Buying a car with bad breaks

JimmyTheWig

Ultrasonic wrote: »

I'm utterly baffled why anyone would test drive a car, find a major fault and then pay a deposit to buy the thing though :huh:.

Because they're going to fix the fault?

colino

Easy thing to do when you go to collect it is ask for one last, shake down drive. If its all been checked over, great, drive away happy. If its not, you have the balance under your control so make it clear in an assertive manner that you have no intention for paying for faulty goods and the car has to be fixed pronto.
It's not though something daft like it having a different "feel" to the controls over your current car is it?

photome

vax2002 wrote: »

The putting down a deposit was a huge mistake, you should have insited the brakes be sorted first and a new test drive booked once they had made the car fit for sale.
You will lose your deposit if you back out.
You will have legal remedies but in real street terms they rarely work.
What was said is hot air unless in writing.
Hope to God they fix the brakes !

Why are most of your posts made up
Op if the brakes are not sorted you should get your deposit back and walk away

prowla

thenudeone wrote: »

or bad brakes, even?

Give the man a break!

Ultrasonic

Ultrasonic wrote:

I'm utterly baffled why anyone would test drive a car, find a major fault and then pay a deposit to buy the thing though :huh:.

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Because they're going to fix the fault?

Three problems with that:

1) The concern the OP has raised over whether they will be fixed to the satisfaction of the purchaser.

2) How anyone could realistically judge whether they liked a car to drive whilst constantly worrying they were going to crash due to dodgy brakes is beyond me. They'd also obviously have absolutely no idea what the properly working brakes are like in the car, they may not like them.

3) If a garage is willing to let customers test drive a car with brakes in the state described, what on earth else might be wrong with the car that is less obvious?

vax2002

photome wrote: »

Why are most of your posts made up
Op if the brakes are not sorted you should get your deposit back and walk away

And how exactly do you propose getting it back if they refuse.
Put the magic wand down and walk in to the real world !

gilbert_and_sullivan

The car must be in a right state if the brakes are as bad as this, what else hasn't been maintained?

I'd be getting my money back and leaving this shed for someone else.

photome

vax2002 wrote: »

And how exactly do you propose getting it back if they refuse.
Put the magic wand down and walk in to the real world !

In the first instance, Ask for it, it maybe all that is needed

forgotmyname

Why would you but a car with bad brakes?

Something rare maybe, Something at such a bargain price and your a mechanic then OK. But a standard run of the mill car with pages of them in autotrader?

WHY?

As above. If the brakes have been neglected then what else did they neglect?

Same oil and filters it left the factory with?

andygb

A 2010 Fiesta is not a rare car, there are lots of them out there. Why on earth would anyone want to buy a car this new with an obvious, possibly dangerous fault?
Life just gets more peculiar every day.