They were all happy till the miles discovery.
dodgy car - what to do?
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They were all happy till the miles discovery.
From the sounds of it the car was a right Lemon?
A lemon is a lemon regardless of it reading 50k or 200k, why on earth did your father part with his cash in the first place!?
Anyway, You've got to have a long hard think about the next move, but unfortunately I can see the one and only way of you getting any sort of "justice" is going to require you doing something that you won't really want to repeat on an internet forum.
A lemon is a lemon regardless of it reading 50k or 200k, why on earth did your father part with his cash in the first place!?
Anyway, You've got to have a long hard think about the next move, but unfortunately I can see the one and only way of you getting any sort of "justice" is going to require you doing something that you won't really want to repeat on an internet forum.
[TW]Fox;17823102 said:
Oh yes there is. Its a misrepresentation of fact that's induced the buyer to enter into the contract to the buy the car. Recission or damages is your remedy!!! If its a business seller, he's in an even stronger position.
If you can be bothered with the time and effort (and the seller isn't part of the Albanian Mafia), just bring a County Court claim against him.
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Was the car not test driven, or even looked at, before it was bought?
It comes across like it was purchased purly based on mileage and price!
If the car had all these problems but had a genuine low mileage would you still have bought it?
Just for the record I'm not saying it was okay what he did. I hope you get it sorted and get your money back.
Thats what im saying, discovering a higher mileage dont make scratches worse, if it was that bad why did they buy it.
Have they actually spoken to the seller yet?
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Write it off to experience. Use this to help your old fella out by showing him how to spot a lemon/clocked car. Then just run it until it dies, spend nothing on it and hope it lasts a decent length of time. If not, oh well. you can get some decent stuff sub-£500, just buy something nobody loves.
lol, i'm just really pee'd of at the moment, you would be angry too if this happen to a loved one. But i've calmed down a little now.
It's been clocked mate I can tell you that for a fact, the description my dad gave of the seller even fits in perfectly with the typical car scammers. I don't think it was stolen, well I hope not, cos it had the v5 documents, two keys etc he couldn't have got all that if he stole it and I doubt anyone would steal an old bland family car. Most likely he buys high milers from auctions, clocks them, gets rid of any history showing real mileage, gets a new mot with the clocked mileage and sells them on for small profit. It's quite a common tactic, a bit like these two: http://www.inloughborough.com/news/097796/Car Clockers told to pay up
My dad doesn't know an awful lot about cars, as i said before he bought out of desperation, his current car is at an age where it needs a lot doing, tax and mot are running out, so he wanted to buy a car, his been looking for a car for a couple of months now, he saw the ad 50 or so miles, 12m mot, low price and bought it, i actually told him not to buy it infact we argued, cos the car was hundred miles away, there was no description on the ad, no service etc, in the ad pics the seats looked very worn, but he doesn't listen, so he went and bought it, his learnt his lesson now.
It is for my family, as I said before were not exactly rich, a grand is a lot of money, thats like two months wages for my dad.
and yes he is doing it with more expensive cars, his selling others for 5k, 10k etc, someone out there is gonna lose a lot of money, while he makes a fortune out of others misery.
aye, the car will be put on sale, but it's gonna be really hard to sell it like that.
I think he works with others, he probably has family or friend who works as a mechanic, the place where he gets mot done to show clocked miles. He doesn't just buy old cheap cars, but more expensive one, with the one my dad bought he could easily make profit on, buy it from auction for £200, clock it to add more value, sell it on for £8/900, nice easy profit. His selling other cars that are more newer or worth more, i wouldn't be surprised if he does have some genuine cars to keep his cover.
Who said we were happy? I was against him buying, which is why I didn't even go along to see the car and i'm not exactly going to let my dad drive around in a dodgy car without telling him what he exactly bought. If any good has come out of it, then my dad's probably learnt a lesson from it, as he never listens to advice given to him.
Not at all, i do know a thing or two about the cars, and the last two cars my dad bought i inspected them, both were minters. A car could easily be a lemon with low mileage, i went to see one car with him around a month ago it had low miles around 65k but had a gearbox on its way out. This particular car was clocked and falsely bought thinking it was a low mileage car, but from what I observed yesterday i noticed a couple of issues with the car, probably associated with the wear and tear a 200k car would accumulate.
Indeed, he falsely advertised and sold the car sayings its low mileage when HE had clocked it, small claims might be one avenue to pursuit if its actually worth the hassle, time and money.
I think it was test driven, as I said before my dad doesn't know an awful about cars so he didn't check the car thoroughly, the car does start and run and he drove it all the way back home without any problems, but when i went to see it yesterday I noticed a few problems which are mentioned in an earlier post. I would never had bought or approved of the car myself whether it was low or high mileage, i'm very fussy when buying anything.
Indeed, his learnt a lesson from it, i've told him about car stuff before but he doesn't remember most of it, we will probably try and shift the car if not then he'll probably run the car for a year and see if it lasts. Hopefully if I get a job in the next few months I'll give him some cash to buy something decent.
Thanks to everyone for all the advice, much appreciated.
We phoned up consumer direct, they filed it with trading standards and advised us to write a letter to the seller for a refund and detailing sales of good act and other legislations etc. Haven't done that yet, not sure whether to phone him and ask for the money back or simply just write a letter, cos he might hang up the phone, change his number and possibly do a runner.
Was hoping to phone up DVLA and get the details of the owner he bought it from and ask them a few questions, if thats possible.
Either just go round there or give up, nothing you are talking about doing is going to do 1 jot of good.
Got to agree, what a waste of time. Just write this off to experience, your dad was happy until he found out, so the condition of the car must be acceptable to him.
Principles cost time and money, they are not always worth maintaining. This is one of those situations.
It dont matter what he earns he can either go round there and have a row or forget it, whichever he feels most able to do, none of the cab/small claims court/police/whining on a forum are going to help him one jot. Because the man will deny clocking it and as long as you have a hole in your arse you will never prove he was the one who clocked it.
Bit harsh but thats that.
Bit harsh but thats that.
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[TW]Fox;17828805 said:
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Fox: Okay. Here's a £1.
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Fox: That's not what I ordered.
Me: Sure it is. It's fruit.
Fox: No, you suggested it was bananas.
Me: Okay. Here you go. Bananas. http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyjRmJUVA0sWohUYx5zL3or82awMDVM9bczovRJ3TGhb4TyKFG
Fox: Hey! These ones are rotten.
Me: No they're not. They're still edible. They're just a bit er, 'older' than what I originally impliedly represented.
Fox: I want my money back.
Me: Tough. Get stuffed.
Fox: I'm gonna sue!
Three months later....
Judge: Restitutio in integrum, my son, Restitutio in integrum! I hereby give judgment in favour of the Claimant.
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