I bought a used car with damaged disc brakes.

Flyboy152

George_Michael wrote: »

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



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.

Read the post again:

I phoned the Evans Halshaw dealership and was bluntly told to drive the car all the way back (250 miles) so that they could inspect it. When I explained that it didn't feel safe to drive at all, especially not that distance, he became very rude and said that I had no choice!

ILW

Flyboy152 wrote: »

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

Parts £50.00

Equaliser123

ILW wrote: »

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.

it is still evidence.

Evans Halshaw will need to dispute it. And, I think, would probably lose.

George_Michael

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Read the post again:

I have read it again and so what?
They first asked the OP to drive 250 miles, then they changed their mind and agreed to let them go to their local dealership which was 65 miles away.

So tell me, how could they insist that the OP does something and then allowing them to do something entirely different?
That doesn't sound like they insisted on anything.

Using extra large font doesn't alter the fact that the dealership didn't insist on a 250 mile journey.

Equaliser123

George_Michael wrote: »

I have read it again and so what?
They first asked the OP to drive 250 miles, then they changed their mind and agreed to let them go to their local dealership which was 65 miles away.

So tell me, how could they insist that the OP does something whilst at the same time allowing them to do something entirely different?
That doesn't sound like they insisted on anything.

Using extra large font doesn't alter the fact that the dealership didn't insist on a 250 mile journey.

No. They insisted upon a journey of 65 miles which on any analysis with brakes which the OP believed to be unreliable is unreasonable.

ILW

Why buy a car from somewhere 250 miles away?

Equaliser123

ILW wrote: »

Why buy a car from somewhere 250 miles away?

Must confess - I thought that.

Evans Halshaw tend to be mainstream brands so not quite sure what the OP was doing.

George_Michael

Equaliser123 wrote: »

No. They insisted upon a journey of 65 miles which on any analysis with brakes which the OP believed to be unreliable is unreasonable.

So the question must be asked, if the OP thought that the brakes were unreliable, why didn't they abandon their journey from the garage to their house?
It may have been difficult doing this, but surely if someone thought that the braking system on their car was dangerous, the only safe thing to do would be to stop.

During the drive home I noticed that something was wrong with the brakes; under light braking there was a sort of surging as if the brake discs were warped, and under moderate or heavy braking from anything over 40mph there was quite a bad vibration throughout the car which was enough to shake the sun visors. I had to drive the car home very carefully.

A vibration bad enough to shake the sun visors, but they continued to drive it!

spacey2012

ILW wrote: »

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

They employ breakdown "technicians" they are hardly qualified to advise anything other than I can not fix it call a tow truck.

ILW

spacey2012 wrote: »

They employ breakdown "technicians" they are hardly qualified to advise anything other than I can not fix it call a tow truck.

True, but they are independent and known to be fairly knowledgable.

They are generaly more experienced than a HiQ fitter.