Selling car would you admit it needed costly repairs?

WellKnownSid

Goudy said:

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A bit of a "showroom pony" to bring the punters in but I wanted it, so did a deal and picked it up within three or four days.

"I want this car that's in the showroom... but I need it this afternoon or no deal"  

sandyman80

I just bought a new Honda Jazz hybrid advance.

It is in the country somewhere.

Delivery 28th July. The purchase order says 28th July but if they don't tax it and deliver it until 1st Aug I can wait until then.

photome

sandyman80 said:

I just bought a new Honda Jazz hybrid advance.

It is in the country somewhere.

Delivery 28th July. The purchase order says 28th July but if they don't tax it and deliver it until 1st Aug I can wait until then.

Better waiting till the 1st rather than paying a months tax for 3 days

paul_c123

You'll probably do okay buying quick - August is traditionally a quiet month. If you wait until 1st September, though, you could have a 75 plate.

JohnSwift10

Well, I bought a new car, same as sandyman80, a Honda Jazz hybrid. Bright metallic red

Two weeks or so delivery.

More the wife picked it than me (she has a friend that has one) as it is a lot easier than the Hyundai for her to get in and out.

And we don't bang elbows when I change gear. (There is no gear lever)

And I'm getting £1500 part exchange for my clapped out Hyundai, so I splashed that on some accessories, and I told him the aircon didn't work and the wipers occasionally kept sticking.

WellKnownSid

photome said:

sandyman80 said:

I just bought a new Honda Jazz hybrid advance.

It is in the country somewhere.

Delivery 28th July. The purchase order says 28th July but if they don't tax it and deliver it until 1st Aug I can wait until then.

Better waiting till the 1st rather than paying a months tax for 3 days

No you will get a year and a week of tax

Herzlos

JohnSwift10 said:

Well, I bought a new car, same as sandyman80, a Honda Jazz hybrid. Bright metallic red

Two weeks or so delivery.

More the wife picked it than me (she has a friend that has one) as it is a lot easier than the Hyundai for her to get in and out.

And we don't bang elbows when I change gear. (There is no gear lever)

And I'm getting £1500 part exchange for my clapped out Hyundai, so I splashed that on some accessories, and I told him the aircon didn't work and the wipers occasionally kept sticking.

Sounds like it worked out pretty well then!

Bettie

facade said:

Bettie said:

I part exchanged my  Panda that had a lot of minor faults and two major faults. I told the garage that I would hate for someone to buy it and then find out about the faults. He said as it was old and had these faults he would send it to scrap. 
He offered me £250. Then upped it to £300 which I accepted as my mechanic said it would cost too much to repair and was on its last legs.  
Two weeks on its on his forecourt for £2999 😠

Because he fixed the faults that were too expensive for you to fix.

He needs to have at least £1000 in that, not least because he will be paying 20% VAT on the difference between £300 and £2999- overall he "makes" £460 out of that nominal £1000, but could lose that if the new buyer comes back in a week needing a new gearbox. (With all the advice on here and elsewhere, they will be back demanding a repair if anything goes wrong in 6 months- on a £3000 car that is a virtual certainty)

So he fixed it for less than £1700, he pays "mates rates" at his garage, or does it himself.

Most people part exchange cars because there is something wrong with them that they "forget" to tell the dealer, so the dealer has to offer near scrap money to be in with a chance of not losing money on them after he has fixed them.

If it is the one car in 10,000 that actually has nothing wrong, except that it is too old, then he makes more money that will offset some of the losses.

(If it is that one car in 10,000, the owner won't accept the PX offer and sells it privately as they know it is a good one!)

facade said:

Bettie said:

I part exchanged my  Panda that had a lot of minor faults and two major faults. I told the garage that I would hate for someone to buy it and then find out about the faults. He said as it was old and had these faults he would send it to scrap. 
He offered me £250. Then upped it to £300 which I accepted as my mechanic said it would cost too much to repair and was on its last legs.  
Two weeks on its on his forecourt for £2999 😠

Because he fixed the faults that were too expensive for you to fix.

I really hope he found the intermittent fault that had plagued the car for the last six months.  My relative, a car mechanic had it for a month and couldn't find it. Trouble was that it drove fine for weeks then suddenly would cut out. Once when I was on the motorway overtaking it died. I lost all faith in it. 

Goudy

JohnSwift10 said:

Well, I bought a new car, same as sandyman80, a Honda Jazz hybrid. Bright metallic red

Two weeks or so delivery.

More the wife picked it than me (she has a friend that has one) as it is a lot easier than the Hyundai for her to get in and out.

And we don't bang elbows when I change gear. (There is no gear lever)

And I'm getting £1500 part exchange for my clapped out Hyundai, so I splashed that on some accessories, and I told him the aircon didn't work and the wipers occasionally kept sticking.

Did you get a good deal on the purchase price?

facade

Bettie said:

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I really hope he found the intermittent fault that had plagued the car for the last six months.  My relative, a car mechanic had it for a month and couldn't find it. Trouble was that it drove fine for weeks then suddenly would cut out. Once when I was on the motorway overtaking it died. I lost all faith in it. 

Depends on whether you told him about it.

If you didn't he obviously won't know so it will have to wait until it happens again and they bring it back, then he will probably change the crank sensor, there is a good chance this is the fault- or the wiring to it.

If you did, he should just change it for the £20 it costs rather than have the car bounce back.