Crashed the Zafira

JohnnyN

Former Staff
Senior Member
Went over to Newbury this afternoon into see the 'Mint' condidtion Zafira SRi. It was very nice but it wasn't mint as described to me when I called the dealer this morning. The rear N/S 18" Penta was curbed very badly, 2 tyres needed replacing due to tyre wall damage, roof lining was scagged, handbrake lever badly scratched, various paint chips around the body of the car that had bee touched up with paint stick and the turbo felt quite lazy coming in??

The dealer wanted £9k. I pointed out the issues and he told me that this was one of the best examples that I would find as all the rest are dogs! I told him I had cash and he said that it made no difference how I was paying. I asked if there was any room for negotiation and he said no. He told me that he sells these cars for this price every week.

That car has been advertised for 2 weeks on his website?

I bid him farewell and left.
 

Matt

Administrator
Sounds like you did the right thing walking away John.

The turbo being quite laggy could be due to the EGR becoming blocked up, but I'm quite shocked that he said the rest of them are "dogs"? He obviously must be buying up all the s**tty examples!
 

vocky

Staff
sales people can be full of s**te :evil:

when I was looking for a mini cooper s I gave the saleman a list of all the stuff it had to have, his reply ... No way you will find one with all those options, well we found three and bought the best one :D

tossers :LOL:

ps: it's a buyers market at the moment, so if in doubt walk away (y)
 

Sjdickso

Staff
As Vocky says its a buyers market just walk away.

I can remember about 6 months ago lookign at car, sales man wouldnt give me a part ex parice on mine unless i agreed to buy i :wtf: when i told him i needed to know what price i was going to get for mine i could not agree to a sale he then started been very abusive and saying his show room wasnt a valuation centre, what a D*CK.

As for a VXR nice but with the 400+ a year road tax i dont think it is worth it.
 

Matt

Administrator
Sjdickso said:
As for a VXR nice but with the 400+ a year road tax i dont think it is worth it.
It is a shame the Zafira sits in the higher tax bracket. That must put a lot of people off them
 

JohnnyN

Former Staff
Senior Member
Its been a long day today. Looking locally and upto Swindon today. Done almost 300 miles since yesterday. I'm a little disappointed tonight. :(

I know something will turn up. I'm off from Thursday so I'll be back on it again. There are some more that i've seen on Autotrader tonight that'll i'll probably have a look at.
 
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