Re: Understanding Finance/Cars!

tykesi

painterman2259 wrote: »

hi I am new to this group. I got a car on hp from a finance company in May 2013 at the time the company had fitted a pastime device which they send a code through to you when you make a payment you then you key this into a keypad and it lets you keep on driving. In December I had ankle fusion op so the car has been standing, the December code was put in. the car would not start had a new battery fitted still would not start. This kept happening so my mechanic had it towed into a merc garage it was put on a diagnostic machine still played up the device was shorting out. Had the device removed and diagnostic showed the ecu had blown this was put to the finance company and they said it got nothing to do with them, the cost of all of this stands at £1200.00 are the fianance company at fault please as I have a 3 year contract with them any help would be of great help Thanks

You need to start your own thread rather than rudely hijacking someone else's where the question is completely different.

painterman2259

forgotmyname wrote: »

They could say you damaged the device/ECU fitting the battery. And now you admit to a garage tampering with the device.

Did they give permission for the garage to tamper with it?

After changing the battery did it start sometimes and not others?

ECU maybe fine. It could be another issue.

it is the ecu as the car went into the main dealers and yes permission was granted for the box to be removed by there own guy car would not start before the new battery was fitted and merc came out to fit it

painterman2259

Sorry for treading on anyone's toes, as I said I am new on here and cannot work out how to start a new tread a help would of been nice not a rude comment thanks

scaredofdebt

painterman2259 wrote: »

Sorry for treading on anyone's toes, as I said I am new on here and cannot work out how to start a new tread a help would of been nice not a rude comment thanks

It wasn't a rude comment.

Anyway, you can start a new thread by going back to the main motoring forum page and clicking the blue "new thread" button near the top-left of the list of threads.