RE: Selling 164 horror story

[ltooz@domain.elided (LLe_2001)]

Hello Scott,
 I sympathized with your situation, I had the same scenario with my bro-inlaw when I sold him my Jaguar XJ6. He drove back to SF from OC on a hot summer night, with full load and up the grape vine @ 90-100 mph up hill. The trans blew up. I had to take the car back.
 I hate to sell cars to ignorant people, these people should just get Japanese cars... they want to be cool, but cheap and have no common sense of mechanical warning lights. 
 If I were you, I would reminded him about all the guages on the dash board, especially it's extremely colorful with the 164.
 If the guy stops payment on the check, take him to court, I don't think you have to pay for people's ignorance.

Louis
91 Spider Veloce,
Sunnyvale, CA
Scott McCaulley <alfa@domain.elided> wrote:

>Greetings Alfisti.
>
>Here is a lesson about only selling an Alfa to an Alfa lover:
>
>I just placed and sold my 1991 164L on  Ebay.  Buyer was nice and 
>very prompt, flew down from Oakland to my home in LA to pick up car.
>
>When the fellow and his daughter arrive( car was for her) I drive 
>them around and show them how everything works.  Car runs good and 
>everything is working.  We stop and leave engine running and look at 
>all options and the like.
>
>Said fellow signs paperwork back at my home and proceeds to drive back to L.A.
>
>Nice fine transaction...........Nope..
>
>I get a call today (this happed last night) and the buyer says "I 
>want you to know how disappointed I am".   He goes on to explain 
>further " After about 30 minutes the alternator light comes on,  and 
>then about an hour before I get home, the car starts to sputter and 
>then dies!".   This was 5 hours of driving later.  Next he tells me 
>he is considering "stopping payment on the check" because I might 
>have sold him a car without the alternator belt on it.
>
>Ok, maybe I am being a jerk, but wouldn't most people with a 
>reasonable amount of intelligence, have stopped to maybe see why the 
>light came on?
>
>I can only imagine the damage done after driving 400miles with  the belt gone.
>
>He says the lights "slowly dimmed over the next 5 hours".
>
>He's disappointed with ME?  This guys does not deserve to drive my 
>beloved 164 and I wish I had sold it to one of the other 9 bidders, 
>one of which may have some sense.
>
>Anyway, beware of non alfa owners!
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