Hi, I purchased a car from a well known car supermarket with 5 delivery miles on the clock, and it showed registered new on the log book with the newest plate. I even paid the new car sales tax. 7 months down the line, it has developed a fault, and the official dealer claims it was manufactured around 2007-2009 in northern Ireland and then imported as new legally, because of its age of manufacture, there is no warranty? Please help as I paid 15k for a supposedly new vehicle. And the log book shows registered only 7 months ago?
Import warranty help
- Thread starter Cryogenic
- Start date
![[TW]Fox](/data/man-of-honor/2009.png){kind=avatar}
Sounds like an Irish import (non NI)
The warranty should still be valid but worth checking with Nissan... it should have a "in service date" which is when the dealer stamps the books I think.
Just give Nissan a call and see how you get on.
The warranty should still be valid but worth checking with Nissan... it should have a "in service date" which is when the dealer stamps the books I think.
Just give Nissan a call and see how you get on.
Thanks for the suggestions. Finally found a site which decoded the VIN! after trying about 10 different ones. It says the car was produced in the UK in 2008, then my assumption is that it was likely shipped to Ireland and never sold. So it was then imported as new on a 2011 plate with a brand new V5 stating the date it was registered as 2011. Hmmm.. is this legal?
Soldato
- Joined
- 20 Oct 2005
- Posts
- 5,946
Is the car financed
- Joined
- 13 Apr 2010
- Posts
- 18,482
- Location
- Sunny Sussex
Did they imply it had a manufacturers warranty? Can you prove it?
They didn't mention anything about the warranty. As a new car, I assumed it was a standard 3 years. Just have the invoice for proof of purchase.
I'm not getting this, maybe I’m missing something but why would a warranty start when a car is built not when its bought. That doesn’t make any sense, otherwise we would all have to check anything we bought to see when it was made. Surely if you are the first owner the warranty would start when you bought it. By that reasoning if a car was sat at the docks or in a showroom for 6 months it would only have not have the full 3 years warranty.
If you buy from a (in this case) Nissan dealer, advertising it as a new car with x months warranty then yes. Buying from a car supermarket it may unfortunately come down to what conditions of sale were advertised/attached as contractual terms.
You simply assumed that a new car comes with x years warranty, which is not neccesarily the case
You simply assumed that a new car comes with x years warranty, which is not neccesarily the case
Speak to the car supermarket, usually they have their own schemes for cars like this.
Also, you should have a service book that in theory should have been stamped at the beginning somewhere when it was PDId by a dealer, warranties usually begin from when that stamp was put in the book.
Also, you should have a service book that in theory should have been stamped at the beginning somewhere when it was PDId by a dealer, warranties usually begin from when that stamp was put in the book.