Was this the one at Prestige? In Mid Lothian...
Yep thats the one
I have been waiting for a VXR220 to come up and was quite gutted when one came and went. Another one came up a few weeks later and it turned out to be the car I had missed out on a few weeks previous.
It was in Edinburgh but as these don’t come often I decided to bite the bullet and open discussions with the seller. All sounded good, apparently bought it for his wife’s 40th only to find out she was pregnant? I paid a £500 deposit and started looking into booking a flight. My excitement was dashed within the hour.
Don’t know what possessed my wife and actually quite gutted she found it and not me but the seller Bigal1975 had posted on the forum for advice with faults on the car, right up to the day before I paid the deposit. Now I know things can go wrong but when someone tells you, that she’s all good,, not had any issues I decided to approach Bigal1975 for the truth.
He told me he had someone look at it that day and she was fixed and running well, so I asked him to send me a video of the car running. He agreed and so I waited. Asked for the reg no and he said it was on the video. It never arrived and on chasing it, told me the file was too big. Just that I should come to Edinburgh and trust his word. ‘I give you my word, its mint’
During that time I also spoke to the original seller who is a forum member and the stories don’t match. However I fallen in love with the car and really want to go for it but as you can imagine 2 different faults on the car in less than a month, conflicting stories and no video of the car running, I just had to do further research on the internet.
Because of the issues with the car I asked him to be a gent and refund my deposit, until he could give guarantees the car was in good working order. I still really wanted it and to give him the opportunity to come through.
To add to just how gutted I am Bigal1975 wants to keep £50 of my deposit to re advertise the car.
What I have concluded…
The car was being advertised through PistonHeads by Performance Portfolio Car Sales but it’s a private sale
Its been used for driving experience days (see pics) that explains the 500 miles since purchased
Advertised as standard, no mention of a remap but it has one (does my insurance company need to know this, I think so?)
Selling the car as spot on, and even let me pay a deposit knowing full well its got issues
Don’t know that its running, no evidence
Apparently got 3 people interested in it, one from France so why not give me my full deposit back
I’m not saying this a bad car, in fact it looks fantastic but if the seller had been up front as reason for sale and the issues they’ve had but rectified I would probably have still gone for it.
So Alan! was this car for you, your wife or your brother or was it for your portfolio of cars?
https://www.facebook...rmanceportfolio
scroll down from the 17th Feb
Original ad.
http://www.vx220.org.../136128-vxr220/
Current ad.
http://www.pistonhea...bo-2004/3717033
First fault
http://www.vx220.org...r-not-starting/
Second fault
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I'll put it down to experience, but would still like my £50 back.