Fusco's Car Sales - have you used them?

jellynose

Hi

I have spotted a car being sold by Fusco's car sales, they are based in Balloo Industrial Estate, has anyone bought a car from them? Would you recommend them.

nevergiveup51

I would stay well clear of FUSCOS.I bought a car with a three month warranty and they have refused to repair my visual display screen within the warranty period. They are dodgy dealers who deal in mostly scrappers so best to avoid like the plague.:mad:

mclgm6

I bought a car from fusco car sales. Was leaking petrol plus had to spend £ 393 on new bushes even though car was sold with full years mot. contacted trading standards which found fusco car sales were selling carsfor parts or repair which they should not have been doing. now the car has abs and acs lights on which will be another few hundred quid. Stay well clear

motorguy

mclgm6 wrote: »

I bought a car from fusco car sales. Was leaking petrol plus had to spend £ 393 on new bushes even though car was sold with full years mot. contacted trading standards which found fusco car sales were selling carsfor parts or repair which they should not have been doing. now the car has abs and acs lights on which will be another few hundred quid. Stay well clear

How much was the car and what age was it?

motorguy

nevergiveup51 wrote: »

I would stay well clear of FUSCOS.I bought a car with a three month warranty and they have refused to repair my visual display screen within the warranty period. They are dodgy dealers who deal in mostly scrappers so best to avoid like the plague.:mad:

How much was the car and what age was it?

mclgm6

The car was £1995.00 and was a year 2000 with full mot. Got a quote today for £300.00 to add to the £393.00 already spend. Paid them a visit today with legal letter and they refused to read or sign. Bunch of !!!!!!!s

x12yhp

Eeesh... thanks for the info guys. It really is great to know the ones to avoid.

motorguy

mclgm6 wrote: »

The car was £1995.00 and was a year 2000 with full mot. Got a quote today for £300.00 to add to the £393.00 already spend. Paid them a visit today with legal letter and they refused to read or sign. Bunch of !!!!!!!s

So an 11 year old car then?

What does the paperwork say with regard to a warranty? Did they set an expectation with you that there was a warranty on the car?

If you think the MOT centre in some way failed would you not have some recourse with them?

x12yhp

I was under the impression that car dealers were under some obligation to provide a short warranty... if it is a trade sale, that is different but that does not sound like the case here.

Honestly though, I have said many times that you should always get a proper inspection done. The car may be £500 or it may be £50,000 but it pays to get an expert to have a quick look. My friend bought a car for the lower of those two numbers and ended up spending more than the value of the car sorting it out some 6 months later... a £50 inspection would have saved him the money...

motorguy

x12yhp wrote: »

I was under the impression that car dealers were under some obligation to provide a short warranty... if it is a trade sale, that is different but that does not sound like the case here.

No, they are not.

They are obliged to 'warrant the condition of the car'. ie, everything they say is working, should be working. Should any faults arise within the next six months it would be up to the dealer to prove they were not present at the time of sale. For example, say an ABS pump went after two months, it would relatively easy for the dealer to prove that it was not faulty at the time of sale as there were no warning lights on, etc, etc. However, it could be argued that the car should last longer than that without developing a major fault.

It then all becomes a grey area under the Sale of Goods Act which is in no way explicit. Areas of consideration would be price paid for the car, age of the car, mileage on the car, price paid for the car relative to market value, the duration afterwhich the fault occurred (ie, the level of responsibility diminishes over time), how the dealer has handled other claims, how the dealer has handled the dispute thusfar, etc.

This all has to go through a formal legal route, ie, its not a matter of ringing some body and they do all this for the agrieved customer.

Sadly, customers expectations often exceed what the dealer can / will / is obliged to deliver.

What further compounds the problem is that whilst for example £1995 is a huge amount of money to save up and spend on one item, in the grand scheme of things you are buying a car that is in the twilight years of its life, and is long after even the manufacturer or a franchised dealer is prepared to stock and support (they sell cars over 3-4 years old on to 'the trade' as they are not prepared to have to stand over subsequent faults themselves) YET small time dealers get squeezed to provide that level of warranty, based on misguided customers expectations.

Also very often customers will sit like nodding dogs as the trader explains the conditions of sale with regards to any warranty provided, what it covers and what it doesnt cover, they will sign up to that and no doubt have negotiated a price based on that, yet will be up in arms some months later when something goes wrong that their mate or their mechanic says the dealer must sort.

x12yhp wrote: »

Honestly though, I have said many times that you should always get a proper inspection done. The car may be £500 or it may be £50,000 but it pays to get an expert to have a quick look. My friend bought a car for the lower of those two numbers and ended up spending more than the value of the car sorting it out some 6 months later... a £50 inspection would have saved him the money...

Often though an older car with a full years MOT will develop faults later. For example it could have a subsequent gearbox failure, etc that even an inspection wont pick up.

motorguy

nevergiveup51 wrote: »

I would stay well clear of FUSCOS.I bought a car with a three month warranty and they have refused to repair my visual display screen within the warranty period. They are dodgy dealers who deal in mostly scrappers so best to avoid like the plague.:mad:

Did the warranty explicitly cover minor electrical faults?