Can You Trust Second-Hand Bike Sellers

[Mamil]

1 hour ago, Gerlach said:

About 2 years ago I was looking for a X1 of Q3 but between 2015 and 2020 models, decide to check what they got but I know they got dodgy stuff and just to see what pops up. Check a Q3, book shows it was service at the x amount km's at this place, but the computer shows 50k km less then what the book shows. I informed there sales person, he did nothing.

Went to a different one to go check a super clean X1 2017 but it was behind on two services that the computer is showing. Took the vin number to BMW to have it run on the system and it actually still had 2 year oil service with them, but it was like 30k km behind on service. BMW told me to walk a way because it can be a Pandora box.

Best part, I went back to ........cars to see what they will do, I told them this is a cash deal that I'm doing, will they send the car to BMW. This way and that way they came back and say they will send it, but I need to pay for the stuff, and my reaction was, and if there is bigger problems , what then? sales manager went in to buffer mode and offline after that question. 

My line manager bought a lemon from them, what saved him was because the car was finance and the bank force them to take the car back. 

 

I recently sold a car to we ..... cars - it was completely buggered - (minor fender bender issues, torn leather upholstery AND a fault in the central control box which intermittently discharged the battery and which only the agents could fix for 40k.) Car 15 years old, book value of 80K. I disclosed every single fault to them in detail, would have taken X for the car, was offered 1.5 times X which I took and converted into (another) bicycle.

I would sell to we......cars again but there is not a snowball's chance I would buy from them.

PS: If they offer you a 15 year old Honda at a cheap price .... don't.