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After my recent thread about the troubles I had last week with my car, someone insinuated Saint.V8 sold me a lemon and hid various faults from me.
I want to make this as clear as I possibly can. The above comment could not be farther from the truth. In fact, the above comment is horse****.
To clear things up once and for all I am posting this open thread.
In February this year I expressed a desire to purchase an L322 Vogue. Several people replied giving advice, one of them being @Saint.V8. He mentioned he might be willing to sell his if I was interested. He sent me a private message with all the relevant details.
A few people saw his reply and immediately interjected and told me I would be an idiot if I didn't buy it. Saint is the best, buy it now etc etc.
Now, I mean no disrespect to any of you, but this was my first foray into the Range Rover side of LZ and as such, I had no reason to trust anything any of you said, Saint included.
In order to guage who to believe and listen to, I wanted to educate myself about this side of the forum. Because of what was said about him, I read every post of Saints. Not a few, not a lot, all of them. I then read loads of posts by the other most vocal people in my initial thread.
I knew I could trust the opinions of those who told me I should buy Saints car and I knew I could trust Saint when he told me about it.
We had a few email conversations about the car. He told me all about it. Everything.
I was told all the work Saint had done on the car. I was also told everything which needed doing mechanically and cosmetically. This was all before I arranged to see her.
When I arrived to see it, Saint told me everything about the car. We had a very detailed discussion about the differences between the different models, the mechanical work he had done and what jobs he knew needed to be done.
Saint took me over the car from bonnet to boot telling me everything there was to know about it. We then got inside and he talked me through the paper service history. I was shown how to use all the different features and what each thing did. Saint even showed me all the GPS and DSP stuff behind the panels in the boot. In 20 years of buying cars, not one seller has ever been as detailed as Saint was. He literally could not have given me more information if he tried.
I made the decision to buy it after a detailed test drive. I knew exactly what worked, what didn't and what mechanical work needed to be done.
Let's talk about that for a second.
Things I was informed didn't work before I came to see it:
Air con
Heated steering wheel
Rear wiper
Things I discovered didn't work during the test drive:
Air con
Heated steering wheel
Rear wiper
Things I was told were damaged before I came to see it:
Drivers seat switch Valence trim
Scratch on drivers side door
Things I discovered were damaged during the test drive:
Drivers seat switch Valence trim
Scratch on drivers side door
I was so happy with the car I didn't even try and barter. I paid the full cash price as requested. I always barter. I've never, ever paid the sticker price when buying a car. This is the only time I've ever paid the price the seller asked for. That's how happy I was.
Said told me that even though the car was now my property, he wasn't going to walk away from it. He told me if I had any questions or problems, I should ask him. I have done so, in public and private and Saint has always been happy to answer everything.
I cannot reiterate this enough. I knew exactly what I was buying. I knew what needed to be fixed. I knew an approximate cost to do so. I knew all this because Saint was clear about it from the start.
I have never met a car seller as honest as Saint. I will happily buy another car from him in the future. I will happily trust his judgement about any matter concerning this car, engine, gearbox etc.
I absolutely trust Saints judgement. I trust in his integrity. You should too as you have for so long already.
I want to make this as clear as I possibly can. The above comment could not be farther from the truth. In fact, the above comment is horse****.
To clear things up once and for all I am posting this open thread.
In February this year I expressed a desire to purchase an L322 Vogue. Several people replied giving advice, one of them being @Saint.V8. He mentioned he might be willing to sell his if I was interested. He sent me a private message with all the relevant details.
A few people saw his reply and immediately interjected and told me I would be an idiot if I didn't buy it. Saint is the best, buy it now etc etc.
Now, I mean no disrespect to any of you, but this was my first foray into the Range Rover side of LZ and as such, I had no reason to trust anything any of you said, Saint included.
In order to guage who to believe and listen to, I wanted to educate myself about this side of the forum. Because of what was said about him, I read every post of Saints. Not a few, not a lot, all of them. I then read loads of posts by the other most vocal people in my initial thread.
I knew I could trust the opinions of those who told me I should buy Saints car and I knew I could trust Saint when he told me about it.
We had a few email conversations about the car. He told me all about it. Everything.
I was told all the work Saint had done on the car. I was also told everything which needed doing mechanically and cosmetically. This was all before I arranged to see her.
When I arrived to see it, Saint told me everything about the car. We had a very detailed discussion about the differences between the different models, the mechanical work he had done and what jobs he knew needed to be done.
Saint took me over the car from bonnet to boot telling me everything there was to know about it. We then got inside and he talked me through the paper service history. I was shown how to use all the different features and what each thing did. Saint even showed me all the GPS and DSP stuff behind the panels in the boot. In 20 years of buying cars, not one seller has ever been as detailed as Saint was. He literally could not have given me more information if he tried.
I made the decision to buy it after a detailed test drive. I knew exactly what worked, what didn't and what mechanical work needed to be done.
Let's talk about that for a second.
Things I was informed didn't work before I came to see it:
Air con
Heated steering wheel
Rear wiper
Things I discovered didn't work during the test drive:
Air con
Heated steering wheel
Rear wiper
Things I was told were damaged before I came to see it:
Drivers seat switch Valence trim
Scratch on drivers side door
Things I discovered were damaged during the test drive:
Drivers seat switch Valence trim
Scratch on drivers side door
I was so happy with the car I didn't even try and barter. I paid the full cash price as requested. I always barter. I've never, ever paid the sticker price when buying a car. This is the only time I've ever paid the price the seller asked for. That's how happy I was.
Said told me that even though the car was now my property, he wasn't going to walk away from it. He told me if I had any questions or problems, I should ask him. I have done so, in public and private and Saint has always been happy to answer everything.
I cannot reiterate this enough. I knew exactly what I was buying. I knew what needed to be fixed. I knew an approximate cost to do so. I knew all this because Saint was clear about it from the start.
I have never met a car seller as honest as Saint. I will happily buy another car from him in the future. I will happily trust his judgement about any matter concerning this car, engine, gearbox etc.
I absolutely trust Saints judgement. I trust in his integrity. You should too as you have for so long already.