I bought a used COM 2000 for my 307 for £30 from someone on a Peugeot forum. He posts a lot and is one of the 'experts' there. He lists them on eBay quite regularly it seems. He has a good feedback rating.
After discussing about my faulty unit with him in a thread, (left indicator stalk was the main problem) he later linked one of his ebay listings in the thread and I bought from that.
I received it, checked it over, identical and all very good condition. Anyway, the garage rang me today to say the replacement has 4 connectors and my old one has 5. They've put the replacement on and told me everything works, but the missing connector is for the airbag. So there's no working airbag now and the dash light is on.
So I'm going to have to pay the garage £120 for the work they've done, and they're putting the old one back on. Obviously this guy is going to have to refund me or replace it, but either way, I don't know how I stand with the cost of returning it. I shouldn't have to pay for the cost of returning it.
More than that, he's effectively cost me money in wasted garage work and I will have to pay again when I get the correct part. He told me to ignore all eBay compatability guides.
Before I bought it, he said "Do yourself a favour IGNORE the ebay compatibility guide it is compiled by the idiots at ebay towers they DO NOT have any knowledge of cars i sell on ebay and i deliberately do NOT include the compatibility rubbish on my listings.
You are best just to fit the whole unit as you can get a good used 1 for the same price as just a stalk !
Here is 1 of my listings.. "
He was confident it would be the correct unit before I bought it. How should I deal with this?
After discussing about my faulty unit with him in a thread, (left indicator stalk was the main problem) he later linked one of his ebay listings in the thread and I bought from that.
I received it, checked it over, identical and all very good condition. Anyway, the garage rang me today to say the replacement has 4 connectors and my old one has 5. They've put the replacement on and told me everything works, but the missing connector is for the airbag. So there's no working airbag now and the dash light is on.
So I'm going to have to pay the garage £120 for the work they've done, and they're putting the old one back on. Obviously this guy is going to have to refund me or replace it, but either way, I don't know how I stand with the cost of returning it. I shouldn't have to pay for the cost of returning it.
More than that, he's effectively cost me money in wasted garage work and I will have to pay again when I get the correct part. He told me to ignore all eBay compatability guides.
Before I bought it, he said "Do yourself a favour IGNORE the ebay compatibility guide it is compiled by the idiots at ebay towers they DO NOT have any knowledge of cars i sell on ebay and i deliberately do NOT include the compatibility rubbish on my listings.
You are best just to fit the whole unit as you can get a good used 1 for the same price as just a stalk !
Here is 1 of my listings.. "
He was confident it would be the correct unit before I bought it. How should I deal with this?
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