the phone that they had just been redone. Yes I could tell but he wasnt' going to tell me they had been redone in a cheap vinyl on the bottoms and used about 5 cans of leather spray paint on the backs and back seats. HOW CHEESY. I engaged the lockers and I think it freaked him out becuase he didn't know what they were and of course you couldn't steer on the pavement with them. It took a bit in the small alley to get them to disengage and we said thank you and left and in a nice way told him good luck on this POS.
Crazy liars. On a caviat we went down to a very honest used lot down the street and found a much nicer rig just with more miles for almost half the price after some South American style negotiating. Just happened to work out he was Mexican so that helped a lot.
Ok funny story over. Way more funny in real life.
I have to post this up. It really needs to be told in person but I'm relaxing after today and smelling the good food my Honey is cooking for me right now and figured I would post up about crazy used car salesman.
Yesterday while in Charlotte we stopped to look at the 1st of 3 rigs for the day. It was the most expensive comming in at 10.9K for the asking price. Deirdre pulled the CARFAX and it showed that it was in MD, NY, and PA for its entire life all the way up until August of this year. Sure seems like a lot of owners for a car that only has 114K miles. In the pics we could see it had been repainted so we were skeptical to begin with.
We pull in and it is a little Alley way with a bunch of LUXURY cars, porches, Mercedes, etc. All the ones that look like they are expesensive but really aren't worth much of anything. So we pull to the back and take a peek. Most certainly repainted and in a small wreck. Not even a good job. No fading in what so ever and the lights wouldn't line up. The front tire was flat and the tires were absolutely bald. I crawled under the car and it looked very black. Wow no rust one would think...haha yeah right. They had sprayed an underliner under the entire thing. Every bolt nook and cranny was covering up rust. How do I know..becuase everything was pitted and bad. The exhaust looked like it was about to rot thru. So we go to get a key and try to start it up. Battery connection was frayed and wouldn't start becuase of a bad ground. Started it up finally after the alarm system went haywire.
Now starts the stereotypical used car sales adventure. We take off and it actually seems ok. The heater was on full blast and I was hot and I went to turn it off. Switch broke off and flew to the ground...He continues to tell us this is a SUPER Solid car with the lowest miles he has ever seen. Excellent shape drives true and straight. As he finished the sentence I test him and let go of the wheel and we almost veer off the highway into a barrier. To try and hide all of the recent flubs in the past 1/4 mile of road he says the stereo systems that come in these are awesome...IT NEVER TURNS ON. Then he continues to say the one speaker that did work the other day was awesome. Then we see a really bad wreck that just happened and he freaked otu like a little kid and was staring and saying how crazy that was. I said people die every day and it happens...the mood changed quickly. We go on and he says how rare the cars are and how solid they are and how I would never find one like this. I told him we are looking at 2 others within 3 miles of here today and he shut up quick. It was about the end of our ride at that time. Near the end I asked about the seats as he said on the phone that they had just been redone. Yes I could tell but he wasnt' going to tell me they had been redone in a cheap vinyl on the bottoms and used about 5 cans of leather spray paint on the backs and back seats. HOW CHEESY. I engaged the lockers and I think it freaked him out becuase he didn't know what they were and of course you couldn't steer on the pavement with them. It took a bit in the small alley to get them to disengage and we said thank you and left and in a nice way told him good luck on this POS.
Crazy liars. On a caviat we went down to a very honest used lot down the street and found a much nicer rig just with more miles for almost half the price after some South American style negotiating. Just happened to work out he was Mexican so that helped a lot.
Ok funny story over. Way more funny in real life.
