Whitey Grandad

What a load of b*ll*cks. (and where in Winchester is the 'statue of the man on the horse'?)

What do you expect? International weekend so no footie and bugger-all else going on.

Private sale between consenting adults. Nothing much happening here, move along please.

As others have said, I think it's something to do with the way that the smoke particles give the moisture in the air somewhere to nucleate thus causing a sudden dense smog.

Nor seat belts...

What I can't understand is, if it was foggy, why have a fireworks display? And It can't have been a coincidence, the fireworks were only about 100m from the pile-up.

These.

I believe, I really believe!

The OP said later that the car was sold 'outside Ebay' so the first statement may not have applied to this sale. You're quite right to talk about being naive. I'm sure there's a lesson there for all of us, whether selling or buying.

Not necessarily. The gearbox may have been sound to the best of the knowledge and belief of the seller. The buyer may have crashed the gears all the way to the nearest motorway, or hit a raised drainhole cover, or may just have been unlucky. Mind you, in my early days there was talk of putting sawdust into the gearbox to keep it quiet.

Surely, everything that has been posted has only been an expression of opinion. We are not privy to the discussions that took place at the time of sale so I would suggest that we cannot venture an opinion as to the description of the vehicle that was made at this time. The only true test of legality is in front of a judge. I would say that driving away in a vehicle that you had just bought and knew to be unroadworthy was definiteley not kosher, unless you were taking it for a pre-booked MOT test at a reasonably local test station by the most direct route, which would be pretty stupid if you knew that it was going to fail anyway. I don't suppose it would bhave been insured either.

I fully agree.

What law would that be, exactly?

Look, according to the seller this trade was not made through Ebay so that description does not apply. All that matters is what took place at the time of the sale/purchase. Earlier descriptions of the vehicle are out of date. It is up to the buyer to satisfy himself as to the condition of the goods that he is buying. This is a private trade between two individuals so consumer law does not apply. After the latest MOT the vehicle has been found to be unroadworthy, but according to the statements above it was never described as such. The only dispute that I can see is to the amount that would need to be spent in order to make the vehicle roadworthy again, and that will be what was discussed at the time of the sale. Any earlier descriptions on Ebay are out of date irrelevant. As I said above, the law says 'caveat emptor' - 'let the buyer beware' - which is a basic principle in commerce where anything is sold without a warranty. (All in my humble opinion, of course.)

Is she fit?

Caveat emptor, I say.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/uefa-europa-league-football-live/clips/highlights-fulham-4-1-wisa-krakw about 1:20 in.

Really? I thought we were much better than that. I make it only 49.995.

I thought ours was better, TBH.

Sold outside of EBAY so that has nothing to do with it. What matters is what took place between you and the buyer, what descriptions were made and what conditions were agreed.

As for the V5C, don't you just send it off saying who is now the registered keeper? There is no need for them to sign it too.

If he inspected it and paid in full then he has accepted the goods. When I used to buy the odd car or two at the auctions you only had a couple of hours to return it for any mechanical complaints.

The kids today can't even get a swastika right. I blame the schools. (Doesn't Godwin's Law apply to this?)

I had a call at my business asking to speak to my business partner Mr. J...... saying that my partner had asked him to give us a call at around this time. I asked him when this would have been and he said "about 3 months ago" so I said "I don't think he would have" and he insisted that this was true, so I told him several times in various ways that this would have been unlikely and he kept on insisting that he had been asked by my partner to give us a return call. Then I told him that J.... had died six years before and he went very quiet. I still get junk mail for J...., even after more than 8 years.

Yes, very confusing. I don't know why the ref waited so long to blow his whistle after gathering evryone around the centre circle. The announcement said 'a period of silence', didn't it? Anyway, so long as we take a few moments to remember those no longer with us that's all that matters.