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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 14 September 2013, 17:47:56 »
You'll have to contact DVLA, they should tell you for a small fee.
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 14 September 2013, 10:52:34 »My guess would be that the car was cheap enough to be tempting, but not that cheap. What you have said about the the seller would suggest summat seriously amissGuess it found its way into the computer eventuallyDo you have the sellers address? (a rhetorical question...)
...through PNC... If it doesn't check out then you stand a fair chance of losing the car and your money
This thread might turn out to be a textbook guide for 'How not to buy a car'
Crap news indeed
If the HPI check was kosher, then should they not be paying you back your cash? Or does it not cover against cloning
HPI will not cover it if he paid over £3000 in cash
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 13 September 2013, 09:43:41 »Hi everyone , i have a new problem
I dropped the car at BMW today and within 30 mins they called me back saying that the cars ignition does not belong to the car, they checked the key and it belongs to a 535 not my 530 and not the dame year , the guy on the phone said it could be innocent and just be that the car has had a second hand replacement ignition but even tho that brings up questions,
The only positive i can think of is that the guy i bought it from bought it as stolen recovered and a third party not bmw replaced the ignition and then he sold it on to muggins me , I got no problem with the car if thats the case as long as its not dodgy
Do you think this is plausible ?
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What is your reg number, PM me it if need be, also the last 7 numbers of your VIN number. BMW's are very complex, anything you do pretty much needs a computer, you won't just be able to put a second hand ignition unit in and it'll work, it would need every single system on the car coded to that key, and genuinely that would take an age. I'm afraid to say it, but genuinely it looks like you've bought a car with one hell of a past.
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 12 September 2013, 13:11:33 »
To be honest with you, I highly doubt you're going to be getting the spare key, did you get all the service history etc? Does all the mileage match up?
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 10 September 2013, 16:06:20 »yup all number entered into hpi check and all came back ok , paid in cash with receipt
As all the numbers were entered in before you have some sort of recourse should anything be amiss. Although they'd still kick up about it being paid in cash. To be honest, I'd just see how it goes really, a lot of people say they have the spare key when they don't just to help the sale go through. Any help you need feel free to give me a PM if needed. As long as all the number match up properly I wouldn't worry overly. The engine mount still surprises me though.
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General Discussion Area / Re: hi all
« on: 10 September 2013, 10:28:03 »
Welcome back mate, glad you're back home 
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 10 September 2013, 08:27:39 »
As said if you didn't put in all numbers before hand the HPI won't cover you. Did you pay by cash or bank transfer, did you get a receipt? Where did you buy it from?
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 09 September 2013, 21:06:14 »
Spiders, best alloys available for the E60 . Lovely looker.
. Lovely looker.
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 09 September 2013, 18:53:29 »Did you HPI this car?
full check £30 online
Any reason for asking lol
Honestly I can't just see a mount cracking at 90k, just can't see it
. Show us some pictures of this car anyway .
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 08 September 2013, 22:31:30 »
Where did you get this car from?
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General Car Chat / Re: bmw 530
« on: 06 September 2013, 23:11:03 »
It's not got loose under paneling or a loose engine cover has it? I had a loose panel under a 7 Series once and it gave the most horrible noise. Is it a manual I take it?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Proper pileup
« on: 06 September 2013, 17:14:20 »There were also two more crashes yesterday, one between J9-J10 M20 and another between J10-J11, a bad day yesterday on the motorways around here. There was nearly 20 miles of complete standstill traffic from Ashford to Maidstone yesterday afternoon.
Nearly didn't get to a car meet at the dickens world chatham because of the M20 ones itwas chaos on the round about in Ashford as the A20 and the J9 meet.
J9 was a nightmare, from 4 o'clock until about 7 yesterday afternoon Ashford was pretty much gridlocked.
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General Discussion Area / Re: How much do you ask your kids for home hotel?
« on: 06 September 2013, 13:47:27 »
Don't charge anything here, however the eldest has moved out now, and the youngest works for me, so I can't complain.