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Old Aug 24th, 2010, 20:31   #1
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Default Bullsh1t listing of the year award...

As per title, the person listing this car http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/740-GL-estate-...Automobiles_UK on the 'Bay is deffo a contender.

A couple of choice selections:

"Being an import has different, better engine and running gear etc than the uk 740's so can make finding parts in scappies difficult...."

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Built to last these 740's not like the cars destined for uk market. These cars have been seen to do over million miles on first engine, so this ones got 162k on clock, so plenty of life left in the old girl."

Please, go and view the listing, it is a work of art...

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I have read that listing yesterday Nick ........ just to comical for words , people will say the most silliest things to try and sell a car .
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What a let down a nice big read like that and then no pictures of this rare beast!!
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Wish I knew that before buying my uk model, which funnily enough was also built in Sweden.

HMMMMMMMMMM I smell something funny.
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Well thats it for me! I'm Gonna sell my piece of sh*t uk spec 960 asap and go out and buy a lada cos at 176k it must be about to imminently fail big time !!
TTFN good luck all you lot with your inferior volvos
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Oh that one's priceless:

"body work hasn’t any rust that can see......Is no rust on her apart from a small bit at the base of one wheel arch, which was welded for a previous mot"

"Good sevice history with volvo dealer for upto just over 111,000 miles, timing belt done back then by volvo dealer"

So at best (and ignoring the time element) it's 1000 miles away from a belt change.

"Very clean interior, dash etc looks new, few tiny bits of wear seats hardly any wear at all, but small burn hole in drivers seat"

The 940 I just sold was a diplomatic sale, wish I'd known the extra value

Brilliant work that person tbh it made me giggle so hope it goes well.
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Damn it, i want that car. Wonder if he would consider swapping it for my 04 reg S60 T5. Cant see mine reaching 1,000,000 miles
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Oh dear, I'm just in the process of buying a UK spec 960 estate..... If only I'd realised I was making such a big mistake!

One thing does confuse me though, it's posted on UK Ebay..... When it should have been posted on CloudCuckooLand Ebay.

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On the plus side, unlike some recently, at least it's cheap.
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O.M.G how silly of me owning not one but two 745's as UK spec (what I have missed out on), oh how I wish I had known all this before buying. That running gear sounds so much better. (and the fact that Haynes even went to the trouble of writing a manual for it too.)
Im really interested in that ebay car.



To quote a well known TV personality "WHAT A LOAD OF ****" lol

Even worse is the fact that its a Scottish listing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh
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