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That sounds plausible but also still crazy.
Just ask yourself what it's worth without aircon, can you afford to fix it if it's properly borked, and I think the big question is, how likely is it that he bought a car, realised something major on it is fucked, and is trying to get rid?
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can you afford to fix it if it's properly borked
Yes but don't want to!
He's calling me today and I have read up on FN2 Civic air con. There is a common fault where the relay for the compressor motor in the fuse box fails, it's easy to check this as the belt/compressor won't be turning. The worst case of a new compressor is a lot less than I thought but I don't really want to get into air con fault finding, especially when it could be a £12 pipe or a £20 relay or it could be potentially hundreds. So I'd prefer him to get it seen to or I drop my offer accordingly.
Fox
His work have unexpectedly given him a company car apparently which is arriving on Tuesday, which is why he doesn't want to give it up before then.
Honestly my feeling is that he's just a bit half-assed: the original ad had crap pictures, hardly any blurb and he'd managed to upload a screengrab of Roy Orbison's Wikipedia entry along with the pictures 😂
He was then quite hard to get hold of, but when he sent me more pictures the car looked a lot better than the pics in the ad.
If he's some evil genius he's not doing it very well, he's also been super relaxed about everything and no hard sell at all. But apparently getting Honda to fit a new compressor is £650, so yeah, there's that.