Can garage sell my car

nickcc

stator wrote: »

Write to them and ask for an explanation.
It may be reasonable, it may not.

If they inflated the cost of repair to con you out of your car, it would be criminal. But how can you prove this. I suppose you'd need to prove that the engine hadn't been replaced. I'd suggest sending someone in 'under cover' to look at the car and note down the engine serial number.
If it hasn't changed then report it to the police or consider taking them to small claims court.

What happens if the garage repaired the original engine ?

facade

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Of course it cost them to fit.

Engine swaps are not 5 minute jobs and mechanics do not earn £0 per hour.

This is why I don't run a business.

Suppose I have a couple of mechanics that I pay a weekly wage (rather than a zero hours contract)

Suppose that business is a bit light, and they have a couple of hours with no jobs booked in.

I'm paying them anyway, so if they work on an asset of the garage, then it has cost me nothing (that I wouldn't have had to pay anyway) As long as they can push it off the ramp when a paying job comes in then it is a bonus.

Svein_Forkbeard

scd3scd4 wrote: »

-shrug-.................unlikely a garage may be dishonest or be trying it on?.........very likely I would say. Let us know where you go?

Aye, but you're from London so that may explain your distrust in people.

Today I bought a car from an Iraqi guy paid the money into his bank account this morning confirmed receipt and picked the car up this afternoon. Only met him yesterday when I went to view the car.

Just a little trust and easy no hassle.

(The only issue was the Iraqi music he left in the CD player wasn't to my taste )

arcon5

Your argument falls apart the moment you mention receiving payment from them. Therefore you did not pay for their services to get the vehicle scrapped, you accepted payment for a vehicle worth scrap.

You have no complaint. If you wanted it scrapped sell it to a scrap metal/recycling vented, not a garage who don't have a license.

stator

nickcc wrote: »

What happens if the garage repaired the original engine ?

Then they are scammers and should have told the OP it can be repaired.
I doubt they wasted days of mechanics time trying to repair and engine they thought couldn't be repaired.

arcon5

stator wrote: »

Then they are scammers and should have told the OP it can be repaired.
I doubt they wasted days of mechanics time trying to repair and engine they thought couldn't be repaired.

They said 'It's not worth fixing It' according to op. And fixing an engine is usually more labour intensive than just dropping a new lump in.

scd3scd4

Svein_Forkbeard wrote: »

Aye, but you're from London so that may explain your distrust in people.

Today I bought a car from an Iraqi guy paid the money into his bank account this morning confirmed receipt and picked the car up this afternoon. Only met him yesterday when I went to view the car.

Just a little trust and easy no hassle.

(The only issue was the Iraqi music he left in the CD player wasn't to my taste )

I don't think your experience is indicative of the facts from the likes of Watchdog, Trading Standards and nearly every undercover survey. My experience is, only a mug waiting to be conned trusts strangers they have never meet before.


Then again maybe my old 73 year old mum should have trusted the Police office who rang last year saying he had to cofirm her cc card as it had been cloned and he had the two men at the station under arrest!! lol

jimjames

GDB2222 wrote: »

This is all speculative. What if there was nothing seriously wrong with the car, in the first place?

Other than it didn't drive and had a seized engine? There was clearly something wrong as they had to be recovered

CarolK

Did you continue to pay the insurance as well?

badcardealers

We bought a car some 3 years ago, the oil sump plug fell off whilst driving in the fast lane on the M1 with our boys in the back seat. Having had to replace the previous car with the same garage we had this one towed straight to them. The swore at us saying its not their effing fault. We rejected the car but they refused to do anything, they did taken the engine apart to see if it can be fixed, they also applied to be the registered keeper within 5 days for some reason.

Within days we were in a stalemate and no car so we had to rent one, they then said as we weren't being reasonable they were going to charge us storage as we had rejected the car... they rejected our rejection because the car was over a few miles over 3000 miles and we'd had it for 6 weeks. We stuck to our guns but they kept insisting it was someone else failt, the AA who recovered the car, claim off our car insurance, claim off the AA, claim of our repairs warranty etc.... the list went on, never accepting their part. I should point out that we had kept calling the garage after we bought it saying we think the gearbox is going like the previous car and it was jumpy. They said take it for long run, put some premium oil in etc

We are now at 3 years, no car, no money, we've had to lease a car because we had no money to buy another one, this is a real struggle now to keep this going. We owe them over 25k in storage for a 12k car which we don't have. We have spent 12k on the car, 2k on legal, 1.5k on forensic tests on the car, 4k on car hire and now 18k on leasing a car.

We have just found out that they have sold the car, its being used as a taxi. The forensic report said the car had so many things wrong with it it wasn't roadworthy when we bought and the oil sump plug wasn't the issue. 

How do we get our money without taking them to the county court?

What are our right.... they have done no repair work, just claiming we owe them for storage (we did say we would store the car on our driveway 2.8 years ago so cost didn't keep increasing whilst we sort this out... they rejected this offer)

They had the car because we rejected it and we are still the registered owners. 

Help.