Guarantee / company closed

frosty12345

Hello,
I bought a car battery on 31.jan.2019. It was bought from Cheshire Batteries Ltd. The battery is “LEDA110” manufactured by Leda batteries. The battery came with a 2 year guarantee. I paid by credit card for £99.23. 

The battery no longer works and a garage has recommended replacement. 

Cheshire Batteries Ltd is now in liquidation, see https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03715974

Leda batteries is presumably this company. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03715974

Registered office address

Howard Worth Accountants, Bank Chambers 3 Churchyardside, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DE 

Company status

Active — Active proposal to strike off

Interestingly both companies have the same director. 

Is there anything that I can do under this “guarantee” to recover the cost or get the battery replaced?

thanks

Aylesbury_Duck

I'm afraid not, if they've gone out of business.

Are you sure it's a battery failure and not just a consequence of minimal use in lockdown?

dreamypuma

Unless you bought the battery using a credit card, I expect it would be more cost effective to chalk this one up. 

How did you pay?

JJ_Egan

Worth putting it on a long slow charge .

DiddyDavies

dreamypuma said:

Unless you bought the battery using a credit card, I expect it would be more cost effective to chalk this one up. 

How did you pay?

After close to 2 years from purchase and the cost being below the minimum for a S75 claim, even though is was paid for on a credit card there is little or nothing that the card issuer could do to help.

born_again

dreamypuma said:

Unless you bought the battery using a credit card, I expect it would be more cost effective to chalk this one up. 

How did you pay?

How it was payed is in the op.
But amount is under S75 limit (again in OP) so would not be applicable.

No chargeback options either.

Ectophile

You could ask the company administrator (of whichever company offered the warranty) to add you to the list of creditors. If you've lucky, you might get a few pence back. But it's probably not worth the effort.

Sandtree

The company is in voluntary liquidation and according to the Solvency Declaration has over £200,000 in value after paying off its debtors which is circa 75% cash in the bank.

You would need to check who the actual guarantee was from though, if thats the route you are taking rather than statutory rights.