damaged XR5 on ebay

20focus05 · 07-01-2008, 07:17 PM

Hi guys
while surfing ebay I found this
wish I had the cash
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/damaged-ford-...QQcmdZViewItem

Bucknaked · 07-01-2008, 07:44 PM

Theres more info on it on the XR5T forums. The original owner of the car is on there. Would you believe, damaged caused by the service department

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20focus05 · 07-01-2008, 08:39 PM

your joking!! someone test driving hey

Bucknaked · 07-01-2008, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 20focus05

your joking!! someone test driving hey

: A little over excited Mechanic. I felt for the owner. These arn't just cars, people put a lot of time an effort and money in maintaining their car and really protecting what they paid good money for. Then you get someone entrusted to looking after your pride and joy, and they give it a canning for their own enjoyment. How would they react of it was their car.

JC · 07-01-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucknaked

: A little over excited Mechanic. I felt for the owner. These arn't just cars, people put a lot of time an effort and money in maintaining their car and really protecting what they paid good money for. Then you get someone entrusted to looking after your pride and joy, and they give it a canning for their own enjoyment. How would they react of it was their car.

That sounds like a good story - if it were true, the mechanic's insurance should cover it, so why is it being sold?

20focus05 · 07-01-2008, 09:15 PM

I'm a mechanic I would not do that to a customer. Cause I would be fairly pis5ed if I found them flogging my car.
I rekon a punch in the mouth would be on the cards too

LUXO_8 · 07-01-2008, 09:15 PM

thats a serious gutter whack to deploy airbags and the like.
wonder what it will go for

20focus05 · 07-01-2008, 09:23 PM

Hope the owner got a new car out of it

The_Ghost · 07-01-2008, 09:56 PM

I had a ford mechanic call me a wog /mario cuz I told him too look after my pride and joy and rattled off sum of the mods( sorry not jacking thread)

And the funny thing is Im not ethnic

Apologies if any offence to the names

The_Ghost · 07-01-2008, 10:02 PM

Would the mecahnics employment have been terminated or would he have been made to replace the car?Prolly at ford cost price LOL. Ford dealer could not do anything but give new car right? So does mech have a weekly deduction or given the boot?

Piotr · 07-01-2008, 10:13 PM

Please use the edit

Piotr · 07-01-2008, 10:13 PM

feature so you don't double post

Ives · 07-01-2008, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Theres more info on it on the XR5T forums. The original owner of the car is on there. Would you believe, damaged caused by the service department

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Are you serious?... I wouldn't wanna be that mechanic right now.

Bucknaked · 08-01-2008, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by JC

That sounds like a good story - if it were true, the mechanic's insurance should cover it, so why is it being sold?

Car was at Auction. Owner has his new car through insurance. The new owner is a Panel Beater, he bought it and now has decided to set rid of it.

Thread here

http://www.fordxr5turbo.com/forum/in...p?topic=2203.0

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Originally Posted by DECAF From XR5 Forums

Took my car into sevice dept at lunchtime to get them to look at unusual sound which developed on Friday.
Sounds like a loose belt...

ANYWAY, arrived back at work to take a call informing me that their technician crashed my car, front end write off, undrivable.
He then asked me if had insurance which I thought was a little strange.

Has anyone else any experience similar?

JC · 08-01-2008, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Car was at Auction. Owner has his new car through insurance. The new owner is a Panel Beater, he bought it and now has decided to set rid of it.

Thread here

http://www.fordxr5turbo.com/forum/in...p?topic=2203.0

Wow - kind of lucky/unlucky for the owner. If a panel beater won't fix it, it must be stuffed!

That link only works if you're a member.

DNKPWR · 08-01-2008, 11:49 AM

Maybe the reason was....Parts for the XR5 was much more expensive and harder to get than the normal focus! some parts would have to be sent from overseas?

Bucknaked · 08-01-2008, 01:04 PM

Definatley. The idea of fixing it up is a good one, but a magority of parts sourced from OS, would make the rebuild more expensive. Even wrecking it, he could recover some of his money, but with a damaged mechanicals, most of the money is in those parts alone.

BlackLS · 08-01-2008, 01:27 PM

Generally if the airbags go off in a LS, they stat-write off the car.

Bucknaked · 08-01-2008, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackLS

Generally if the airbags go off in a LS, they stat-write off the car.

Can someone belt the fron't of mine to deploy the airbags then

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DNKPWR · 08-01-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Can someone belt the fron't of mine to deploy the airbags then

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I think the airbag will only deploy if the car was hit hard enough...pretty sure most cars have a g-force sensors, like over 3G's, only excessive amount will engage the airbags!