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Done by a rogue trader? HELP!

03jatkin · 2015-02-19 22:15:24

Hi guys, please bare with me, i will try and fit as much detail in as possible and I would love it if you could give me some help to try and resolve my situation i feel i have walked into quite by mistake. Yesterday i purchased a car i saw advertised on autotrader by a company (CM trading) based in wigan, the car in…

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pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite

21 February 2015 at 2:15AM

The gearbox in those cars fall apart in a heartbeat. We had one two years ago, gearbox failed spectacularly on the motorway taking flywheel etc with it and leaving us with a bill just shy of 2k.
Traded it in to a garage not long after that. Lovely car but not worth the hassle. The Astra owners network has dozens of owners in the same boat.

Good luck, hope you can get rid.

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