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@Chaley
I’m sure that fella was genuine, but
#csb
I once went to look at a car that had just been MOTed that day. I got there a little bit early and saw the owner and a mate frantically putting the back wheels on. I asked what was going on and apparently they had got an advisory for low thread on the rear tyres so has swapped on some different wheels. Oh that’s nice I thought, especially as they were nicer wheels. Anyway I took it for a test drive it was fine, paid my money and drove home a nice little KA. Obviously I didn’t test the hand brake on my test drive, because when I got home it didn’t work. Shit a brick, I jacked the back up thinking somehow in changing the wheels they had dislodged something, the cable wasn’t connected to anything just cable tied to the control arm. I took the wheels off as well as the drums and there was nothing in there, I mean nothing, no shoes, springs, pistons, nothing. That’s a lie there was a bolt in the end of the brake line fittings. The next day I drove it back to where I’d got it. Yeah, the person that sold it to me no longer lived there and there was no forwarding address. Turned out the car had been sat with the rear wheels under the back in pieces for a month or 2 and well a friendly mot tester and an idiot car buyer got it moved. Fuckers!
I fixed it and we drove it for 4 years and it was actually a really good clean car and still very cheap. But still. Fuckers!!!