Sold a faulty second hand vehicle

Conor_3

Its a 12 year old second hand car. No guarantees. In addition to that oil,water, screenwash and tyre pressure level checks SHOULD BE DONE ON A WEEKLY BASIS. You didn't and now its cost you.

TiTheRev

Full of sympathy as ever :rotfl:

Wig

OP,
Are you sure you know what you are doing when you checked the oil level?
Was the car on a flat horizontal surface when you checked the oil?
Can you describe your method of checking the oil? & topping up
How much is a "little" that you topped up by & how many times?

It all souns a bit suspicious to me, a car that didn't need topping up by much suddenly has an unnoticed huge loss of oil to cause engine seizeure :confused

I'm not thinking you have much comeback against the seller, I'm actuially more concerned with your car maintenance skills......... for your next car.

Bargin_Betty79

I'm no qualified mechanic, but am more than able to check the oil correctly, when the engines cold etc, I've done this will all the cars I own with no problems
This one need topping up once by about a quarter of a can of oil and the second time (about 5 weeks ago) not even by that much.

Your not the only one confused by this whole thing, as there's been no visable oil leaks, smoke coming from the car or noticeable 'odd' noises, I'm at a loss as to whats happened but as it seems that I've no come back to the garage I brought it from I'm now £2,000 out of pocket or paying for an engine rebuild!

BB

TiTheRev

£2000 for a P reg car??? :shocked:

Wig

Bargin_Betty79 wrote: »

I'm no qualified mechanic, but am more than able to check the oil correctly*, when the engines cold etc, I've done this will all the cars I own with no problems
This one need topping up once by about a quarter of a can of oil and the second time (about 5 weeks ago) not even by that much.

Your not the only one confused by this whole thing, as there's been no visable oil leaks, smoke coming from the car or noticeable 'odd' noises, I'm at a loss as to whats happened but as it seems that I've no come back to the garage I brought it from I'm now £2,000 out of pocket or paying for an engine rebuild!

BB

* I'm afraid I will only believe that when you have spelled out exactly how you check oil, what makes you think "it needs some oil" and which oil you use, and your method of topping up. - I'm no longer surprised when I find out people who have no idea about the most basic of things car-related.

1/4 can of oil, is that a 4 litre can or a 1 litre can, i.e. a top up of 1 litre or of 250ml?. I'm afraid we still don't know how much a "little" is.

Bargin_Betty79

I take the following steps:

Make sure the vehicle's on a level piece of road with a cold engine.
Remove the dipstick and wipe it clean with a cloth then put it back in.
Take it out again and check the level. If the oil is below the "L" mark, pour in some oil and then recheck the level with the dipstick. If its still low add more oil,wait a few mintues then recheck.

It was a one litre can of oil, the correct type checked in the hand book,
and it took about a quarter of it to bring it back up to between the H and L, the second time it was showing as on the L line so I added just enough to bring it back up, as I said before I'm no qualified mechanic and only check the oil the way I was shown by my dad.

JimmyTheWig

I think a lot of people have been really harsh on the OP in this instance.

I, too, would be cross if I were in his position. I don't think there is much you can do about it, but maybe a bit of sympathy would have been better than what's being dished out...

Wig

Ok, well we can safely assume then that the car should still have had plenty of oil in the sump.

What symptoms were there whem the car broke down & attempting to restart, were you driving at the time?

So my question for the garage would have been -
How do you know it has seized
Why do you think that happened, given the amount of oil in the sump?

Did you go to the garage and check the oil level yourself. Logically there should have been oil in the engine.

Ginger_Nuts_2

I think it's ridiculous, they should at least replace the car with a much newer one,guarantee it for the length of time you own it and give you some satisfactory conpensation. Cowboy traders as usual











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