Stiched Up When Buying First Elise?

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:25 pm

I was but got my own back when I bought the red beastie

I was sold a 111 S2 for dead on 111s price

The car was reged by Lotus (AU reg) I was told it was a PR girls company car. Shame there was a blokes name on the docs

unless he had a sex change

Post by ed » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:07 pm

Oh almost forgot! First off, I tried to buy Paul Gibsons old blue s2 when he got his 111r from mmc. Was promised first dibs and after having been offered an awful part exchange i came back the next weekend after getting over 2 grand more privately with cash to buy and he/it had already been sold! Was raging!

They tried to sell me a lightning blue 111s with a grand off the ask and i told them politely to shove it. Funny enough it is/or atleast recently was still for sale at the original asking price.

Then i went south and got a better one for less money.

Post by **simon** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:11 pm

It was just missing the 111S engine

Post by ed » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:20 pm

simon wrote:It was just missing the 111S engine

Yes, I know!!

and a s/s exhaust and induction which i have to concede sound awsome.

I cant imagine the blue one had an easy life so maybe the cloud did after all have a silver lining

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:00 pm

Looked at buying my first S1 from Ian on Yahoo group, some of you will remember it from the early days, it was the burgunday red colour, with cream leather, it was mint, but being 19, insurance was wicked, and also trying to finance 16k was a little too much for me. Ended going to a twat i didnt like, who ened up selling it less than a year later. Anyone know where it is now, i think it was on an S plate.

Anyway 4 years on I bought the VX, trade price as was working for Mercedes at the time, bought it for 10.5k, X reg, 17k miles, and have just sold it tonight or technically Sunday for £10,300 - Beat that!

I have done over 11k miles in just about 15 months - WHO SAYS THE VX WASN'T THE BEST OPTION!!!!!!!!

I have had an amazing time with the car, and I will have another one, it would be nice to have a Lotus next for a change, but we will see!

Dave - Just about to leave the fold faction!!!

woody · Post by **woody** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:07 pm

Rag_It wrote:Looked at buying my first S1 from Ian on Yahoo group, some of you will remember it from the early days, it was the burgunday red colour, with cream leather, it was mint, but being 19, insurance was wicked, and also trying to finance 16k was a little too much for me. Ended going to a twat i didnt like, who ened up selling it less than a year later. Anyone know where it is now, i think it was on an S plate.

Anyway 4 years on I bought the VX, trade price as was working for Mercedes at the time, bought it for 10.5k, X reg, 17k miles, and have just sold it tonight or technically Sunday for £10,300 - Beat that!

I have done over 11k miles in just about 15 months - WHO SAYS THE VX WASN'T THE BEST OPTION!!!!!!!!

I have had an amazing time with the car, and I will have another one, it would be nice to have a Lotus next for a change, but we will see!

Dave - Just about to leave the fold faction!!!

Or you could sell it tomorrow, please?

Post by **simon** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:14 pm

Sorry to see it go Dave, hope it won't be long before you're back in either a VX or an Elise. Are you the new owner woody? If so, hope you'll be sticking around here and hopefully see you on a run or on track

woody · Post by **woody** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:17 pm

Was hoping to be but it seems the car will go over to ireland; i was going to view it tomorrow

Post by **simon** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:18 pm

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:12 am

Market for VX's seems to have realyl picked up in the past few weeks - loads of newbies coming onto the owners club. Gotta be good news for Lotus guys too.

Woody PM / email me if you are interested in buying a VX and ill see if i can help you (you can't have mine tho

)

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:50 am

Rag_It wrote:was working for Mercedes at the time

Hey Dave, what and where were you at Mercedes, didn't know a guy called Usman did ya?

Post by **simon** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:07 am

Lazydonkey wrote:Woody PM / email me if you are interested in buying a VX and ill see if i can help you (you can't have mine tho )

You could also try here

sorry

Post by ed » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:15 am

The_Rossatron wrote:
Rag_It wrote:was working for Mercedes at the time
Hey Dave, what and where were you at Mercedes, didn't know a guy called Usman did ya?

Yeah he does! We rented our last flat from him. How come?

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:25 am

haha classic, I used to go to school with him back in the day. We were good pals got into a fair bit of trouble together, haven't seen him for a while though. Small world!

I've been meaing to nip down to westerns and say hi.

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:30 am

simon wrote:
Lazydonkey wrote:Woody PM / email me if you are interested in buying a VX and ill see if i can help you (you can't have mine tho )
You could also try here

sorry