problem with finance car after 1week

accyuklad

thanks for the advice I will be getting it back asap to the dealer

colino

Take it back with a written, detailed list of the faults and ask the trader to rectify, replace or refund.
(Do even bomb-site traders finance £1500 cars?)

Netwizard

The only advice I can offer here is if you do take the car back, Do not drive it if the oil pressure light is on, get it recovered back to the dealers.

Driving it with low / no oil pressure will cause even more damage.

interstellaflyer

Assuming it's not something simple like low oil level, then showing low oil pressure at 52k, I'd question whether the the mileage was genuine as well.

interstellaflyer

colino wrote: »

(Do even bomb-site traders finance £1500 cars?)

Not sure about now, however there used to be a few that advertised in the local rags when we lived up north,but that was 6 years ago, they used to sell cars sub £3000, from what I saw, over priced sheds and they offered 'guaranteed accepted' finance for those with poor credit history.

motorguy

accyuklad wrote: »

my parents brought a car and now it started to get problems and I know abit about mechanics

theres a problem with the oil pressure as it flashes when the engine is idle and when driving after a while the tappets start to go noisy which means the oil isn't being pumped to the top of the engine when it should

wheel bearing making a slight noise

they never got told there was any issues with the car when they brought it on finance so now they very annoyed the car wont last even 1 month due to the oil pressure

they rang them up saying the faults and they said they repair it but will they actually repair it

I don't want my parents having a 1,500 car finance dead in 2weeks and end up paying for it

its only got 52k and its a 2004 agila Vauxhall looks in decent condition apart from the problems

just that I hear a lot of bad dealership people out there that try to do temp jobs so they don't lose out because for a wheel bearing and oil pump replacement it would cost them to do it themselves about 250

but if it still had tappet problem after being fixed if they do sort the problem or oil light flashing can they take car back and get there finance cancelled even after cooling period

You would be within your rights to reject the car at this point, however if you want to let the trader repair it, then get a definition of what that repair will mean.

eg problem that is leading to oil light coming on resolved, tappet noise resolved, wheel bearing noise resolved.

If he wont agree to that up front then reject the car.

To be honest an 04 Agila probably has a trade price of £800 and he'll have got a backhander from the finance company too, so if hes prepared to sell low end cars then he should be prepared to resolve any issues that are relevant under the SOGA.