The buyer that bought a bus and brought it back - Part 2

grayme-m

Bossyboots wrote:

Is it a criminal offence to sell on a vehicle that is unroadworthy?

I don't see why, but surely this is irrelevant.

I recently have bought a car and had to get new windscreen wipers as the old ones were not up to the job; maybe I should be looking for £2k from the guy who sold me it....?

Seriously though, I bought it as seen, and the fact that it needed a service, a new cambelt and seems to require longer to start than my wife's is not grounds for me to take it back, those are things I either knew about or just suffered.

Bossyboots wrote:

The issue of it being advertised as roadworthy but not being (allegedly) is a civil matter so nothing to do with the police. I don't really understand why they are involved in this at all.

In his advert on eBay, he doesn't make any claims about roadworthyness anyway, over than it has an MOT.

The buyer should have checked it before he bid and paid (dispite any logistical problems with being in Scotland); if he happened to have bought a dud (more hypothetically than in this case), that is his problem and one to put down to experience.

MrsTinks

Awwww poor Zebedee!!! Seeing him in pictures for the fist time then I have to say if I'd had room I'd have been tempted to buy him myself!!!!

Bossyboots

grayme-m wrote:

I don't see why, but surely this is irrelevant.

If selling an unroadworthy vehicle is not a criminal offence then I am doubly perplexed about why the police are involved. I was querying their role in all of this as it does not seem to be something they should be involved in and yet they appear to be making some sort of investigation.

jenniferpa

Do you think it's because he hit the bridge? Public property and everything?

hjb123

Yeah I just dont see why the police are involved either, or why they even took the time to go to the house. Maybe to tell the OP that they had been approached by the idiot to investigate! Though I think that the buyer could have landed himself in more trouble surely - what about the accident without reporting it?! He then left it on the OPs property for ages. Didnt he claim to not have bumped it? Or did he just not tell the OP?

Frogling

OMG, I thought this was done and dusted. Surely the buyer cannot be serious - does he have a penchant for banging his head against brick walls? (or bridges!)

I'm sure that the police will carry out a brief investigation and come to the same conclusion we MSE'ers have - that the buyer is a complete idiot who hasn't got a leg to stand on. I only hope that all of this carry-on isn't causing the OP too much worry or stress

code-a-holic

Its great to see that evreyone in the world see's it the same as i do!!! :j

The police say it is a offence to sell something as roadworthy and it isnt.
As the auction clearly shows - ther is no mention of being roadworthy, just 6 mths tax. But as far as we were concerned ther were no problems with it. While the auction was on he asked questions about it and was still happy to bid and win.
It was only after the auction eded he anounced hew was in scotland and would it last the drive! As it had been to ireland and numerous long drives in the last year we said yes. Wouldnt have signed a gurantee on that mind as it is a C reg bus with over 200,000 miles!

The police now say they are going to get a mechanics opinion on when a brake imbalance could have occured. i.e. did it happen after being sold.
They dont sem concerned about knocking in to a bridge - although i am going to ask them why! (last year i crashed in to a hedge (rabbits fault!) and they were intersted then....a bridge surely is more serious!)

So we wait for mechanics report, but the policeman is on anual leave until Tuesday so it will be late next week we here anything! On Tuesday he will also be speaking to my dad and his partner for their side of events! The policeman sat on my sofa being very bewildered by the whole thing! :rotfl:

code-a-holic

grayme-m wrote:

I don't see why, but surely this is irrelevant.

I recently have bought a car and had to get new windscreen wipers as the old ones were not up to the job; maybe I should be looking for £2k from the guy who sold me it....?

Seriously though, I bought it as seen, and the fact that it needed a service, a new cambelt and seems to require longer to start than my wife's is not grounds for me to take it back, those are things I either knew about or just suffered.

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Here here!!! I just bought a 02 reg car from a dealer and it was sold with no effective windscreen wipers - no equipment for a flat (no spare or the tyre fill stuff) and the ball joint is going, and the MOT was caried out the day before i paid for it. All these things should fail a MOT i am told. (has 3 mths waranty so will get it all done but maybe i should demand refund as well as expenses for my trouble!!!

hjb123

code-a-holic wrote:

The police now say they are going to get a mechanics opinion on when a brake imbalance could have occured. i.e. did it happen after being sold.

Did you not say at one stage you knew a mechanic - or do you anyway that could give you a quick opinion anyway of when the imbalance could have occured?

code-a-holic

hjb123 wrote:

Did you not say at one stage you knew a mechanic - or do you anyway that could give you a quick opinion anyway of when the imbalance could have occured?

The owner of the vehicle (my dad) is a bus mechanic!!!!! But for obvious reasons the police have to have a report from a non biased mechanic!