car lease company sent wrong car

londonTiger

is it a bluff? will they really swap the car over and take a deprecation hit after daughter has driven the car for a while? Or is this just an empty threat for OP to [voluntarily] agree to the hike.

londonTiger

ive sold stuff on ebay and occasionally mixed orders and sent wrong stuff out to wrong buyer.

it's amazing that when you give a customer more than they paid for they NEVER write back. EVER.

But the customer who got less than they paid for ALWAYS writes back to complain.

I just dont buy that OP had no idea they got a different car than they paid for. That's just baloney.

londonTiger

wannabeprudent wrote: »

I would pay £20 a month just for the aircon alone.

Yeah it's such a small car, it's going to heat up inside very quick when it's really sunny. You'll need aircon for the motorways otherwisem suffer deafenining wind noise

bigjl

Ectophile wrote: »

I got the impression that this forum was about pouncing on unsuspecting posters, insulting them, belittling them, accusing them of being trolls, or just being as nasty and vicious as possible.

What reaction did the OP expect.

From their first post it was fairly clear they were only interested in keeping something which they likely knew from the off was wrong.

Otherwise the thread would have started 6 weeks ago asking how to return a better equipped and more expensive car than the one they leased.

BeenThroughItAll

robbies_gal wrote: »

u might think its uncalled for motorguy but its a fact most new drivers write their car off/ crash pretty quickly after theyve passed

so my opinion is that its a waste of money getting a brand new car

'Most' meaning greater than 50%, I'd like to see the evidence to back that up. I know tens of young people who have passed their driving tests, and it is a long way from half of them who've had any accidents.

chunkytfg

Trying to act slightly less like a name calling child, here is something to consider.

Could the dealer have mixed the plates up when then prepared the vehicles? Meaning when you came to insure the car the reg did list the car as a Pop model and not the lounge as that's what the Reg no was registered to.

Do you have the V5? Do the chassis numbers match the documents? Something that should have been checked when you took delivery but quite easy to ignore as it's not like you are buying a second hand car you need to HPI check.

chrisw

robbies_gal wrote: »

u might think its uncalled for motorguy but its a fact most new drivers write their car off/ crash pretty quickly after theyve passed

so my opinion is that its a waste of money getting a brand new car

I would tend to agree with this. My daughter had an old Fiat Punto and although reliable, within 2 years every panel was scuffed, scratched or dented - from stationary objects like walls and bollards so she still managed to build an NCD.

However, had money been no object, I would have preferred her to have a new car just for the safety aspect - ABS, air bags, air con to clear windows, etc.

Each to their own.

AdrianC

chrisw wrote: »

However, had money been no object, I would have preferred her to have a new car just for the safety aspect - ABS, air bags, air con to clear windows, etc.

Apart from ABS and airbags being fairly ubiquitous for the last couple of decades, and aircon for the last decade, there's a very strong argument for new drivers learning to drive without a whole raft of electronics hiding what they're actually doing. If they get used to that, they'll be utterly lost if ever they drive a vehicle without, or if ever those electronics take a short holiday.

motorguy

robbies_gal wrote: »

u might think its uncalled for motorguy but its a fact most new drivers write their car off/ crash pretty quickly after theyve passed

so my opinion is that its a waste of money getting a brand new car

And have you any statistics to back up that most new drivers write their cars off quickly after they've passed?

Because last time i looked it was something like one in five had an "accident" in their first year, of which only a small percentage would result in the car being written off.

Also the tone was the problem - why not say "Make sure shes extra careful in her new car, a lot of young people have accidents" as opposed to "waste of money it'll be written off in 6 weeks"?

Or are you another one of these people with a chip on their shoulder?

motorguy

bigjl wrote: »

What reaction did the OP expect.

From their first post it was fairly clear they were only interested in keeping something which they likely knew from the off was wrong.

Otherwise the thread would have started 6 weeks ago asking how to return a better equipped and more expensive car than the one they leased.

Well i'm with you on that particular point, but concluding that the daughter is a brat and that she'll write it off in six weeks anyway is a bit much is it not? :eek: