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Private car sale, may actually be a dealer and car has broken after 3 days.
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He's obviously trading. Equally obviously, he's going to be very, very tricky to sue.
Your best bet is to get Trading Standards interested. They can bring criminal proceedings, but most likely only if he has done something obviously wrong such as clocking the car. Have you checked the MOT history yet?
You need to get the car checked to see if it's dangerous, too.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
You are probably going to have to go to court to get your money back, so gather as much evidence as you can that he is running a business and document everything carefully.
About half of county court judgements go unpaid. This will be one of the unpaid ones, I'm afraid.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Yes I've checked the mileage. Seems ok although did ovely 1000 miles in the last 4 months as opposed to 21000 in the 6 months prior to that0
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Yes I've checked the mileage. Seems ok although did ovely 1000 miles in the last 4 months as opposed to 21000 in the 6 months prior to that
Hmmm. That could be because somebody doing private hire noticed there was a problem with the gearbox, so got rid of it into the trade.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
21K taxi or hire car then sold on .0
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He's obviously trading. Equally obviously, he's going to be very, very tricky to sue.
Your best bet is to get Trading Standards interested. They can bring criminal proceedings, but most likely only if he has done something obviously wrong such as clocking the car. Have you checked the MOT history yet?
You need to get the car checked to see if it's dangerous, too.
Are they really going to be interested in one car, even if the OP could contact them?0 -
The seller had a Birmingham city council permit pass In the that he'd accidentally left in that i gave back to him. I think it was a taxi permit although he'd said he was a kitchen fitter. I'd already Done all the paperwork and transferred the money by that point though !!!55357;!!!56853;0
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AndyMc..... wrote: »Are they really going to be interested in one car, even if the OP could contact them?
Yes, if it had obviously been clocked. But it hasn't been.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
out of interest has the car had a lot of previous owners? It seems to have been MOT'd every 6 months for 3 years which I assume is so it could be sold on with a fresh MOT.0
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