I bought a used car with damaged disc brakes.

spacey2012

They gave the garage every opportunity to collect the vehicle.
We are talking about a garage that moves hundreds of cars a week around the country and owns the equipment to do so.
The Op informed the garage that the vehicle was unsafe to drive by way of expert opinion.
The garage refused to redeem the situation in a manner which was safe, legal and convenient to the OP.
The OP should obtain an expert report from the mechanic and an invoice for both the report and work and bring a claim against the company for the value minus a percentage for ongoing improvement or betterment.
Driving a vehicle with defective brakes would have seen the OP prosecuted if stopped for a VOSA roadside check.
That can not be a "reasonable" request.
You have a good prospect and case.
Keep a strict log of every hour and penny spent dealing after the refusal to rectify the defect.
You also have the leverage of Trading standards with your experts report that they sold you a unsafe vehicle that could render you liable to prosecution.
If they have a representative on here, now might be a good opportunity to perform some emergency damage limitation.

Flyboy152

wealdroam wrote: »

Evans Halshaw have acted quite reasonably here.

Not even in the slightest. They insisted that the OP drive an unroadworthy car two hundred and fifty miles, that is very, very far from being reasonable.

ILW

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Not even in the slightest. They insisted that the OP drive an unroadworthy car two hundred and fifty miles, that is very, very far from being reasonable.

Unroadworthy in whos opinion?

wealdroam

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Not even in the slightest. They insisted that the OP drive an unroadworthy car two hundred and fifty miles, that is very, very far from being reasonable.

As it's so close to Christmas, I'll ignore your trolling this time.

prowla

The last car I bought used from a garage, I had them do an MOT; it needed new discs, which they fixed - no quibble. (It was the used BMW place near Hartley Wintney that you see by the side of the M3.)

Equaliser123

ILW wrote: »

Unroadworthy in whos opinion?

As mentioned above. OP needs evidence. But if the opinion is that the car was unroadworthy or potentially a risk, OP was entirely right.

I would do the same.

ILW

A pair of discs costs around £50 quid for mast cars.

George_Michael

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Not even in the slightest. They insisted that the OP drive an unroadworthy car two hundred and fifty miles, that is very, very far from being reasonable.

No they didn't.
The insisted that the OP drove a car 65 miles.

I then received a call back from Evans Halshaw informing me that their final decision was that I could drive the car to my nearest Evans Halshaw dealership (which is still 65 miles away) to have the car inspected

If after that journey the car was deemed to be unroadworthy or unsafe then the OP would have been within their rights to ask for a full refund and also to have all of their costs covered.

ILW

Equaliser123 wrote: »

As mentioned above. OP needs evidence. But if the opinion is that the car was unroadworthy or potentially a risk, OP was entirely right.

I would do the same.

The only opinion OP has got is Hi Q who are not exactly unbiased. If fact they got £200 worth of work.

If say an AA patrolman had said the car was unroadworthy, that would have been a different matter.

Flyboy152

ILW wrote: »

A pair of discs costs around £50 quid for mast cars.

Any garage who supplies and fits a set of brake discs for fifty pounds is not worth leaving your car with.