Car missold

harveybobbles

So the garage that did the repairs.. Did you go in and say "I think my brakes are noisy and my battery is week.."

If so, they then see that as an invite to find the brakes wrong and the battery knackered and use it as a scare tactic into you replacing them.

Can't see what yourt issues are really?

marty2be2000

colino wrote: »

What's wrong with them is that they have been driven by a procession of drivers of varying degrees of skill and normally in a hurry!

The same is true of any used car, does not matter if its one owner or more.

The last new car I bought was driven hard on track days and sold by me some years later, one owner car with low mileage but did more than 100 laps of the Nurburgring.

I've owned ex. rental cars, the last one I purchased at 13K miles and sold at 100K miles and it was still running perfectly and had no problems at all with the only outlay being routine servicing and tyres. Only sold it to buy another fun car, not because anything was wrong with it.

Samsonite1

It is always tough to take it on the chin when you are inconvenienced by poor service. The thing you can and should do is take your business elsewhere in the future - losing customers is not going to go well for them in the long run.

jaydeeuk1

EssexExile wrote: »

What's wrong with ex-rental cars?

People like me drive them. Want to know how fast you can go in 1st in a mini cooper s, or how hard it is to change gear without a clutch in a diesel Yaris? 40 and quite.

colino

OK, put it simply, ex-hire, ex-driving school et al have a lower retail price for a reason. I'm not going to do my price/cost/value differences presentation here.

Ectophile

I had an ex-hire company car a while back. I knew that the dealer were using it as a runaround/loan car, but they didn't mention the hire company who owned it before them. I only found out when I checked the vehicle history with the DVLA (I wonder how many people know you can do that).

I had it for over 8 years. It never broke down in all that time - not even when I was driving it flat out around Donington Park race track on a couple of days.

spiro

At a guess the garage may have bought the car at auction were it was described as one owner so without other information that is how they would advertise it. Occasionally I go a BCA auction with a friend who is a trader. On one occasion we saw an mpv sold as one lady owner, one look at the car told you it had been a taxi in Portsmouth (auction was in Bedford). At a guess the one lady owner probably did own it but used it/rented as a taxi.

AdrianC

The V5C tells you who the previous keeper was, and how many there were. If you look at the V5C at the dealer's, you will see the person who had it before the dealer, and the one before them. But, of course, if it's one owner, it will be in the name of that first owner still. And that will be the rental firm.

Who but rental firms sells average cars at roughly 6mo/10k miles? Not "real" people...

k3lvc

Jonsnowknowsnothing wrote: »

The garage has to declare that without me asking, citizens advice already confirmed this.

You're sure about this ?? I'd be interested to see the response

Did you ask and they lied or did you forget to ask the question that's obviously important to you ? Takes 10secs to ask the salemans for the history and if you don't believe him then dig deeper. No point complaining after the event if you didn't ask

colino

On one owner cars of many vehicles whose original use might adversely affect resale value, the keeper name of the first owner is often, shall we say, less direct than it should be. No excuse for a professional trader, it is their job to check and recognise the alternative names that some companies use. Does become more mired two or three RKs down the line if history is broken and provenance becomes less clear though, to categorically state what the full story of a car is.