What next? 2k car off-road after a week!!

djdido2

Just want to say thank you to all contributors to this thread! The dealer has refunded me in full after he received my letter and small claims court action!!

Very happy!! ))

LandyAndy

That's very good news. Thanks for letting us know.

SunReader

There are 2,800 Mini Coopers on Autotrader. 20 of them are offered for £2k or below. Of those, just 11 are from trade sellers. Two of those have write-off history, one's listed as spares-or-repair, whilst one has a big dent in the side. That leaves you SEVEN apparently straight cars of that price range to choose from. Nationally. They're nearly all 51-plate, so coming up to thirteen years old. Is £2k strong money for a car of that age? Broadly, yes. But for a car of that model and age? No. And that's the standard SOGA judges by.

Thanks Adrian.

either 'Housewife beats the trade, buys desirable and sought after car without inspection or 2nd opinion and gets a bargain'

or 'when they are that cheap it is always for a reason'.


When I was exporting cars most of the time the punters would go on autotrader and select low to high and find the very cheapest car - vehicles that one couldn't buy a decent one on the uk market for anything close to that money, some didn't even exist and were just deposit scams..

Unless something classic or collectors, for mainstream cars there is always a reason they are cheap. Thinking the trade is too stupid to know what these are worth hence it must be a bargain is wishful thinking, as is spending all your budget on an old car bought at the very bottom of the market without any contingency fund .