Urgent advice: My car:Hell with buyer of my car - Please can someone advise me?

cambslass

Hello all, thank you again for the replies.

I cannot go to the small claims court because the worry of it would cause my illness to worsen: I'm not moaning but pointing out how this is affecting me.

I am in a no win situation and he knows this is due to my health, or rather lack of it.

Horrid persons latest message to me says" We have now done with being nice" It's like a threat to me.

The only time that he was nice to me, was when he took the car, and from then until now his manner has changed to that of a bully

I do feel afraid as I live alone and am disabled and he threatened to turn up and take the papers. I have been polite and friendly throughout and he is now, I feel, threatening me

My neighbours that have known me for 30 years are looking out for me, as I asked them if they would do this.

I may have to call the police although no crime has been committed yet, but he is definitely turning nasty.

How could something that should have been so good, turned so bad.

:-)

Wig

Where are you cambslass? and where is the car? And do you have a spare set of keys for the car?

hogshead

Guessing from user name could be Cambridge way.
If I was close I'd go drive it away for you.

MarkyMarkD

mrbadexample wrote: »

This was my thinking. After all, you only lent it to him to see if it was suitable for work, right? He hasn't paid you for it, so he hasn't bought it.

However, if he did shout "theft", I have no idea how the police would react. Is he likely to go to the police, or just accept the loss of the car?

It's not as simple as that, because the third party HAS partially paid for the car. So if it's repossessed, the OP owes some money.

I would doubt the third party going to the police in the circumstances, but given that he's "getting nasty", I'm not sure I'd want to get on the wrong side of him by doing so.

vaio

mrbadexample wrote: »

This was my thinking. After all, you only lent it to him to see if it was suitable for work, right? He hasn't paid you for it, so he hasn't bought it.

However, if he did shout "theft", I have no idea how the police would react. Is he likely to go to the police, or just accept the loss of the car?

I certainly think these particular waters are muddy enough that the police wouldn’t be interested whoever made a theft allegation

cambslass

Thank you again for your replies.

I would not report him for stealing the car,as he has not.

I have called on an old friend who is going to let me stay with them for however long I want too. She lives quite

cambslass

Thank you again for your replies. :-)

I would not report him for stealing the car, as he has not.

I have called on an old friend who is going to let me stay with her for however long I want too. She lives quite a distance from me so maybe this will help me to see things more clearly, and also I will not feel threatened by him as I will not have my mobile phone on, so no 'bullyish texts.

I did live in Cambridgeshire :-) Moved south though.

Thanks again everyone, I do appreciate all of your replies. CL

hogshead

Is it not worth informing DVLA of the situation incase he gets more fines etc. Not sure if they'd be interested but just to log it in the system really.

Hope all works out OK for you in the end.

cambslass

Hi Marky and everyone else that has replied to me:-

OK - One last question and then that is it :-)

If I can get someone to collect my car, ( I dont' have a spare key) and I return the deposit that he paid, to him, minus the costs of the fines, surely this would be alright?

I don't think that he would say that I stole the car, and somehow, I do not think that he would take it to the police, as I do not think that they would be interested, as I have the logbook, and surely this is a civil matter? It would take a while to go through the courts and by then I could have sold the car?

I would give him a receipt for the money owing to him, and I would do this via cheque as proof of payment to him .

Any thoughts please? thanks again CL.

mrbadexample

cambslass wrote: »

Hi Marky and everyone else that has replied to me:-

OK - One last question and then that is it :-)

If I can get someone to collect my car, ( I dont' have a spare key) and I return the deposit that he paid, to him, minus the costs of the fines, surely this would be alright?

I don't think that he would say that I stole the car, and somehow, I do not think that he would take it to the police, as I do not think that they would be interested, as I have the logbook, and surely this is a civil matter? It would take a while to go through the courts and by then I could have sold the car?

I would give him a receipt for the money owing to him, and I would do this via cheque as proof of payment to him .

Any thoughts please? thanks again CL.

Personally, I really want to tell you to go ahead and get the car back. Refund the payments he's made, tell him the matter's closed and you don't expect to see or hear from him again.
However, I'm reluctant to say it because I don't know the legality of the situation. If, as MarkyMarkD says (and I've no reason to think otherwise), this is now a case of a debt owed, there could potentially be problems.

I think there's probably a few of us thinking: "Well, if that was my mum / cousin / friend etc. in that situation, I know what I'd be doing right about now....."

I think that you have to make a judgement call and go with it. Either:

1) Send someone to get the car back, and hope nothing further comes of it.
2) Send the logbook to the DVLA, chase him through the small claims court for payment, and accept it could be a long while (if ever) before you see the money. Remember, nothing's in writing so he could potentially say you gave it to him, just as you can say it was an agreed sale.

Is the worst case scenario from option (1) worse than the best case scenario from option (2)?