Bought a car from a used car sales garage and within 25 miles it has blown up

Moya

re the breakdown they are saying they will come and collect it and repair it no probs but we have lost faith in the car and wonder if instead we can get our money back - he was not receptive to this idea.

they are saying that the fact it was in an accident was on the advert (which we didn;t see until post buying - as we had just driven past the garage and stopped to look at it)
it does say on the reciept that its on the VCAR register but both me and my husband didn;t know what this is - ok we should have questioned it if we noticed it but we didn't.
also the sales person said it hadn't been in an accident.

the guy ont he phone today kept saying it was clearly displayed on their advert which i kept saying we didn;t see as we drove past the garage saw the car and stopped to look at it - he didn't seem to accept this either

he doesn;t reckon the head gasket has gone as he said it is likely to be something minor on it - but the AA man reckons it was - so i know who i am more inclined to believe.

do we have the right under the SOGA to get our money back or do we have to accept the repair?

motorguy

Enfieldian wrote: »

No wonder Rover went belly up....

Because a head gasket went on an eight year old car???

artbaron

Moya wrote: »

Also just discovered fromt he advert it was a category D write off

I'm confused - didn't you read the advert before you bought it? Did you check the basics - black smoke on engine revving, water in the oil? What about its service history?

Lum

pgilc1 wrote: »

Because a head gasket went on an eight year old car???

The K series engines are notorious for premature head gasket failures. It was just another nail in the coffin for a brand already seen by many as shoddy and unreliable, repeatedly mocked by Mr. Clarkson etc. etc.

C_Mababejive

pgilc1 wrote: »

Because a head gasket went on an eight year old car???

No ..becuase rover relied continuously on old engines and kept fitting them in newer body shells.

The K series is notorious.

Why? simply becuase the whole engine from sump to cylinder head is actually clamped together with long bolts rather than the normal arrangement of bolting sub assemblies to eachother.

From an engineering reliability point of view,this is not good as the bolts stretch and eventually,the head gasket begins to wheeze.

The other thing is that on K series fuel injected engines,it creates issues with air leaks which upsets the fuel injection system.

They also used to use a plastic air throttle body which warped and caused fuel injection issues. This was later replaced by an alloy air throttle body.

I'm not a motor engineer but i know these things having !!!!!!ed about with a K16 engine/fixing/troublshooting etc..i taught myself all about fuel injection on the k series. Had to. The local garage would have had to spend so much time on it that i would have been bankrupt...my advice..get rid:eek:

Look for a mk3 Golf instead.

somech

its a 2.5 v6 not a 4 pot k series

Gloomendoom

C_Mababejive wrote: »

No ..becuase rover relied continuously on old engines and kept fitting them in newer body shells.

This is the 'old' K series that Lotus fitted in the Elise?

The KV6 that was introduced in 1996?

The KV6 is a different animal to the 4 cylinder K series. Many of the points you make do not apply.

Moya

artbaron wrote: »

I'm confused - didn't you read the advert before you bought it? Did you check the basics - black smoke on engine revving, water in the oil? What about its service history?

we drove past the garage amd saw the car - we didn't see the advert until after we bought the car and got home

sam1970

pgilc1 wrote: »

Because a head gasket went on an eight year old car???

no but because this is what happen with most Rovers...mine was only 6 years old with 65000 miles on the clock. one day, back home from work, stopped at traffic lights...heard banging noise..thought it was from the car infront..then saw the smoke coming out ofthe engine...RAC said the head gasket gone which is a common Rover problem..there were no warning signs and the car was serviced regularly...the car was worth about £1000 and the repair cost was over £400 with no guarantty that the problem will not recur.i was p**off so i did not bother repairing it...gave it to a scrab yard for £50...i strongly beleive that Rover deserved to go bust for their crab products

Moya

artbaron wrote: »

I'm confused - didn't you read the advert before you bought it? Did you check the basics - black smoke on engine revving, water in the oil? What about its service history?

no smoke on reving - no signs of oil or water leaking - but no service history provided - they got it from auction