PLEASE HELP!!! car write off

becki_1990

because of all the stress it has caused,like pew pew said, they have a duty to return my car in the way i gave it in, along with al the money i forked out to get it mot`d and serviced!!

becki_1990

hartcjhart wrote: »

but you were not going to scrap it so 2k has no relevence

but i could have done

veggyboy

Are you asking from a legal or moral point of view ? Legally the grage have done nothing wrong and are not to blame as it was rear ended. You are still obliged to pay for the work you asked them to do.

Anihilator

becki_1990 wrote: »

because of all the stress it has caused,like pew pew said, they have a duty to return my car in the way i gave it in, along with al the money i forked out to get it mot`d and serviced!!

Utter !!!!!

They werent neglient, provided the service charged for and hence you owe them the bill for that.

If they hadnt done the work you would have actually got far less than £1050.

darich

becki_1990 wrote: »

because of all the stress it has caused,like pew pew said, they have a duty to return my car in the way i gave it in, along with al the money i forked out to get it mot`d and serviced!!

I don't think they do.
If what you're saying is true then you'd get the car back with no MOT and no work done to pass the test ie all the unsafe rust back in place.
But they did whatever was required to pass the MOT and then gave it a new MOT certificate - that's work you must pay for.
Any claim against the garage would have to be reduced by the cost of the work they carried out.

Incidentally - I've never known of a garage to take a car for a test drive after an MOT. You mentioned that the car failed due to rust - presumably the car was not structurally sound or safe. I can't think of any reason for that to need a test drive.

In my opinion, someone from the garage was using your car to run an errand and then used the "test drive" excuse when there was an incident.

Anihilator

becki_1990 wrote: »

but i could have done

Irrelevent.

The market value of you car is what matters and that isnt £2000

hartcjhart

this is what just over a grand gets

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Ka-1-3-Red-Hatchback-Low-Mileage_W0QQitemZ270526649760QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item3efca515a0

a lot newer and lower miles

HannahIOW

Why on earth were they road testing it when the only MOT failure was rust??

hartcjhart

becki_1990 wrote: »

because of all the stress it has caused,like pew pew said, they have a duty to return my car in the way i gave it in, along with al the money i forked out to get it mot`d and serviced!!

I think you might find that pew pews comment was based on thinking that the garage were at fault

becki_1990

HannahIOW wrote: »

Why on earth were they road testing it when the only MOT failure was rust??

havnt got a clue, this was after it they fixed it and passed mot :mad: