WylieCoyote

Please can I come too?? Feel for you Chris. It has been a shocking couple of weeks on this forum - so many bad things have happened and I feel truly sorry for the people they've happened to. Let's hope this run of bad luck has ended.

Just read and re-read those emails. Couple of things jumped out at me. First of all the word 'hay' - ignoring the spelling. That doesn't really sound like 'old lady speak'. Same story for the 'here's my mobile nr' - nr is text language. Secondly the grammar seems a little odd - it's inconsistent. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it? Another thing - she says the advert is clear on the phone to you, then in the email she's not even sure what side the steering wheel is on? Another thing - there's 2 different spellings of the word 'street' in the same email. Street and streat.

Just a quick thought - if you're insured TPF&T or fully comp, you're covered if your car burst into flamed - hence the 'fire' part of the cover. How if I might ask does a fire start if it's not through failure somewhere? Car's just don't spontaneously combust for nothing and neither do the owners just go out and torch their car one night for fun. So how can they say they cover you for fire when they won't cover you for failure - a fire is caused by something failing - surely???????????????

Check an IS350 as checked baggage?? Maybe a couple of s/c's as hand luggage.

At the risk of sounding pessimistic, you'll probably find that the wording is almost identical with every insurance company. It really does suck when the law abiding motorists are the ones who get problems - the uninsured drivers do what they want.

Got another solution...

Keep them silver - silver car, silver wheels. It's easy to make them look tacky on that colour car.

Ok, this is the most mechanical thing I'll ever say - have you checked the constant velocity joint?

I've heard that's supposed to be good. Not sure of the cost though. Don't need it for alcantra/suede - it's for my new car which is full leather.

I'd be reassured a little bit - I'd still take precautions(!) though - cue the jokes lol! Keep us posted on what happens. Might go some way to restoring faith in human nature - we all suffer from a lack of it!!

There's a similar case to this in this month's What Car helpdesk. According to the response, the garage holds no liability unless it can be proved that they were negligent - which will probably be difficult. Might be Kwik Fit at fault, may just be an unfortunate coincidence. Either way it's a shame.

Blue sidelights are illegal and will fail the MOT. Not sure about interior lights.

There's more than you think when the light's on. I've got 60% of the way to Nottingham from here (about 40 miles) and then back from Notts and stopped in Derby for fuel (maybe 15-20 miles ish?) Needle was almost bent 990 degrees around the empty gauge but it was still going - that was all 60mph continual driving with one stop.

He he...... I get at least one like that a day mate, but they are obviously cons, this one seems more borderline.... I know, one could almost be convinced this one is genuine - justa slightly mad woman who dresses like, well, like we assume she does lol who wants a cheap Verso. If she deposits £500 and you withdraw straight away when they're cleared, maybe it's worth the risk - just take a couple of friends in another car - a) for transport back and B) for safety. The good thing about meeting on a service station car park is that it's public and monitored by cctv - that would go some way to easing my concerns if I were you. Just meet in the daylight right by the entrance or on the fuel station forecourt smack bang in front of a camera. At one time I'd have said just definitely walk away as there's loads more buyers out there, but in the current climate having seen how hard it is to sell a car, I'm not so sure you'd be inundated with calls.

I'll put in a plug for Dents Away in Wolverhampton - excellent service - you take your car to his house and whilst he does the dents, you get fed tea and coffee and get to have a good look over is Misubishi Evo 8 (that was about 4 years ago, so he may have something else now). I had a branch dent removed from the roof of my 307, cost me £40 and well worth it. Phone number 07976 757280. Can't remember the guys name though, May be Mark or something like that??? I may also have just made that name up.

And I thought I lacked romance!!!!!

Hi everyone. Can anyone recommend a good leather conditioner? I want the seats to feel soft and smooth. I've used Turtle Wax stuff before which is ok, but wondered whether anyone can recommend a better product? Many thanks Keith

This is a direct copy and paste from an email I had on 13/9/08 about my car which was advertised on a few websites: am interesting in buying your lovly Car,and what is the lastprice??and also tell me the present condition.i will like to let you know that i will be needing the car urgently for my business partner before next month.I will like to see some of the pictures of it so as to send them to him if he loves the car. ok if its still for sale let me know. Best Regards. frank. edit - the guys name is frank ikekwem - hmm, kosher? Methinks not!

i don't think it would work coz you'll be taking layers off. best thing to do is to make backups of the originals cd/dvd where you can as most of them are data procted (but there are ways round it) Best thing to do is not to scratch them in the first place lol! I'm sure for someone who knows their way around computers properly, getting around copy protection is childs play!

Do you have her landline number and email address? Try googling them. May find nothing but you never know.

I read once that you can fix a scratched CD by using car polish and wax. Never tried it!!

Judging by the ebay feedback on what she's bought, she has bugger all fashion sense lol! I would feel the same as you I think. Think rationally - would you ever agree to buy a car for £2500 that you had never seen? Also, aren't there any Yaris's for sale in the south? Why buy one from Manchester? Hmm, mesmells a rat somewhere. I would certainly decline her offer of a lift to the trainstation if you did meet her on the M5! I think you've handled it right although for the cost of a train ticket I'd pay a friend to drive down in another car with you to bring you back. It's a tough one to call by the sounds of it - keep us posted with what happens.

It's a shame a couple of bad eggs have to spoil it because for an organisation the size of Royal Mail their reliability and security are generally pretty damn good. Although where I live, that brilliant game that everyone used to play as a child where you'd knock on someone's door and run away is now being played by adults in uniform. The only difference is, we called it 'knock and run' and they call themselves 'Parcel Force'!

Don't you have an auto? How did that happen in Park? And how did you get the car back up again? :o Even in park there's a tiny bit of sway in the wheels - they're not locked completely still and it only needs to move a tiny amount to topple the jack. I got it up again by taking the jack out of the Corsa we have and jacking it up and retrieving the other one. Wasn't a great day that!

lemme guess? still single? :D :P Unfortunately not lol! What can I say, I inherited my dad's romantic genes! At least the future Mrs Coyote didn't inherit her mother's sense of humour. Or lack thereof lol. Some people claim they have the devil for a mother in law. I actually do lol