Help! Sold a dud car!

fairyfleur

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??

I don't feel like I'm blaming others. I understand your point but I did take someone (who probably wasn't a good choice) to help me buy it. The trader should have told me about the rust problems since they are so extensive. I told him (maybe naively) that I don't know much about cars. I guess as a customer I wrongly thought that someone who buys and sells car for a living would know something about what he's selling.

Joe_Horner

Hope you get it sorted in the end and please (in fairness to some of the posters here) remember that the actions of one dealer don't mean they're all the same! There are a lot more good ones than bad but it's the bad ones who damage the reputation of the whole trade. To me, that's a very good reason for taking whatever action you can when you do find a bad one!

Honeydog

Thanks for the update fairy.

I hope you get some joy from the recorded delivery letter. At the end of the day if he's worth his salt the trader will sort it out for you. And if he doesn't I would name and shame the crook on here.

HD

fairyfleur

Hi All,
I have had a response and he is going to pay for all the costs of getting my car fixed which is a relief. That has saved me a lot of money and he has acted very quickly to sort it out. Anyway, thanks to those who helped and OFT!
Fairy x

mikey72

Good result, and a trader who know his obligations, without making it difficult.

lee678

fairyfleur wrote: »

Hi All,
I have had a response and he is going to pay for all the costs of getting my car fixed which is a relief. That has saved me a lot of money and he has acted very quickly to sort it out. Anyway, thanks to those who helped and OFT!
Fairy x

wow that is a result, and look at the short time span he responded in too, so to recap, you paid £650 for a car with 3 months mot, at the end of 3 month the vehicle failed on your quote " £100s of pounds of welding" and the supplying dealer now is "going to pay for all the costs of getting my car fixed" after contacting oft .
You really need to post up the dealer then, thats excellent service, i am in the market myself for a car like that, is he open sunday ?

:rotfl:

pinkladyof66

I am assuming that if it is 1994 then it must be an L Reg, now what I dont understand is why buy a car this old without a new MOT for £650.00 !!!

My fil just bought an R reg Astra for £600 with full new mot.

Paying £650 for this age car seems really a joke. I would have expected to pay no more than £250 for that vehicle. ( I am a lady driver too)

mikey72

I'd be impressed buying it for £250.
It's worth nearly that much as scrap, yet alone as a runner.

Wig

Sorry to bump old thread, but would like to ask fairy the OP
Thanks for posting the update OP, too many don't bother.

Did you check the MOT history on the car to find out if it was given an MOT shortly before it was sold to you and that it had failed that MOT?

You were told to do this but you never -as far as I see- picked up on this and said you were going to look.

You look here and it tells you the MOT history.
http://motinfo.direct.gov.uk/internet/jsp/ECHID-Internet-History-Request.jsp

Please tell us the results

Also to Lee, re your last post. I think it's a plausible timeline OP posts on the morning of the 14th sends recorded delivery letter & gets a response (possibly by phone, but letter is also possible) by the morning of the 17th.

Correct me if I'm wrong but this thread could have been avoided if the OP had just asked the dealer in the first place, rather than going here and phoning this and that service. If after asking the dealer to pay for repairs & they say "no" then that is the time to ask for help, surely?