Car cost too much to fix what to do?

Mccluregamer447

Hey there,
I bought a hyundai i10 2017 plate from arnold clark back in september and had it serviced in January. After the service I had to keep filling the oil and it got to the point about 2 months back it was every 2 to 3 days. I travel 500 miles a week for work. Arnold clark have had my car for around 3 weeks now and havent found the issue causing this. No signs of leaks or birning. They have removed the engine and atill cant find the issue and told me the engine needs replaced. Ive been advised by them to have them get a settlement for the finance (9 oit of 60 months so far) and then just get another car. I was paying £126 for the car and was going to trade mine in anyways soon. But its going to cost me with a settlement and ill be phoning hyundai directly about it because the warranty finished last friday on hyundais 5 year warranty but the garage says its not covered.

Im asking here on what i should do? How to be prepared for what that might be? And also if i should get my next car on a pcp loan, so its a bit newer, lower mileage, i would be spending between £150 to £180 maybe £200 at a push if need be. I am hoping to get a new job closer to home only reason im staying in ny current job as ive not got another job to replace it just yet. 

Sorry for the long post just getting what I can out as its just shessing me out, ive lost part time jobd before due to having a car mess up on me and this is my first full time job so not wanting to have that affect anything down the line.

Goudy

It doesn't sound right.
The dealer can't find an issue but tells you the engine needs replacing.
It might be worth asking how they came to that conclusion if they can't find a fault.

What is more likely is they, like a lot of previous owners know that this engine is notorious for using oil.
There are plenty of disgruntled owners that have suffered the same as you with their i10, just search the internet.

You are right to push this matter with Hyundai and the dealers head office, you need to use the knowledge of this models oil problems and the "can't find an issue but it needs a new engine" to help make your arguement.

Both will certainly know the issue but are being coy with you to try and absolve themselves of any responsibilty.
You have presented the car with the fault within it's warranty but they will try to wriggle out of it any way the can.

Trading it in now will cost you, you will certianly owe more than the settlement figure even if the car was working, as it's engineless it's value will be seriously low.

They obviously hope you will take the hit and roll the outstanding finance into a new finance deal on another car which will obviously increase your payments massively.

Would you really want to do this with them when they sold you a lemon in the first place?

(BTW PCP on used cars attract far higher interest rates than on most new cars so tend to work out expensive)

Mccluregamer447

Goudy said:

It doesn't sound right.
The dealer can't find an issue but tells you the engine needs replacing.
It might be worth asking how they came to that conclusion if they can't find a fault.

What is more likely is they, like a lot of previous owners know that this engine is notorious for using oil.
There are plenty of disgruntled owners that have suffered the same as you with their i10, just search the internet.

You are right to push this matter with Hyundai and the dealers head office, you need to use the knowledge of this models oil problems and the "can't find an issue but it needs a new engine" to help make your arguement.

Both will certainly know the issue but are being coy with you to try and absolve themselves of any responsibilty.
You have presented the car with the fault within it's warranty but they will try to wriggle out of it any way the can.

Trading it in now will cost you, you will certianly owe more than the settlement figure even if the car was working, as it's engineless it's value will be seriously low.

They obviously hope you will take the hit and roll the outstanding finance into a new finance deal on another car which will obviously increase you payments massively.

Would you really want to do this with them when they sold you a lemon in the first place?

(BTW PCP on used cars attract far higher interest rates than on most new cars so tend to work out expensive)

Thanks for the advice. Just got off the phone with hyundai customer service. They said since on there wnd the car doesnt show as mine and still under the garages ownership and since it wasnt bought at the hyundai garage its best for me to talk with my finance company which is vauxhall finance so going to phone them when they open. 
Im going to keep pushing though

Thank you. Ill try get a decent car on hp once this fiasco is resolved