Have bought a car with service history, turns out there's not

colino

If they advertised it as Full Service History, and you paid the premium retail price to get it, arrange an appointment with the Dealer Principal to return it and get all of your money back.
If the ad vaguely said "service history" and there is a service book with a PDI in it, tough. You should have checked before you bought.

Strider590

Foxy-Stoat wrote: »

18,000 miles or 1 year, which ever comes sooner. So it should of had 3 services so far at least.

But it's been doing low mileage, so it only needs servicing every 25 years.

bigjl

I doubt it has not been serviced. Just serviced by the previous owner.

Perhaps writing a letter to the previous owner could get the info you need.

Though i know of at least 2 people that have bought brand new cars and never serviced them.

One for 3 yrs(Punto) and one for nearly 5yrs (Ford Ka) both were low mileage drivers.

Another reason to steer clear of low milers.

bod1467

That's the thing about servicing - some people think there's only a mileage part to the servicing schedule, and forget about the time aspect.

Rebby

Thanks all. Yeah I should have checked the book, but I had someone with me who I thought knew what they were doing and would have checked.
The car place are still debating it all with me.
Oh and they forgot to give me the tax book for the new car, so when I phoned them yesterday they said they did, then found it in a file somewhere and said they'd drop it into mine last night. They didn't.
I don't think that going to get my money back is going work as my old car which I traded in has gone and I've already spent £100 on changing the insurance. I'll be down about £200 or so and will be carless if I take it back.

Marktheshark

A service history is just that a "history" not "think he might have done it"

AdrianC

Rebby wrote: »

Oh and they forgot to give me the tax book for the new car, so when I phoned them yesterday they said they did, then found it in a file somewhere and said they'd drop it into mine last night. They didn't.

"tax book"? You mean the V5C logbook? That gets sent to you from DVLA - they should have sent it off. You should have the green slip, though.