Second Hand cars/section 75.

rich13348

Mazzone10 wrote: »

Thanks mate.

Is your fixed now?

I haven't had this problem and i have never owned a MINI. When I said it sounds like the same problem to me. I meant the two sides you are having are related to one another. And a quick search on Google turned the part up on ebay.

Sorry for the confusion.

kmb500

I would go to a garage and ask them how much it would cost to sort out, you may find it's not that much. (or you might find it's a lot in which case you at least have a number to go back to the dealer)

AdrianC

Somebody buys 15yo, £1200 car with known fault.
Known fault turns out not to be the originally-assumed cause.
Wants to reject vehicle...

I despair sometimes.

Look, it's very simple. Your legal rights do include a right to rejection or repair if the vehicle is not fit for purpose, tempered by reasonable expectations for age, price and apparent condition. It's a 15yo cheap car with a problem you knew about and accepted, and which is trivially minor - the car is perfectly usable, the central locking just doesn't play. So pull the fuse, and lock the doors manually. There IS a manual keyhole - you just need to remove a cover to get at it - it might only be the LH front door, so you lock the driver's door manually from the inside, then lock the passenger from the outside. Inconvenient, perhaps. But no more.

With that caveat in mind, you do not have a leg to stand on.

Mazzone10

Calm down. If you had read my post you will see the locking wasn't a known fault. There is no manual locking for the boot, so the car is unlocked and if it was stolen may invalidate the insurance. That isn't trivial, it's fundamental.

kmb500

how is it "perfectly useable" if you cannot lock the doors?

AdrianC

kmb500 wrote: »

how is it "perfectly useable" if you cannot lock the doors?

Umm, easily. How isn't it?

AdrianC

Mazzone10 wrote: »

If you had read my post you will see the locking wasn't a known fault.

Yes, it was.

Mazzone10 wrote: »

The one fault which the dealer told me about was the boot catch sensor needs replacing which I was happy to sort myself

If the boot (or any door) doesn't detect it's properly closed, then the central locking won't operate. Every single central locking system works like this.

Mazzone10

Anyway. Thanks for all the replies. I will get the sensor replaced and go from there.

davidwood123

The Mini of that age was unreliable when new.

Forget about it and get something better.

facade

In future, when you buy a car never, never, ever buy a car with a "simple fault" that "only costs a few pounds to put right"

Say you have a car with a fault that costs £30 and 5 minutes to fix, that puts people off buying it. You'd fix it wouldn't you?
Especially if you were a trader paying "the boy" to tat up/valet the cars?

Conclusion- they know what the fault is, and it isn't a 5 minute fix.