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Hi all, be warned there is a lady in Pretoria who is advertising beetle engines with some crape story about them being from an engineering firm and of good quality....crap....she is seemingly getting old engines cleaned up and selling them and when you return them under warrantee she will give you stories and eventually stop answering your call.

Her number she uses is 0762613094 and she stays in Pretoria, brainwave 648, Roseville, Pretoria.


She has been on gumtree, olx and others... be warned


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Can we not scam her back......just for fun
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That sounds like the person who was advertising "rebuilt" engines on gumtree for R3.5k. There was a discussion about them somewhere on these forums late last year. The conclusion was they were probably rattlecan rebuilds.
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There is another clown in Springs, a mini plot just off the N12 who also puts so called rebuilds together, stay away from him.
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Met a guy at posting ring said he had his motor redone at the 3,5 k oke in PTA and he was over moon with it
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calooker wrote:There is another clown in Springs, a mini plot just off the N12 who also puts so called rebuilds together, stay away from him.
His name is Franzwa, don't remember the surname. I made the mistake of buying a sub-assembly from him once ...
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Holy crap that in my valley - is it brainwave street? dunno about that, but there is a "Bruins" avenue in Roseville though....
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Experience has taught me that if it sounds too good to be true.........it usually is! :shock:
Or better expressed as "goedkoop koop is duurkoop!"
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Retrobug wrote:Experience has taught me that if it sounds too good to be true.........it usually is! :shock:
Or better expressed as "goedkoop koop is duurkoop!"
Exactly!
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cheaper to do it right once than to do it wrong twice....
unfortunately you dont always see the "wrong" one coming, even if you pay big bucks for it
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Tony Z wrote:cheaper to do it right once than to do it wrong twice....
unfortunately you dont always see the "wrong" one coming, even if you pay big bucks for it
True... Con artists come in all price ranges...... :shock:

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Re: scamster warning

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Guys, this lady is some piece of work, please warn people. I spoke to her today to get my engine back that is apparently being repaired by the engineering company... she keeps o doing this, its been four months and she is still advertising this

( http://www.gumtree.co.za/a-replacement- ... 0171216809 )

Please be warned. Somebody suggested scamming her back... so long as it dont make me a customer of correctional services I am in...
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Anybody in the Pretoria (Roseville) area who could go talk to this lady on my behalf. I am getting to a point where I am going to do something stupid now, maybe just go to the cops I guess, but would appreciate help, if someone lives in that area. Her number she uses is 0762613094 and she stays in Pretoria, brainwave 648, Roseville, Pretoria.
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Even as a cheap and nasty rebuild you will go over R3,5k very quickly. Just a set of cam bushes, main and big end bearings and you are probably over R1k already. So a complete rebuild for R3,5k. :shock:
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Re: scamster warning

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We have the same problem with her, we have given up trying to deal direct and have gone to the police. @ sdudum, do you want to jump in on our case with yours?
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