Would you buy this car at ANY PRICE?!!? I think I have found the worst car EVER to be offered at British Car Auctions Dealer Sale. Join this channel to get exclusive access to all videos early. / @chopsgarage
Had a squint at the pictures on BCA - everything ahead of the A pillars looks wonky, compares with the worst lots at a US Copart! Really ought to be a breaker
Hi James. Why not make a low bid to take a profit as a parts car or scrapper. Who else will bid? It would be interesting to see if a rock bottom bid would land it. Also if you did land it it would be interesting to have a close look at it. And if you took it off the road you could be doing us all a favour!
This reminds me of "The horrible Alpine", a beat up old Chrysler that became a minor star in the Sunderland Echo in the mid 1980s. The dealer was brutally honest about everything that was wrong with it, it had been in a few bumps etc and was taken in as a trade. It did sell in the end, and the dealer saw hugely increased footfall as curious buyers came to see the monstrosity. Problem with this Nissan is its not nasty enough!
On a 10 reg taxi most would.have done 94k in reverse and 400k forwards so mileage is suspect and not seen a note as a taxi before and petrol as well.. Seems to be alot of Octavia tdi's ex taxis at salvage all with Captain Kirk mileage. You must be able to whistle the panels off on that shed.
@@ChopsGarage I was one of the 1st buyers for WBAC in Lancashire, and a guy turned up with a Chrysler 300C, 39K on the clock, 3 years 1 month old with full dealer SH. Car was clean but rather worn steering wheel and side-bolster on the driver's seat. Passenger seat was immaculate ... There was only one MOT which tallied, but something wasn't quite right. I asked the seller to leave it with me for an hour ... I rang the phone number for the servicing dealer ( London ), the line was dead ... I googled car dealers with same postcode, and found a trader on the same road. When I rang him, he told me that the Jeep-Chrysler Dealership in question had closed 18 months ago, and I was looking a dealer stamp from 3 months ago !! Finally, I rang BCA, who told me the car had gone through Blackbushe not 2 weeks before with 167k up it !! It had been a limo transfer car mainly doing Airport runs in London !! Turns out the former Service manager at the dealership, had " acquired " the stamps from the shut dealer and had the software to amend the mileages, and was buying up high mileage stuff and selling them on .... I did a witness statement and I believe he spent some time as a guest of Her Majesty, I think he'd done 16 cars before he was arrested !!
11 owners ex taxi 94K miles no go, odo fraud likely. 10 owners struggling with the car, and send him away they are completely done with it, I guess. Maybe a perfect car for your mother in law 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Greetings from the Netherlands 🇾🇪🇾🇪
I've been watching your videos for a little while now, I'm jealous. I'm in Wisconsin, US and the used car market is a burning dumpster fire. I'm looking for a small manual car like you sell, I can't find a single thing under 10 grand that's even worth a drive out to look for. This bucket of bent bolts would be $8,000 US all day around here.
Very interesting, would not touch this vehicle with the proverbial barge pole. The 11 previous owners would set the alarm bells ringing immediately, 1 owner on average every year. Great video and presentation James.
Hi James my nephew had a focus that was written off 1 was a cat s and 2nd cat N and he wanted to buy it back. But the insurance company told him that they would not allow it to be put back on the road as it had been written off twice already. it only wanted 2 doors. the old Cat C is the new Cat S, and D is the New Cat N.
It will be probably shipped for us here in Ireland and sold for 3... 4k as "low mileage, only 95000km", they always change from miles to km as 1 per 1...
@@ChopsGarage No crossed fingers needed. You will continue onwards and upwards.. You're a genuine good man in world full of fools and villains... You might be an endangered species!
Before second hand car prices went nuts it would be worth a punt for £500-£750 as long as there was no dodgy welding or a ton of filler where metal should be. Over a grand? No chance, it's a car that only has use as a runaround.
Happy new year chap and no mate I have seen this sort of car’s being sold on FB market place let alone a major auction house not even worth for a parts car with that sort of history in my book.
You can see damage above the A-pillar! Doesn’t look like it was fixed the last time it was written off. It needs to be broken and kept off the road. It is passed it’s best but would make a cheap run around and I truly think it doesn’t have a value about £500.
I'd run a mile - quickly from that. that reminds me of a starship mileage Vauxhall I had in the 70s. When it failed the MOT the tester said ' There's nothing wrong that a new car couldn't put right'.
Problem would be finding a panel/part that hadn't been hit or otherwise worn out through the 3 write offs and general mileage. Gotta think if this was repaired with scrap parts, the parts would already have covered loads of miles then bolted on to this crash magnet 🤣
I love a Nissan Note myself, flipped a few, to the point I kept one for myself about 3 weeks ago 2011 1.5 DCI top spec Tekna model. 75k miles on the clock Gave it a fresh service and only issue was needed a new fuel filter as current one was leaking and cause a start up issue For the money and the spec, these are great runners and such practice cars, odd that I could ever love a car like this but cannot help it, for some reason they are just a great drive and look decent for age. Mine is beige which is the old man's colour, but who cares lol
I have had a couple on register 2 or 3 times. That's why it's had so many owners, it's changed hands a lot. A mate has a 2019 seat leon fr with 18,000 miles that been cat s twice and repaired twice
I personally wouldn't buy any Nissan built after 2001 onwards. They are basically Renaults now. You only have to look at the old Nissan micra k11 model compared to the badly built K12 model which was built after Renault bought into Nissan in 2001. Their cars have become progressively worse since. I've seen brand new Nissans in showrooms, where the panels don't line up properly. Its interesting that you pointed out this in damaged one you was looking at. It probably wasn't the accident damage that caused that. It more than likely came out of the showroom like that when is was new.🤣
Would love to know what an HPI report says. Dodgy Cars FB page shows cars can be clear of Cat status under HPI, while in reality there are many written off cars, even through main dealers. "2019 Fiesta Lemon" is a damaged car repaired with the use of woodscrews, but cannot remember HPI status on that.
I think you could still have buyers at £500 to £1,000 and run it into the ground. We brought out Mini Cooper s a couple of years ago and drives like a dream but just noticed last month looking at log book it has 9 previous owners and normally if I had know that or asked that question I’m not too sure we would of brought it but very happy and quite reliable. I think on exotic cars or special sports car high number of owners are the norm. But do agree high number of owners is a red flag but not a deal breaker
Ahh, the poor Note...went into a showroom hoping for a nice retired couple to buy it new, but it became a taxi with the worst drivers, and will possibly see out it's days as a taxi again... Feel sorry for it!
All in all considering it’s history it’s surprising it’s here at all! Mind you being written off three times there possibly not much of the original car left. It’s a strange car for a taxi? A local firm to me had a Meriva as a taxi for a few years. I can’t see the logic there. Surely something spacious is taxi material.
When you said it might be 100% reliable , I’m not so sure having one of the worst auto boxes in history for reliability. I suspect that might explain a few of the owner changes ….As for me, it’s a no on so so many counts…..
for like 200 quid yeah i would for parts but need to see it in person to know if id ever drive it as a run about, i dont think anyone with a a slight bit of sole would want to sell that on, be intresting to see how much it makes
James... Cat C is the total cost of repairs exceed the retail value of the car.. hence total loss. Cat N is the repair costs were less than the retail value, still could be easily repairable by insurance but either the owner or ins co have decided not to go ahead with repairs... eg non fault claim, insured didn't want it back.. It would of been interesting to see what it actually went for 🤔 not that I'd of bid on it 🤣🤣
How would this affect your insurance premiums with a history of so many bad accidents plus the ones we don’t know about or trying to claim after an accident when the companies start probing into the cars history
6 of those keepers will have been from someone buying it as a hobby, putting it in their name, fixing it, and then selling it on to have someone elses name. This would've repeated i reckon. At the right price (very low) as a private buyer I would consider it if I needed a cheap auto runner, but for a dealer, no way.
