Sold a car privately

Jellybean2021

Hi advice please I sold a car in good working order sold as seen and test drive and reduced price by £500 the buyer had travelled 3 hours to buy it and now 8 days later has got in touch to say there has been issues and the car is not road worthy and sent a quote from a garage saying needs over £2k in repairs. Car driven back up north 3 hours when purchased and then back down taken to a garage 20 miles from me! ??? 
I was driving the car up to date of sale with no issues and the car had been health checked and recently mot'd prior to selling.
Now wants to return the car (which has probably been ragged about) or for me to pay repairs.

Advice please

Beeblebr0x

As long as you sold the car in good faith then the buyer has no comeback on a private sale.

Ayr_Rage

As long as your description of the vehicle was accurate they have no comeback.

Block their number and ignore any emails.

Nobbie1967

This is highly unlikely to be genuine given you only recently MOT’d it and it was driving fine upto sale. Either they are trying to get a big discount off the price you paid, or they had a similar vehicle with a major engine/gearbox fault and they have switched parts over to fix their vehicle and want to return your old car with the broken bits fitted.

As above, block and ignore.

born_again

Jellybean2021 said:

Hi advice please I sold a car in good working order sold as seen and test drive and reduced price by £500 the buyer had travelled 3 hours to buy it and now 8 days later has got in touch to say there has been issues and the car is not road worthy and sent a quote from a garage saying needs over £2k in repairs. Car driven back up north 3 hours when purchased and then back down taken to a garage 20 miles from me! ??? 
I was driving the car up to date of sale with no issues and the car had been health checked and recently mot'd prior to selling.
Now wants to return the car (which has probably been ragged about) or for me to pay repairs.

Advice please

Prepare for a long read

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6532603/sold-campervan-buyer-wants-money-back/p1

So long as you were truthful, then be prepared to stand your ground.

Jellybean2021

Hi Thank you 
He has not responded since I replied to say about the health check it went through and was driving fine at test drive and the drive up north and I asked if he had a diagnostic report and question why he drove car back to a garage 20 miles away. 
I think I'm worried he's going to turn up at my door mob handed. Will block him and next time We buy any car  I think. 

SuperExcelMan

Don’t reply to him for anything.
Don’t text, call, email, nothing at all.

He may be genuine, in which case it’s his bad luck.

More likely he is chancing his luck. Buy identical car to his, swap bits over, say yours is faulty.

No communication is best strategy.

If he turns up, tell him to jog on. 

twopenny

He's banking on scaring you - just like the Campervan story which I remember vividly.

There's some horrible people out there.

It also seems to be a thing these days with houses and motors. There's even 'how to's' on the net.

Jellybean2021

Twopenny do you have a link to 'how to's? twopenny said:

He's banking on scaring you - just like the Campervan story which I remember vividly.

There's some horrible people out there.

It also seems to be a thing these days with houses and motors. There's even 'how to's' on the net.

Do you have a link? 

elsien

Already posted earlier in the thread by born again

Jellybean2021

elsien said:

Already posted earlier in the thread by born again

Thanks I did read that wasn't sure if👍 another one