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Never ever have I had the Police involved in selling a car...
I had started a post a week ago on a Nissan website regarding my problems shifting into 1st and 2nd gears with my 2001 Sentra. It just didn't want to go into those gears at all. Changed the fluid to a very expensive Redline brand and although it now shifted, it wasn't smooth, the diff was making a clacking sound while accelerating and under decell and the odd time, it still didn't want to go into 1st and 2nd. The trans is defenetly on the outs soon. Its sounds like the LSD is hanging on by a thread. So, it was time to sell her and make it someone else's problem
. Car is in mint shape with no rust at all(rare 4 Canada) and considering it has 280,000kms on the odometer. Things wrong with it was, Trans, contol arm bushings, steering rack, resistor block for the blower motor, no working radio and cv shafts..both of em.
I foolishly advertised it for $2500cdn with 2 sets of rims and tires. Way under priced for my area. I had 20 calls and 18 e-mails. I took a 200 deposit in advanced for the car in 6 hours after advertising. I told him that I would replace the cv shafts and install them as long as the parts were available aftermarket. Then the next day, someone called and offered me 3100.00 without even seeing it in person. He came down and loved it and said he can have the cash in 20 mins. So now I had a dilemia. Do I blow off the deal I made with the guy from the night before, and make an extra 600.00? Or do I say soory pal...its sold. Money is tight for me still because I am not working. So the choice was obvious.....I needed to swallow my values and ethics and try to get as much as possible!
Fcuk it...600 bucks is 600 bucks. So I called the other dude and said I am really sorry, someone just offered me 600 more for the car. I said that if he can match it, its his. But if not I'll deliver his 200 bucks back to him. Well didn't this guy just freak right the fcuk out and start threatening me with legal action. I had hand written him a reciept saying that the 200 was a deposit on the vehicle, but it was in no way a "bill of sale". He was arguing that it was a bill of sale and blah, blah blah. I had a legal advisor look at my copy of the reciept and he said he has no case. I called him back and he still wouldn't drop it. Like on the phone for 30 mins, trying to tell him he doesn't have a leg to stand on. He said keep the 200 deposit and he'll see me in court. So I said cool, see you there. I'll be the guy saying I told you so after the case is over 9 months from now!! LOL.
After 30 mins go by after hanging up with him, he calls back. He tells me he's coming to my house with the cops! I laughed and said "HUH?! wHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO DO?". I'll be there in 30 mins he states. Okay...so first of all, when I signed the receipt, I forgot I had signed the car over into my fiance's name a year ago, so legally, I can't sell the car. She has to sign everything. My signature means squat! Second of all, I told him that I could only find the right side CV shaft aftermarket for 100.00 and the other side has been on back order for the past 8 months. The left side cv shaft is $433.86 from Nissan. That wasn't going to happen. So I told him that I wasn't going to do the shafts for him, and he still wanted the car. This guy was pyscho. Most people wouldn't take this sh1t so far. He wanted the car so bad for 2500 he was willing to do whatever it took.
So 30 mins. go by and the cop shows up first. I went out to talk with him about this and I said, what did the guy say to get an officer involved in a civil matter? He said the guy said I was irrate and that I may get physical, and I was holding "his" car, that he put 200 down on. The cop was on my side the whole way, but then the guy threatened to put a lien on my car and tie it up in courts for months so that I couldn't sell it for an x amount of months. In Canada, anyone can put a lien on another persons property. If it is determined that an individual has unlawfully put a lien on someones property, it carries a stiff fine. But if the person thinks he/she has a valid reason too, and the judge agrees, its not considered malicious. The cop says this can and probably will happen and that I would be in and out of the courts for the next year dealing with this.
Who wants the hassle for an extra 600.00 bucks. So I said fine! If you want the car for 2500.00 sooo badd, you can have it as is, but you do not get any CV shafts, even the one I had ordered for 100.00, I will not fix the resistor block like I said I was going to do for him at the time, and you don't get the 18 inch wheels and you will need to come up with the balance owing, which was 2300.00, in 1 hour. He then said, are you going to recalculate the price for him because I said I was going to include the items that I am not including now? I laughed and bluntly said NO!! He said okay fine. I have the 2300 with me now. He gave me the cash, gave him a bill of sale, and cleaned out all my sh1t out of the car.
Whats funny is, I had told the guy that was offering me 3100.00 for the car everything that was wrong with it. He was also a mechanic and he said no problem. He loved Nissans and my car was in that good of shape to be worth it for him. He had recently cracked up his GTI-R pulsar and was going to do a swap. That is who I wish the car could've gone too. But instead, it went to some hillbilly hick with 3 teeth missing from his pasty mouth for 2500. Funny thing is, I hadn't told him that the transmission was on its way out, and that it was a rare on to find because of the LSD from the factory. A new one from Nissan was 2200 bucks. I personally think the tranny will last maybe 2 months before it explodes. Maybe even less, seeing is how when this guy took possesion, he peeled out as to say, "haha..I won!" Yet I didn't spend 200 in cv shafts and my time to install them, I didn't include the 18 inch wheels, nor did I do an oil change for him or replace the resistor block. So when the tranny finally blows, he's going to wish that he had just got his 200 dollars back in the beginning. I wish I could be there when he gets the estimate for the repair. One new trans, 1 new clutch kit, 2 cv shafts, 2 control arms and a steering rack later.....
. Car is in mint shape with no rust at all(rare 4 Canada) and considering it has 280,000kms on the odometer. Things wrong with it was, Trans, contol arm bushings, steering rack, resistor block for the blower motor, no working radio and cv shafts..both of em.I foolishly advertised it for $2500cdn with 2 sets of rims and tires. Way under priced for my area. I had 20 calls and 18 e-mails. I took a 200 deposit in advanced for the car in 6 hours after advertising. I told him that I would replace the cv shafts and install them as long as the parts were available aftermarket. Then the next day, someone called and offered me 3100.00 without even seeing it in person. He came down and loved it and said he can have the cash in 20 mins. So now I had a dilemia. Do I blow off the deal I made with the guy from the night before, and make an extra 600.00? Or do I say soory pal...its sold. Money is tight for me still because I am not working. So the choice was obvious.....I needed to swallow my values and ethics and try to get as much as possible!
Fcuk it...600 bucks is 600 bucks. So I called the other dude and said I am really sorry, someone just offered me 600 more for the car. I said that if he can match it, its his. But if not I'll deliver his 200 bucks back to him. Well didn't this guy just freak right the fcuk out and start threatening me with legal action. I had hand written him a reciept saying that the 200 was a deposit on the vehicle, but it was in no way a "bill of sale". He was arguing that it was a bill of sale and blah, blah blah. I had a legal advisor look at my copy of the reciept and he said he has no case. I called him back and he still wouldn't drop it. Like on the phone for 30 mins, trying to tell him he doesn't have a leg to stand on. He said keep the 200 deposit and he'll see me in court. So I said cool, see you there. I'll be the guy saying I told you so after the case is over 9 months from now!! LOL.
After 30 mins go by after hanging up with him, he calls back. He tells me he's coming to my house with the cops! I laughed and said "HUH?! wHAT THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO DO?". I'll be there in 30 mins he states. Okay...so first of all, when I signed the receipt, I forgot I had signed the car over into my fiance's name a year ago, so legally, I can't sell the car. She has to sign everything. My signature means squat! Second of all, I told him that I could only find the right side CV shaft aftermarket for 100.00 and the other side has been on back order for the past 8 months. The left side cv shaft is $433.86 from Nissan. That wasn't going to happen. So I told him that I wasn't going to do the shafts for him, and he still wanted the car. This guy was pyscho. Most people wouldn't take this sh1t so far. He wanted the car so bad for 2500 he was willing to do whatever it took.
So 30 mins. go by and the cop shows up first. I went out to talk with him about this and I said, what did the guy say to get an officer involved in a civil matter? He said the guy said I was irrate and that I may get physical, and I was holding "his" car, that he put 200 down on. The cop was on my side the whole way, but then the guy threatened to put a lien on my car and tie it up in courts for months so that I couldn't sell it for an x amount of months. In Canada, anyone can put a lien on another persons property. If it is determined that an individual has unlawfully put a lien on someones property, it carries a stiff fine. But if the person thinks he/she has a valid reason too, and the judge agrees, its not considered malicious. The cop says this can and probably will happen and that I would be in and out of the courts for the next year dealing with this.
Who wants the hassle for an extra 600.00 bucks. So I said fine! If you want the car for 2500.00 sooo badd, you can have it as is, but you do not get any CV shafts, even the one I had ordered for 100.00, I will not fix the resistor block like I said I was going to do for him at the time, and you don't get the 18 inch wheels and you will need to come up with the balance owing, which was 2300.00, in 1 hour. He then said, are you going to recalculate the price for him because I said I was going to include the items that I am not including now? I laughed and bluntly said NO!! He said okay fine. I have the 2300 with me now. He gave me the cash, gave him a bill of sale, and cleaned out all my sh1t out of the car.
Whats funny is, I had told the guy that was offering me 3100.00 for the car everything that was wrong with it. He was also a mechanic and he said no problem. He loved Nissans and my car was in that good of shape to be worth it for him. He had recently cracked up his GTI-R pulsar and was going to do a swap. That is who I wish the car could've gone too. But instead, it went to some hillbilly hick with 3 teeth missing from his pasty mouth for 2500. Funny thing is, I hadn't told him that the transmission was on its way out, and that it was a rare on to find because of the LSD from the factory. A new one from Nissan was 2200 bucks. I personally think the tranny will last maybe 2 months before it explodes. Maybe even less, seeing is how when this guy took possesion, he peeled out as to say, "haha..I won!" Yet I didn't spend 200 in cv shafts and my time to install them, I didn't include the 18 inch wheels, nor did I do an oil change for him or replace the resistor block. So when the tranny finally blows, he's going to wish that he had just got his 200 dollars back in the beginning. I wish I could be there when he gets the estimate for the repair. One new trans, 1 new clutch kit, 2 cv shafts, 2 control arms and a steering rack later.....
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