Private sale, car has gone catastrophically wrong

spacey2012

Yes the careful driver ones, floor them and the DMF turns in to a bag of pop tins, the torque is too high.
The 110 versions of the mondeo/ focus tdci 2.0 well you had to do something very severe to shred the flywheels.

paddedjohn

motorguy wrote: »

You are absolutely in no way liable for this.

Do not get involved any further and cease any communication once you have given the guy any info you might have that is useful.

This is not your problem and you're in no way responsible.

You may well be right but if the OP advertised the engine as being warranted for 12 months then they may be on a sticky wicket.

motorguy

paddedjohn wrote: »

You may well be right but if the OP advertised the engine as being warranted for 12 months then they may be on a sticky wicket.

They're already replied to that.

Dukesy wrote: »

I wouldn't have written that the warranty would have transferred on to the next owner.

Dukesy wrote: »

The engine was warranteed for a year, but we gave him all the paperwork to look through and keep when he turned up to pick the truck up, so he should have been aware that it was non transferable before he handed over the money. We just stated facts on the advert.

The O/P needs to distance themselves from this - its not their problem and it sounds a lot like the new owner is trying to involve them in a fraudulent way to make a claim against the garage that fitted the engine.

TrickyWicky

Dukesy wrote: »

Yep... having read what I have now found on the net, we certainly wouldn't get another. It's appalling that so many of these engines have gone bang on what I would have thought of as relatively low mileage.

If you ever wanted another truck, Toyota or Ford would be what I'd go with. Ford because their engines and gearboxes are indestructible (even though they rust badly) and Toyota are just solid in every way - as demonstrated by Top Gear when trying to destroy the red Toyota pickup week after week.

As the others say, as wrong as it may seem and feel, this isn't your problem now unless you misadvertised it and the buyer proves it. In that case you're knackered. You could of course if you feel that bad offer a contribution towards the repair though.

We bought a car years ago that had a gearbox blow itself away a couple of weeks after purchase. In hindsight we shouldn't have bought it as the girl who was selling it had sorn'd it and bought something else but I knew nothing about cars back then. Anyway the gearbox popped, she refused to have anything to do with it and I lost £300 on the damn thing putting it right. Had she offered £150 towards it I would have been very grateful though but her attitude was the "get stuffed" type - far from your own attitude which seems to actually care about it. As murphys law goes, a couple of months later the oil pump went and seized the engine :mad:

Dukesy

TrickyWicky wrote: »

If you ever wanted another truck, Toyota or Ford would be what I'd go with. Ford because their engines and gearboxes are indestructible (even though they rust badly) and Toyota are just solid in every way - as demonstrated by Top Gear when trying to destroy the red Toyota pickup week after week.

Hah, I loved that! Yeah, if we were to get another pickup in the future, it'll most likely be a Hilux.

As the others say, as wrong as it may seem and feel, this isn't your problem now unless you misadvertised it and the buyer proves it. In that case you're knackered. You could of course if you feel that bad offer a contribution towards the repair though.

I'm sure I didn't misadvertise it, so happy on that front. I do feel dreadful about it, but we literally don't have a penny to spare.

We bought a car years ago that had a gearbox blow itself away a couple of weeks after purchase. In hindsight we shouldn't have bought it as the girl who was selling it had sorn'd it and bought something else but I knew nothing about cars back then. Anyway the gearbox popped, she refused to have anything to do with it and I lost £300 on the damn thing putting it right. Had she offered £150 towards it I would have been very grateful though but her attitude was the "get stuffed" type - far from your own attitude which seems to actually care about it. As murphys law goes, a couple of months later the oil pump went and seized the engine :mad:

I know how it is - we bought a Saab 9-5 a couple of years ago on which the turbo pipes failed, and then a couple of weeks later, the clutch went. Was stupidly expensive to repair, but I would never have contacted the seller (who had also had the thing sorned for a while before we bought it... probably says it all!).

Relentless01

Private sale you have nothing to worry about it is their problem. If either of you were in the motortrade you would have to stand by the vehicle with at least a months warranty.

Dukesy

Spoken to the buyer again, basically offering us three options suggested by trading standards. 1. We refund. 2. We pay for repairs. 3. We go halves. He's said he's offering us this as he'd rather not go to small claims. We've told him categorically that we cannot pay anything and have spoken to trading standards ourselves, who have said all that can be done in a case like this is that the buyer can approach the seller for a goodwill payment. Some consolation, but we could do without the stress

spacey2012

Just tell him to get on with the "small claims"
He wont get very far at all.

colino

Don't tell him anything! You should have already made clear by now your position and no further communication will be entertained.

Dukesy

spacey2012 wrote: »

Just tell him to get on with the "small claims"
He wont get very far at all.

Yeah. I do feel sorry for the chap, but we really could do with him just accepting it's not our fault or problem. Life is complicated enough without having this on our minds.