Buying a car online?

[Coaster]

Anyone have any experience / knowledge of of this ?

I like a car i've seen on auto trader, looks great good price but was dismayed that the car is over 200 miles away and can be delivered ! bloody typical ..lol
My cousin has bought a car like this and i personally think he's been very lucky .

I haven't done the hpi / and other checks yet. i thought id checkout what you clever chaps think first.
I am trying to keep the price down and looking for older cars, so they're possib.ly more likely to have some "issues" 15 plate area i was thinking.

 

[Koolpc]

I once ordered and bought a Ford Shelby Mustang online. Matt black. Mint condition. It even came boxed up!

 

[Coaster]

Any replies from adults?

 

[robinbanks]

If it’s from a dealer, it’s covered under the distance selling regs giving you 14 days to choose whether to keep the car or not, and arrange a return. Drive it back and train home, could be a cheap couple of weeks hire all in?!

 

[foxhole]

Some dodgy dealers out there , friend bought a car , turned out it had no cat , exhaust was straight thru , he managed to claim thru insurance so wasn’t out of pocket.
If you use dealers get a verification of address and ownership .

 

[thomp1983]

If your buying it online unseen then insist on paying at least £100 of it on a credit card, if the selling company refuses then walk away.

 

[Nige F]

bought a Ford fusion off eBay for my D i L - comingg up to 20 years old now with very few repairs other than MOT /services - must be 6+ years now - a no rust Ford !!

 

[Lower]

I'd never buy an 11 year old car without seeing it first. I've bought quite a few cars from mail dealers unseen, but they were always less than a year old, still with manufacturers warranty and manufacturer approved used cars. But buying something 11 years old unseen would be too much of a risk for me, even if there was an option to return it.

 

[Mottie]

If it seemed like the exact car for me, I’d have no problem driving 200 miles to see it. If you’re going to do thousands and thousands of miles in it, what’s a couple of hundred miles to get the right one?

Ask plenty of questions before going to view it and if it seems right, maybe make a short break of it. Don’t put a purchasing deposit down as you are then committed, put a holding deposit subject to viewing it. Only agg would be if you had a fault and had to take it back.

Sorry, is it a private or trade sale?

 

[Belle427]

Just check the distance selling rules as they do exist but I think you have to give them chance to repair it if faulty, not sure about rejecting it because you don`t like it etc.
May be a complete ballache if its 200 miles away.