Advice on a lemon

[mnet674]

Hi,
I bought an 03 plate Mondeo in Sep 09, 56k on the clock, full service history, no mot failures, drove fine and so on. Now at around 60k miles the engine light popped on so took it down to a local garage to investigate. The long and short of it is that along with a knackered EGR system, the car requires new pistons, crank shaft bearings, rings, valve stem seals and so on amounting to more than £2500 of repairs (and that's at a friendly independent garage). The mechanic told me the problem is likely to have been caused by a previous owner running the car dry of oil...

Do I have a leg to stand on? (I bought the car from a dealer for £3k)

 

[DM]

I think you are out of luck being that long since you bought it.

Look for another engine, its pointless spending 2500 quid on a repair.

 

[DannyW]

Email me I have an engine for you for £500 with 90 day warranty

 

[[TW]Fox]

Email me I have an engine for you for £500 with 90 warrenty

a) No business to be conducted on this forum
b) Why would ANYONE buy anything from you after the posts you make on here about the way you sell cars to people!?

 

[thepharcyde]

Love to know what this 'warrenty' covers exactly. Spelling mistakes on the block perhaps?

 

[Repta]

I defiantly need to find some popcorn

 

[Howard]

Email me I have an engine for you for £500 with 90 warrenty

 

[PardonTheWait]

a) No business to be conducted on this forum
b) Why would ANYONE buy anything from you after the posts you make on here about the way you sell cars to people!?

But it's got 90 warranties, surely one of them's got to be legit, right?

 

[Kenai]

a) No business to be conducted on this forum
b) Why would ANYONE buy anything from you after the posts you make on here about the way you sell cars to people!?

I'm more amazed by the fact he's confident he 'has an engine' when all he knows is the car is an 03 Mondeo :/

 

[DreXeL]

Thread has potential.

 

[PardonTheWait]

I just want everyone to know my heart won't be bleeding for this guy, you'll get no guilt trips from me. He's fair game.

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

You got a mondeo that was 6 and a half years old for 3k, sounds like they saw you coming.


Sorry to hear you have had so much trouble with the car, but as already said i think you will be out of luck getting any sort of compo from the garage.

My advice would be to get another quote for the work before you agree to anything and maybe think about scrapping it for something worth 2.5k

 

[GeX]

I'm more amazed by the fact he's confident he 'has an engine' when all he knows is the car is an 03 Mondeo :/

i know little about mondeos, but being that age and having an EGR system to fail - won't it be a 2.0 16v Duratorq TDCi ?

 

[[TW]Fox]

I'm more amazed by the fact he's confident he 'has an engine' when all he knows is the car is an 03 Mondeo :/

He is making the assumption it is a TDCi I would imagine.

It really saddens me that people like DannyW attempt to operate in the motor trade

 

[MagicBoy]

Email me I have an engine for you for £500 with 90 warrenty

I've not laughed so hard in weeks!

Back on topic ...
Did the dealer provide any sort of warranty with the car?

 

[DannyW]

I have a 2.0 Tdci engine and a 1.8 Petrol engine, both engines came out of crash damged cars which were running fine

If I were to sell an engine to anyone on here or on ebay I would meet the buyer myself or they come to my house and exchange all my contact details (with proof) And I would also write and sign a 3 month warranty agreement

Nothing dodgy about that...

 

[Howard]

And I would also write and sign a 3 month warranty agreement

Nothing dodgy about that...

And again...

Who underwrites and guarantees your warranty agreement?

 

[[TW]Fox]

And I would also write and sign a 3 month warranty agreement

Awesome.

Nothing dodgy about that...

So how come you have two crash damaged Mondeos when you are so skint you cant even afford to put petrol in a 523i?

What are the chances of a succesful warranty claim from somebody who cant fill a fuel tank?

 

[MagicBoy]

I have a 2.0 Tdci engine and a 1.8 Petrol engine, both engines came out of crash damged cars which were running fine

If I were to sell an engine to anyone on here or on ebay I would meet the buyer myself or they come to my house and exchange all my contact details (with proof) And I would also write and sign a 3 month warranty agreement

Nothing dodgy about that...

I'd rather run through a live minefield than buy anything motor related from you.

 

[DannyW]

Lol, Im not so skint I cant afford petrol in my 523i, It was a 1998 car with things going wrong, just wasn't worth my keeping it

You fancy buying my cheap 325i sport? winner was a messer

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