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Offline Andy

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Be careful when selling your car
« on: November 27, 2015, 05:48:05 pm »
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Re: Be careful when selling your car
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2015, 06:05:50 pm »
It's always a concern that this can happen
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Re: Be careful when selling your car
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2015, 06:46:10 pm »
That's horrible.  :surprised:

You need to have someone with you in such cases and hope the buyer doesn't bring a tribe with him as most do.

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Re: Be careful when selling your car
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2015, 06:58:42 pm »
another trick is always ask for there driving license and keep hold of it in your pocket until the test drive is over.  either that or if they have a semi decent car keep hold of there keys.
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Re: Be careful when selling your car
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2015, 08:28:28 am »
Always been a fear of mine. I sold a subaru before I got my gti and I had some right characters viewing it. Territory that comes with a scooby tho  :signLOL:
That's probably the only benefit of the dealers no hassle but out of pocket.
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Re: Be careful when selling your car
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2015, 05:20:48 pm »
Always, always, always  take the keys out of the ignition when swapping drivers!

A similar type of theft happened near me in the early '00's at a prestige garage when they were on a test drive with a 'customer' in a demonstrator & the salesperson and customer stopped to switch over. Customer slid across as the employee stepped out of the car, and then took off with the car...
SGT was the garage - selling Alfas, Morgans,, Lotus, Mitsubishi's, & Subaru's - think the car was a Scooby that was ultimately used in a ram raid.

Be aware when selling something tasty, that's for sure...
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