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    Posted: 11-March-2006 at 07:34
...books and why they can't be taken on face value...

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Points: 1594 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-March-2006 at 14:29
The front page of that should have the cars details such as.....
Model of car
Last 8 digits of the VIN
Engine number
Date of first registration
Colur code
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Points: 661 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-March-2006 at 14:56
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Points: 791 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-March-2006 at 15:38

Originally posted by bmwcrazy bmwcrazy wrote:

some silly buger will fall for it 

I do hope so:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=462 0697954
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I recently won an auction for the owners manual, service book and folder. I didnt get an owners manual with my car and needed one really, the service booklet was with the auction but for a 318 anyway. I should have got the one above though as it has the M3 supplement too!

As said the book should have the exact car details so cant really be used for dodgy reasons.
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Points: 791 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 04:42

Originally posted by Matt T Matt T wrote:


As said the book should have the exact car details so cant really be used for dodgy reasons.

It does.  It's actually for my old, now dead cecotto, and says on the service book "M3 cecotto" and the VIN. I specifically decided not to mention this on the eBay ad.
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Points: 399 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 13:41
£50 though?!?!?!?! I only paid less than a tenner for my set, and ive seen an M3 supplement book go for £10-odd too
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Points: 791 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 14:45

Originally posted by Matt T Matt T wrote:

£50 though?!?!?!?! I only paid less than a tenner for my set, and ive seen an M3 supplement book go for £10-odd too

Absolutely! Couldn't agree more.  It's not £50.00 unless you are d(aft)esparate to use "Buy it Now".  It's £1.00 start and no reserve - so could sell for £1.00.  The "Buy it Now" price is for someone who wants it desparately and in a hurry.  I'd be absolutely amazed if it made £30, but as my old granny said, "Don't ask - Don't get." You never know, this astonished me:-

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Points: 10000473 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 16:38
Originally posted by m3Cecotto m3Cecotto wrote:

Originally posted by bmwcrazy bmwcrazy wrote:

some silly bugger will fall for it 
I do hope so:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=462 0697954

Good Luck. - 

I note you are including "the rare and desireable M Power supplement detailing the differences for the M3," I see in the original German. Are you including a translation??

 

(I wonder how much my copy - in English -  is worth? Hmmm)
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Points: 1780 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 17:24
WOA !!, so we have members on THIS forum selling false serivce records for cars that have been scrapped, AND people are buying them...

Sorry guys, but i find this sort of stuff absolutly terrible and condone it in the upmost. Anybody who buys another cars history and attempts to pass off this history as belonging to his car in any future sale is, well,... i'd rather not say

A warning to anybody buying a E30 M3...
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Points: 10000473 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 17:52

Originally posted by 215DMX 215DMX wrote:

WOA !!, so we have members on THIS forum selling false serivce records for cars that have been scrapped, AND people are buying them...  Sorry guys, but i find this sort of stuff absolutly terrible and condone it in the upmost. Anybody who buys another cars history and attempts to pass off this history as belonging to his car in any future sale is, well,... i'd rather not say. A warning to anybody buying a E30 M3...

WHOA yourself!! He's selling ALL the documentation, which just happens to include "a service booklet" which he goes onto say is "(unfortunately stamped with some service history for a particular vehicle)"

Are you so sure that some unscrupious person will use this to try and re-register an existing M3 as a Cecotto? Surely that is very unlikely? There are so few left, they're all know.

Or perhaps - as he intended - the rest of the documents are just to complete a law abiding M3 owners set?



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if some silly bugger falls for it well tough always read the small print good luck fellas u bad boys
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Why would anyone want to buy a service book, stamped for another car? And why sell it in the first place?

I can fully understand someone wanting the handbook etc but what use is the service booklet to anyone if it isn't relavent to their car. IMHO this booklet should die with the car.

I agree with 215DMX on this one.
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Points: 791 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12-March-2006 at 19:48
Originally posted by 215DMX 215DMX wrote:

WOA !!, so we have members on THIS forum selling false serivce records for cars that have been scrapped, AND people are buying them...

Sorry guys, but i find this sort of stuff absolutly terrible and condone it in the upmost. Anybody who buys another cars history and attempts to pass off this history as belonging to his car in any future sale is, well,... i'd rather not say

A warning to anybody buying a E30 M3...


Catch a grip.

The service book has the details of the (now scrapped) cecotto in it.  to quote an earlier post,
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The front page of that should have the cars details such as.....
Model of car
Last 8 digits of the VIN
Engine number
Date of first registration
Colur code


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the book should have the exact car details so cant really be used for dodgy reasons.


How is anyone going to use that to "pass off this history as belonging to his car in any future sale"? Is he going to amend the VIN of a perfectly good car to match a service book!?! It's not even that good actually - missed services, non BMW dealers - I doubt it.  Particularly when BMW can print you out a full service record for your car from the VIN.

It's there for sale as a curio, a piece of automobilia, nothing else.

I sold an M635 front and rear spoiler last week for a lot more than £50.  I never considered for a minute that the purchaser was going to use it to con someone into buying his old 628, thinking that it was an M635.

Come on, a bit of reality, please and when you've got a minute look up "condone" in a dictionary.
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