Help! Garage have sold my car without my consent!

goosemc

LilacPixie wrote: »

Right let me get this right. Car is towed to garage in June, garage says new engine is needed. Garage owners says he will source one for op. A month goes by, its now july OP finds engine on Ebay and calls mechanic. Mechanic tells her not to bother with ebay engine as you don't know what your getting, fair enough I guess. Also in July garage sells car to his scrappy mate.
September OP calls gargae again as its all quiet. Mechanic advises her to canel insurance, register car as SORN etc as the garages insurance will cover it. At this point the Garage had already sold on the car.

I find this to be more than an error and totally dishonest.

The scrappy bloke says he has known the mechanic/garage bloke to over 40 years and they are close friends. Why did Mechanic/garage bloke not get his scrappy mate to source an engine as he told the OP he was going to?? I think there is more to this than a !!!! up.

Spot on - thats exactly what happened. And by the way its a small garage with only 2 people working at it, the mechanic who did this is not the boss.

I am really sad that Anihilator thinks I am trying to get some kind of financial gain. It is bizarre it thinks this, as all I want and ever wanted was my own car back. Engine or no engine, I don't care. How that amounts to financial gain is beyond me, and I find this accusation quite offensive.
I choose to totally ignore Anihilator from this point onwards and will not respond to any of it's posts again.


It should always have been my decision as to what happens to my car, and he should have warned me he was going to scrap it and at the very least let me collect my belongings... tapes/stereo/tomtom charger/tomtom window holder/maps/a-z/sunglasses/prescription glasses/personal effects in the glovebox etc etc.

Recent update - I have recieved a "victim of crime" letter from the police with a form to fill in about the finer details of my car such as VIN number etc, so fingers crossed they are still dealing with this.

thescouselander

Anihilator wrote: »

But the OP seems to have given the garage free rein. If she was so bothered should have kept in contact.

Have the garage cocked up? Yes. Do I think there is any chance of criminal action against them ? No

Even if it is the case the garage cocked up the OP is still the legal owner of the car since the garage had no right to sell it on.

Either way the OP needs to contact the police to get the ball rolling with getting the car back. For now I don't think we can assume one way or the other that a crime has definitely been committed and the case for proceeding with criminal charges will presumably be assessed by the CPS. It still needs to be reported to the police though, as the OP has done.


GooseMC - do keep us posted on what happens.

MORPH3US

Anihilator wrote: »

Accidentally selling a car

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Whoops, I just accidentally sold your car..... :rolleyes:

robredz

Anihilator wrote: »

So just to confirm we are now suggesting that the OP commits a crime people?

She is committing no crime attempting to get back her property, using methods that are common when something is wrongly appropriated. What are you suggesting, because a garage she trusted wrongly "passed on", scrapped or otherwise disposed of her property without consent, she should meekly go away with a nominal tenner for her trouble. No she could have been in no end of trouble if the motor had incurred PCN's whilst on SORN, as it is STILL registered to her. The new owner actually has no right to the motor, as it was wrongly disposed of, even though they are an "innocent" in all this caveat emptor would seem to hold sway here. as has been posted before, in those circumstances when some unfortunate has bought a dodgy motor, they have lost it AND their money, and under the circumstances the OP owes nothing because she has been wronged if not criminally certainly under tort.
So in your troll-like eyes she is committing a crime attempting to block the transfer of her property to another, without any consideration on her behalf, i.e. money for her property. I suggest Anhilator now nips back to defend the crossroads in Ogremor.
It doesn't matter what anyone has done to it, and it's tough that someone has fitted an engine, she should now have the motor back. so follow up on what scouselander has suggested goosemc, and push the police to recover your property, and furnish proof to DVLA of your title to the car to block the transfer.

roddydogs

nickj wrote: »

a used engine on ebay - around £300 + labour fitting it
a same age car on autotrader £590

Youd buy a "Used" engine from E-Bay? then pay say £200 to have it fitted?

goosemc

Quick update - No word from police, so I called on the 30th to ask what was happening and was told that the officer assigned to my case is on holiday until the 6th!!!

I decided not to make a fuss or push for someone else to take the case because I don't want to risk upsetting the police and causing them to drop the case.

asbokid

goosemc wrote: »

Quick update - No word from police, so I called on the 30th to ask what was happening and was told that the officer assigned to my case is on holiday until the 6th!!!

I decided not to make a fuss or push for someone else to take the case because I don't want to risk upsetting the police and causing them to drop the case.

i had a similar experience 20 years ago, with a second-hand motorcycle. i took it in to a garage to undergo trivial repairs to the brakes, which in hindsight i should have carried out myself.

i left the bike at the garage for maybe a fortnight. when i returned, the garage claimed the bike had been "collected by your father"..

erm.. no it hadn't. my father didn't even know i owned the motorcycle!

so i argued but the garage owner wouldn't budge. he reckoned he had witnesses to substantiate his version of events. one of those mindless grunts who can be found loitering around every garage was enticed to lie.

eventually i reported the matter to the police as a simple vehicle theft, and returned to the garage to advise them that they were now under criminal investigation. eventually the garage reluctantly reimbursed me the value of the motorcycle.

needless to say i never returned to that garage!

pitkin2020

i would start a claim through the courts and serve the garage with papers, i would also be getting in touch with my local paper to get them to run the story the bad press may have a positive effect in getting the garage to sort themselves out, they appear to have been very deceitful by leading you down a path telling you a load of BS when they had already sold the car.
To me it looks like they had someone in mind who was lokoing for a cheap small car and yours would do, i would bet your car is still in the local area if its not still at the scrapyard!!

agent0060

Has this matter been resolved? It would be nice to know.

If it hasn't, I have a number of thoughts/suggestions but since this website apparently logged me out whilst I was last typing them in, and therefore lost everything I had typed, I'd like to know whether my thoughts/suggestions would useful before I do it again.

agent0060

Has this matter been resolved? It would be nice to know.

If it hasn't, I have a number of thoughts/suggestions but since this website apparently logged me out whilst I was last typing them in, and therefore lost everything I had typed, I'd like to know whether my thoughts/suggestions would be useful before I do it again.