Don't. Buy. Cars. From. Ebay.
At least not without looking at them first. Our 'bargain price' Citroen Berlingo has so far had the following:

- Broken power steering pump (works, but louder than engine)
- Exhaust (fell off on drive home)
- Starter motor (died one week after purchase)
- Brakes (so bad they're funny: a choice of drifting gently across the white line, or locking up the front wheels)
- Thermostat (doesn't work, so car eternally freezing cold. Doesn't matter that much, though, because the fan stopped working today anyway.)
- Anti-roll bar (two parts missing)
- Rear axle mounts (detached)

The word 'shed' is overused these days, but I think that in this case it may be a little too gentle really.
(trumpet, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 13:47, 4 replies)

Thats nothing to do with Ebay
Thats nothing to do with Ebay, its a French car not only thats it's a Citroen! This all would of happened Ebay or not.
(3:16, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:01, closed)

Never buy a Citroen
or a Renault, or a Peugeot, or a Fiat, or an Alfa Romeo unless you like spending a lot of time fixing cars.

No odds if you buy it off e bay, a forcourt, or whatever
(Bad_Dogg, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:30, closed)

european cars are cool
the only thing that has really gone wrong with my r reg saxo is that one of the side skirts fell off, bu t that may have something to do with a car hedge interface!
never buy a fiat or alfa, not because theyre bad but because it puts you in the hands of the fiat / alfa aftersales departments, and you really dont want to be, i used to work for them, so glad i dont anymore
(pogo_it, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:11, closed)

You bought a car on eBay...?
I bet that came in a fucking big jiffy bag - The postage alone would have been massive!
:-)

Beware the Saxo - I've heard 2 independant stories of them spinning out of control randomly...
(Phlash, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:25, closed)