Bought car that nearly killed me

ozvaldinho

It's exactly as I predicted...these things don't fail unless someone has been working on them and reassembled something somewhere in the process incorrectly. Rather than lose confidence in the car, I'd be more concerned with losing confidence in the garage where the work and MOT was carried out.
I'd take it to a main dealer to get the whole front transmission/steering/suspension thoroughly checked over and correctly reassembled and repaired. I'd then take the bill for this and present it to the original garage politely asking for them to reimburse you. If they don't play ball, then you could threaten VOSA, Trading Standards, Name and Shame or general dummy spitting. Good Luck.

dazron

OZ this is my opinion as well. I'm more concerned about the work they did and will do.

Keith

Did the garage you bought the car from stamp the MOT?

dazron

Yes... well not literally a stamp?

Keith

dazron wrote: »

Yes... well not literally a stamp?

It used to be a stamp It's now of course printed!

dazron

Indeed it was the Garage that sold it to me that MOTd and serviced it when I bought it

dazron

Just to let you know that my solicitor informed me that I have a case to reject the vehicle for a full refund under the Sale of Goods Act and the Supply of Goods and Services Act, as the vehicle as supplied was not fit for purpose, of satisfactory quality or indeed safe, so that is the course of action I have taken. The Garage I bought it off are lying scum I don't trust them. The work they carried out to replace the bushes (They told me it was the wishbones they replace but I understand now it was just the bushes) was not carried out sufficiently or correctly, and this led to the wheel coming off, however that came off. My solicitor was 100% sure i'd win the case so i've taken it up. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with selling and providing cars like this. I will be reporting them also to Trading Standards and VOSA.

Conor_3

dazron wrote: »

Conor, thanks for your input and advice, but no amount of you crowing or cajoling will persuade me that I should have paid out five and a half grand for a car that the front wheel fell off. I want to take action, i'm not happy about it. It has got nothing to do with blame culture.

That entire post says otherwise.

Conor_3

ozvaldinho wrote: »

It's exactly as I predicted...these things don't fail unless someone has been working on them and reassembled something somewhere in the process incorrectly.

WRONG. Components can fail if there's been something that's happened during their manufacture. It is entirely possible that there was a defect in the component such as a crack that would've only shown up under X-Ray.

Are you going to suggest every single nut, bolt and washer is x-rayed? Happy to pay the 100,000% increase in the cost of those?

!!!!!! get a grip on reality why don't you?

Conor_3

dazron wrote: »

Just to let you know that my solicitor informed me that I have a case to reject the vehicle for a full refund under the Sale of Goods Act and the Supply of Goods and Services Act, as the vehicle as supplied was not fit for purpose, of satisfactory quality or indeed safe, so that is the course of action I have taken.

A solicitor will agree with you the sky is pink if you're paying them.

Good luck - you're about to get a trousering because the solicitor is still going to want paying when you lose which you will because the original MOT fail sheet shows it was done correctly because a dodgy one done by a "mate" of the garage or the garage itself wouldn't have failed it for a bit of play in a suspension bush.

OTOH, there's massive piles of factual evidence from aircraft crash investigations showing that components can fail from an unforseen one off defect.

And what was that about it not being about the blame culture? Yeah right.