Should we pay garage bill for new owner who we sold car to?

jase1

I bought a car from my dad -- the only car I've ever owned that needed a lot of work doing to it shortly after purchase.

I took the medicine and moved on. No hard feelings -- the car was cheap anyway and lesson learned etc.

If the relative earns much more than you I have a hard time sympathising with them for coming around with the begging bowl under any circumstances really. They obviously don't think as much of you do as you do of them.

I'd be offended by that -- and a curt reply to their request would be forthcoming.

mikey72

pendulum wrote: »

Awkward for her - she's the one coming begging for money, not you.
Tell her the car has nothing to do with you any more and leave it at that.


I heard enough about your family from another thread.
You seem to think family can do no wrong.
They can.
SB is correct, the correct response is to wash your hands of it. They need to learn the responsibility for the car is theirs.

Feel the love.

Strider590

Where did this person get the work done? Was it a "reputable" place such as CrapFit? or another similar tyre/exhaust outlet?

In which case the work probably didn't need doing and this person was badly ripped off. Which im sorry to say would be their own stupid fault.......

clays_mummy

if you sold a car on ebay/autotrader and the buyer came back to you after 2 months saying there is a problem and you should foot the bill, would you ??

of course not, you would be a fool to even entertain such a thing...

i would tell her shes got a damn cheek and that the car has been fine so it must have been something she done to it !!!

Trebor16

fivetide wrote: »

Doesn't make the blindest bit of difference.

If you deliberately mislead the buyer they can still seek recompense.

5t.

In this instance there has been no mention of the OP deliberately misleading the buyer.

fivetide

Trebor16 wrote: »

In this instance there has been no mention of the OP deliberately misleading the buyer.

Nobody said there was.

I was simply replying to the point "Am I the only person who writes sold as seen?"

Writing that on a reciept makes no difference so it wasn't good advice for the OP.

Thanks for trying though.

5t.

Trebor16

fivetide wrote: »

Nobody said there was.

So what was the point of bringing it up in relation to the OP?

Thanks for trying though.

5t.

Oh dear, still not over being caught out over your silly claims that I made things up in that other thread?

red_eye

123sparklyqueen wrote: »

Thanks for all replies, thing is we can't really afford the bill anyway, she earns 3 times as much as we do put together. I say if it was me, I would be annoyed but it's one of those things, car was sold in good faith and we didn't know anything was wrong. If something happens in another 2 months time, are we going to be expected to contribute towards that bill too? We weren't informed of this until she had repair work done, and she hasn't even told us personally-she got another family member involved to talk to us about it. AWKWARD!!

Sound to me that she one of the gold digging type

gord115

A few years ago I sold a Fabia vrs for £6000 to my nephew.
It was worth £6500.
A fortnight later the clutch went.I had no idea it was on its way out.
If he had complained I would have offered to buy the car back at £6000 and I would get the clutch fixed and sell the car for 6.5k.
Or he could keep the car and pay for the clutch. He never complained

stusan

I agree this is more of a moral issue. You feel guilty because its a family member but shouldn't. As others have said if the vehicle has a current mot certificate and she is the current holder of that vehicles registration document then she is responsible for the vehicles repairs. She would be laughed at if she had taken it back to a garage (having bought it from them).

Note to self - do not sell anything to family.

My husband and I did something similar 4 years ago and rented our house to our nephew and his girlfriend. They signed a 2 year fixed contract which they asked for and 8 months in couldn't afford the rent as they had lost their overtime. Before they signed the contract I told them to go to a solicitor or to go to CAB, they refused and said they were happy. I told them I was happy for them to leave the property but they needed to keep paying the rent, the day after that my brother in law rang hurling abuse at us and calling us all the names under the sun, he took our contract to a solicitor to see if there were any loop holes but our solicitor had drawn it up. We have not spoken to my brother or sister in law since. Our nephew and girlfriend have no problem with us.