Refund entitlement on a 2nd hand diesel car bought yesterday

General_query

Hi,

Bit of a long shot but our beloved 10 year old car died on us, automatic gearbox packed up.

We need a car as we have a little baby boy with lot's of hospital appointments to get to, so looked at several replacements.

Ended up buying a nice (bigger) Vauxhall Meriva but it was a diesel.

Never had a diesel before but we needed a car and the much needed extra space.

Now 24 hours on, all this Diesel tax stuff is in the news.

We're not happy about this or the prospect of being stuck with a heavily future taxed car that is now worth nothing if the government gets its way and charges £20 just to drive into cities in the not so distant future.

Never mind all the threats of quadrupling road tax and massively hiking diesel costs at the petrol pump.

is there no comeback / cooling off period when you buy a 2nd hand car. We only bought it / drove it home yesterday and 24 hours on this is all over the news.

Just great.

:mad:

AndyMc.....

I'm sure the dealer will take it back at trade price. Given there's nothing wrong with the car you have no rights to return it.

Robisere

Do you live in an urban or rural area? Do you regularly drive more than just a few miles a day? Is it a new car, if not how old?

As has been said, you will probably lose money taking it back. Without a mechanical or safety reason to quote for asking to be refunded, you have no chance of receiving your money back in full. In fact, sorry to say, the garage can just say, no dice chum, the car is yours.

motorguy

General_query wrote: »

Hi,

Bit of a long shot but our beloved 10 year old car died on us, automatic gearbox packed up.

We need a car as we have a little baby boy with lot's of hospital appointments to get to, so looked at several replacements.

Ended up buying a nice (bigger) Vauxhall Meriva but it was a diesel.

Never had a diesel before but we needed a car and the much needed extra space.

Now 24 hours on, all this Diesel tax stuff is in the news.

We're not happy about this or the prospect of being stuck with a heavily future taxed car that is now worth nothing if the government gets its way and charges £20 just to drive into cities in the not so distant future.

Never mind all the threats of quadrupling road tax and massively hiking diesel costs at the petrol pump.

is there no comeback / cooling off period when you buy a 2nd hand car. We only bought it / drove it home yesterday and 24 hours on this is all over the news.

Just great.

:mad:

Its extremely unlikely that there will be tax changes retrospectively.

Also, its very unlikely that diesel prices at the pump will go up significantly as that would push up transport costs for public transport, lorries, etc.

Its unlikely that there will be universal £20 charges into ALL cities anytime in the next decade.

Its been "all over the news" for months - and its mostly hot air and the papers spreading doom and gloom.

Buyers remorse? Hardly the dealers fault? Why would they refund you?

motorguy

FWIW i've just today bought a 2016 Passat diesel.

Not one !!!! do i give about the nonsense in the news.

debtdebt

Don't listen to all the hype. Enjoy your car for what it is and don't stress. That's all you can do really. The selling garage have no duty to take back a car where there is nothing wrong.

Nasqueron

Changes to VED are not retrospective, what you pay now will be what you pay next year. Only the dirty older diesels are being taxed out of London, the newer ones aren't.

The London diesel tax (only affects London, no other city) was announced 12th Feb 2017 so you already knew this (it was not announced yesterday)

waamo

Given that tax won't be retrospective are you now delighted with it?

Marktheshark

They will apply it to petrol cars as well.
Just wait, they always set sides against each other first.

macman

Unless you need to drive into central London, then you won't be paying extra to drive diesels into cities for several years yet.
There is no statutory cooling off period on anything you buy in a shop or showroom, though the dealer's own terms may offer something-have you checked?
As stated above, diesels are unsuited to short runs, which leads to DPF problems. That is the main downside to them.
'VWgate' does not seem to have affected diesel residuals much, and VW have increased sales globally since.

Strider590

Some prior research next time perhaps, this stuff has been flying around for months, not 24 hours.