Private car sale....now being taken to small claims court

pinkshoes

Robbo2305 wrote: »

Yes that's what the safety recall was for at the vauxhall garage. It was checked and fine and the buyer was given the relevant paper work.
Also ....yes my partner had as said she could have put diesel in it and that's what would happen to the injectors! We just didn't know if we should go down the route of mentioning that and blaming it on her with out having evidence of this.
We have not been in contact with the buyer except for one phone call after we recieved a letter from her. We have just filled in the forms sent by the small courts money claims department.

Might be worth doing some research on any other reasons that all four injectors could fail other than fuel contamination.

As she drove it home with no issues, this would prove that it was her that put the wrong fuel in...

Is this a diesel zafira?

DoaM

pinkshoes wrote: »

Is this a diesel zafira?

On that note - the vehicle wasn't inadvertently advertised as the wrong fuel type, was it?

Robbo2305

No definitely not its a petrol and the advert which I still have a copy of says Petrol.
And yes we have looked at symptoms of 'bad injectors' and we have never been aware of any signs or symptoms that would lead us to believe that they were any problems with the injectors.
But also from previous posts I have said we rang vauxhall and to replace all.injectors they quoted a price around £700-800 which is half of what she said the garage had quoted her! That's why we are suspicious that she's even been to a garage at all. It's as if she has plucked the figure of £1500 to fix alledged problem out of thin air!

Twinxster

Sorry to hijack the thread. What became of this claim? Did you have to go to court? I'm in a similar position myself. Many thanks

bris

Twinxster wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread. What became of this claim? Did you have to go to court? I'm in a similar position myself. Many thanks

The op hasn't been back since starting this thread so not much chance of ever finding out.


Start your own thread if you want help.