Used car dealer sold our car

Dr_Crypto

It’s one of those bizarre trolls. Maybe Sweetsand with another fantasy vehicle. 

DoaM

There are 2 spam reports on the OP in this thread ... the others must be elsewhere otherwise the OP in this thread would be gone.

Grumpy_chap

I don't think this can be spam as it is too absurd to be made up.  Maybe the OP will come back to add some clarity on he queries that have been raised?

Dr_Crypto

It’s totally absurd. How could anyone let this run on for so long? Once you rejected the car 3 years ago what did you do about getting the £12k back? I can’t understand why anyone would just forget £12k and then hire and lease other cars. 

If the garage refused the rejection why did they become the RK? 

Grumpy_chap

badcardealers said:

Having had to replace the previous car with the same garage we had this one towed straight to them. 

This is confusing.
Is the OP saying they had a previous car from the same garage that ran well for many years, but eventually they had to replace it so went to the same garage because of previous good relationship?
OR
Is the OP saying they had a car from the garage and rejected it, then needed to reject the second car also?

badcardealers said:

they also applied to be the registered keeper within 5 days for some reason.

If "they" is the garage, the application to be RK would suggest they accept the car back as rejected and therefore need to refund the OP (less any wear-and-tear deduction).
I have never had this, or need to do it, but I do understand that if someone applies to be RK and without the V5, then the DVLA will contact current RK (OP) to verify that the transfer is all above board.  What did the OP do when that request was received?  Who is the RK now (OP / garage / taxi)?

Regardless, I am fairly certain that the garage's liability would be limited to sale price of the car (£12k) and there would be no liability for consequential losses (hire car, lease car, forensics, etc).  Not sure where the £25k storage comes into that mix.

AdrianC

Grumpy_chap said:

I have never had this, or need to do it, but I do understand that if someone applies to be RK and without the V5, then the DVLA will contact current RK (OP) to verify that the transfer is all above board.  What did the OP do when that request was received?

If the OP handed the V5C over with the car, then that would mean there would be no need to change keeper via V62, so the previous keeper (the OP) would simply get the change confirmation letter.

macman

badcardealers said:

we don't have the money and wife is seriously ill. 

Sorry to hear about your wife.
So, you have spent £37.5K on the car and additional costs, including £2K legal fees, but 'you don't have the money'?
A small claims action for £10K 3 years ago would have cost you just £455 in fees. Have you heard the expression 'penny wise, pound foolish'?

hb2

Grumpy_chap said:

I don't think this can be spam as it is too absurd to be made up.  Maybe the OP will come back to add some clarity on he queries that have been raised?

I see that there are 3 'spam' reports over the 2, identical, posts that the OP made on a resurrected thread. I wonder if people have reported as there are 3 identical posts made in quick succession? 

Jumblebumble

You cannot be the registered owner as there is no such thing.

burlingtonfl6

The car can't be that bad if someone is running it as a taxi