Looked at a car here. Only in the door and the sales spiel started with a salesman telling us there…read morewas another person looking at the same car and luckily or us - we were just in on time. 4 hours later the same car is still up on the website, and as we left - there was no sign of these other enthusiastic purchasers looking at the same car. So watch out for sales Spiel here.
Secondly, the car we looked at was overdue a timing belt by 12000 miles. The salesman here would have been happy to sell this car, with a timing belt overdue, undone ,and not even informing the purchaser of this fact. The purchaser could have been, like my own daughter, a public servant, earning early 30's, with two young children and a husband on low wages.
She could have bought this car, been driving on a holiday in Donegal, the timing belt snapping and the engine destroyed. Not very impressed with this garage. The ad also said it was an Irish car - a quick check proved it to be an import.
SIMI obviously has no controlling standards, on this garage anyway. I would say be very careful buying anything here and look into the nitty gritty details.
Incidentally, we bought a car with 3 less owners, the same mileage, much better condition, especially the paint work, and not an import, for 2,000 less.
Personally, I would not go back, not even to buy an electric kettle.