Sold car with different spec

AdrianC

Glass's Guide will give figures for any options that actually do make a difference to valuation, otherwise it's down to collation from used ads.


But I suspect you'll find that a £500 option on a new car is going to make precisely £0.00 difference on a 7yo one, let alone in another 2-3yrs when you come to sell it.

MataNui

Remembering back when i was looking on autotrader just over a year ago. Seemed like around half the adds were full of bullstuff (and these were from traders and main dealers). They just put any crap in the adds so they stand out. Its all lies with a smarmy little disclaimer at the bottom.



I complained to Autotrader about a few that were blatantly advertising stuff in the headline of the advert that simply couldnt be true. Autotrader didnt care, didnt even reply.



Bit late for you now but dont believe a word thats in an autotrader advert. Its all crap. They just list anything and everything that could possibly be on that model of car (and a few things that couldnt possibly be). About the only true thing they could say is 'Car, has wheels'.

EssexExile

Yes, I found that out years ago. Saw an add in the paper that looked like just the car I wanted, drove miles to look at it. I was looking around it thinking "where are the roof rails, what about the fog lights, etc". The salesman came out & I said "this can't be the car you advertised" but he assured me it was & they would fit all the extras I found were missing. I assumed they wouldn't fit any I missed.

pinkshoes

abzilla wrote: »

On the drive home, I realised it did not have heated seats or cruise control but it did say it had this on the advert (on autotrader) which I still have up on my laptop and have taken screenshots.

So why did you not just turn round, and ask the dealer where these features were?

How quickly did you contact the dealer to let them know?

Have you been using it?

DoaM

pinkshoes wrote: »

How quickly did you contact the dealer to let them know?

Have you been using it?

Both of these questions are answered in the OP.

Herzlos

If it's a feature you can't live without then you can't leave the forecourt until you've confirmed it works.

Regarding the distance, it's irrelevant (except for depreciation), it's up to you to take it to where you bought it. The dealer also has np obligation to take the car back unless you can prove that you were promised cruise control. They may buy it back from you or let you trade it in against something else but you're going to get hosed.

Are you sure it's not fitted?

Most of the specs from AutoTrader are generated from CAP rather than the dealer sitting in the car so you need to verify the stuff you care about.