Car buyer wants me to contribute to repairs

alan_d

See here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1771612

Ant555

Poppy_Golightly wrote: »

He says a problem with the clutch was mentioned in the documentation.

He has basically blown any chance he has of any sort of redress (even if there were any) out of the water. He has admitted that the documentation you gave to him in good faith mentioned the clutch and decided to buy it anyway.

However, as already suggested, you do not have to engage with him any further - just out of interest how is he contacting you - text, phone, e,ail, facebook?

tgon

The buyer is trying it on. Ignore him and don't fret about it. Move on, that car is behind you.

Goudy

As already stated, don't worry.

If the fault is in the service history, it's actually done you a favour.
No one can accuse you of hiding or lying about the fault, it's there in print and it's not your fault the new owner only read it after purchase.

Poppy_Golightly

Sorry, my sense of humour! He was not specific - he wrote "the dealer (this is the Ford dealer that carried out all the servicing and MOTs) established that the clutch needs replacing and price is £1,100, having looked in the documents we see it has been an issue before which we weren’t aware of."

Poppy_Golightly

Lummy! That makes interesting reading!

foxy-stoat

Poppy_Golightly wrote: »

Sorry, my sense of humour! He was not specific - he wrote "the dealer (this is the Ford dealer that carried out all the servicing and MOTs) established that the clutch needs replacing and price is £1,100, having looked in the documents we see it has been an issue before which we weren’t aware of."

Ask to see a copy of the document he is referring to then report back.

Also do you have the text of your advert still?

Comms69

Poppy_Golightly wrote: »

Sorry, my sense of humour! He was not specific - he wrote "the dealer (this is the Ford dealer that carried out all the servicing and MOTs) established that the clutch needs replacing and price is £1,100, having looked in the documents we see it has been an issue before which we weren’t aware of."

Probably should've read the documentation before buying it...

Poppy_Golightly

Ant555 wrote: »

He has basically blown any chance he has of any sort of redress (even if there were any) out of the water. He has admitted that the documentation you gave to him in good faith mentioned the clutch and decided to buy it anyway.

However, as already suggested, you do not have to engage with him any further - just out of interest how is he contacting you - text, phone, e,ail, facebook?

He contacted me by email, but now I'm getting calls on my mobile from a private number with no message left. I'll ignore everything that comes at me!

ratrace

op, i mean this with the upmost respect to you but i think he sees you as an easy target if he has manged to drop you £1200 off the asking price then he thinks you are proberly a push over and he will try to make some bs up about the clutch, and under pressure you will give in, please dont he's trying it on, if you are worried about any issues just make the police aware about what has happend i know its a civil matter but it good to log a report with them just in case he turns up at your door (i dont think he will) but some people are bizzare



did he fill in the green part of the logbook and you sent it off, the reason i ask he maybe a trader trying to increase his profit margin, for you to drop 1200 that was quite somthing when i sell a car i dont drop more a few hundred, hopefully it goes away for you