Used car dealer dispute

stuartves

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unholyangel

Liability can be excluded in b2b contracts.

If you have anxiety and depression issues, you may want to rethink a career as a taxi driver.

Also....£2750 for a car capable of passing its hackney seems rather.....unlikely. What was the specs of the car (or do you have a link to the listing?).

Have you actually passed your taxi drivers test yet? If so, why didnt you just get a system car so there wasnt a loss of earnings?

mije1983

unholyangel wrote: »

What was the specs of the car (or do you have a link to the listing?).

Seems it could be this one from the info given


http://www.prestige-motorsdirect.co.uk/used-cars/toyota-avensis-2-0-d-4d-t3-s-5dr-newton-le-willows-201406034706878


I agree that a career as a taxi driver may not be the best option for the OP at the moment due to their personal issues.

mattyprice4004

I doubt potential earnings would stand up in court - you can only claim for provable losses.

arcon5

unholyangel wrote: »

Liability can be excluded in b2b contracts.

This.

You will not be treated in the same light as a consumer.

Your claim seems very optimistic. Covering speculative losses.

Also you could have mitigated your losses by driving somebody elses car.

Also....£2750 for a car capable of passing its hackney seems rather.....unlikely. What was the specs of the car (or do you have a link to the listing?).

Not really. The hackney tests are not that much more comprehensive than an MOT- just including extras checks relating to fire extinguishers, first aid boxes etc.
In my area for example, it's simply a 6 monthly MOT and check sheet the garage fill out at the same time pretty much mimicking the MOT checks with a few minor extras.

Don't see why a £3k car wouldn't be sufficient.

In fact with taxis you won't make much money spending much more on cars since their life span is pretty dire. Out local cabbies fleet are given a life expectancy of 12-18 months depending on how many drivers - after which they often become donor cars.

forgotmyname

Its not the dealers fault you chose a car that was so far away to make returning for repairs difficult.

Train tickets, Hire cars, Loss of earnings etc probably wasting your time. Your more likely to succeed with claiming the basic essentials.

Saying you had £50 worth of fuel in when you returned it? They could argue it had £51 in when they sold it to you.

unholyangel

arcon5 wrote: »

This.

You will not be treated in the same light as a consumer.

Your claim seems very optimistic. Covering speculative losses.

Also you could have mitigated your losses by driving somebody elses car.



Not really. The hackney tests are not that much more comprehensive than an MOT- just including extras checks relating to fire extinguishers, first aid boxes etc.
In my area for example, it's simply a 6 monthly MOT and check sheet the garage fill out at the same time pretty much mimicking the MOT checks with a few minor extras.

Don't see why a £3k car wouldn't be sufficient.

In fact with taxis you won't make much money spending much more on cars since their life span is pretty dire. Out local cabbies fleet are given a life expectancy of 12-18 months depending on how many drivers - after which they often become donor cars.

Hackneys are generally are much more strict than MOTs - although I believe some councils are more lax in their approach to taxis than others.

Here you won't be able to hackney any car that is more than 3 years old upon its first hackney date (although if it was hackneyed previously....thats fine). Likewise there are a lot of things that you wouldnt fail an MOT for, but you will fail a hackney for.

Things have been changing in the last year or two due to the over abundance of taxi drivers, councils have been implementing measures in order to combat this including increasing the fee, making medicals and hackneys harder to pass etc.

Simply put....taxi'ing is no longer the money maker it once was. Dont get me wrong, still able to make a good wage.....just not like they used to.

mattyprice4004

stuartves wrote: »

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And instead of saying thank you like a decent human being, the OP deletes his post.
Glad you're not going to be a taxi driver with that attitude!