Is the car dealer responsible ?

vaio

^^ what he said but as far as SOGA goes I'd say you have a case here too as there is no proof that the engine that came with the car had benefited from the full service history that was one of the things that induced you to buy it.

Obviously the car does indeed have a FSH but without paperwork for the engine it might well be that it was never service whilst it was in the previous car (and that's before you get onto the issue of how many miles the "new" engine has done compared to the car you thought you were buying)

Failing to supply proof of FSH having included it in the advert is not encouraging either

s_b

who would go to doncaster to buy a car advertised as full service history but not sit in the passenger seat ,shorts on,gonads on my freshly minted pure cloth upholstery and not carefully scrutinising every dab of a pen to authenticate it all followed through like a good vindaloo?

my customers certainly dont they can sit in there for hours:D looking at bits of worthless paper saying it had a new tyre valve in 2006 and look at the price mavis £4.00:( when we know they only pay six new pence for them ,the robbers:D rather than kicking the tyres like a true no nothing buyer:D


a worthless post by me who apparently knows nothing bout motas and kant spull but heck its friday night:rotfl:

Joe_Horner

Not worthless at all, sb. It made me smile at the end of a long week

Quiet_Spark

bombhead23 wrote: »

My biggest issue is not being told it has a second hand engine...

How can you be sure that the dealer knew the engine had been replaced when he/she bought it in the first place?

Unless you can prove the dealer withheld pertinent information such as the above, you haven't got a chance of getting your money back.

Richard53

bombhead23 wrote: »

There's no service history with the car, despite the advert stating there was a full service history.

Unless the OP was told that there was no service history before the sale (and therefore that the advert was misleading), then I would say that this alone was a cast-iron case for a refund. Rightly or wrongly, a FSH can add hundreds to the value of a car, which the dealer used to sell the car at presumably a higher price than he might otherwise have achieved.

It's highly unlikely that a s/h engine comes with any kind of history at all, so that alone negates any claim for the car to have FSH.

If the OP was told about the lack of history before signing on the dotted line, and still went ahead with the purchase, then there's nothing to be done. If the dealer made a genuine mistake in the advert, he would have been wise to state 'no service history' on the invoice the purchaser signed to keep himself in the clear. Was this done?

photome

OLD thread resurrected by a spammer, the same guy is spamming other threads