Help! Sold a dud car!

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£650 for a 1994 Corsa, they saw you coming.

There is/was a 1995 Corsa for sale in my town this week for £250 with a full year MOT on.

andygb

fairyfleur wrote: »

its a 1994 vauxhall corsa and i bought it for £650
he told me there was nothing wrong with it
i will be reporting him

I saw an immaculate 02 Mitsubishi Carisma go through our local auction (1 owner FSH, full MOT, 83K miles) for £850.
Next time you buy a car, take someone along who knows about them.
Sorry to sound grumpy and harsh, but that is the only way with cars.

TrickyWicky

andygb wrote: »

I saw an immaculate 02 Mitsubishi Carisma go through our local auction (1 owner FSH, full MOT, 83K miles) for £850.
Next time you buy a car, take someone along who knows about them.
Sorry to sound grumpy and harsh, but that is the only way with cars.

+1

You really do need to take someone with you who knows something about cars. Not just looking for spots of rust but someone who also asks the right questions: has the cambelt been done - is it logged in the book?, has it been serviced, has this, that, tother, x y and z been done etc.

Unfortunately young women are easy prey for motor traders so you need to find someone who will help you and look out for you before buying any car.

I speak from experience, a relative of mine once bought their first car purely because they liked the look of it. £600 odd but within a few weeks all sorts of faults had been found and it didn't even lock properly either if memory serves. It ended up having over £2k of work done on it and even then it was still a heap of crap. I never got involved with that as I told the reli do not buy anything without getting some help and they totally ignored me and bought the wreck.

It's so easy to be lumbered with a wreck so you really must get someone who knows a bit about cars. They don't need to know everything about cars but the basics are at least very useful and if its a bloke all the better - traders are wary about pulling the wool over another blokes eyes.

Notmyrealname

TrickyWicky wrote: »

And with traders like you out there who openly admit to wrong doings its no surprise is it. You car traders are all sharks and thats the reason I buy privately.

Because private sellers are truthful and honest aren't they?

mikey72

verityboo wrote: »

There is a 3 month window to complain after an MOT is carried out.

The MOT on the OP's car was carried out 9 to 10 months ago so VOSA would not be interested

I never said complain to vosa.
I said go after the dealer.

mikey72

Notmyrealname wrote: »

Because private sellers are truthful and honest aren't they?

Has that dealer done the headgasket on that vauxhall for you yet?

Notmyrealname

Foxy-Stoat wrote: »

By the same token, what punter would buy a car from a motor trader with only 3 months left to run unless it was sinking cheap?

Me. I'm a former mechanic. The only difference between a car with 11 months left and 3 months left is one will need MOTing earlier.

A MOT is a completely worthless piece of paper for judging the condition of a car and from my experience in the trade its not unknown for a car sold by a dealership not to have seen a MOT station after a fail. I worked at a main dealer (Arncliffe Nissan in Hull) where if a car failed, they'd do the work, tell the test station they'd done it and then pick up the certificate without it being properly retested.

Remember the Cavaliers that had rear discs? The handbrake affair was a drum that was part of the disc. You couldn't inspect the shoes because they were hidden. There were plenty of Cavvies that passed a MOT with completely shot handbrake shoes.

And then there was the MK3/MK4 Escort which had rotting bulkhead syndrome. It could pass a test with a fist sized hole in the bulkhead because it wasn't a testable item.

Notmyrealname

mikey72 wrote: »

Has that dealer done the headgasket on that vauxhall for you yet?

Yep. Made it worse so cracked head by the looks of it. They've fitted a recon engine.

*Edit: Head was skimmed when they did it. Brand new head bolts were used.

mikey72

Out of a 1983 nova?

s_b

andygb wrote: »

I saw an immaculate 02 Mitsubishi Carisma go through our local auction (1 owner FSH, full MOT, 83K miles) for £850.
Next time you buy a car, take someone along who knows about them.
Sorry to sound grumpy and harsh, but that is the only way with cars.

i would strongly advise not to buy a charisma petrol as they have big issues with carboning of the inlet tract which costs a fortune to fix but would still pass an mot

oh look a trader helping the retail sector well ill be dammed