You've only been scammed if you actually sold it to these two dodgers.

Assuming you didn't, don't worry about it. You will always get folk like this trying to get a bargain by any means.

It wasn't as extreme as your example, but when I sold my VW Caddy van last year (£2.5k ONO), one chap came along and told me it was worth £1300 because it needed the belt doing (it didn't, not for at least another 20k miles). I told him where to go and sold it for £2.2k a week later.

Note the last time the car was driven about 4 weeks earlier, a garage had done a pressure test, checked the exhaust and more, advising there were no indications of gasket issues.

This makes me suspicious of your car - why did you get a pressure test done? Usually this is done when you suspect an issue?

A friend of mine was looking for a car a few weeks ago and I went along to check them out. Oh my goodness at about £3500 from local garages most cars were awful. Relating to the original post an initially tidy Vauxhall Astra 1.6 petrol was ruled out due to evidence of head gasket failure - oil sludge in the header tank, but the dipstick was ok. Possibly here it's just a genuine savvy buyer that's run away - as we did when we looked at that Vauxhall. Which engine does the Insignia have ?

Edited by Big John on 02/06/2024 at 22:20