Advice on FAULTY 2nd Hand Car

System

Think you may have to put this down to experience then... caveat emptor

thcoms

caveat emptor = SCREWED!!!

DebtHater

thcoms wrote: »

caveat emptor = SCREWED!!!

I find it unrealistic to be claiming for repairs 6 months after the sale.

If you came to me with a request like that, I would be telling you to get screwed.

cardinalbiggles

thcoms wrote: »

I would like some (not all) of the cost refunded, since owning the car, I have had to replace 2 front tyres (3wks after purchase), gearbox, front brake caliper & water exp tank hose

Tyres, your fault you could have checked them before buying, you bought an 8 year old car, its going to have issues at some point.

thcoms

Cheers for the advice, guess I will put it down to a learning experience & not go there again.

pendulum

Another shining example of how fair used car dealers are; you pay much more for the car than in a private sale and you get nothing for it in most cases. No warranty worth the paper its written on, no customer service. Best to just cut out the middleman and buy from auction yourself, or buy privately, in most cases. There are a few decent ones about but not many.

Half the time when people buy privately and get problems, the private seller is actually a trader just pretending to be an individual to knock a duff car out.

darich

If it were me, and I'd noticed the faults you list 2 days after an MOT had been issued I'd have been concerned at that point what else hadn't been done.
It definitely sounds like an MOT purely for the sake of getting a certificate and a sale rather than a genuine test of the car. At this point, you may have been able to reject it on the grounds that it wasn't roadworthy but had been sold as such ie not as described.

Any further faults you mentioned that occurred after several months are simply the price you pay for buying a cheaper older car.

Hintza

cardinalbiggles wrote: »

Tyres, your fault you could have checked them before buying, you bought an 8 year old car, its going to have issues at some point.

I have to agree with this post. Cars have a design life of about 7 years after which time components will start to fail and in many cases expnsive ones that would make the car uneconomical to repair.

OP at the age you bought I'm afraid you pays your money and takes a chance.