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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 19:30 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Test rides Reply with quote
I am often offered test rides but always refuse as I am not in the market to buy, yesterday I turned down a go in the new Morgan Aero. Am I being a twat?
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neatbik
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep.
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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 19:34 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I knew that you would say that mate! What happens if I bend 34K of Moggy though?
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PostPosted: 19:36 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
I knew that you would say that mate! What happens if I bend 34K of Moggy though?


Say whoops, look a little embarrassed then walk off whistling a merry tune?
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neatbik
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PostPosted: 19:39 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Then Mr Insurance man can only afford 2 weeks in St Tropez instead of 3 this year.
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SPWD1198
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd say go for it,do they not ask for your licence or deposit just incase,if not just enjoy yourself I'm sure they would find a way of covering it anyway.

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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 20:30 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Never been asked for anything. Over the last two years I have turned down.... Range Rover Vogue, Victory (big Yankee V twin). Audi R8, Yam MT03, Morgan Aero and Ariel Atom.
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P.addy
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PostPosted: 20:40 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I grab any test ride possible usually...I like to try vehicles.

I got to drive many cars a year ago as part of my job, definitely makes me remove certain cars from my want list.
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PostPosted: 20:51 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
Over the last two years I have turned down.... Range Rover Vogue, Victory (big Yankee V twin). Audi R8, Yam MT03, Morgan Aero and Ariel Atom.


Now you're just making me envious. In the last 2 years I have turned down the offer of a test drive in a renault clio. And that's it. Meh.
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Sam_Y_93
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PostPosted: 20:58 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
Never been asked for anything. Over the last two years I have turned down.... Range Rover Vogue, Victory (big Yankee V twin). Audi R8, Yam MT03, Morgan Aero and Ariel Atom.



Yes, yes you are being a twat Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 21:01 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
Never been asked for anything. Over the last two years I have turned down.... Range Rover Vogue, Victory (big Yankee V twin). Audi R8, Yam MT03, Morgan Aero and Ariel Atom.


Usually they ask for stuff when you agree to the test ride.

I last got a test ride on a 2012 Fireblade, that was a £2k excess.
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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 21:21 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
See these are (mostly) not dealers but mates or mates of mates. Friend of mine did crash a German three wheeler (Morganish) and he had to sell an 8K bike to repair it. The things I have turned down need to be given a bit and that can end up being expensive. No point in driving an Atom within what the law would consider to be a proper manner.
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neatbik
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah! That's a bit different then..

If i'm ever offered a go on a mates bike/car i always think twice.... Quite often i will politely decline, if anything was to go wrong i would struggle to repair it and i would just be pissed off with myself.
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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 21:59 - 10 Jun 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
So maybe I am not a twat then Very Happy
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