Help! Sold a dud car!

lee678

mikey72 wrote: »

Actually, now as you mention this, I will have to put my hand up and say I did buy a car from a trader.

He sold me an excellent little run around, no warranty, no tax, 2 months mot from a local garage.
Sold as spares or repair, not as a roadworthy car.
I taxed it, and drove it home.
Mot'd it for £100 quid, oddly enough, welding, and a gaiter.

As it was spares or repair, it went for a spares or repair price, and is probably sellable now at twice what I paid for it.
He shifted it, no comeback, I'm happy, and it's a superb little car.

The welding was a known fault on mine as well.

you drove home a car sold to you as spares or repair, not as a roadworthy car ?
so your a trader then ?
or just a " part time trader "

Joe_Horner

lee678 wrote: »

35 years in this trade matey, i know what should go out and what shouldnt, the reason ive come on here is to despair at the thought by some posters that a £650 car should be expected to pass a mot 3 month after purchase,

Sadly (and I do mean that btw) the law as it stands says that any car, regardless of price, MUST be able to pass an MOT at the time it's sold unless it's made clear to the buyer that it shouldn't be used on road. (Apparently major) corrosion 3 months later means this one probably wouldn't have.

I'd love for the law to require more diligence on behalf of the buyer because I personally think anyone in control of a ton of metal should know their way around it enough to spot serious problems. But there's been enough very dodgy trading over the years that it doesn't work like that.

Incidentally, the law on this also applies to private sellers so it's not just trader bashing

lee678

mikey72 wrote: »

Obviously the trader that sold it agreed with you, otherwise he would have put 12 months mot on it.

being a part time trader that drives home sold as unroadworthy cars you wouldnt understand little incidentals like fuel, time, mot cost, total amount of money customer has available, bottom line etc etc ...

mikey72

lee678 wrote: »

being a part time trader that drives home sold as unroadworthy cars you wouldnt understand little incidentals like fuel, time, mot cost, total amount of money customer has available, bottom line etc etc ...

I think we both understand the bottom line.
We just disagree on how you get to it.
Some of us have scruples.
Some don't.

s_b

mikey72 wrote: »

I think we both understand the bottom line.
We just disagree on how you get to it.
Some of us have scruples.
Some don't.

i think you will see that he is saying he has overheads
something that a part time trader doesnt have
and as for reporting part time traders selling pish you try complaining to either trading standards the vat man the council or even autotrader

no one cares even when you have built a dosier up saying they are unfairly trading
me i just keep my head down do the best i can and carry on

dont take fools for customers though, dont sell cars for £650 either, because as i have said somewhere you cant, its not worth the hassle and the people who buy these sorts of cars realistically shouldnt be on the road because they invariably never get any maintainance other than what it fails on
dont believe me?
how come OP never got car checked by her independent mechanic and how come she ran it for 3 months until it had to go in for an inspection and where would it be now if we had 2 yearly mots

i see enough death traps every week without selling to people who cant afford to buy a car at a more realistic price

motorguy

s_b wrote: »

dont believe me?
how come OP never got car checked by her independent mechanic and how come she ran it for 3 months

Thats an extremely valid point - and one very typical of the society we live in now.

Why didnt she use the mechanic PRIOR to purchase to check the car? Or is it simply normal these days to subsequently blame someone else when we've made little or no effort ourselves at the time?

motorguy

mikey72 wrote: »

I think we both understand the bottom line.
We just disagree on how you get to it.
Some of us have scruples.
Some don't.

Mikey i cant believe you've been lecturing us on the rights and wrongs of roadworthy cars, yet you happily risked using a clearly unroadworthy car on the road?

Also, given your statement above and your lack of denial of the 'accusation' that you could be a part time trader, it quite points to the fact that maybe you DO do a bit of part time trading?

motorguy

Mikey,

Just found this post by you - its when you talking about the price of getting a car mot'd in a local garage

mikey72 wrote: »

It's the one place I don't get the trade rate.

If you're getting trade prices everywhere, except on an MOT test, it does imply your trading.

OR are you just pretending to be trading to everyone to get a trade rate??

Honeydog

Aaron011 wrote: »

Nice Thread,,
I am New Here.

D'you know Aaron, I said exactly the same thing yesterday (well not the new bit) and it got deleted.

Any updates OP?

lee678

pgilc1 wrote: »

Mikey,

Just found this post by you - its when you talking about the price of getting a car mot'd in a local garage



If you're getting trade prices everywhere, except on an MOT test, it does imply your trading.

OR are you just pretending to be trading to everyone to get a trade rate??

and on post 64 of this very thread he boasts of getting a exhaust at " trade rate"
and he accuses me of " no scruples" ?
hes a part time trader isnt he ? one that sidesteps all the relevant regulations, i see them all the time at my place there usual story is " i used to do this job" lol.

pity this soga he keeps quoting doesnt cover trade parts supplied to non trade customers, and trading standards cant do him for obtaining goods by deception, gives the whole job top to bottom a bad name.

i havent replied earlier to you " mikey" [mikey72] as i have been doing a full time job of proffesional motor trading .....oh, and paying inland revenue .....................